This kind of reporting misses one glaring issue; years of life taken away.
16 year olds rarely die of cancer or heart attacks. But they can and do die of homicide. Probability of death at 16, according to SSA[1] is 6/10,000 and the remaining life expectancy in 59 years. School shooting, gang violence, and general homicides take a lot more of life off from people than "old age" diseases.
Though incidence of heart diseases going up in late youth and early adulthood. But they still don't hold a candle to homicides.
16 year olds rarely die of cancer or heart attacks. But they can and do die of homicide. Probability of death at 16, according to SSA[1] is 6/10,000 and the remaining life expectancy in 59 years. School shooting, gang violence, and general homicides take a lot more of life off from people than "old age" diseases.
Though incidence of heart diseases going up in late youth and early adulthood. But they still don't hold a candle to homicides.
[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html