Things that increase your risk of dying
So many people express blame about people's conditions: they shouldn't have smoked, they should have exercised more, they should have eaten better, they should have lived somewhere less polluted (ha! where?), they should have been more careful
Or they express disbelief: they were so healthy, until they weren't
Risk factors aren't guarantees that someone is going to develop an illness or have an accident. Avoiding risk factors doesn't mean someone will stay healthy.
Risk factors are things that have a demonstrable correlation to an unwanted health scenario. Often the shift in the odds for a single risk factor are infinitesimally small. They're often so tied in with other aspects of our lives that whatever risk factor we're looking at may simply be something related to something that does impact your health. The money in your bank account won't keep you alive, but access to cash correlates with things that do improve your likelihood of survival. Money is a heck of a lot easier to quantify and measure than the rest of your life.
You can do all the "right" things and still get sick. You can do all the "wrong" things and live to 100.
Despite the nonsense coming out of Silicon Valley lately, the human condition is still terminal.
PS. The conversation about reducing single use plastic is shockingly blind to the realities of healthcare and the limits of recycling. If you have the mental energy, I encourage you to spread the word that single use plastics are currently critical to many of the people we love. Cutting plastic out of our lives by replacing existing products with new 'sustainable' ones just takes useful things out of circulation and dumps them into landfills.