I don't know about you, but I've managed to avoid death by Everest for over 3 decades.

And regarding the "coward" part, surely there must be some ways more productive to society by which they can demonstrate their bravery...

Posting uncivilly will get you banned here regardless of how wrong someone else was, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not do this again?

“Can’t avoid death, so might as well die a ridiculously stupid, horrific one at 35 instead of a calm, peaceful one at 80 surrounded by loved ones.”