“Sexual aversion and loss of sexual enjoyment.” “Flatulence and related conditions.” “Mouth breathing.” These are actual recorded causes of death for at least one person in the Centers for Disease Control registry that aggregates mortality information from all 50 states.
I found this out only by accident while researching which diseases are responsible for the most lost years of life. When I reviewed the dataset (download my data and code here), the usual suspects topped the list, including lung cancer and heart disease. But the dataset contained thousands of other listings. Curious, I went straight to the bottom, to the rarest causes of death.
