This has been chewing on me for a couple of days.....
You are correct that it is one of the many cases of natural selection though you need to stop and think for a moment...many of the people dying have already made their contribution to the gene pool, not lots of 60 year old new Mom's, nor 60 year old new Dad's; so there is nothing in the realm of natural selection going on here, just people dying.
It also raises the question of how would you feel about being "selected" out? It's a possibility, just gotta hope you are genetically fit!
