The historical dynamics of the natural death rate have been studied for the populations of 48 European countries from 1970 to 2002, as well as of 191 countries worldwide for 1999, 2000, and 2001.
The variations of natural death rate parameters appear to obey the common law in practically all the populations of the planet, and this law follows from the radiocarbon mechanism of aging. The results allow one to imagine the existence of the connection between a person's natural death probability and his or her environmental conditions, brought about by the fact that the environment determines the change of 14C concentration in an organism.
Experimental confirmation of such a hypothesis has been considered. As a primary step, it implies the choice of a basic risk factor determining the natural death rate of this or that biologic object, then a comparison of the intensity of the chosen risk factor with radiocarbon content in the whole organism as well as its separate structures.
