Though there's a flaw there, too. If your average pilot lives 700,000 hours, and is flying for 7000 of them (known overguesstimate), we would expect only 0.15% of pilots to die flying, if it were as safe as life is on average.
Flying is definitely more dangerous than lying in bed, but you have to have an interesting life and that comes at an increased risk.
It's a bit like making money. If you never did anything interesting, kept your trousers zipped up (or followed some equivalent procedure
), and invested every penny in financial instruments, you would die with a few million in the bank.
What are the odds of any of us dying in our old age doing something we enjoy and not in some care home sitting in our own pi55?
You are totally right, and the answer is "not great". Dementia is BIG BUSINESS, one of the biggest service industries going, and the inside of most care homes is not nice (my mum is in one). The name of the game is to take the State funding level (~£500/week in Sussex), fill the place up, and run it minimally. The good ones are £1000/week. It's a haven for crooks, of course, and an easy way to make money. Even the head of the local NHS practice runs 3 homes on the side. I very much hope to die doing something interesting.