David Blunkett Quotes

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

Since 1914, we have endured world wars, genocides and government-sponsored famines, not to mention civil strife, riots and murders. Altogether, we have killed a staggering 100 million to 200 million of our own kind. But over the century, about 10 billion lives were lived — which means that just 1 to 2 percent of the world’s population died violently. Those lucky enough to be born in the 20th century were on average 10 times less likely to come to a grisly end than those born in the Stone Age.

No one should die when they're 50.

Some people live. Some people die.

Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

Death stands behind every bride, every groom.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.