Modern Life Is Dangerous

MODERN LIFE IS DANGEROUS 8,403 Despite the best practices of medicine, health & safety departments and education, men and women are killed by everyday items that we all live with. You're safer being female than male, as this survey of causes of deaths in a European country over a 4 year period shows. 724 543 21 Exposure to smoke, fire and flames Bikes 1,708 38 5,580 28 158 Falling from cliffs Hanging and Strangulation 2,109 д Trains Accidental 236 poisoning 1,125 1,510 Opiates 548 Assault Falling from stairs/steps 1,481 Accidental 752 hanging 1,773 203 Cars 622 Falling from buildings/ Cancer 320 structures Falling from ladders 410 336,066 86 Drowning in a bath tub Inanimate objects 261 16 740,562 hornets, 120 50 Number of 486 male deaths Number of female deaths 134 17 12 16 electric current, radiation or extreme air temperature and pressure 20 23 Dog bite 19 24 Exposure to Accidental suffocation in bed Lack of food Other mammal bites III Lightning 68 Contact with wasps, bees