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Thanks, spatch!....is this the US of A? ('legal execution'....)

9 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: octavian at 2008-04-08 09:18:49 | reply to this

(and 'firearm discharge')??

1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: octavian at 2008-04-08 09:20:36 | reply to this

Wow..1 in 119 die of suicide? We are a pretty unstable species..

16 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: mm at 2008-04-08 10:20:19 | reply to this

I found that number shocking and disturbing. It is really very sad. I always knew the number was high - I just never expected it would be *that* high.

It speaks volumes about the world we're living in...

5 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: reboot at 2008-04-09 13:38:51 | reply to this

-4 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: laney at 2008-04-11 21:00:34 | show this comment | reply to this

I'd be interested to see the odds of actually making it to old age and dying of that are.

3 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: sooz at 2008-04-08 10:28:22 | reply to this

I don't believe "old age" is a cause of death. Being old would simply make you more prone to many of the things that cause death (e.g. your body has a harder time fending off illness and repairing itself).

6 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: kos at 2008-04-09 06:11:17 | reply to this

True old age itself is not an illness I eat breakfast every morning with a man of 98 who still drives to Jacks restaurant and does his own yard work he has a sister of 93 who is in a rest home. I think the gene pool that you are born into has more to do with long life span than anything else (baring accidents of course)

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: desire2no at 2008-04-09 16:40:05 | reply to this

At around 65 or 75 your odds of dying are 50% every year from any cause. At least according to some study I read a while back. They were looking at how death rates were higher for men and how it changed through age. Bottom line, if you're male, your odds of reaching old age pretty much suck.

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Corvidae at 2008-04-09 19:46:25 | reply to this

Note that "terrorism" is not even mentioned.

16 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: anonymous at 2008-04-08 15:48:39 | reply to this

-4 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Jim at 2008-04-09 07:37:40 | show this comment | reply to this

How about "Firearm Assault", "Fire or Smoke", etc.
?

-2 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Max at 2008-04-09 08:51:31 | reply to this

-13 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Hank at 2008-04-08 15:59:42 | show this comment | reply to this

Octavian, chances are these are US statistics although Spatch didn't say so. To answer your direct question about capital punishment, since there are about 2.2 million deaths in the USA annually, a rate of one death in every 62,468 would mean 35 deaths from capital punishment annually. That isn't far from the actual figure of 42 in 2007 as published by the US Dept. of Justice. Hence, that would omit capital punishment statistics from other countries which practice capital punishment, such as Japan, China, Iran, and Cuba.

I notice some odd omissions in these statistics, though. AIDS kills 400 times as many Americans as capital punishment does, so if these are USA statisics, why list the one and not the other? If these are not USA statistics, there is even less reason to omit AIDS, the scourge of Africa.

8 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Jack Olson at 2008-04-08 16:08:21 | reply to this

Yes, it seems infectious diseases altogether are missing.

12 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: vic at 2008-04-08 20:16:27 | reply to this

-18 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Mar_pl at 2008-04-08 23:42:15 | show this comment | reply to this

That's his point. Idiot.

14 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: guy at 2008-04-09 04:36:19 | reply to this

-4 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: acoustix at 2008-04-09 04:36:27 | show this comment | reply to this

-11 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Shiva at 2008-04-09 04:39:57 | show this comment | reply to this

I think there should be a category for 'landmine explosion' or 'lost grenade'.

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Manuel at 2008-04-09 04:50:35 | reply to this

-14 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: "> at 2008-04-09 05:22:42 | show this comment | reply to this

-11 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Licurgo at 2008-04-09 05:23:40 | show this comment | reply to this

Well, so-far-so-good, anyway...

-3 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Nemo at 2008-04-09 11:30:49 | reply to this

interesting to see Earthquake so low on the list

-3 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: HollywoodRiot.com at 2008-04-09 05:29:05 | reply to this

Jason, he is correct. You're referencing the percentage of people who die of suicide as part of the population, while this refers to the odds of actually dying of suicide.

Think about it this way, roughly 2.5 million people die in the US each year. Nearly 10,000 people die of suicide each year in the US (wikipedia). That means roughly 2-2.5% of deaths in the US are caused by suicide. The figure of 1 in 119 may take into account other nations, which may account for a figure closer to 1.2%.

Basically, you neglected to take into account the total number of deaths. When dealing with percentages, you can not ignore all variables.

Hope that helps :)

4 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Eric at 2008-04-09 07:51:16 | reply to this

-6 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: dcaveney at 2008-04-09 15:10:39 | show this comment | reply to this

aw shit. the heart disease scares me the most especialy when your a smoker.

8 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: earl at 2008-04-09 06:13:49 | reply to this

-8 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Sketchplanet.com at 2008-04-09 06:24:22 | show this comment | reply to this

-4 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: chris at 2008-04-09 06:36:43 | show this comment | reply to this

And Bush & Company are spending $ 1 billion+/day on Iraq war to make America safer.

3 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Atish at 2008-04-09 08:07:24 | reply to this

Did "Total odds of dying, any cause 1 in 1 (100%)" make anyone else a little depressed? Maybe I'm just 1 in 119. That's actually kid of depressing too. Thanks a lot, internet.

3 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Davin at 2008-04-09 10:01:50 | reply to this

I call bogus, mainly since dying of natural causes is not included. And I would think that at least some people still die of those in the US.

0 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: darkelf at 2008-04-09 11:52:59 | reply to this

There are a bunch of natural causes on there... all the diseases that make up the largest amount.

1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Me. at 2008-04-09 15:26:43 | reply to this

-4 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Navras at 2008-04-10 07:14:35 | show this comment | reply to this

It'd be awfully crowded around here if death wasn't a natural part of life. get used to it. No one gets out of here alive...

3 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Just Sayin at 2008-04-10 08:14:15 | reply to this

-8 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Tombo at 2008-04-09 13:16:50 | show this comment | reply to this

-4 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: leo45 at 2008-04-09 14:05:29 | show this comment | reply to this

As Indianna Jones would say - 'Never tell me the odds!'

-2 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: GruMbleBuM at 2008-04-09 14:26:49 | reply to this

First off it was Han Solo, second you misspelled "Indiana". Otherwise pretty funny

3 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Han Solo at 2008-04-09 14:59:48 | reply to this

I sit corrected.

2 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: GruMbleBuM at 2008-04-10 15:22:10 | reply to this

Never tell me the odds

-2 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Han Solo at 2008-04-09 14:57:47 | reply to this

Wicked

-2 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Thiago at 2008-04-09 16:56:27 | reply to this

Where are the odds on dying from terrorism?! I'm sure they're in the lightning area, and yet we spend more on preventing it than all the other ways of dying combined!!! Why? Because it's dramatic. . . we need some perspective!!!

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: DannyNYC28 at 2008-04-09 17:00:31 | reply to this

references

0 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: PMurf23 at 2008-04-09 23:01:01 | reply to this

where the figure for "death by stabbing from a friend to whom you didn't lend your video game" ?

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Dorian at 2008-04-09 23:12:06 | reply to this

This was taken from an issue of National Geographic last year.

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: avgwhiteguy at 2008-04-10 00:09:47 | reply to this

I think its great news.

If a plane falls on you not much you can do but for all most all of them you can do things to lessen your risk.

I plan to defend against all of the big risks and die at 106 from a wayward bottlerocket.

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Caden at 2008-04-10 06:10:37 | reply to this

Very helpful. I never knew these numbers were this high.

-1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: themorellgroup at 2008-04-11 02:37:25 | reply to this

What I've gleaned from the comments above:

1) Not every cause of death is included. The "all other causes" category is nearly 60% of all deaths.

2) This sampling of causes isn't necessarily contiguous. Some omitted causes may be higher in number than those included above.

3) Most of the statistical disagreements seem to stem from a confusion between cause of death as a portion of all deaths, vs. cause of death as a portion of the population. Most people didn't die in the timespan / region under consideration.

1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: smalley at 2008-04-18 09:07:37 | reply to this

Although this picture includes bee's and hornets, animals in general were left off. Which animal kills more people than any other? Mosquito. They kill more people than all of the other animals combined. Mules kill about 4000 people a year.

1 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Thos Weatherby at 2008-04-19 16:16:56 | reply to this

BULLSHIT. So for every 5134 that die, 1 person is accidentally killed by a firearm? OK then.

0 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Thomas at 2008-05-12 15:31:44 | reply to this

Where are the odds of dying of natural causes or old age?

0 vote(s) | rate comment: | written by: Angelo at 2008-10-13 06:18:58 | reply to this

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