premature death
Life cut short
Premature death is death that occurs before the expected lifespan—typically before old age or before the average life expectancy for a population.
The term appears in public health discussions about preventable causes: Smoking accounts for millions of premature deaths annually.
What counts as premature varies by context; dying at sixty might be premature in wealthy countries but unremarkable elsewhere.
- gone too soonDied before expected
- heart diseaseMalfunction of blood-pumping organ
- alcohol abuseHarmful pattern of drinking
- substance abuseHarmful habitual intoxicant use
- smokingInhaling burning tobacco
suicide · congenital disorders · pollution · drowning · cancer · chronic illness · depression · poverty · war · social isolation · stroke · malnutrition · sepsis · hopelessness · bullying · HIV/AIDS · drug addiction · falls
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, dead
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- health statisticsmortality rate, prevalence, case fatality rate, life expectancy, infant mortality
- literary deathdeathbed, dying, corpse, funeral, grave
- infant mortalitystillbirth, SIDS
- air pollutionsmog, air pollution, emissions, air pollutants, pollutants
premature deathnatural causes
Death without external intervention
premature, prematurely, prematurity, mature, maturely, maturity, immature, immaturity, maturate