Some number-crunchers looked over some government stats to figure out the odds of dying while doing some popular activities.
Here’s a rundown of some of the highlights:
- bicycling -- 7.1 deaths per one million participants
- running/jogging -- 1 death in a million
- skydiving -- 1 in 101,083 jumps
- snow boarding -- 1 in 2.2 million
- canoeing -- 1 in 10,000
Those are pretty good odds. Things get a bit tighter with the following:
- rock climbing -- 1 in 1,750
- hang gliding -- 1 in 560
- base jumping -- 1 in 60 (Best Health Degrees)
- Once you get into the thousands or hundreds, the numbers feel “real.” Your brain knows what those numbers mean. And, in the dozens … like base jumping … that’s very real.