“transition periods in daylight saving time regulations are linked to a rise in total mortality and should be avoided in the interest of general well-being.”

- National Library of Medicine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084938/

“Spring DST transition acutely increases fatal traffic accident risk by 6% in the US”

- A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31678-1?

“sleep disruptions during the Spring transition cause suicide rates to rise by 6.25 percent and all DoD to increase by 6.59 percent.”

- Saving Light, Losing Lives: How Daylight Saving Time Impacts Deaths of Despair

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/Saving-Light%2C-Losing-Lives-How-Daylight-Saving.pdf

So, there’s data supporting DST costing lives, saving lives, and not having any impact either way. I cherry-picked a few to illustrate the former, which paired with yours make for a more complete picture.

Overall, estimates on the lives lost side appear to be numerically higher; so taking ALL of it at face value, getting rid of DST would save more lives.

I’d vote to chop it if saving lives is your chief concern.

Basically more light is good

Cutting a foot of fabric off the top of a blanket and sewing it onto the bottom doesn’t result in more blanket.

It’s not more light though.

Permanent standard time is better for health, and the switch also kills people every spring and fall