DailyDirt: In The Long Run, We're All Dead
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
If you’re looking for some good data to put into an infographic, it’s not too hard to find statistics on death. Reliable stats of how people died go back quite a ways, too. Sure, it’s a bit morbid, but most people don’t think about dying until they’re close to doing it. So if you’re curious, check out a few of these visualizations on how we die.
- The leading causes of death have changed significantly since 1900, so the flu (or pneumonia) isn’t killing off as many Americans as it used to. Instead, heart disease and cancer have replaced the flu/pneumonia and tuberculosis. [url]
- What are the odds? Dying of heart disease has relatively common 467:1 odds — compared to dying from cycling (340,845:1) or an asteroid impact (74,817,414:1). [url]
- Another infographic on how the world died (in the 20th century) shows non-communicable diseases and infectious diseases are obviously really deadly, but so are wars and drugs. It could be difficult to change these stats. Medical technology could wipe out some diseases, but we haven’t cured old age…. [url]
- Is it worth it to try to minimize your risks of dying? If you want to try, remember to focus on the activities that are actually high risk, not the spectacular deaths that don’t kill that many people (eg. stepladders vs terrorism). [url]
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Filed Under: accidents, cancer, data, death, flu, health, heart disease, infographics, non-communicable diseases, pneumonia, risk, statistics, tuberculosis
Comments on “DailyDirt: In The Long Run, We're All Dead”
Time to outlaw stepladders…
What are the odds?
…of being killed by…
Falling out of your bed:
2,000,000:1
A shark:
3,700,000:1
An asteroid:
74,817,414:1
By ISIS:
100,000,000:1 – if you’re American.
If you’re Muslim, it’s 160,000:1.
Think about it, if you’re on non-Muslim American, you’re about a third more likely to be killed by an asteroid than by ISIS.
Re: What are the odds?
So you’re over twice as likely to get killed by an asteroid as win the Powerball lottery and people win that all the time. Why do we not hear about more people getting killed by asteroids?
Re: Re: What are the odds?
I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone actually dying due to an asteroid. No one on the International Space Station has died, right? If the person was on Earth, they would have been killed by either a meteor (or meteorite after it killed them…; thank you They Might Be Giants!).
If there are 7 Billion people on the planet, and the odds are roughly 70 million to one, shouldn’t that mean roughly 100 people have died from asteroid/meteor/meteorite/space debris?
So when’s the War on Heart Disease?
Re: Re:
You’ve missed it the last 50 years or so?
Re: Re: Re:
The war on heart disease has been as effective as the war on drugs and the war on terror.
Sometimes, how long we live is up to us
In my wife’s family and mine, there’s a 100% causal rate between caring for ourselves and how long we life.
We can smoke & drink and die at 53 – 67 or not and be in good health in our mid 80s. We can debate what makes up happy but everyone is 0% happy when they’re dead.
Something nice
I think that is the best so you have to have to find something nice to look at.