It seems that my world is getting creepy...sickening even and I am not talking about the heavy drinking. Which leads to:
Number of Deaths for Leading Causes of Death in the US
- Heart disease: 631,636
- Cancer: 559,888
- Stroke (cardiovascular diseases): 137,119
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
- Diabetes: 72,449
- Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
- Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
- Septicemia: 34,234
Five Leading Causes of Death, USA, Ages 15-24, 1998
- Accidents: 12,752
- Homicide: 5,233
- Suicide: 4,003
- Cancer: 1,670
- Heart Disease: 961
Mine goes a little differently though:
My Own Top Ten Possible Causes for Death
(In no particular order)
Try it at home with your friends!
- Drowning
- Oncoming traffic
- Homicide (too many peeps be hatin' yo)
- Cancer
- Fire (includes spontaneous combustion and fire ants)
- Alcohol
- A moment where I should have ducked
- Earthquake
- Falling
- Cults
Anyways, Figure Skating is cool right? Right. So after being forced to dance with a man in front of my coworkers then trying to navigate through a pool in a cardboard boat. I came to a realization:
Sonja Henie, the Micheal Jordan of Figure Skating. She was the first to wear short skirts and white ice skates. The girl was an innovator, a movie star and possibly a Nazi sympathizer. We can learn a lot from her.