Because medicine has improved so much that other ways of death have become uncommon. With antibiotics infections can almost always ben cured. But obesity and hereditary traits can cause cardiovascular diseases which are harder to get rid of since there is no medication to just get rid of it like it would an infection.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. About 655,000 Americans die from heart disease each year—that's 1 in every 4 deaths
1-The person can have a bad background history with relationships 2-Somebody could be going through something traumatic and without one in a relationship sharing it could cause distress between them.