It's not a competition, not sure why you thought that from OP's comment.

The number one of symptom of heart disease is death. You could be a completely normal person that just did a crazy 6 month long Pacific Crest Trail hike but you could fall dead the next day. So yeah, it's scary. But so is ALS or Alzheimer's.

Catalan pronunciation is nowhere like French pronunciation though. It's far more similar to Spanish than it is to French