Death: 20 tears ahead and 30 years back

November 29, 2008 10:39 AM

How you will (and won't) likely die in the next 20 years (from WHO's Global Burden of Disease). Bonus: map of the last thirty years of disasters, showing the relatively safe and unsafe parts of the world.
posted by Kickstart70 (5 comments total)

closest I've come to dying in a mass casualty event was the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack in 1995. I regularly rode those lines to work but later in the morning.

So far I've managed to dodge California earthquakes reasonably well, being in the Bay Area for the 1971 quake, in LA for the 1989 Bay Area quake, and Tokyo for the 1994 LA quake . . .
posted by troy at 11:08 AM on November 29, 2008

Wow, just last night I was considering using my AskMe to see if there is any way of estimating my chances of dying a non-horrible, non-lingering death. I don't see the exact answer in here, but I can see the chances are not good.
posted by HotToddy at 12:51 PM on November 29, 2008

If I've learned anything from the media and the government, it's that I am certain to die in a terrorist attack. Or possibly at the hand of RAMPAGING HOMOSEXUALS ANGRY ABOUT PROP 8.
posted by Pope Guilty at 2:08 PM on November 29, 2008

Related: How you will likely dye in 5 months.
posted by jlowen at 2:33 PM on November 29, 2008

And if that wasn't depressing enough, there's this.
posted by Ugh at 3:04 PM on November 29, 2008