Originally Posted by
korg128
I think 1500 people a day dying is the scary headline.
Happens all the time:
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
- Heart disease: 647,457
- Cancer: 599,108
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
- Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
- Diabetes: 83,564
- Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
- Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
Source:
Deaths: Final Data for 2017, table B pdf icon[PDF – 2 MB]More data: reports and tables
More like 8000 a day, actually.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm