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When and where death will arrive can rarely be predicted, but the statistics reveal what holds the greatest chance of ending a life. Below figures come from the most recent national geography magizine which shows what the lifetime probabilities are of a US resident dying in a relatively common event, such as a pedestrian accident, or a less common but larger scale catastrophe, such as an earthquake. No matter what the cause, one thing is certain: No one gets out of here alive.

Heart Disease: 1 in5
Cancer: 1 in 7
Stroke: 1 in 24
Automobile Accidents: 1 in 84
Suicide: 1 in 119
Falling: 1 in 218
Firearm Assault: 1 in 314
Oedestrain Accident: 1 in 626
Drowning: 1 in 1,008
Motorcycle accident: 1in 1,020
Fire or Smoke: 1 in 1,113
Bicycling accident: 1 in 4,919
Air/Space accident: 1 in 5,051
Accidental firearm discharge: 1 in 5,134
Accidental electrocution: 1 in 9,968
Alcohol Poisoning: 1 in 10,048
Hot Weather: 1 in 13,729
Hoenet, wasp, or bee sting: 1 in 56,789
Legal execution: 1 in 62,468
Lightning: 1 in 79,746
Earthquake: 1 in 117,127
Flood: 1 in 144,156
Fireworks discharge: 1 in 340,733


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Total odds of dying, any cause: 1 in 1 (100%)

Among all of these , no cause of something such as SARS, bird flu, anthrax or other popular ones in the news are listed. We are worrying about something we shouldn't worry that much. Instead, we need to put more resource in the disease cure including stem cell research and cloning, natural disaster control and even weather prediction.

Human being had too much war already.