Failure implies responsibility. Which is the entire point of the article. We've shifted death from something that just happens, to something that we're responsible for. We've come to believe that we are somehow above death, and that every death is due to a human failure. Which is nonsense.
Similarly taking your position, we could say that computer science's inability to factor numbers in polynomial time is a failure. Clearly the fact that solving the problem may actually be impossible should play a role in assigning the label 'failure'.
Similarly taking your position, we could say that computer science's inability to factor numbers in polynomial time is a failure. Clearly the fact that solving the problem may actually be impossible should play a role in assigning the label 'failure'.