Is that the right metric? What about grief? People don't mourn more for parents who die in their 50's than in their 80's. I mean, I guess I'm willing to beli

Is that the right metric? What about grief? People don't mourn more for parents who die in their 50's than in their 80's. I mean, I guess I'm willing to believe that some deaths "matter" more than others as an abstract idea, but I'm always suspicious when people try to cite metrics like this. It sounds more like an attempt to downplay inconvenient facts than a genuine concern for the optimization of human suffering.