Despite the way we all sort-of live in the future (except we don't drive spaceships yet as a matter of course for some reason) science hasn't solved the inevitability of death yet - but we don't all die of the same thing.

In case you wanted to check out the likely possibilities of what you and your friends will die of then the US National Safety Council has produced a diagram and accompanying numeral-filled table of a selection of relatively common ones. The diagram is a bunch of circles whose area presumably reflects the relative odds of expiring via that method. Of course the information is only especially relevant if you're Mr or Mrs Average American citizen born in 2003, but the Poorhouse was interested to see it nonetheless.

Interesting and perhaps worrying statistics crop up such as that an American is more likely to die via man-made legal execution (aka the death penalty one assumes) than natural disasters such as flood, earthquake or lightning. Bicycling accidents are only slightly more likely that air or space accidents. Suicide has a mere 1 in 119 chance.

Sweet dreams.