"Once you start to unpack the “natural causes” category, things get complicated. After heart disease and cancer, which together accounted for almost half of all U.S. deaths in 2013, the largest category was “all other diseases.” [..] this label covers 12 percent of deaths (most of them of people 75 and older, which does make it seem conspicuously like it’s commonly used to describe the deaths of older people). [..] Accidents accounted for two-thirds of all non-natural deaths in 2013. The most common type of accident was accidental poisoning, at 20 percent of all non-natural deaths, followed by motor-vehicle accidents (18 percent of all non-natural deaths) and falls (15 percent). Suicide, by whatever means, accounted for more than twice as many deaths as homicide."
