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- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+158Your odds of dying by suicide are 1 in 139?
That's depressing. - jstohler, on 10/12/2007, -14/+128Where's defending a checkpoint in Iraq?
- punk90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+94I have a 100% chance of dying, that sucks.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+88 < whoosh! >
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+82Pile: "Your odds of dying by suicide are 1 in 139?
That's depressing."
Uh oh. It says 1 in 119 now.
...Pile? You there? - Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+79Those are not actual probabilities, but basically percentages of total deaths. You run a pretty big risk at a checkpoint, but in absolute numbers only a few dozen have died that way, so it doesn't register on that pic. It's a bit like being a mountaneer - risky, but total deaths are too few to show up in statistics.
- johnnynack, on 10/12/2007, -9/+70thats pretty terrifying that medical researchers have done nothing to deal with the most fatal condition on the list-death. it has held steady at 100% for much too long
- TekeeTakShak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40And the odds of this website being 100% correct?
1 in 500's my guess. - scoot87, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39Here we are scared of dieing from a lack of security against terrorism, when the biggest killer is heart disease. We need to get our priorities straight as a country.
- johnnynack, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36Don't become a statistic royall64!!!! although they do not indicate it on the list, accidental death caused by misreading information accounts for numerous fatalities each year. i hear about hundreds of people dying because they didn't carefully read things like prescription labels and other various texts'. I noticed that you have such problem as i read your response to my comment. I want to make sure your apparent reading problem is fixed. Make sure to read very carefully in order to understand what is being said.
- DiggLord, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34Wheres drug overdose?
- jamison18, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35and anyway i assume that would be considered a firearm assault related death
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37Are there really "odds" for dying of suicide? Seems more like a choice to me.
- utcursch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24The pic is from National Safety Council:
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds_dying.jpg
The article:
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm - Pile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Faulty logic.
You might still die from cancer, but the difference could be at age 45 or 85. - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -0/+19PRECISELY.
The odds of ANYONE in this country getting killed by a terrorist attack are worse than their chance of winning the lottery.
So WHY are we afraid exactly? I'm not and neither should you. - alcimedes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Funny that terrorism wasn't on the list.
- johnnynack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I can see this headline in the future: "de Grey's work to prolong life cut short by death"
- konamicode, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19@ Achalemoipas
I'm not surprised, you live in ***** Quebec. I want to kill myself for just thinking of your territory. - Gisterogue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Suicide - 1 in 119! That's pretty shocking to me, I don't know about anyone else. Kind of makes me sad that. What's the point..wait no..
- vclortho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14You are a professional chart-reader aren't you.
- dohidied, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"Total odds of dying, any cause 1 in 1 (100%)"
I just found the inclusion of that statement funny for some reason. - Shizlanski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I was thinking the same thing. 1 in 119 people commits suicide? Wow.
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12brewers19-
Nobody really dies 'of old age' specifically do they? There's always a particular thing that fails. It might be because of old age, but it's still a particular thing.
So there's probably a large amount of stuff that could be grouped under 'old age' - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Mirror: http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/10-115505L/7133/jpg/02/2007/img3/glowfoto
Geez, more people die from legal execution than lightning, floods or earthquakes? - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -5/+15Shhhh, the Darwin Awards exist for people like him. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I didn't see the word "death," so I thought he was talking about heart disease or cancer. Wen he said "list-death" I thought he was referring to the picture as a list. Simple mistake.
- raisinbrainMMM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That would rank as one of the highest.
The problem is that this chart does not represent YOUR chances of dying from something. The title given to it incorrectly represents it.
The chart really represents causes of death against total deaths in all humanity. So its humanity's odds, not YOURS.
You can easily tell by the 1 in 84 chances of dying in a motor vehicle accident and the 1 in 1,1xx chance of dying in a motorcycle accident. It would be nice if it really gave you comparative odds of how dangerous the activity is and not just a total of deaths by that cause vs total deaths. Im sure riding a motorcycle has a much bigger chance of death than riding any other motor vehicle. - node3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Are there really "odds" for dying of suicide? Seems more like a choice to me."
They are the odds you'll both choose to commit suicide and carry it out successfully.
Or, in other words, the odds a person chosen at random will die from suicide. - lokoluis15, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This picture shows an inaccurate representation of a correlation. Probability of dying is asymptotically close to 100%, but not quite there. There is no causal effect between the fact that everyone before me has died and that I may die someday. Silly dogmas!
- spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It's what we do best.
- briantech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I wonder how big the circle for "Death from terrorist attack" is. Probably smaller than a pixel.
And yet we spend half our national budget "protecting" us from it, in a rather roundabout fashion through the occupation of middle eastern countries, playing babysitters to other people's civil wars.
Brilliant. - itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What are the odds of that.. I was *just* looking at this image before it hit the front page. Except it comes from this accompanying article:
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
@DiggLord: I'm guessing there aren't as many deaths from drug overdose as you thought. Leave it to the DEA to hype that ***** up. - itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@DiggLord:
Followup to my previous post: I just did the math and yep, your odds of dying from drug overdose are about 1 in 18,125. So actually I think they're missing that in the image. :-
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=47945 (and USA census data) - wharfrat1490, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7How sad that suicide comes in at #5. That's a lot of people suffering.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@shizlanski
I'm not surprised. The world sucks - Yawgmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6However, remember that you're talking about a society of people who actually DO buy lottery tickets on a regular basis. Humans as a whole have an awful sense of probability. It's the whole "well, somebody has to win" or "it could happen to me" mentality. No, no one HAS to win, and it's NOT going to happen to you... now let me take my bottle of mountain dew on the plane M'kay??
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6what are my chances of being killed by a binder full of statistics describing my odds of being killed by various causes being dropped from a ten story building and landing on my head?
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I digg stories that foretell my demise.
- Yareking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Odds of dying 1:1 I want a ticket!
- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Smoking has been clearly shown to cut peoples' live spans shorter.
Besides, what if you're the person slated to die from heart disease and you start smoking? You screw up someone else's probability. ; ) - vclortho, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14I love how all you douchebags can take any story on digg and somehow make an anti-war comment about it.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -2/+7Pile is right. Achalemoipas failed logic class.
- darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm working on it, OK!
*grabs some more stem cells* - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The first time this was Dugg it wasn't a blurred image... and the suicide rate due to duplicate submissions was lower.
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5My great grandmother was 103 when she died, I think you could classify her as from "old age".
I think the main reason for doctors putting "old age" as the death reason is when a lot of things fail at the same time.
(btw for accuracy sake, I'm not sure how many greats she is from me exactly) - larsent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4(I ran out of editing time)
Obviously, those numbers are for a given year. The odds over a lifetime are not given. But if we just look at a group of 100,000 males, and 17.6 of them kill themselves each year, then over 60 years 1.06% will kill themselves. That's close to the odds given. The number seems unlikely when you first look at it, but now it seems a little more reasonable. - Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7It's remarkable though that I was dugg down just for referring to a controversial scientist. I never said that I believe he's able to fulfill his promises. In my short years of living I found out that people will trash anything controversial as out of touch without giving it a second thought, I mean, the same damn story happened countless of times in science or politics and I can see it "live" happening among the people I live with.
Still I can't forget a great argument I had with the best buddy of mine when I first described him the double slit experiment and the basic principles of quantum mechanics, he found out that I was a megalomaniac talking big words to grab his attention and make him feel inferior. 5 years after the incident he came to me saying that he was grabbed with a great field of physics named quantum mechanics and started to talk to me about the spectacular quantum entaglment, I just reminded him our argument....
Same in here, most possibly Dr de Grey is a nutcase or delusional but I find it spectacular the instant trashing of his ideas just because they sound gross without -most people- having an idea of his background and his SENS theory. Still I have no problem believing he's most probably wrong, I meant that's what happens with most of the pioneers, they put the seeds of something capable of happening in the future but they were ultimately wrong in the approach and people, history forgot them .... - larsent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In the United States, 17.6 out of 100,000 males and 4.1 out of 100,000 females commit suicide. The rates in other countries don't come close to 1 in 119, according to the WHO
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/ - inactive, on 11/12/2007, -1/+5I've met Aubrey de Grey personally, and a friend of mine spoke with him. Apparently he's a complete nutbag.
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