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Comment by nine_k

4 hours ago

A causal link is easy to imagine. An Alzheimer's onset makes one unfit to work as an ambulance driver, they switch to a less demanding job. When, years later, the person dies, the death is not counted towards ambulance drivers.

> death certificates included a field for reported usual occupation (the occupation in which the decedent spent most of their working life), generally completed by a funeral director with help from the decedent’s informant