Technically we just "let people die" all the time. We could spend more money on road safety (or say, reduce the speed limit to 10 mph) but we don't because the

Technically we just "let people die" all the time. We could spend more money on road safety (or say, reduce the speed limit to 10 mph) but we don't because the costs are too high. Now, given the relatively common but almost universally fatal nature of pancreatic cancer, any sort of moderately effective screening is probably worth doing, but the argument that if we don't then some people will die isn't very strong.