I came across a scary article online about an accident with twice as high death rate as traffic one in elderly persons. So, I would like to summarize and share some of the interesting points here. As I mentioned before, Japanese people have a custom of soaking in the bath. So, some of them are looking forward to bath in winter, but there are quite a few people who die in the bath. That often happens to the elderly generation, but sometimes to the young one as well. There have been plenty of unnatural death cases while taking bath at home. That kind of cases are like you saw your parent blacked out sinking his/her head in the water and called an ambulance. One of the causes for elderly generation is the most famous symptom called "Heat Shock". The temperature change causes the drastic change of your blood pressure and leads to losing consciousness due to anemia when you move from a warm room to a cold changing one and soak in thee bath in winter. That leads your elderly parents to die from drowning. In the case of the young one, that happens easily when you are exhausted and are lack of sleep and drink too much. That's why you need to pay attention when elderly persons take a bath in winter. Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency shared countermeasures to prevent accidents while taking a bath as follows, 1)To warm up bathroom and changing room before taking a bath 2)To stay hydrated to prevent being dehydrated 3)To stop taking a bath just after having meals, drinking and taking medicines 4)To keep the temperature of bath water below 41 degrees 5)To lie and soak in the bath for less than 10 minutes 6)To avoid standing up suddenly in the bath I just turned 60 this month. So, this kind of accident is not just about other people for me now.