Comparing thrill rides to everyday life.

There are hundreds of amusement parks around the U.S. and are confidently held as one of the main reasons to tour America. These parks hold dozens of rides that guarantee you to be scared out of your mind, while making sure you are actually safe. Well, I recently watched Final Destination 3, the one with the roller coaster accident. There is a line where one of the characters says that it is more likely for you to die driving a car than riding a roller coaster. I was intrigued, so I decided to look into it.

My finding are quite simple. Many major amusement park officials clearly state that the risk of becoming injured on one of their rides are somewhere around 23 million to 1. Well that's really good odds for not being injured on a ride, let alone killed. They also report that most of the injuries and deaths that have occurred on these rides are due to the rider's own actions of disobedience of the rules and not mechanical malfunctions. Simply put, SHUT UP and listen to the people giving you instructions on how to not die and you probably won't.

On the other side of things, the U.S. has a National Safety Council to overlook the wellbeing's of the U.S. citizens. This Council (or NSC as I will refer to them) has a particular chart that I have found at http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/causes.html. This chart contains many of the odds of you dying. Here they are from least likely to most likely...

• Firework Discharge (1 in 340,733)
• Flood (1 in 144,156)
• Earthquake (1 in 117,127)
• Lightning (1 in 79,746)
• Hornet, Wasp or bee sting (1 in 56,789)
• Hot weather (1 in 13,729)
• Alcohol poisoning (1 in 10,048)
• Accidental Electrocution (1 in 9,968)
• Accidental Firearm discharge (1 in 5,134)
• Air/ Space Accident (1 in 5,051)
• Bicycling Accident (1 in 4,919)
• Fire or Smoke (1 in 1,113)
• Motorcycle Accident (1 in 1,020)
• Drowning (1 in 1,008)
• Pedestrian Accident (1 in 626)
• Firearm Assault (1 in 314)
• Falling (1 in 218)
• Suicide (1 in 119)
• Motor Vehicle Accident (1 in 84)
• Stroke (1 in 24)
• Cancer (1 in 7)
• Heart Disease(1 in 5)

So, the most likely way to die is if you get on a roller coaster... and you have a heart problem, and cancer, and you are at a high risk of having a stroke while thinking of committing suicide while the guy next to you has a gun pointed your head while there is a thunderstorm in the area that causes a flash flood and you don't know how to swim, plus this area has a high rate of earthquakes and you happen to be a heavy smoker and a heavy drinker and its very... very hot outside, and to top it all off, they are shooting off fireworks. Not to mention, you have a beehive in your lap and your allergic. If none of those things are happening while you're on a roller coaster, you should be fine.

P.S. I know I missed a few things on the list above, but I didn't know how to fit them in.