Odds of Dying Chart

Added on August 9th, 2008 by the_duck | Report Post
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Exacerbate (#3372)

15 years ago

Repost but a good one.

Exacerbate (#3372)

15 years ago

I don’t think this is too accurate though.

MrDooves (#4056)

15 years ago

Odds of dying from reading the “odds of dying chart”?

natedog (#1905)

15 years ago

MrDooves, they are the same odds as dying from a marijuana overdose

MrDooves (#4056)

15 years ago

Come on Natedog. Jury is still out on that one.
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AgZed (#2298)

15 years ago

I’d tend to agree with Exacerbate, based simply on the fact that the only homocide on the chart is from “Firearms Assault”. Does that mean that your odds of being beaten, stabbed, poisoned, strangled, run over, or any other of a litany of other ways to be killed, combined or individually, are less than the odds of dying in a fireworks accident? That seems a bit odd to me.

That would also mean that aside from being shot, you have a better chance of being killed by your governement than by one of it’s citizens. And if that’s true, well that’s just fucked up.

Caio (#104)

15 years ago

In before smoking

Ben1605 (#581)

15 years ago

Just because it’s not on the chart AgZed doesn’t mean it’s less likely than a fireworks accident.

Kero (#64)

15 years ago

Odds of repost?

3 in 1.

natedog (#1905)

15 years ago

smoking = heart disease + cancer

mmflargle (#1983)

15 years ago

Being from Ireland, I could swear dying from the odds of alcohol poisoning is alot higher

RSIxidor (#950)

15 years ago

I’ve always wondered what the comparison number is for this sort of thing.

1 in n . . . Where does n come from? Number of people alive? Number of people who lived during a certain time frame? A random number of people picked from a hat? What?

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