Death

Interesting Facts:
 * The leading cause of death overall in the U.S. is diseases of the heart. Cancer is in 2nd place.
 * The 3rd leading cause of death among teens is suicide. Homicide is 5th and HIV is 14th.
 * Among young adults (25-29), homicide is 2nd, suicide is 3rd, heart disease is 5th, and HIV is 6th.

Unusual and Unfortunate Deaths:
 * Robert Gary Jones was jogging along a beach listening to his iPod and was hit from behind by a plane making a crash landing on the beach.
 * Robert Boardman was gored to death by a mountain goat while eating his lunch at Olympic National Park.
 * Jimi Heselden died when he drove a motorized scooter off a cliff and drowned in the River Wharfe.

Explanations to the Previous:
 * A plane making a crash landing is not extremely unlikely, but the chance that it would hit someone is small. The chance of it happening in anyone in a given year is 1.3%. If he hadn't been listening to his iPod, he probably would of heard the plane coming and moved.
 * The mountain goat incident is very unlikely. The odds of a mountain goat injuring you in your lifetime is 0.9%. The odds of dying from a mountain goat is 0.4%. You are 3% more likely to get struck by lightning or get hit by a train.

Poison:
 * More people die from snakebite than any other poison in the world.
 * Other animals that can be poisonous are frogs, mosquitoes, and almost any animal can carry rabies.
 * Other types of poison are food poisoning, water poisoning, salmonella, and e-coli.
 * Reactions can vary depending upon the poison and the person.
 * They can vary so much that they range from a headache to death from an infection.

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