Cmoneyspinner
The New England Journal of Medicine produced a chart that showed “What Killed Us, Then and Now”. Their study covered about 100 years, from 1900 to 2010.
Click here if you want to view the chart.
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— Treathyl Fox (aka cmoneyspinner) ~ #Freelancer (@cmoneyspinner) April 30, 2020
It is painfully obvious that heart disease and cancer are killing us, i.e. Americans.
From 1900 to 2010, those two ailments went from accounting for 18 percent of all deaths to 63 percent.
(I knew it wasn’t my imagination when I said that I didn’t remember all this cancer when I was growing up; nor that many people dying from heart attacks.)
Deaths as a result of accidents decreased by 52 percent.
But take a real close look at the two bar graphs on the chart.
Two things to note:
- Suicide is not a disease or an accident.
- Suicide was not on the bar for 1900.
That’s very telling about our society, don’t you think?
But that was THEN. Perhaps they just didn’t have the information , data or statistics.
1900 to 2010 is 110 years. Instead of 110 years, there are only 10 years between 2010 and 2020. I am very saddened. Clearly, that chart will have to be updated because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It sure kills, but it hasn’t killed anywhere near a million people worldwide yet, and we are 7 months into 2020. The world population is 7,8 Billion people.
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Covid-19 will change many charts in many countries.
It will change the charts but I hope medical research and science will TRIUMPH!
Life is hard on many of us, some things never reach the graphs and charts. Things will get better soon.
Some things never make it to the charts because there is either no data or information OR the researchers chose not to include them in the results. Which brings up another question. Why did they leave it them out? Never mind. I don’t want to think on that because I’ll be thinking forever! LOL.
Sadly, three months later, the numbers have changed.
Yes, everything has to be updated because of coronavirus. Very interesting article.
Thank you. The chart piqued my interest because some of my family members suffered from some of the ailments. It’s a morbid thought but I wonder if they were in the statistics.
The reality of numbers is we can spin them, right?
The average lifespan in 1900 was 47 (40 for African American males)
by 2000 that had changed to 75 (64 for African American males)
so, of course the diseases that kill us shift to long term illness.
I’m just sorry that Suicide ended up on the chart.
that is the worst thing on that list. I wish we did more for that one.
Physical stress was a factor of the past but mental stress is a current fact. Yes, Covid 19 kills.
I supposed since more people work in offices at a desk job, physical stress has been replaced by mental stress.