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Source: Healthcare-Management-Degree.net

The Game of Life, and How it Ends

Let’s see if the odds are in your favor.

Lifetime odds of death by cause:

Most Americans won’t die of any of the below causes.

But about 56 million will die of…

Heart disease and cancer: 1 in 7

Chronic lower respiratory: 1 in 29

And motor vehicle incidents (1 in 112) will claim about as many as intentional self harm (1 in 103)

While around 4.7 million present day Americans will due of Unintentional poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances (1 in 119)

And falls (1 in 152)

Assault by firearm will claim about a 890,000 (1 in 356).

Much more than accidental firearm discharges, which clocks in at 48,000 (1 in 6,509).

There’s a chance you’ll be on the street.

Motor vehicle incidents: 1 in 112

Car occupant: 1 in 492

Pedestrian: 1 in 723

Motorcycle rider: 1 in 922

Though your safest bets are bikes, planes and spacecraft:

Pedalcyclist: 1 in 4,974

Air and space travel incidents: 1 in 8,321

Around 609,000 people can expect to die in one of these unsavory ways:

Unintentional drowning and submersion: 1 in 1,043

Exposure to fire, flames, or smoke: 1 in 1,418

Choking from inhalation and ingestion of food: 1 in 3,649

At least mother nature won’t kill many:

Exposure to excessive natural heat: 1 in 8,321

Exposure to electric current, radiation, temperature and pressure: 1 in 12,174

Contact with sharp objects: 1 in 37,566

Contact with heat and hot substances: 1 in 62,608

Contact with hornets, wasps and bees: 1 in 75,852

Cataclysmic storm: 1 in 83,922

And your much likelier to be killed by a dog than a venomous snake:

Bitten or struck by dog: 1 in 103,798

Venomous snake: 1 in 1,224,099[4]

Similar numbers of people will be legally executed as well be killed by lightning:

Legal execution: 1 in 96,203

Lightning: 1 in 136,011

Or you could die in a terrorist attack (1 in 256,410)[3]

A number comparable to your chances of being crushed to death by your own television(1 in 253,205)

Though the chances of just furniture (1 in 1,346,153) or appliances crushing you (1 in 2,025,641) are much more slim.

But it really all depends on your age

Top ten causes of death by age:

<1: Congenital anomalies, short gestation, SIDS, Maternal pregnancy complication, placenta cord membrane, unintentional injury, respiratory distress, bacterial sepsis, neonatal hemorrhage, circulatory system disease

1-4: Unintentional injury, congenital anomalies, malignant noplasms, homicide, heart disease, influenza/pneumonia, septicema, perinatal period, chronic low respiratory disease, benign neoplasms

5-9: Unintentional injury, malignant neoplasms, congenital anomalies, homicide, heart disease, influenza/pneumonia, septicemia, benign neoplasms, chronic low respiratory disease, cerebro-vascular

10-14: Unintentional injury, malignant neoplasms, suicide, congenital anomalies, homicide, heart disease, chronic low respiratory disease, influenza/pneumonia, benign neoplasms, cerebro-vascular

15-24: Unintentional injury, homicide, suicide, malignant neoplasms, heart disease, congenital anomalies, influenza/pneumonia, cerebro-vascular, chronic low respiratory disease, HIV

25-34: Unintentional injury, suicide, homicide, malignant neoplasms, heart disease, HIV, diabetes melitus, cerebro-vascular, congenital anomalies, influenza/pneumonia

35-44: Unintentional injury, malignant neoplasms, heart disease, suicide, HIV, Homicide, liver disease, cerebro-vascular, diabetes melitits, influenza/pneumonia

45-54: Malignant neoplasms, heart disease, unintentional injury, liver disease, suicide, cerebro-vasclar, diabetes melititus, HIV, chronic low respiratory, viral hepatitis

55-64: Malignant neoplasms, heart disease, chronic low respiratory disease, diabetes melititus, cerebro-vascular, unintentional injury, liver disease, suicide, nephritis, septicemia

65+: Heart disease, malignant neoplasms, cerebro-vascular, chronic low respiratory disease, alzheimer’s disease, influenza/pneumonia, diabetes melititus, nephritis, unintentional injury, septicemia.

Total deaths by age bracket:

<1: 19,229 1-4: 3,645 5-9: 2,358 10-14: 3,128 15-24: 28,677 25-34: 32,740 35-44: 69,448 45-54: 139,380 55-64: 220,404 65+: 1,471,011 Total: 1,990,020 per year

(From 2003)

That’s 1 in 145 whose time is up, every year.

Such is the game of life!

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