Right Now, As You Read This
GLOBAL DEATH MONITOR
Since you opened this page: 0 deaths
From disease: 0
Were preventable: 0
Children under 5: 0
That's 3 human beings per second. Forever. Until we fix this.
Real-Time Global Death Counter
๐ DEATH STATISTICS (Per Second):
- Total deaths: 1.8
- Disease deaths: 1.5
- Preventable deaths: 0.9
- Children under 5: 0.17
๐ DAILY TOTALS:
- 150,000 total deaths
- 130,000 from disease
- 80,000 preventable
- 15,000 children
The Numbers That Should Start a Revolution
Every single day:
Thatโs fifty 9/11s. Every. Single. Day.
Your parent, child, or friend is statistically likely to be one of them.
But unlike 9/11, we donโt invade anyone about it. We donโt even have a color-coded alert system.
Thatโs:
- 6,250 deaths per hour
- 104 deaths per minute
- 1.7 deaths per second
Biotechnology could prevent most of these deaths.
But humanityโs resources are overwhelmingly pointed at creating corpses, not preventing them.
By the time you finish reading this chapter, approximately 500 people will have died from diseases we could have cured.
Letโs Make This Personal
If youโre 40 years old:
- You have approximately 15,000 days left to live
- In your remaining lifetime, 2.3 BILLION people will die
- 1.2 billion of those deaths are preventable
- Thatโs 80,000 preventable deaths for each day you have left
If youโre 60 years old:
- You have approximately 8,000 days left to live
- In your remaining lifetime, 1.2 BILLION people will die
- 640 million of those deaths are preventable
- Thatโs 80,000 preventable deaths for each day you have left
Want to know which diseases are killing us? See The Cost of Disease for the full breakdown.
Want to know how insane our spending priorities are? See The Cost of Disease for the full $109.1 trillion breakdown and shocking 40:1 ratio.
Your Personal Death Clock
Your risk of dying (by age):
- Age 30: 0.1% annual chance (1 in 1,000)
- Age 40: 0.2% annual chance (1 in 500)
- Age 50: 0.4% annual chance (1 in 250)
- Age 60: 1% annual chance (1 in 100)
- Age 70: 2.5% annual chance (1 in 40)
- Age 80: 6% annual chance (1 in 17)
- Age 90: 15% annual chance (1 in 7)
What kills you changes with age:
- Under 40: Accidents, suicide, cancer
- 40-60: Heart disease emerges, cancer increases
- 60-80: Heart disease dominates, stroke rises
- Over 80: Everything at once
Todayโs Death Toll
THE RELENTLESS MARCH
- Deaths from disease today: 130,000
- Children dead today: 13,700
- Preventable deaths today: 80,000
THE UNSTOPPABLE PATTERN
- By midnight tonight: 130,000 will be dead
- Tomorrow: Another 130,000
- The day after: Another 130,000
- Forever. Until we stop this.
A Simple Question
If an alien visited Earth and saw that 150,000 of us die every day from predictable, preventable causes, and we justโฆ let it happenโฆ what would they conclude?
Answer: That weโre a death cult that chose extinction.
The Clock Is Still Ticking
FINAL TALLY FOR THIS CHAPTER
While you read this chapter:
- 500 people died
- 265 were preventable (53% of total)
- 46 were children
By tomorrow at this time:
- 150,000 more will be dead
- Youโll be one day closer to joining them
Unless we fix this.