• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Pretty sure fat and cholesterol have killed more people than that.

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      100% of people who breath air have died, or will die. None of these things have even comparable kdrs to air.

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        Technically we can’t know for sure everyone alive will die. It’s a reasonable assumption but we won’t know unless we see everyone die. Only the last person alive will know for sure. Actually they won’t even know for sure. You could think you’re the last person alive but there still be someone alive far away.

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        I think that same statistic applies to drinking water. So I guess the question is, are people more likely to breathe air or drink water? I’m betting on air, but I don’t know if dying in utero still counts as having imbibed water.

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    I’m actually impressed more people didn’t die weightlifting with the things we see in stupid clips.

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    I briefly shadowed at a medical examiner’s office. “Choking” was a scarily common cause to see up on the board. So I have a hard time believing only one person has ever died eating a donut in that same span of time.

    Note that I am pretty sure a lot of those choking deaths are in older people because your swallowing can become impaired.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    I’ve never actually heard of someone dying in a weightlifting accident but watching weightlifting stresses me out, I keep thinking of the weight falling on their heads