The things most likely to kill you in one infographic

[hack89]

Humans are notoriously bad at assessing risk. It's why someone lights up another cigarette while worrying about getting killed by a terrorist, and why so many of us calmly drive to work everyday but feel nervous getting on a plane.

To help people make sense of all this, the UK's National Health Service put together the Atlas of Risk, which we first saw tweeted by Duke University physician Peter Ubel.

Here are the leading causes of death in the UK, with larger circles representing more common causes:

I know it is for the UK but I still found it interesting.

[JonathanRackham]

1. Hmmmmmm.....

My mother n law didn’t make the list.

[Arugula Latte]

18. ...

[BlueJazz]

2. Having Republicans run your country would increase a lot of those factors through stress.

The science of stress and worry on one's body takes a wicked toll.

[hifiguy]

3. Where's terrorism?

Every RWNJ knows that is causes 1-100.

[petronius]

4. Interesting that "non-transport accidents" are larger than "transport accidents"

I would have guessed that crashes (car, motorcycle, bike, etc) would outweigh the others - which I assume to be falls and the like.

[lpbk2713]

6. Work related accidents and drowning might count for a lot.

[EL34x4]

11. Probably many are elderly

A simple fall can be fatal to an elderly person, bringing on complications that they never recover from.

[G_j]

5. #1

Death will kill you...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. Note that the scaling is more dramatic than it looks.

They're representing one-dimensional numbers in two dimensions, making big things look smaller and small ones bigger, to get it all onto one chart.

On the back of an envelope, I'd expect the "Heart and cardiovascular" circle to be about 200-300 times larger than the "murder" circle, give or take

[Logical]

8. "98% of people will die at some point in their lifetime." Ricky Bobby

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. unless you are syrian. nt

[melman]

10. The thing that bugs me is

the people that do get killed in mass shootings or plane crashes were just as unlikely to as I am.

[EL34x4]

12. The same could be said for lottery winners.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Seeing it was the UK would explain why ...

Republican is not on the list.

[maxsolomon]

14. In the UK

In America, "Transport Accidents" are going to be higher, and our Murder Rate is undoubtedly higher as well.

We have hundreds of times more cars, and thousands of times more firearms.

[EX500rider]

16. Actually the US has 809 cars per 1,000 people while the UK has 519 per 1,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita

Their homicide rate is 1 per 100,000 while the US's is 4.7 per 100,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

[maxsolomon]

21. well, i was using the colloquial

"100s" and "1000s", but I stand corrected.

let's just say their homicide rate is 1/5th of ours then.

[FrodosPet]

15. Being born is the leading cause of death.

People who are never born will never have to worry about dying.

[trof]

22. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

You can quote me on that.

[Ron Obvious]

17. I want to die from "undetermined events"

I don't ask for much.

[Arugula Latte]

19. I want to be snuggled/smothered to death by kittens.

[spanone]

20. i didn't see one TSA agent at my cardiologists today....what the fuck?????