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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40I have always feared i would die by being attack by a shark while being murdered in an airplane that is in free fall, do to the terrorists on board who flew into a hurricane, i am glad this article says my fear is unfounded.
- Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30I just love how "illicit use of drugs" causes some 17,000 preventable deaths, yet alcohol and tobacco together cause some 30 times that, approximately 520,000 deaths.
- Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29(damn editing time)
Remember: the vast majority of deaths from illicit drugs have to do with unknown purity (does that pill contain something else?), unknown potency (just how much is in that pill?), or a combination of the two. If things were standardized (or perhaps even *gasp* legalized to an extent) would the death rate be even half that? - invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20whoa whoa whoa
wait a second here... one of the leading causes of death is "sexual behaviors" (at 20,000)? how do 20,000 people per yer die because of "sexual behaviors"??
i thought i had chosen a low-risk hobby.. now i'm a little worried i might spontaneously combust the next time i climax.... - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24"If things were standardized (or perhaps even *gasp* legalized to an extent) would the death rate be even half that?"
You need to consider the increased number of users that will result from legalization in your projection. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16so lets see:
I smoke, I eat fast food for every meal, I drink like its the cure, I drive really fast, I like shooting things, and I take part in "Sexual behaviours".
so really, Quitting drugs didn't improve my situation by much, did it - phucku2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Trying to suck your own dick.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12AIDS
- phucku2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The chance of that happening is approx 1 in 2.5 trillion. But it is possible.
- VorpalK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11You, sir, have clearly never met my ex-girlfriend.
- cybe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Ive read that doctors are the third leading cause of death, but it is not on that list.
(http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm)
Deaths per year:
* 12,000 -- unnecessary surgery
* 7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals
* 20,000 -- other errors in hospitals
* 80,000 -- infections in hospitals
* 106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs
These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes.." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I put on my robe and wizard hat...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Many of these probably don't apply to us individually. For example, terrorist attack. Someone in *****, Iowa probably has a one in several trillion chance of dying from a terror attack. On the other hand, I live and work in New York City. My chance of dying from an act of terrorism is exponentially higher.
My chances of surviving the inevitable World War III are also far far less than many of yours. I will probably be dead during the first wave, whereas the rest of you might live on in the wretched wastelands, envying those of us who are already dead.
Keep this in mind when reading these kinds of statistics. - JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Yep Daisuke you got it right. Go to Holland. Very, very few Dutch smoke weed.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Getting a lapdance by a heavy girl, except it's not a lapdance, and it's not really fun because she's actually sitting on your chest crushing your diaphragm :(
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10No Snakes on a Plane? I'm offended. I was KILLED by Snakes on a Plane.
- john608, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The story makes me want to go get burgers and fries...I ignored the one about a bad diet...just saw that juicy picture on the website...hmmm...burgers
- Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11geekee: ... and the overall percentage would go down, because even if there were increased users the number of deaths might remain small. It certainly isn't a cure-all either, but it sure is a helluva lot better than what we are doing right now.
- queezenorph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Take note that these random statistics that they're throwing around are completely meaningless.
That 1 in 11.5 million shot of you getting attacked by a shark doesn't work out if you've never seen the ocean. In that same vein, your odds of getting attacked by a shark begin changing significantly in the opposite direction if you rub yourself down in seal blood and swim erratically around the coast of Australia.
My point is, of course, that there is not a 1 in 11.5 million chance that a shark will jump out of your kitchen sink and eviscerate you. My ***** meter is off the charts. - Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6(auto-/)erotic asphyxiation?
- nickdiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"When I die, I want to go like my grandfather - quietly, peacefully, in my sleep.
Not screaming, like the passengers in his car." - whirlibulf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Surely some of the statistics in that article are misrepresentitive:
"Your odds of being attacked by a shark are just one in 11.5 million."
How did they work that out? I'm sure that the probability is only that small because most people are scared of sharkes enough to avoid sharky situations... if I dived into a shark-infested tank, I doubt I would come out very alive. - BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
- JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"More people are killed every year by PIGS than by sharks"
- Bruce Schneier - scrptKiddie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4SEXUAL ACTS??? How is that a leading cause of death??
- andyhavens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Your choice for living in the Big Apple. Out here in Fly Over country we sit around rocking in our chairs, peeling fruit, watching it turn brown, and being slighly less scared about terrorists, murder, falling sharks and such. On the other hand, we are afraid of New Yorkers who come into town for conferences...
- aNoble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It really does put things in perspective. Tobacco accounts for 18% of deaths in the US. There probably aren't too many more than that who do smoke. I wonder what the percentage of smokers die from tobacco.
- dsimonpower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Exponential? How is that in any way exponential?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6having sex with a fat chick and letting her be on top
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@geekee
Honestly, how many people are out there who don't use drugs now but would if they were legal? Just out of curiosity... Seems to me to be one of those things that you're either into or you're not, and legality doesn't really have much to do with it. I mean, I MIGHT try marajuana if it were legal, but beyond that... Definitely not. - buckykatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Gentleman, may I introduce my latest weapon, the pigshark.
Oh, and it has frickin lasers on its head. Fear me. - WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Actually, Cheney never killed anyone.
But, dating a Kennedy must be at 11. - Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ilyad: uhm, that "happiness" was something I call sarcasm. I'm mad that, after seeing how our system has failed, that we have done nothing to fix it despite having been shown a way that works (take into account Holland, for example.)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And here in *****, Pennsylvania the odds of me dying from a natural disaster are pretty slim. If you're 65++ and living on a sandbar in the bayou in Louisiana ... godspeed.
- nickdiaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Actually, if ya gotta go, I'm thinking "sexual behavior" would be the best way.
- TheXuu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i just know that one day i will be escaping a hurricane in an airplane which will be hijacked by terrorists who will murderously throw me to my death into the sea below where I'll be eaten by a shark.... and i thought i was the only one!
- anonymous6237, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3S&M??
- Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3chiisuchianu: erm, what evidence do you have to support your theory? I'm really quite interested, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ "Sexual behaviors"? What could that be?
Roleplaying online.. Definitely roleplaying online.. I hear those IM's can be deadly..
Jimzip ;D - KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The discrepancy is due to the fact that there is more than one plane in the air at any given time. Measure the time of all of mankind's flights sequentially and not simultaneously, and I'm sure that covers more than 19000 years.
- KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I'm sure it's a lot once you fudge the stats, like the anti-tobacco lobby does like it's their hobby.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9What are you so happy about? Drug-related deaths are still in the top 10. That's not exactly something to wave about in defense of your dangerous recreational activities.
- prae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you cant have a probability of "Zero in 264.1 million."
that's completely meaningless! - BenSerwa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They probably mean STDs.
- buzzert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Sexual behaviors"? What could that be?
- TheXuu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2although i will probably just die driving 120mph down the road blasting with my shotgun at on-coming traffic in one hand with a bottle of jack in the other, where my girlfriend, handcuffed by my side, is shooting me up with a rusted needle of who knows what...
- andyhavens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sex with falling, smoking sharks. That's what I'm afraid of. Brrrr.
- ozid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I actually was molested by a Nurse Shark while chewing a whole tin of Copenhagen (it satisfies since 1822), after I jumped out of a plane that stalled during an air show. And then that same day while at a Denny's I was murdered by a Pro Football player who caused an earthquake because he was so mad I was under the influence of illicit drugs and alcohol while using my laptop.
And then he died in a motor vehicle accident during a heart attack from his high cholesterol, and being shot.
and I'm sure there were some acts of terrorism, and somebody drinking Pine Sol was involved, as well... I just don't remember it very well.
Just another day in my life. - rparle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No it's not. It means a probability of zero. An impossibility. It's wrong, but it's not meaningless.
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