Death Calculator Predicts Odds on Dying
Researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon University have created a death calculator that allows users to compare mortality risks by gender, age, cause of death and geographic region based on publicly available data from the United States and Europe.
Answer a few simple questions and you’ll be enlightened, perhaps even frightened. Of course, it can’t actually predict when you might kick the bucket. But it is able to calculate your risk of dying in the next year and allows you to compare that risk to others in the world.
More specifically, it displays the risk ranking for up to 66 causes of …read more
