Because when you're young you are in the best health you will ever be, and natural death is many decades away. You feel immortal. While accidents can happen, they always happen to somebody else.
Death seems a lot closer when people you have known for years are dying of "natural causes" and the reality is that you will die sooner than later. My grandfather died after a brief bout with pneumonia at age 72. My dad made it to 84, and I think that at my age he was in better health than I am. Even if I live to the same age, that's only 16 years away. It seems more real because it is more real. It's a lot closer than it used to be.
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