One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
How many different deaths I can die?
In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.
A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
28,000 people were killed in the world last year by terrorists. Every death is a tragedy but we should keep this in perspective, After all, over 30,000 people last year were victims of gun death in the United States alone.
People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?
The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the vast majority of these cases are handled correctly: The death is recorded. Government money is no longer sent to that person. But not always.
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
