Though death is considerably more common in older people and those with other illnesses (such as heart disease and chronic lung disease) severe disease and some deaths occur each year in healthy young and middle aged adults and children.
Čeprav je smrt bistveno pogostejša pri starejših ljudeh in osebah z drugimi boleznimi (kot je na primer bolezen srca in kronična bolezen pljuč), vsako leto nastopijo primeri hude bolezni in nekaj primerov smrti med zdravimi mladimi odraslimi, odraslimi srednjih let in otroki.