{"id":5018,"date":"2013-05-31T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T03:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2013-05-31T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T03:42:29","slug":"what-will-likely-kill-you-giving-doomsday-some-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/05\/what-will-likely-kill-you-giving-doomsday-some-perspective-5018.html","title":{"rendered":"What Will (likely) Kill You &#8211; Giving Doomsday Some Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often when I am discussing killer solar storms with people, they&#8217;ll say something like <em>I&#8217;m going to die one day anyway, so, whatever<\/em>. It&#8217;s the opposite attitude of a prepper. But how do preppers react to the concept of something mundane killing them? I guess some strive to stay alive no matter what the culprit. But others might not find a fight against heart disease exciting enough?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivallife.com\/2013\/05\/30\/what-are-the-odds\/\">Survival Life<\/a> have made a nice list of all the non-catastrophic ways of dying, and the associated odds. I&#8217;ve added how to beat the odds&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get Heart Disease (diet and exercise)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Get Cancer (diet and exercise)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Have a Stroke (diet and exercise)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 29<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Die in a motor vehicle incident (walk)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 98<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Die from Intentional self-harm (choose not to)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 109<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Unintentional poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances (I think these odds are wrong?)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 126<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Falls (take more care, wear good shoes)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 163<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Assault by Firearm (live in Australia or Canada)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 321<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Car occupant death (walk)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 368<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pedestrian death (walk where cars aren&#8217;t)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 701<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Motorcycle rider death (don&#8217;t ride)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 761<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Accidental drowning and submersion (stay on land)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 1,103<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Exposure to smoke, fire, and flames death (keep a fire extinguisher in your bedroom, office, kitchen, garage, car and lounge)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 1,344<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cyclist death (don&#8217;t cycle)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 4,381<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Firearms discharge death (don&#8217;t use guns)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 6,609<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Air and space transport incidents death (don&#8217;t fly)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 7,178<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Death from exposure to electric current, temperature, and pressure<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 12,420<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Death from exposure to excessive natural heat (live somewhere temperate)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 13,217<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Odds of being murdered (be nice to everyone, have nothing worth stealing)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 18,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cataclysmic storm (have a bunker)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 29,196<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Death from contact with hornets, wasps, or bees (don&#8217;t poke them with a stick)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 79,842<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Death from earthquake and other earth movements<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 97,807<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Death from legal execution<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 111,779<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Death from lightning (stay inside during storms)<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 134,906<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bitten or struck by dog<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 144,899<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Odds of dying in a Tsunami\/Flood<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 558,896<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Odds of an asteroid or meteor killing you directly<br \/>\n<strong> 1 in 625,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, most are avoidable to some degree. Where you are at risk, it is usually (ultimately) by choice. If you choose a hamburger diet, if you choose to fly or drive, if you choose to fix the roof, if you choose to use a gun, if you go swimming in the ocean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I actually avoid the risks of many of the items on the list. But it&#8217;s not seen as smart, and certainly not manly, unless you can prove you avoided death, which is hard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often when I am discussing killer solar storms with people, they&#8217;ll say something like I&#8217;m going to die one day anyway, so, whatever. It&#8217;s the opposite attitude of a prepper. But how do preppers react to the concept of something mundane killing them? I guess some strive to stay alive no matter what the culprit. But others might not find a fight against heart disease exciting enough?<br \/>\nSurvival Life have made a nice list of all the non-catastrophic ways of dying, and the associated odds. I&#8217;ve added how to beat the odds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Get Heart Disease (diet and exercise)<br \/>\n 1 in 6<br \/>\nGet Cancer (diet and exercise)<br \/>\n 1 in 7<br \/>\nHave a Stroke (diet and exercise)<br \/>\n 1 in 29<br \/>\nDie in a motor vehicle incident (walk)<br \/>\n 1 in 98<br \/>\nDie from Intentional self-harm (choose not to)<br \/>\n 1 in 109<br \/>\nUnintentional poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances (I think these odds are wrong?)<br \/>\n 1 in 126<br \/>\nFalls (take more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survivalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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