Posted on 08/27/2009 9:05:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new web site claims to give the odds on you dying next year, or for whatever period you select, based on a few simple questions.
The site, DeathRiskRankings.com, is the brainchild of researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon University. It provides answers based on publicly available data from the United States and Europe, comparing mortality risks by gender, age, cause of death and geographic region. Put your info in, and it produces the probable causes of your demise and provides insight on the timing of that unfortunate event.
The site can compare such things as the odds of death next year by breast cancer for, say, a 54-year-old Pennsylvania woman or her counterpart in the United Kingdom.
Of course the results produced by the web site speak to groups of people and cannot predict with accuracy when you might actually kick the bucket. The timing of your own end is based on many uncharted factors, from heredity to lifestyle to untimely accidents.
But noodling around with the interface can be enlightening, if not frightening.
"It turns out that the British woman has a 33 percent higher risk of breast cancer death. But for lung/throat cancer, the results are almost reversed, and the Pennsylvania woman has a 29 percent higher risk," explained Paul Fischbeck, site developer and professor of social and decision sciences and engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon.
"Most Americans don't have a particularly good understanding of their own mortality risks, let alone ranking of their relevant risks," said David Gerard, a former professor at Carnegie Mellon who is now an associate professor of economics at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis.
The researchers found that beyond infancy, the risk of dying increases annually at an exponential rate.
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I’m ten years past my expiry date. LOL!
Go to the website and get a feel for the way your medical care will be determined.
Is this part of Obama care or trying to get people thinking about Obama care is a less threatening way?
It doesn’t seem to work: I tried placing “black, 48, president, Chicago” but all it came up is “please produce birth certificate”.
I ain’t gonna go there!
Ted Kennedy's type of cancer usually kills in under 3 months and sometimes within days. The fact he got 15 months shows he got very expensive care.
Ha, Ha, Ha!!!!
Great post.
I would rather trust the Dethklok more.
I put in Ted Kennedy’s info and what do you know? It says he’s supposed to be dead! This thing is right up there with the Magic 8-ball!
I have walked under ladders, broken mirrors, had black cats cross my path, and yet ? I am still here.
Good one.... LOL
Wow! European me has a 30% greater chance of dying of cancer than U.S. me. I don’t think Chernobyl is the reason.
1/3 of my risk is due to cancer, and 1/3 due to "diseases of the circulatory system", which I assume includes stroke as well as heart disease.
Gee, I never would have guessed. Thank you David Gerard, former professor at Carnegie Mellon who is now an associate professor of economics at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., for this information.
Bollocks!
I have already outlived my DNA defective shelf date thanks to Dr Will Coltharp.
It says I’m going to get hit by a beer truck in 2034. Ha! I don’t drink beer.
I was to die at 10 years old. I spent a year in the hospital and I have made it to 60.
Some have tried to kill me... I am still here.
2 years ago my cardiologist gave me a 6 month pull date.. I spent 2 months in the hospital after heart surgery (total of 4 surgeries), a stroke during surgery and MRSA. A rough ride, but so far, so good.
A week ago I learned that I have internal bleeding, unknown cause. I have had a couple of transfusions, a heart stress test and tomorrow they are going to Roto-Rooter me in from the bottom and in from the top. Next will be an MRI and more tests..... I don’t know yet, but due to my family tree, I figure it’s a cancer of some sort.... I will beat this too. But if I don’t, I am reminded of words from Tony Snow, “God didn’t promise us another tomorrow, He promised us an eternity.”
When God wants me, He will take me, but until then, I will fight and have fun being alive. I kinda figure that for whatever reason, He has allowed me to wear out every single part of my body before He calls the ball. Dying healthy seems so boring to me. ;>)
I hope to make it to 75, thats when my money will run out. LOL
Is Obama going to use this?
that depends on how soon it is detected and seizures are often the first sign or vision issues...Kennedy's was rather late to discover
my dad's started as astrocytoma andit took about a 6 months to figure that out then he went to Mayo and had excision and rad therapy (chemo is unlikely in brain tumours for obvious reasons) and he lasted 5 years which is the median almost precisely for 50% dead versus 50% alive.
astrocytomas when they rebound are often then megagliomas which are quite malignant but it should be noted that in te brain a bening tumour is every bit as lethal give the confined space issue
and on this price issue about treatment, there is no evidence at all that his expensive treatment gave him more time...the treatment for late stage brain adenomas is pretty constant anywhere..some may have better raditaion machines but the surgery is what it is...chop chop...but surgery cannot get it all and for that matter neither does radiation and radiation also kills the good stuff which results in some or a lot of personality change
Kennedy I believe had little of that given that his personality change seemed muted.
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