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Mortality Monday: More Chicago Shootings and Longer-Term Trends  

by meep

I see I made a post back in March about Chicago shootings noting Chicago went a week without a fatal shooting!

That didn’t last very long.

JULY 4 FESTIVITIES

Chicago police express frustration after more than 100 shot in violent Fourth of July weekend

Note, not all 100 were fatal...

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Mortality Monday: DEATH TO GEESE  

by meep

Okay, one particular goose:

Several hundred dollars later, my windshield was made whole (and I’m still in NC), but I wondered: how many people die because they collide with animals?

ANIMAL ENCOUNTER DIAGNOSES

Going back to the mortality database from the U.S. in 2014, I needed to figure...

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Mortality Monday: Memorial Day and the U.S. Civil War  

by meep

Memorial Day started out as Decoration Day after the Civil War:

May 1868

By proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, the first major Memorial Day observance is held to honor those who died “in defense of their country during the late rebellion.” Known to...

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Mortality Monday: All About Traffic Deaths!  

by meep

And right in time for the most deadly weekend for traffic accidents:

THE DEADLIEST HOLIDAY FOR CAR ACCIDENTS

Drivers and passengers, beware: You are four times as likely to die in a traffic accident over the Memorial Day weekend as over a regular weekend, according...

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Literal Suicide and Media  

by meep

One of my friends posted the following item on facebook, publicly.:

People I love you and I know just about all of you work very hard (in many ways harder than me) to make the world a better place.

HERE’S WHAT’S REALLY BOTHERING ME: Many of us...

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Mortality Monday: Pension Plan Mortality  

by meep

This is not for public pensions, by the way. But I’ll use a life expectancy calculator I wrote over a decade ago… so there’s that!

Two recent items:

Updated mortality tables are raising concerns:

Contribution increases, higher liabilities likely; delay attempt underway

Updated mortality tables expected this year from the IRS...

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Mortality Monday: Huge Heroin Death Increases  

by meep

So I have some depressing mortality stories I’ve had in draft for a while, waiting for sunnier days before I pushed go. Well it’s very sunny outside now, so here we go with the doom and gloom.

I had this one in draft for over a month, and it’s a good...

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Mortality Monday (with a little Trumpery): Supreme Court Probabilities Take 2  

by meep

Back in February, I did a quick calculation estimating that Trump had an approximately 50% chance of replacing at least one of the 5 non-conservative Justices on the Supreme Court before we ran into trouble in 2020.

Today, Gorsuch was sworn in, and along with the Gorsuch confirmation came a...

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Mortality Monday: the Many Deaths of Sean Bean  

by meep

I have a couple of depressing Mortality Monday posts in draft, so let’s pass those over for something more fun: fictional deaths.

If you search on Sean Bean dying, you will get many results, many of which debunking that he’s the dying-est actor ever.

Back in 2014, it was shown...

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Mortality Monday: Chicago Shootings  

by meep

Some amazing news came out relatively recently: Chicago had a week without a fatal shooting.

Chicago passed a milestone Sunday morning [March 5] when a full week went by without a fatal shooting.

The city has not gone seven days without a fatal shooting since Homicide Watch Chicago began keeping records...

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