it's reported that "An average of 195,000 Americans died annually in 2000, 2001 and 2002 because of potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors, according to a study of 37 million patient records conducted by HealthGrades, a healthcare quality company."
"With national annual highway deaths at more than 42,000, the Federal Highway Administration ..."
etc - do we ban cars and hospitals?
all deaths are tragic and should be prevented whenever possible - but unless we all hide in caves and do nothing but contemplate our navels, there will be, unfortunately, people who die.
So, to the naysayers I’d ask, “How much is your life worth? Can you quantify it? In dollars? How much would you be willing to pay to get an extra day, or month, or year, or even decade?” So worthiness/worthlessness is subjective.
If we remain only on this World, we will eventually run out of resources, an asteroid or comet will hit it, or a super disease will strike, in essence, we’ll go extinct.
Nothing could be more selfish and foolish to our progeny than to stay here on Earth.
Mankind MUST move into Space or die out.