I suppose it works out to be the same if the cause of death is distributed evenly among all ages, but I suspect that's rarely the case. If something causes a lo

I suppose it works out to be the same if the cause of death is distributed evenly among all ages, but I suspect that's rarely the case. If something causes a lot of people to die at 90% of average life expectancy you wouldn't want each one to only count as one tenth of a death.