the death rate is highest in January, drops in spring and summer, and begins to rise again in the last months of the year. It forms a very predictable U-shaped graph that we see over and over.
Here at Legacy’s news desk, we don’t usually create quite as perfect a U-shaped graph. We are working with a small sample size – several hundred deaths rather than the millions that happen across the U.S.
each year. And small samples tend not to follow predictable trends quite as well as larger ones. One trend that is fairly consistent here at Legacy is that we do tend to publish more notable deaths in the coldest months – January, February, and December – than we do in the rest of the year.
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