Each year, about 2.7 million Americans pass away for various reasons ranging from unintentional injuries to more chronic illnesses such as cancer or diabetes.
While death is not always an easy topic to discuss, it’s also something that is important to put into perspective. Better understanding the data around death can help us on a personal level, while also revealing where more resources may be needed at a more societal level.
Nothing certain but death and taxes
Today’s visualization comes from Reddit user TVUmK, and it compiles data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, to plot the most common causes of death between 1999 and 2016.
Over the time period shown, heart disease was the most significant cause of death with a toll of 1,270,000 lives in 2016.
Meanwhile, cancer consistently ranks as the second most common cause of death in the United States, with other causes such as chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD), stroke, and unintentional injuries often ranking as the #3 to #5 causes.
Here is how the top 10 causes of death have changed between 1999-2016:
| Cause | 1999 Deaths | 2016 Deaths | Change over time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer’s Disease | 89,000 | 232,000 | +160.7% |
| Cancer | 1,100,000 | 1,196,000 | +8.7% |
| Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease (CLRD) | 248,000 | 309,000 | +24.6% |
| Diabetes | 137,000 | 160,000 | +16.8% |
| Heart Disease | 1,450,000 | 1,270,000 | -12.4% |
| Influenza/ Pneumonia | 127,000 | 103,000 | -18.9% |
| Kidney Disease | 71,000 | 100,000 | +40.8% |
| Stroke | 335,000 | 284,000 | -15.2% |
| Suicide | 58,000 | 90,000 | +55.2% |
| Unintentional Injuries | 196,000 | 323,000 | +64.8% |
Note: Values rounded up to the nearest thousand, and are in absolute terms (i.e. not adjusted to be per capita)
As an interesting sidenote, the perceptions that the general public and media headlines have about death can be quite separated from reality.
For example, one set of data shows that The Guardian and the New York Times run headlines on cancer roughly six times more often than headlines on heart disease, despite heart disease actually being a more common cause of death.
Where Do Americans Spend Their Last Days?
To further understand healthcare trends, it’s also worth looking at where Americans are spending their final days. Data here again comes from the CDC, and it’s been charted out by Reddit user academiaadvice:
The two most obvious trends here are the increase in deaths at home along with a rise in hospice care. Simultaneously, deaths in a hospitals – especially in emergency settings – are on the decline.
While we don’t always get to choose where we die, these trends partially reflect the fact that more Americans would rather spend their final days in a more familiar setting.
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I wonder how much of this is a result of stress? The rat race many live in.
THE MAJORITY
If we could just cure death.
1 Corinthians 15:51-55 KJB… “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Pastor check this site out. THINK ABOUT IT…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC899cA_uLKzjS50mLrZLkrQ
I think at length about it Mark. It’s most all I consider these days; all that is worth my time. Scripture is the ultimate red pill. Would you read a short book if I sent you one?
Grace Country Bible Church at yahoo dot com
Just gave my last copy away but have 10 more coming.
grace and peace;
ted
It would be interesting to see where auto accidents, opiod overdoses, homicides, the flu and abortions fall on the graph too.
You can see the Baby Boomer’s effect start right around 2007 when heart disease starts to tick back up.
If you’re a rich sick fuck you can get infused with the blood of children.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/clinics-open-across-the-us-as-elite-line-up-to-pay-8k-a-liter-to-ingest-the-blood-of-the-young
We obviously aren’t executing enough communists.
Lead poisoning should be high on the list.
RIP Rhodesia.
Shoot…the useful idiot Libtards are busy electing Muslims, the Sharia Law enemy within. Commies, Muslims and “disenfranchised” (I’m so sick of that frigg’in word) victim minorities all allied against all that the Founding Fathers carved out.
I have seen the enemy and he is them.
The battle lines are clear, just a matter of time before the real war starts. Me and my modern day Minute Man prepper privilege is getting ready.
Building more Cold Frames, buying more ammo, stacking, flexing more muscle memory etc. etc. etc.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/islam_and_congress.html
MUSLIMS ELECTED IN 2018 GENERAL ELECTIONS (LISTED BY STATE)
California
Cheryl Sudduth – West County Wastewater District Director
George Abdallah Jr. – Superior Court of San Joaquin County, Office 12
Halim Dhanidina – Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three
Maimona Afzal Berta – Franklin-McKinley Board of Education
Javed Ellahie – Monte Sereno City Council
Al Jabbar – Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees
Ahmad Zahra – Fullerton City Council District 5
Aisha Wahab – Hayward City Council
Ali Taj – Artesia City Council
Farrah Khan – Irvine City Council
Sabina Zafar – San Ramon City Council
Florida
Amira Dajani Fox (R) – State Attorney
Georgia
Sheikh Rahman (D) – State Senate District 5
Illinois
Sadia Gul Covert (D) – Dupage County Board District 5
Indiana
Andre Carson (D) – 7th Congressional District
Iowa
Ako Abdul-Samad (D) – State House District 35
Maryland
Sabina Taj – Howard County Board of Education
Michigan
Rashida Tlaib (D) – 13th Congressional District
Abdullah Hammoud (D) – State House District 15
Abdul “Al” Haidous (D) – Wayne County Commission District 11
Sam Baydoun (D) – Wayne County Commission District 13
Adel A. Harb – Wayne County Circuit Court
Sam Salamey – District Courts, District 19
Minnesota
Ilhan Omar (D) – 5th Congressional District
Keith Ellison (D) – Attorney General
Hodan Hassan (D) – State House District 62A
Mohamud Noor (D) – State House District 60B
Siad Ali (D) – District 3 member of the Minneapolis Board of Education
New Hampshire
Aboul Khan (R) – State House Rockingham 20 District
Safiya Wazir (D) – State House Merrimack 17 District
New Jersey
Assad Akhter (D) – Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders
Alaa “Al” Abdel-Aziz – Paterson City Council Ward 6
Mohammad Ramadan – Passaic County Board of Education
Alaa Matari – Prospect Park Borough Council
Dawn Haynes – Newark Public Schools School Board
Hazim Yassin – Red Bank City Council
Mohamed Khairullah – Prospect Park Mayor
Salim Patel – Passaic City Council
New Mexico
Abbas Akhil (D) – State House District 20
New York
Charles Fall (D) – State House District 61
Robert Jackson (D) – State Senate District 3
Shahabuddeen Ally – NYC Civil Court, NY County
North Carolina
Mujtaba Mohammed (D) – State Senate District 38
Nasif Majeed (D) – State House District 99
Ohio
Mohamed Al-Hamdani – Dayton Public Schools Board of Education
Pennsylvania
Jason Dawkins (D) – State House District 179
Texas
Rabeea Collier – District Courts, 113th District
Salman Bhojani – Euless City Council Place 6
Virginia
Babur Lateef – Prince William County School Board
Haseeb Javed – Manassas Park City Council
Mo Seifeldein – Alexandria City Council
This completely ignores the third most common cause of death in the US and that is Medical Errors which account for over 250,000 to as much as 440,000 deaths a year.
“A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.”
“Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
Adverse pharmaceutical drug reactions (ADR’s) killed 128,000/yr last time I checked… about 20 years ago.
I’m surprised that Kardashian/Jenner-spread venereal diseases does not rank higher.
They missed one of the most common causes for DEATH in the US.
Here are the masses of Christian Believers, Americans, Deplorables and People of Conscience who the media will ignore…pass this around…and around the DEATH MERCHANTS.
Published on Jan 19, 2019
TIMELASPE VIDEO OF THE MARCH FOR LIFE 2019 IN WASHINGTON DC
If you want to read some more details on the greatest murder holocaust in American history, open the link below.
No article about DEATH should skip abortion.
As an English speaking foreigner, white male over 70 years of age, I still CANNOT understand how the USA is still transfixed with this silly argument over abortion.
The planet is overflowing with humans as it is, why worry about reducing the herd?
I simply do not see the sense in this frothing at the mouth objection to any woman having the good sense to see that she is unable to care for, feed or much less educate an UNWANTED child and therefore the best course of action for her, the unborn child and SOCIETY at large is to put a full stop to this forthcoming nightmare that she can surely and safely stop by means of a medically supervised abortion.
What is wrong with the lady or girl taking a wise decision and having a disaster PREVENTED?
I just do not geddit.
It’s because human life and individual rights means something in the USA, especially the young and unborn. The world being a shitty place is no excuse to murder the unborn. Unrestrained sex and unrestrained abortion was a hallmark of the declining Roman empire.
I the wall kept people and thinking like you out- I might be in favor of it actually.
Davebee,
I suspect you and I would be on opposite ends of the World View Spectrum as are most Americans aligned against the evil of murdering babies in their Mother’s womb. Juat another horrific finger stuck in God’s eye by 5 lawyers in black dresses dragging the country to hell in a handbasket, while the Lucerifian Globalists pull the strings
• 61% of Americans say abortion should be illegal after the fetal heartbeat has begun,which occurs in the first month of pregnancy.
• 72% of Americans say abortion should be illegal after the first 3 months of pregnancy.
• 86% of Americans say abortion should be illegal after the first 6 months of pregnancy.
• Only 6% -17% of Americans (depending on how the question is asked and by whom) believe abortion should be legal at any time, in all circumstances.
This is from the post above THE BIG NUMBERS (written by my cousin).
“There is a large, well-organized effort to desensitize people as to the magnitude and impact of abortion. The people behind that campaign control both the research and the framing of that research. They are primarily interested in politics and policy.”
I think you have been desensitized. Here check this out for a reawakening:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=images+of+babies+in+the+womb&qpvt=inages+of+babies+in+the+womb&FORM=IGRE
Here are some secular answers to your questions.
Pro-Life Arguments for Secular Audiences:
https://www.frc.org/brochure/the-best-pro-life-arguments-for-secular-audiences
For the Christian perspective try these:
Psalm 139:13-16
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.
Ecclesiastes 11:5
Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.
Now as far as PREVENTION Lets go back to my cousin’s article:
“I just wanted to remind people that 926,200 is way more than most people could have imagined and to challenge people – on both sides of the issue and from every political affiliation – that the goal, no matter how untenable as it is, should be 0.
It’s time to stop talking about how to make abortion more legal or illegal. It’s time to stop re-litigating Roe v. Wade. We need to stop bickering about where, when and under what conditions abortions are available. We need to come back to that position where we all look for ways to make abortion unnecessary.
Pie in the sky? Unreasonable? Unreachable?
You bet. But that’s what goals are about.
According to the best data we have on the subject – data provided to us by an organization dedicated to “promoting access to abortion services” — as of the writing of this article, there will have been 380,550 abortions. 380,550… and counting.”
160 % increase in Alzheimer’s deaths! I’m sure the skies full of aluminum aerosols have nothing to do with that. Those are just harmless condensation trails. WTF!
Oh yea…that’s the long time consuming way to as Davebee said “THIN THE HERD”…the shorter route being successfully tested in California is using the Wild Fire beard to just incinerate the “EATERS” from above.