Editorial Comment

The wording needs some context.

A study earlier this year in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that among 123,000 adults followed over 14 years, those who sat more than six hours a day were at least 18 percent more likely to die than those who sat less than three hours a day. (emphasis added)

We are all equally likely to die. The difference is in how or when but the certainty death comes with our franchise on this life.