From News That Matters – December 30, 2009
The Risk of Dying:
- Your odds of dying from cancer are 1 in 5
- The chance that you’ll die of lung disease is 1 in 7
- Your odds of dying in a car accident at some point in your life are 1 in 83.
- Your chance of being killed in a pedestrian accident are 1 in 526
- There’s a 1 in 10,048 chance you’ll die from alcohol poisoning.
- You have a 1 in 16,421 chance of being murdered over your lifetime.
- You have a 1 in 20,000 chance of dying from an asteroid strike.
- The chance of being killed by lightning was 1 in 79,746.
- You have a lifetime risk of 1 in 354,319 of dying in a non-terrorist related airplane crash.
- Over a ten year period the chance of being aboard an airplane involved in a terror attack was
1 in 10,408,947 which, I admit, is three times more likely than being shredded by a mountain lion. - Even if terrorists were to totally destroy one of our 40,000 shopping centers each week you’d only have a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of being at the right place at the wrong time.
- You have a 1 in 6,500,000,000 chance of dying from marijuana.
We spend $44,000,000,000 (that’s billion) a year making you take your shoes off at the airport (and now your pants, too!) and add billions more to lost productivity all to insure that 1 in 10,408,947 chance.
Now that you know the truth can we all just relax a bit? Please?
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