DJ, most people in the rich world die from their own choice about what to put in the hole in the front of their face. But even that doesn't get them, for the most part, until an elderly age when their immune system is packing up and the accumulated harassment is too much to cope with. Cigarettes don't kill many at a young age. Heart disease, which is a self-selected dietary disease, is mainly an older age problem.
Not very many die from somebody else's intentional actions. Heck, in the super-gory 20th century, there were only 100 million or so killed by being damaged deliberately by somebody else. That's not even 1:10.
For all I know, incoming space rock got none. But that could change suddenly.
What's even more amazing than you surviving to now for a few decades, is that after a billion years or two of murder, mayhem, disaster and disease, you are the sole surviving being of a vast unbroken chain of amazingly lucky survivors, not a single one of whom died before handing the ever-expanding and sophisticated DNA mortal coil on. Now THAT's luck. YOU are it!! It's all up to you.
Will you be the only one of the billions of lives before you to fail to have great, great, great grandchildren?
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