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On a side note, why is there a spot for "occupation" on a death certificate? It seems like such an arbitrary thing to have your most recent job on your permanen
by kylec 15y ago
On a side note, why is there a spot for "occupation" on a death certificate? It seems like such an arbitrary thing to have your most recent job on your permanent record of death. And how do you sum up a career like Jobs'? "Entrepreneur in the high-tech business" does not do justice to what he accomplished.
- inuhj 15y agoFor epidemiology studies. And you're right--they're notoriously unreliable. Public databases for healthcare research are absurdly bad. Half the time I publish using Medicare's SEER database I ask myself, "is this worth anything at all?"
- InclinedPlane 15y agoBureaucracy and government forms takes a long time to respond to societal change. We're moving farther and farther away from a person having a single job for a lifetime, but that's still the model used by many bureaucracies.