You should be glad you survived 2003!

Hopefully not too somber; Inspired by my Project Management class the other day, I explored the inter-web for the chances of dying from various ‘accidents’ or ‘incidents’. Then I came across a website which gives a big long list of various ways you could have died… in America… in 2003, some of the more… random ones… follow;

Lightening – 1 in 6million
Earthquake – 1 in 9million
Flood – 1 in 11 million 
Winning the Lottery – 1 in 14million
Confined to or trapped in a low-oxygen environment – 1 in 18 million
Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle – 1 in 22 million
Fireworks – 1 in 26 million
Ignition or melting of nightwear - 1 in 97 million (Not really sure the causes to make that happen to be honest!)
Contact with venomous snakes and lizards - 1 in 145.5 million
Radiation – No chance of that happening!

So apparently in 2003, there was more chance of being hit by lightening, hit by an earthquake and drowned in a flood than win the lottery… but it’s good to know that Radiation wasn’t a high factor – boy is that a weight off of my mind!

Source: http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm (Numbers Rounded)