What would you WANT the #1 cause of deaths for 15 to 24 year olds to be?

In My Humble Opinion
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There’s a story going 'round various news sites right now about 8 teenagers in Ohio who flipped over into a pond, 6 of them died.

In the CNN story there is this line:

My immediate reaction was something along the lines of oh-that’s-terrible-we-must-do-something-won’t-somebody-PLEASE-think-of-the-children-OMG!

. . . but the very next line in the paragraph is:

Now, I’m thinking . . . uh, car accident fatalities for young people are tragic and we should work to bring the number down but . . . percentage-wise, I think I’m o.k. with it being the #1 cause of death for that age bracket. After all, old age is not an option for cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds. A quarter of deaths are caused by car accident compared to . . . a quarter of deaths are caused by firearm wounds? . . . a quarter of deaths are caused by homicides? . . . a quarter of deaths are caused by suicides? . . . a quarter of deaths are caused by accidental poisonings?

Yeah, for this age group, car accidents as the #1 cause of death is the least disturbing option I can think of.

Well, least disturbing with numbers as high as they are (not that I know what the numbers are). If the #1 cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds was disease . . . then I’d hope the overall numbers of deaths were very low, otherwise why do we have all these young people dying of disease?

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Dinosaur attack.

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And done in one
I really LOL’d

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Backtalk.

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Kamikaze Chip-monk with a giant penis climbs into there rooms at night and humps them till their heads explode…

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Natural causes.

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Embarrassment

(It’s credible, if you’ll recall)

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Vampires. Serve the little bastards right after inflicting four Twilight books and five movies on us.

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“Carousel”. Why should those poor kids have to wait until they’re 30 for Renewal?

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Combining the two best responses…

Vampire Dinosaurs (band name!)

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Snoo Snoo.

With me.

Well, not the guys.

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Exhaustion after a seventeen hour orgy.

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Turning into a blueberry after chewing gum?

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Hunger Games

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Ninjas.

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Where do Zombies rank?

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Snowboarding lightsaber duels.

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Old age (eventually).

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My disapproving fist of justice

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Seriously speaking, something more or less unpreventable like say cancer.