Something I thought about the other day that I think puts some of this in perspective: The population of the US is ~300 million. The average lifespan is ~80 ye

Something I thought about the other day that I think puts some of this in perspective: The population of the US is ~300 million. The average lifespan is ~80 years. We have a growing population, but supposing we had a stable population, that would require a bit more than 3 million people to die each year. Basically my point is, in a stable situation, that order of people will already be dying yearly. I don't know what the actual numbers are for the county, but basically since people live less than 100 years, if we had a stable population (which at some point we'll need to return to), then roughly 1% of the population needs to die every year.