If people were really this rational they would just look at actuarial tables, not individual deaths. People are morbidly curious, but I think it is just to see

If people were really this rational they would just look at actuarial tables, not individual deaths. People are morbidly curious, but I think it is just to see whether he brought it upon himself(drug overdose, suicide, heart disease in a fat person, drunk driving, etc), or whether it is something they should mourn for (cancer, heart disease in a non-fat person, killed by drunk driver, etc).