Mortality

I have just finished reading an article that has argued that women should be more aware of the risks of dying of heart disease than of breast cancer - as the risks are higher - which, inevitably, has just left me petrified. If the risk of dying of heart disease is higher and I have been diagnosed with breast cancer then it follows that I am more likely to die of cancer than heart disease. Of course, I know that I, like everyone else, has got to die of something, and that I don't think I would want to die of heart disease either, but the truth is I'm terrified of dying at all.