> Having an otherwise healthy person perform high-risk experiments on his own body and then drop dead before hitting 30 doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagina

> Having an otherwise healthy person perform high-risk experiments on his own body and then drop dead before hitting 30 doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I'm not so sure about that. A quick glance at the SSA's actuarial table[0] shows that a male at age 20 has a ~1.3% chance on not seeing his 30th birthday. While intuitively it does seem likely that his experimentation contributed to this, it strikes me as likely that he had other compounding factors as well. For example - he died in a sensory deprivation tank. That's certainly not an activity that I would expect the general public to engage in, and I'm not familiar with its associated health risks. 0: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html