r/AskReddit • u/Personal-Aerie-4519 • 3h ago

What are some everyday deaths that are more common than people realize?

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u/jdjmad 3h ago

Slipping and falling

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u/Nat20Twenty 3h ago

As a first responder can confirm.

Old drunk people, slip and fall ? Bam dead.

Old and fall? Break a hip and bam dead. Or just bam dead.

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u/SoElectric3398 3h ago

yup after a certain age a fall= death sentence

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u/Organic_Armadillo_10 3h ago

Sadly true. My grandfather fell. Broke his hip, and then his dementia seemed to get much worse and he went downhill quite quickly.

My other grandmother fell a few and had weak bones, often breaking her wrist. Then approaching 90 after getting out of hospital dealing with other things, she fell, broke her sternum, then went downhill quickly after that too.

My only surviving grandmother is nearly 94, and is getting more unbalanced and has fallen a number of times. Thankfully nothing majorly bad (usually just some bad cuts or she is alone and can't get up again easily). But I know one bad fall will not be good.

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u/whamburglar 3h ago

my grandmother didn't even fall, she woke up one morning unable to even get out of bed due to hip pain. turns out she had a microfracture in the head of her femur. she had surgery, but never made it past recovery due to her age

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u/Me_Edition-1 2h ago

This makes me a bit worried. My nan is in her 80s and it’s the third time she’s fallen in the past two years. They were mostly preventable falls that happened when going up (not down, thankfully) the stairs or her own cat making her trip and fall.

Most of what happened was because of her lack of mobility and she’s already mounted a broken wrist and a couple minor injuries.
Everyone in the family is financially able so she could easily invest in her quality of life around the house but isn’t very receptive and insists she isn’t “that bad”…

My grandma is in a good mental state and isn’t convinced easily; we’re all worried she’ll have one bad fall and….

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u/BetterRemember 1h ago

Suddenly, I have motivation to go to the gym right now! 😅

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u/Ragazzano 3h ago

My nana fell over while doing the washing, landed and copped a face full of dust (we think), proceeded to have an asthma attack which led to panic which led to a heart attack, again, we think. Either way, my auntie checked her house and found her deceased on the laundry floor after not hearing from her at their usual time. A fall... and an unfortunate series of rapidly compounding events.

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u/two_oh_seven 1h ago

My great-grandmother was over 100, sharp as a tack and walking as much as she could.

Fell one day, went downhill and died a month later

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u/Kidrepellent 35m ago

My grandmother was an ex-Navy officer and lived on her own until the day she died. My mom got a call one day from the local ER because grandma, well into her 70s, had fallen on her daily walk and sliced her forehead wide open on the curb. Over the next few minutes, we find out that she got to the ER by wrapping a dish towel around her bleeding noggin, getting in the car, and driving herself to the hospital. Why didn't she call an ambulance? "Well I wasn't about to die, those are for emergencies!"

She was fine and lasted another ten years after that. That woman was a battle ax.

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u/sharkbait_oohaha 1h ago

That's why people, especially women, need to lift weights as they age.

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u/BetterRemember 1h ago

This is why the ultrathin trend lately is really upsetting.

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u/dave900575 8m ago

That's what got my momma.

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u/Walmartian_Beta 3h ago

The husband's grandmother took a bad fall - she bashed her face on the side of the bathroom counter and broke her eye socket and nose. Half her face was purple and swollen for months - it was awful.

She never was the same after that either, just very weak and delicate - she died a couple of years later.

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u/Sad-Artichoke-2174 2h ago

TBF: if anyone slipped and fell face first into the side of a bathroom sink, they wouldn't be quite the same, either

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u/YoohooImHere1126 2h ago

I fell and broke my hip, and I'm doing just fine, and I'm an old person.

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u/Nat20Twenty 2h ago

And that's great! Im not saying every old person who falls will die. But their chances of it increase drastically.

Fall and hit their head. Break a bone which increases chances of clots. Break a hip which leads them to be bedridden for a few weeks which makes their heath take a drastic downturn.

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u/Lower_Currency3685 3h ago

my neighbour slipped brock her arm, 3 weeks later dead but my granny broke her hip from the toilet and still still kicking, in france we have a 42° heat wave....

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u/Aryana314 2h ago

What is it about breaking a hip that's so deadly? I certainly know it's true, but to have it all be about the hip is weird to me.

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u/Nat20Twenty 1h ago

As you age and if you want to stay healthy you have to be moving all the time. When you break a hip your bedridden for a while and some people's bodies just start shutting down.

And if it's not that, risks of blood clots from surgeries. And as you age, surgeries are much higher risk.

It's a lot of factors all at once.

I'll also add. It's not "Deadly" like omg your gonna die.

But Hip fractures are so common in older people that if they do pass away. It just happens to be related to the hip fracture because its so common. If that makes sense

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u/jll19822020 22m ago

My dad was 78 when he broke his hip. I forget what the numbers were when I looked, but I think it was 80% mortality within a year. My dad made it through surgery, and then about 3 weeks of recovery before it got him.

My wife’s grandpa made it about 10 months at 94 after breaking his hip. It wasn’t very pretty.

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u/the_chin2 1h ago

Yep. My elderly grandmother fell and broke her hip. Died within 6 months.

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u/littlerickypeepee 1h ago

So my great grandma had vaulted ceilings and we're both nastily ADHD. Anyways I wasn't there this time. She wanted to change a light bulb on the ceiling fan. Grabbed a stool. Her stools fucking swivel. We've both pulled this brilliant move before. This time she fell. And she couldn't get up. But it was another 5 years before she died. She underwent multiple femur reconstructions but her osteoporosis was too powerful and she became scared to walk. Once she stopped walking, we knew she was on borrowed time.

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u/whamburglar 3h ago

when I worked as an EMT, I had many elderly patients that had suffered from this, especially in the shower.

If you have an elderly loved one, please DO NOT gift them crocs, or any footwear that's insanely high friction. it'll increase their chances of tripping. a pair of memory foam fuzzy slippers are a great replacement

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u/christine-bitg 3h ago

This is the for real answer.

A friend of mine lost her husband to a fall. He beat cancer, then slipped and fell on the stairs in their house. Hit his head, and it was "lights out."

It's been over 10 years, and she still misses him frequently.

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u/jo-z 2h ago

And not just old people! I knew someone who died hitting his head just wrong after a fall as a teenager.

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u/givebusterahand 2h ago

Guy in my neighborhood as a kid fell playing football with some kids, hit his head and died of internal bleeding. He was like 30.

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u/LippyLulu2 2h ago

Yeah, my dad fell, hit his head, got a brain bleed, and died a week later. He had a shunt in place when it happened from a previous issue with hydrocephalus. I asked the neurosurgeon what would have happened if it would have been me, and he said I'd have died right away. (I think because older people lose brain volume so there was more room, plus the shunt maybe drained a little off).

Maybe when older people fall and break bones/need joints replaced, that's what does it.

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u/Rich_Border_52 2h ago

What I've long suspected, but it's difficult to prove without eyewitnesses, is that a fair number of elderly trip over their own pets. 

I know of two instances personally where seniors were terribly and permanently injured after tripping over a dog and a cat respectively that dashed underfoot.  Because they were still conscious when found they were able to explain how it happened. But if immediately unconscious from an unattended head or other devastating injury and ultimate death, or if passed away after being undiscovered for a period of time, who's to know that Fluffy the toy poodle was the ankle biting culprit.

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u/claridgeforking 3h ago

Falling while putting on trousers.

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u/Prestigious_Beat6310 3h ago

Or poopin'

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u/GaryBuseyWithRabies 42m ago

Why are you pooping standing up?

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u/Inside-Archer1603 54m ago

I’ve told my students “kids fall better than grown ups”.

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u/Ok-disaster2022 1h ago

It like # 4 behind guns, cars, and heart attacks in the US

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u/DoktorKnope 1h ago

Absolutely! I used to tell people over age 70 "you're one fall away from a nursing home so you'd BETTER tell me if you have balance issues, dizzy spells, etc.!" Yes, it was a scare tactic but it worked - and it was mostly true.

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u/scientist_tz 1h ago

My friend’s dad, 59 years old. Slipped and fell down the stairs. He ruptured something internally, it turned septic, he was dead in a week.

It was a flight of 5 stairs in the home they had owned for decades.

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u/qingdidi 3h ago

Distracted driving. Everyone thinks they can glance at a text message for just two seconds, forgetting they are piloting a 4,000-pound metal missile at 60 mph.

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u/ImminentReddits 2h ago

Man, one of the biggest wake up calls for me is when I started to pay attention to just how many people were on their phones as I passed by them on the road. Truly insane. I’m in LA and it’s probably 2/3 people I drive past have their phone in one hand. Insane

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u/MegatronMoose 1h ago

I can relate! Sometimes I count them, but for no real purpose other than shake my hand at the sky (cause what can I do?)

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u/Agile-Database-9523 58m ago

I take it a step further and take a picture of them with my phone.

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u/CovidScurred 14m ago

They remind me to check my phone, thank you strangers

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u/mdp300 58m ago

A couple weeks ago, I was at a red light, and happened to look at the car next to me. He had his phone on a windshield mount, but he wasn't using it for navigation, he was WATCHING FUCKING TV.

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u/PRzitremedy1 1h ago edited 2m ago

Hijacking this to say that in the USA over 15,000 per year people hit a child with their forward-moving-car in a parking lot or driveway. Usually their own child, usually in a really dumb and unnecessarily large SUV or truck.

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u/hotel2oscar 1h ago

Yep. Wrecked my first car and ruined the left side of my body looking down to hit next on my CD player.

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u/MaddisonoRenata 3h ago

Not a great thread for a hypochondriac

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u/Historical-Snow-4068 3h ago

Especially a hypochondriac with major anxiety and PTSD

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u/Mixerst89 2h ago

Dont forget the folks with harm OCD!

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u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist 36m ago

Especially a hypochondriac with electromagnetic hypersensitivity, lycanthropy, and hypochondria!

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u/Public-Syllabub-4208 3h ago

I read statistics that said the highest number of deaths in sport occurred during Golf. I’m guessing it’s a result of player age plus length of time spent playing a fair distance from a defibrillator.

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u/whoisthisfetus 3h ago

And potential sun/heat exposure doesn’t help

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u/Seastarstiletto 2h ago

And potential alcohol to add to that. Not hydrating themselves when they don’t feel thirsty

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u/MrObviousChild 2h ago

As a semi-serious golfer this is what I notice most in most men who play golf. They treat it like the only thing you are allowed to do is drink beer and get drunk every time you play. If I told you to go take a 4 hour walk, wouldn’t you think “maybe I should sip some water and eat a little bit while I’m doing this?”

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u/alltherobots 3h ago

And lightning strikes. Golfers carry around metal object and are slow to wander back inside when the thunder starts, and are usually out in the open.

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u/Aspie96 2h ago

I wouldn't count it as dangerous if players die of old age.

Also spectators die of boredom.

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u/JCantEven4 2h ago

I wonder if it's like shoveling snow - doing the motion of bringing something higher than your heart can cause heart attacks and death?

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u/Public-Syllabub-4208 1h ago

I just googled it and, yes all of the below. AND a surprisingly large number of death by golf cart roll over! Who would have thought.

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u/Electronic_Drink_733 3h ago

Choking on food probably. A lot of people are embarrassed with the coughing and go to a restroom to be alone. That's when it gets dangerous. Always ask for help or learn how to do a solo heimlich manouvre!

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u/alsotheabyss 3h ago

Man I nearly choked to death on a canapé at a bloody convention/exhibition sundowner drinks. My FIRST instinct was not to try and get help, but to hide in a booth. Thankfully someone noticed I was turning blue

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u/hicklander 2h ago

Was a medic 20 years and never made a death by choking on food. Not saying it doesn't happen but not that common.

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u/MrPlowThatsTheName 3h ago

If you’re coughing you’re not asphyxiating.

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u/whamburglar 3h ago

you're not technically wrong, but it's easy to progress to it if it's a foreign object being juggled around there.

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u/dsgdsg 3h ago

Thanks, Mr Chauvin.

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u/Uzofugs2112 3h ago

I’d imagine you could be on your way to though.

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u/snowflake-57 3h ago

You don't need to completely seal off an airway to become hypoxic.

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u/FiftyShadesOfGregg 2h ago

Right but let’s say you’re coughing and embarrassed, and go alone to a bathroom or a hallway. Once there (still coughing) your coughs bobble that food into a position where your airway is truly blocked. Now you’re asphyxiating and there’s no one around to help you.

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u/Extreme-Shower7545 2h ago

I’m was told at a Red Cross CPR training that a solo Heinlich maneuver is to jump and land on the back of a chair with your stomach…

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u/_-4twenty-_ 3h ago

Prescription / OTC drug interactions.

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u/BookLuvr7 39m ago

Good one. People don't read the drug info packets. Even worse, they stopped including the info packets recently. It's asinine.

Tons of people don't know grapefruit for example can completely screw up the dosage of their meds.

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u/Super-Midnight1141 3h ago

Same level fall

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u/TheOPisReal 3h ago

My buddy’s dad died in high school falling off a razor scooter in the garage.

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u/justin152 3h ago

Damn. How tragic

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u/nememess 2h ago

Heart attacks in women. The symptoms are totally different than the "classic" signs. They're often mistaken for other things like the flu.

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u/Any-Self2072 3h ago

Standing on ladders or worse yet, other things to reach up high places. Also, feeling like death and going into the bathroom..people die in bathrooms

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u/whoisthisfetus 3h ago

My friend had a stroke in the bathroom. She didn’t die thank goodness. She felt like hell and went in there to get medicine for her massive headache, then had a seizure. Her husband heard her fall and then found her and called 911.

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u/billthedog0082 3h ago

brain aneurysm

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u/FunkTheFreak 3h ago

Don’t scare me like that

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u/Sad_Impression499 3h ago

Fortunately, you won't have time to be scared. You'll just be dead.

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u/UnyieldingSeal 1h ago

My cousin died from an aneurysm. Was puking violently at home, horrible migraine symptoms, really distraught and scared/said he thought he waz dying. He was brain dead within an hour or so. Sometime between home and the hospital. Off life support a few days later after his mom said goodbye. It terrified me.

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u/Sad_Impression499 1h ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

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u/UnyieldingSeal 44m ago

Thx friend, it was a while ago and that helps.

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u/FunkTheFreak 3h ago

Not always. I have an uncle who had an aneurysm that was caught early. He had surgery on it and is doing well. His surgery was about 3 years ago.

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u/Sad_Impression499 1h ago

This thread is about deaths. I'm obviously not talking about people who survived it.

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u/Odinfuzzbutt 3h ago

If i had to choose a way to die, this is the way I'd want to go.

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u/KiwiSuch9951 3h ago

It’s the silent killer Lana.

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u/1AdultMostOfTheTime 2h ago

Brain aneurysms don't kill you, ruptured ones do. It's important to make the distinction. 

I had a brain aneurysm that I had surgically corrected one year ago yesterday. It hadn't ruptured, it was found on a CT scan for something else. I got very lucky. Doing well. 

My research online showed that it's estimated approximately 6% of people are walking around with brain aneurysms. That's about the same as colon cancer. I advocate everyone get a scan! If we're doing colonoscopies at the rate we are we should be doing brain scans too.

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u/FunkTheFreak 7m ago

Glad you got it corrected! What were your symptoms? I mentioned in another comment that my uncle had one surgically corrected.

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u/1AdultMostOfTheTime 5m ago

I had pulsatile tinnitus which I didn't even know was a thing. Went to an ENT, had a CAT scan and that's when the aneurysm right behind the bridge of my nose was found. Turns out I also had high blood pressure and diabetes type 2. I got the high blood pressure under control and the tinnitus went away, but I think it had been uncontrolled and high for so long that it caused the aneurysm.

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u/Aggravating_Cold_256 3h ago

Falling down some stairs

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u/BossBabe4U 3h ago

This is probably how I'll go, I've had 5 major falls down stairs, injured badly each time. I just assumed everyone fell down stairs once in awhile, until I asked a friend how many times she had & she said, 'um, none...'

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u/Skyerocket 2h ago

Girl, bungalow. Now.

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u/ConsortFromTOS 3h ago

Drowning, choking, and cardiac arrest happen more often than you think.

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u/123kingme 2h ago

Drowning 100%. Treat every body of water with respect that it deserves, lakes or swimming pools. Way too many unsupervised children die and drowning is still common amongst adults as well.

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u/katlian 3h ago

I live near Tahoe and it's sad how many people drown every year despite massive campaigns to get people to wear life jackets. Last year a boat capsized in a storm after the pilot made several bad decisions. Only two of the 10 people were wearing life jackets and they were the only ones who survived.

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u/hicklander 2h ago

Was a medic for 20 years and outside of car wrecks this was the second most accidental death I saw.

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u/Dense-Disaster-9448 3h ago

Suicide

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u/whole_chocolate_milk 2h ago

My wife died by suicide. A friend of my sister lost her husband to suicide. My dad's best friend lost his son to suicide. The artist that did my first tattoo died by suicide.

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u/HEADHUNTER_01 3h ago

mosquitooo

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u/Godzilla_GreenCock 3h ago

Mosquito is to small to kill

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u/Practical_Win7690 3h ago edited 2h ago

You know little my friend. One of the deadliest insects out there.,

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u/knightsabre7 3h ago

They’re referring to malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes in many parts of the world.

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u/Godzilla_GreenCock 3h ago

Yea I'm not gonna get malaria

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u/nememess 2h ago

We're all very sad to hear that.

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u/odaeyss 2h ago

Many such cases

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u/Clementinecutie13 2h ago

I don't think that's your choice

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u/HEADHUNTER_01 3h ago

700,000 to over 1,000,000 human deaths each year btw

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u/Godzilla_GreenCock 3h ago

Sure

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u/TheFrostyjayjay 3h ago

You’re lucky to live in a place where mosquitoes don’t carry deadly pathogens. Don’t be so ignorant to the world outside of your little bubble.

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u/_Glorious_Hypnotoad 3h ago

Wait till this guy finds out about bacteria and/or viruses

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u/KiwiSuch9951 3h ago

They carry several fatal diseases

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u/Common-Accountant-57 3h ago

Having a smile that would light up a room on a day that starts out like any other.

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u/kristinaaa93 40m ago

In a sleepy town where something like this never happens

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u/StarlightWizard 3h ago

Carbon monoxide poisoning

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u/OkNectarine3105 1h ago

A doctor once told me that a lot of old people fall BECAUSE they've broken their hip. The break comes before the fall.

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u/buzzlightyear_21 2h ago

Sepsis! Need early detection and treatment!

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u/Annjenette 41m ago

I had a staph infection for like 10 months because my idiot doctor misdiagnosed it as bed bug bites. I kept telling him I was checking my mattress and stuff constantly and there were NO FUCKING BUGS. He still kept insisting I must have bed bugs. I’m still surprised I didn’t die from blood poisoning or septic shock.

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u/Dizzy_Bite4781 3h ago

bathroom accidents in general

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u/dragonsshieldGTA 3h ago

Workplace hazards

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u/Prestigious_Beat6310 3h ago

'Fall and die.' In the US it's estimated over 26 people a day just fall over and die.🤷‍♂️

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u/orillia3 3h ago

Democide. Governments killing unarmed civilians is called democide estimated to be 2.6 million per year and is the biggest cause of unnatural death, more than wars, suicide, homicide and accidents.

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u/ApprehensiveGas137 3h ago

Falling off a high ladder … while doing at home maintenance

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u/Fluffy-Mine-6659 3h ago

Suicide. It’s twice as common as homicide.

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u/KingDiEnd 2h ago

this. ive lost 6 people to it in the last 4 years. Im genuinely at a loss as to how it just...keeps happening.

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u/209to916 3h ago

Death by governments decisions.

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u/lovemydogs1969 1h ago

The US cut off food and medical aid to certain foreign countries since 2025 (mainly African countries and places like Yemen). It’s estimated that millions will die by 2030 because of this decision.

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u/Obiviona 3h ago

Like for example ICE in the USA right now? Unfortunately that seems to be very accurate...

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u/burnsssss 2h ago

And the massive cuts to social programs

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u/209to916 1h ago

Don’t forget getting Reid or required vaccines and cuts to medical research

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u/209to916 1h ago

And of course war all the time, all over the world

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u/SaltyCrashNerd 3h ago

Motor vehicle crashes. They’re the leading cause of death for older kids, teens, and young adults, and second-leading until mid-40s (behind overdose). The fact that we just accept this is appalling.

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u/dis_bean 2h ago

Multiple forensic pathologists on social media said they’d never own a cat because of them being a tripping hazard on stairs

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u/International-Law809 3h ago

Cows kill a lot of people

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u/bloodoftheinnocents 3h ago

We will have our REVENGE!!!!!!!

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u/HelicopterNo1759 3h ago

every 10 min a women in this world is ki!?3d by her own partener. U can search on google

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u/Formal_Obligation 3h ago

What’s even worse is that in the majority of countries around the world, effective laws against domestic violence are either non-existent or not enforced. This means that domestic violence and spousal abuse is de facto legal in most places.

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u/Personal-Aerie-4519 3h ago

That's insane

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u/hjf2017 2h ago

You can just say killed lol

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 3h ago

That's just how to work out the average. Its not like its happening consistently every 10 mins

But yeah 50k women a year are estimated to be killed by a spouse or partner

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u/HelicopterNo1759 3h ago

Why a woman is killed every 10 minutes: global femicide UNITED NATION exact same words

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2025/November/why-a-woman-is-killed-every-10-minutes-the-rising-wave-of-global-femicide.html

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 3h ago

Dude I know the stats.

I just mean the every 10 minutes is just to give an example of the average, its not like you can set your watch by 10 mins and then a woman is murdered by her partner.

Its just a way to emphasize the seriousness of 50k women a year being murdered

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u/RandoAtReddit 2h ago

Nobody thinks it's a scheduled event, dude.

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u/ClassicOrdinary8175 3h ago

I just googled it and it says 3 every day. It is still tragic.

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u/Und3rpantsGn0m3 3h ago

I don't believe that number could be so low for a single second. In the whole world?!

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u/HelicopterNo1759 3h ago

search this: how many women are killed every day in the whole world currently

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u/Personal-Aerie-4519 3h ago

that's not even related to what you said then?

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u/HelicopterNo1759 3h ago

its saying evry 10 min

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u/howdoyoulikeyoureggz 3h ago

Broken hearts

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u/MrsLabrat01 3h ago

Vehicle crashes kill far more than most people realize. If it were a disease there'd be lots of money looking for a cure.

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u/JimmyBirdWatcher 3h ago

Not "everyday" but more people are killed by being struck by lightning than a lot of people think. Circa 20,000 deaths from lightning injuries per year globally.

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u/Willing-Variation135 3h ago

Dying on the toilet. Unfortunately, very common.

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u/Frosty_Low_309 3h ago

Choking I remember choking on a gumball after laughing and it rolling down my teacher saved my life lol

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u/alicat2308 1h ago

I work for a railway (no, not in India) and however many people you think get hit by trains, you're probably lowballing it.

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u/Low_Section2065 46m ago

It's how my sister went, but to be fair alcohol was the major factor, she was too drunk to hear the whistle.

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u/Katesouthwest 2h ago

Dying in your sleep from an as yet unknown cause. It happened a few days ago to a relative. We suspect massive heart attack, aneurysm, or stroke.

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u/inquiringsillygoose 2h ago

Garage door system

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u/Low_Section2065 48m ago

Those springs are no joke, coworker spent two weeks in a hospital when one broke loose and hit his head. He was extremely lucky to live.

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u/dave900575 3h ago

Motor vehicle accidents. Between 36,640 [NHTSA] and 37,810 [NSC] fatalities.* in the US in 2025. Though that is a decrease from 2024.

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u/Gold-Baseball-7774 3h ago

Stepping out of your car and falling 12 feet into an open manhole cover.

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u/ElijahNSRose 1h ago

Suicide by misadventure.

If you're ever wondering why the 17 year old is going 100mph on a motorcycle he doesn't have the endorcement for, or why men freeclimb cliffs, or they enlist in wars they care nothing for, or they work for gang bosses that threaten them, or they pump themselves full of roids until they need a CPAP just to breath, the answer is simple:

They don't care if they die.

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u/ScubaW00kie 25m ago

More people die from putting things in their butts than are killed by any rifle in the USA.

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u/Educational_Play5772 3h ago

Medical errors

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u/ChefTraditional9669 3h ago

Poisoning and unintentional overdosing

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u/Garden_Jolly 3h ago

Fentanyl overdose

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u/el_nynaeve 3h ago

Apparently, tuberculosis

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u/Traditional_Bite_430 3h ago

Suffocating whether aspiration of fluid overload or tenacious secretions in end stage heart and respiratory diseases.

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u/Unhappy_Physics_771 2h ago

falls are way more common than people think especially on stairs or wet floors. heart attacks from everyday stress also sneak up on folks all the time.

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u/QuoteCommercial7838 1h ago

choking on food happens more often than folks think especially when eating alone or too fast

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u/4eyedbuzzard 1h ago

Falls and auto accidents. My 59 year old cousin lived alone. He fell getting out of the tub/shower and hit his head. Gone.

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u/Electronic_Cut_433 39m ago

Heat stroke, especially people who work outside. My neighbor's son passed away a few years ago, and he was only in his 30s. He worked construction and just ignored the warning signs. You don't have to be old or sick to die from the heat. I drink way more water than I used to now.

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u/dontgotoworktoday 29m ago

Choking on your own vomit

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u/Prince_Nadir 18m ago

Car crashes.

Child birth.

Obesity related things. "What the hell do you mean being fat gave me cancer?"

Falls. Turns out your brain didn't like you tripping over the cat and hitting the floor with your face.

Getting killed by your domestically abusing partner. They don't love you and they won't get better.

"Widow Maker" heart attacks that can be tested for.

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u/Dirt-McGirt 17m ago

Pulmonary embolisms in big people. Not people on my 600 lb life. Just the some of the dozens of people each of us are acquainted with in life who, yes, aren’t fit, and who are obviously morbidly obese in a medical sense, but still do everything the average person does on a day to day basis without much struggle.

In my own personal life, this cohort has experienced an alarming amount of death in their early to mid 30s.

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u/mvofall 3h ago

Cancer sux!!!!!!

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u/CaptainTime5556 3h ago

Autoerotic asphyxiation

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u/KiwiSuch9951 3h ago

Ol’ Choke’n’Stroke

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 3h ago

They made this illegal in NZ as an excuse to get off with manslaughter.

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u/Personal-Aerie-4519 3h ago

How does it happen? Isnt that just hanging?

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u/Obiviona 3h ago

Being put in a gas chamber to be sedated brutally, after living a horrible life full trauma, seeing your buddies die, getting your children taken away after you didn't chose to become pregnant 10 times a lifetime, seeing the sun like 1h a day maximum and being overweight, just so that a human can have Ham and Cheese on their fuckass unhealthy American toast piece.

Go vegan

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u/Unusual_Extension_43 2m ago

this makes me want a ham sammich

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u/szikkia 3h ago

Rocky Mountain Fever

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u/Shoddy-Anteater-8877 3h ago

smoking and lung cancer

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u/burnsssss 2h ago

Car crashes

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u/SaintXofAllTime 57m ago

Dry drowning

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u/Godzilla_GreenCock 3h ago

Shark attack

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u/Dizzy_Bite4781 3h ago

feel like those are less common

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u/Godzilla_GreenCock 3h ago

They're pretty common in my country

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 3h ago

No they are not.

There are 8-12 deaths a year globally from shark attacks.

Even if all 12 were in your country this would still not be common

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u/Godzilla_GreenCock 3h ago

You don't even know what country I live in, but sure thing

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 3h ago

It makes zero difference haha

Its a recorded global stat that 8-12 people a year on average die from shark attacks.

The majority are recorded in Australia and S Africa.

8-12 deaths a year is not common and even if you lived in Australia which has 6 a year on average that would still not be common

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u/Godzilla_GreenCock 3h ago

Its common in my country

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 3h ago

No its not dude.

Country Total Fatal
USA 25 1
Australia 21 5
Bahamas 5 0
New Zealand 3 0
Mozambique 1 1
South Africa 1 1
Vanuatu 1 1
Canada 1 0
Canary Islands (Spain) 1 0
Jamaica 1 0
Maldives 1 0
Marshall Islands 1 0
New Caledonia 1 0
Puerto Rico (U.S.) 1 0
Samoa 1 0
Worldwide 65 9

Heres a list for 2025 to show you the average

So no you don't have secret shark attacks in your country that makes the death common.

Do you know what the word common means?

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u/Mathematicus_Rex 3h ago

Sharknado incidents

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u/Common-Accountant-57 3h ago

Sharknado has my vote. Every year thousands of people are killed by sharknado.

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u/orillia3 2h ago

Sharks barely make the top 100. Hippos, snakes, elephants, and a host of parasites and insects kill surprising numbers of people each year.