June 25, 2003

6 Million Ways to Die

Ever notice that there is only one way to come into this world? Well, science has made it possible to make infertile couples have children, but essentially the goal is to join two gametes together to form an embryo. Wow. What a joy and wonder. Now think about this. There are millions of ways to die, even if you group them into catagories. Let's do that, cause us humans like to do that.

Cancer: Lung Cancer, Brain Cancer, Skin Cancer, Toungue Cancer, Liver Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer, just to name a few.
Disease (environmental): Heart Disease, Alchiemerz, Diabetes type 2, are some common ones.
Disese (Virus/Bacteria): Flesh eating disease, SARS, the flu, AIDS, malaria, etc.
Disese (Genetic): obesity, leukimia, diabetes type one, down syndrome, etc
Accidents: Car Crash, the bungie cord broke, got inbetween the mother bear and her cub, stuck in undertow, plane crash.
Social: Assasination, Patricide, Infanticide, Suicide, Homocide, any thing ending in -cide
Poison: Over dose of illegal drugs, Reading the prescription wrong (ie, says:take once every two hours, but you take twice every one hour), ingesting house hold cleaning products, poisonous snakes and insects, etc.
Exploding Organs: Tonsils, Appendix, Bladder (Tyco Brahe died from a burst bladder. He was at dinner with the king, and it was considered rude to leave the table before the king, and he REALLY had to go...That's okay, no one liked him any way)
Other: old age, still born, choking, drowing, falling from really high, fire, hypothermia, spontanious combustion, starvation, dehydration, sentenced to death, dying savnig some one's life, pulling the plug (debatable) , abortion (debatable), etc.

Just something to think about. I'm not saying this to make us depressed, just a makes you realise you gotta live life to the fullest, I suppose. Either that, or spend the rest of your life paranoid about dying, and die from extreme fear of dying. WhatS that called again?

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