What the hell is wrong with us?

More depressing fun with the mortality stats from here.

This is deaths from traffic accidents.

Traffic Accidents

Here’s deaths from poisoning:

Poisonings

Here’s deaths from fires:

Fires

We’re slightly better at deaths from falls:

Falls

Deaths from drownings:

Drowning

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with us?

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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