In case you were wondering

[cheerful_deviant]

Cause of Death, Lifetime Odds

(All figures below are for U.S. residents.)

Heart Disease
1-in-5

Cancer
1-in-7

Stroke
1-in-23

Accidental Injury
1-in-36

Motor Vehicle Accident
1-in-100

Intentional Self-harm (suicide)
1-in-121

Falling Down
1-in-246

Assault by Firearm
1-in-325

Fire or Smoke
1-in-1,116

Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.)
1-in-3,357

Electrocution
1-in-5,000

Drowning
1-in-8,942

Air Travel Accident
1-in-20,000

Flood (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-30,000

Legal Execution
1-in-58,618

Tornado (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-60,000

Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-83,930

Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting
1-in-100,000

Earthquake (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-131,890

Dog Attack
1-in-147,717

Asteroid Impact
1-in-200,000

Tsunami
1-in-500,000

Fireworks Discharge
1-in-615,488

 

[yui]

Cause of Death, Lifetime Odds

(All figures below are for U.S. residents.)

Heart Disease
1-in-5

Cancer
1-in-7

Stroke
1-in-23

Accidental Injury
1-in-36

Motor Vehicle Accident
1-in-100

Intentional Self-harm (suicide)
1-in-121

Falling Down
1-in-246

Assault by Firearm
1-in-325

Fire or Smoke
1-in-1,116

Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.)
1-in-3,357

Electrocution
1-in-5,000

Drowning
1-in-8,942

Air Travel Accident
1-in-20,000

Flood (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-30,000

Legal Execution
1-in-58,618

Tornado (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-60,000

Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-83,930

Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting
1-in-100,000

Earthquake (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-131,890

Dog Attack
1-in-147,717

Asteroid Impact
1-in-200,000

Tsunami
1-in-500,000

Fireworks Discharge
1-in-615,488

One in 200,000 people are killed by asteroid impact?

I freaking knew it!

Signed,

The Little Red Hen

 

[cheerful_deviant]

It's the 1 in 5000 for electrocution that worries me. I'm never plugging in the toaster again!

 

[blackhaus7]

Adding the lot up in percentages makes less than 40%. Seems a whole bunch of us ain't dying.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Adding the lot up in percentages makes less than 40%. Seems a whole bunch of us ain't dying.

This doesnt take into account freak jump-rope accidents, occasional problems with ink-jet printers and the rare person who gets eaten by werehampsters.

 

[yui]

Adding the lot up in percentages makes less than 40%. Seems a whole bunch of us ain't dying.

"There can be only one."

It's the 1 in 5000 for electrocution that worries me. I'm never plugging in the toaster again!

Always were rubber shoes. *nods*

This doesnt take into account freak jump-rope accidents, occasional problems with ink-jet printers and the rare person who gets eaten by werehampsters.

Or rabid bunnies.

 

[minsue]

Am I the only one that finds it disturbing Executions kill more people than tornados?

 

[yui]

Am I the only one that finds it disturbing Executions kill more people than tornados?

Agreed. This has to be an international average taking into account things like genocide, don't you think? Mebbe?

 

[minsue]

Agreed. This has to be an international average taking into account things like genocide, don't you think? Mebbe?

US only, supposedly.

 

[yui]

US only, supposedly.

Oh, feeling stupid; should have read the parenthesis.

Doesn't seem possible though.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

What! So, falling down is no longer considered an accidental injury?

Hmm, though I can't ever recall getting drunk accidentally either.

 

[efevece]

4,999 times

I´ve plugged the toaster 4,999 times.

I´m wondering... "To plug or not to plug? That is the question"

 

[cantdog]

I can't ever recall getting drunk accidentally either.

I was tabbed once. Only once, damn it. Didn't come close to dying, though.

1 in 5,000 for execution seems a little high.

 

[yui]

I´ve plugged the toaster 4,999 times.

I´m wondering... "To plug or not to plug? That is the question"

I gotta ask, why do you keep unplugging it?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I gotta ask, why do you keep unplugging it?

He doesn't want it to start a fire.

 

[cantdog]

Oh.

That's sensible.

 

[fieryjen]

This doesnt take into account freak jump-rope accidents, occasional problems with ink-jet printers and the rare person who gets eaten by werehampsters.

I kind of want my death to be by the hands of a werehampster.

 

[cantdog]

Lon Chaney, Jr. plays the Werehamster for the fourth time.

 

[yui]

He doesn't want it to start a fire.

Well, there is that one in 1,116 toaster fire to consider. *nods*

Oh.

That's sensible.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Lon Chaney, Jr. plays the Werehamster for the fourth time.

and his hair was perfect.

Well, there is that one in 1,116 toaster fire to consider. *nods*

I don't know about everyone else, but my toaster is 50 years old and not to be fucked around with.

 

[yui]

I don't know about everyone else, but my toaster is 50 years old and not to be fucked around with.

DO NOT FUCK ANYTHING THAT PLUGS INTO THE WALL! THEREIN LIES THE PATH TO DESTRUCTION. OR A VERY EMBARASSING ER VISIT!

 

[cantdog]

People die of toaster fires? Often?

 

[minsue]

DO NOT FUCK ANYTHING THAT PLUGS INTO THE WALL! THEREIN LIES THE PATH TO DESTRUCTION. OR A VERY EMBARASSING ER VISIT!

. .

 

[yui]

People die of toaster fires? Often?

Pfffttt! You're the fireman. You tell me.

. .

.. Thank you for seeing me.

 

[cantdog]

Good heavens, yui. We all see you. Don't we?

Do I have to kick some ass?

I was in four fires that started with toasters. Only one consumed any major part of the building. Generally, there were no fatalities in my fires. Overwhelmingly, in fact. I understand it does occur. My dead people, if I may use the locution, were accidents, heart disease, overdoses. Direct death in fire? A woman who smoked while fueling her vehicle and then, I suppose, tripped into the hose. That was ugly.

The figure has got to be wrong.