Cause of Death Unknown

I fixed the missing death date info and its just what I thought.

1. Only about 3-4k people show up as dead (Of course I could have just looked here)
2. A large portion of these deaths have no cause given
3. A multitude of the causes given are ambiguous (Does “Accident” mean car accident?)
4. Based on the number of deaths given, they may be grossly under reported.

Part of the “problem” could be that people just aren’t dying yet.  Many of the oldest people in metal are still alive (Ozzy much?)  and metal tends to be centered around developed nations with high life expectancy.  Also, the fact that the bulk of artists is probably centered more toward people who came of age in the 90’s and later.

The total population of artists on MA is around 480,000 people.  With only 3500 of them being counted as dead, this is less than 1% of all metal artists recorded.  It seems like a small number.  I am no demographer, but so far it seems a bit difficult to try and figure out what this number should be in comparison to world or developed world populations and death rates given the age ranges likely available.  I was thinking of breaking things down by role, giving a timeline of deaths and possibly breaking that out by cause, deaths per country (over time?, by cause?), etc., but the quality of what’s reported, at least for now, is going to push me toward other things.

Anyway, here’s a run down:

Causes of death over the total population over all time:

Category	Type	Count
Drugs and Alcohol	Heroin	19
	Alcohol	12
	Prescription	4
	Coke	4
	Other	74
	Total	113
Murder	Gun	17
	Stabbing	17
	Other	56
	Total	90
Suicide	Hanging	50
	Gun	16
	Drugs	7
	Other	275
	Total	348
Illness	Liver	28
	Infection	20
	Stroke	18
	Diabetes	14
	Pneumonia	13
	Surgery/Hospital	13
	AIDS	12
	Organ Failure	11
	Aneurysm	10
	Brain Hemorrhage	9
	Kidney	9
	Lungs	8
	Blood clot	7
	ALS	6
	Epilepsy/Seizure	5
	Ulcer	5
	Embolism	4
	Other	78
	Total	270
Cancer	Brain	30
	Leukemia	25
	Lung	14
	Lymphoma	9
	Pancreas	9
	Skin	8
	Colon	7
	Throat	7
	Liver	6
	Prostate	4
	Stomach	4
	Other	186
	Total	309
Accident	Drowning	29
	Work	14
	Fall	12
	Boating	4
	Gun	4
	Other	32
	Total	95
Heart	Total	210
Vehicle	Car	340
	Motorcycle	100
	Hit By	21
	Train	11
	Bus	6
	Bicycle	5
	Other	19
	Total	502
Enviromental	Fire	23
	Other	14
	Total	37
Other	Unknown	339
	Natural Causes	18
	Other	20
	Not Specified	1189
	Total	1566