the odds of dying different ways

Speaking of the odds of dying somehow, this great chart shows that the odds of dying from cancer are 1 in 7; compare that to a car accident (1 in 84) or a bicycle (1 in 5,000).  Heart disease is still the worst at 1 in 5.  (Yeah, I know you can't read it; click it to enlarge.)  Good to know.

I find it very weird that suicide is 1 in 119.  Wow.  Can that be right?  Also weird: earthquakes (1 in 117,000) are worse than floods (1 in 144,000).  Not shown, but found in the table of the linked National Safety Council report: cataclysmic storms (e.g. hurricanes) are much worse, at 1 in 4,300.

I guess we'll have won the war on cancer when your odds of dying from it are less than your odds of dying while riding a bike.  So be it.