It is not really that interesting. If you can read graphs and read well.......words and stuff. It could be interesting if you can't do those things like the blog that the OP linked to and the guy that wrote that blog post.
Didn't look further than the picture, if I used the interactive graph I found a bit more interesting data regarding the suicides.
The suicide rate hasn't been tracked very much (about 20 years in total), which is to be expected since it's a rather rare and private matter.
Originally Posted by Maxwell511
The graph is about the top ten ways people die and the number of deaths that are due to these causes. If you read the bar chart, in each section has ten segments. Each segment representing the amount of deaths due to that cause.
The article didn't even mention that it was the top ten, which I guess I should've looked into .
Originally Posted by Maxwell511
The reason the bar on the right is lower is because apparently humanity has figured out much more diverse ways of dying. Crocodile attacks, trying to have sex with a socket plug, licking a sleeping polar bear. These methods of death reduce the nominal numbers of the top ten ways of dying.
I would say that the main reason the right bar is lower is that humanity has learned to deal with the most easy-to-deal-with (which some may have been among the most common) causes of death.
But I guess that the report deals with the reasons.
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Didn't look further than the picture, if I used the interactive graph I found a bit more interesting data regarding the suicides.
The suicide rate hasn't been tracked very much (about 20 years in total), which is to be expected since it's a rather rare and private matter.
My last post was a joke but I'm trying to be serious in this one. I bolded "it's a rather rare" because it is not rather rare.
I am 28 years old. Of all the people I know that are or would have been my age; one died of cancer, two died in car accidents and 11 killed themselves.
It is not rare, it is tragic and common and I don't understand it.
I mean I do understand the feelings that lead someone there but I don't understand why this thing is common.
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My last post was a joke but I'm trying to be serious in this one. I bolded "it's a rather rare" because it is not rather rare.
And I laughed at the joke
I need to say though, I'm under the impression that suicide is something that is more common now than before.
Originally Posted by Maxwell511
I am 28 years old. Of all the people I know that are or would have been my age; one died of cancer, two died in car accidents and 11 killed themselves.
Sorry to hear that, luckily I'm spared from knowing anyone who has died.
Originally Posted by Maxwell511
It is not rare, it is tragic and common and I don't understand it.
I mean I do understand the feelings that lead someone there but I don't understand why this thing is common.
I agree with you except for it not being rare, but you might be in a population more prone to suicide.
In comparison, the only suicides I hear (since I've never experienced anything similar, thankfully) about are once every 4-5 years, and then only due to local gossip.
I hope I don't seem cold hearted, I rarely touch the subject of death other than in purely theoretical or playful matters (/manners?).
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Next you think about mentioning Thalidomide, take a look at what science has done over just the past century.
Next time you think of mentioning a nation totally devoted to Christ, take a look at what those stats could look like today:
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Next time you think of mentioning a nation totally devoted to Christ, take a look at what those stats could look like today:
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
I bet even a nation totally devoted to Christ today would still have causes of death.
And you will never convince me that a nation totally devoted to Christ would not have at least one person licking a sleeping polar bear.
Next time you think of mentioning a nation totally devoted to Christ, take a look at what those stats could look like today
Sure, % Christianity has everything to do with the "success" of a country:
Country Christian%
Romania 99.5%
Greece 99.1%
Ecuador 99.0%
Armenia 98.7%
Equatorial Guinea 98.6%
East Timor 98.4%
Moldova 98.3%
American Samoa 98.3%
Malta 98.0%
Venezuela 98.0%
Colombia 97.6%
Zambia 97.6%
Mexico 97.5%
Guatemala 97.5%
The US is about 80% Christian and about #50 or so on that list by the way. China and Japan, second and third largest economies in the world behind the US, are 12% and 2% Christian respectively.
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