So the only one taking young-adult deaths seriously is a teenager? Go figure.
My votes: Overdose on homework. Overwork at nursing homes. Automobile accidents, but as Grandma’s passengers (only thing scarier than teenager driving is old people driving).
Starcraft.
Irradiated spider bites.
“When I die, I want to go peacefully and in my sleep, like Grandma, not in screaming terror, like the teenagers in her car.”
Four more died in Illinois last night when their SUV also flipped into a pond. We either need to stop them from driving SUVs or show them that Mythbusters about exiting a sinking vehicle.
Smoking.
No, seriously. No teenager has ever died from smoking. It doesn’t catch up to them until years later. But if they could watch a few of their peers succumb to lung cancer before their junior prom, they might think twice about lighting up.
Well, a few of them have died from falling asleep while smoking and setting fire to themselves, but that’s indirect.
Spontaneous human combustion.
People don’t randomly “fall asleep while smoking” except when they’re drunk out of their minds. It shouldn’t be “fell asleep while smoking”, it should be “passed out while smoking”.
Axe body spray overdose.
(Or is that in the “accidental poisoning” category mentioned in the OP?)
Why can’t we combine the two?
It would make the best Axe commercial ever.
Struck by lightning seems good.
Texting, Facebook and Twitter addiction.
It’s often fatal when combined with huffing petrol in enclosed spaces.
In third grade, a guy from the fire department came to class to show us a film about fire safety, which was basically a series of gruesome images from the aftermath of fires. Most of them were caused by someone “falling asleep while smoking in bed.” I don’t recall his ever mentioning drunkenness, but now that I think about it, that almost has to be the case.
Atrophy of the brain caused by excessive meme usage.
Only those capable of original thought should survive.
That would be the leading cause of undeath.
Sagging pants.
Duck lips? Selfies?