We obssessed with the plane crashes and breaks Bridge
At a certain day, an average of 148000 people die. That is to say more than a million people have died in recent weeks. Nearly 5 million people died, because at that time in the last month, which, incidentally, was exactly when we were bombarded with the short message that 199 people were killed in an airplane Brazilian transport to a deadlock.
Other cases of deaths and cases of death, we heard, particularly since the 11 victims found so far in the Interstate 35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, six miners are missing and three assistants killed in Utah a coal mine, hundreds of dead in the earthquake in Peru. Up to a lesser extent something, we also heard more than 100 troops and more than 2000 civilians killed in the reports that the war in Iraq during the past month. There were also updates on the disclosure of several personalities, including evangelist Tammy Faye Messner, Talk Show Host and Merv Griffin’s Baseball Phil Rizzuto.
For all those who ink, video equipment and treacly Larry King segments of these deaths, it is hardly surprising that a small fraction of the number of people who have died since the last time, has emerged a new moon in the sky.
Based on estimates by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were approximately 3500 vehicles related deaths during the monthlong period. U.S. overflight of cancer deaths by about 42,000 per month. As for heart disease, the American Heart Association. tells us that someone dies of cardiovascular disease every 36 seconds. And it is precisely in that country.
Given that the timing of these figures, they seem not afraid of interest to us, or almost as many things as the plane crashes, mountain lion attacks deadly roller coasters or breakdown avian flu. And because the media is experienced (and accomplices) of our fears and fascinations, we have enough supplies endless with messages that death has little to do with, like most people actually die. However, death fall asteroid seems infinitely more than the real death by cholesterol.
Call selective fear, sadness selective. It may be an act of refusal, but it is also an act of self-protection. The figures from National Center for Health Statistics indicate that the lifespan of a quota of dying in a plane crash, about 1 in 20000 These figures put the chances of dying in a car accident 1 to 100 C’est why, when our plane is time to define the runway, we still made a lot of strengths in different acts of magical thinking (if the name of the last president of the wing 12 are not covered) after blithely in our The cars and do what is statistically the most dangerous road from the airport?
The obvious answer is that the real risks (and therefore also the multiplicity of daily tragedies, to cause these risks) simply driving near you. We do not believe that car accidents and heart disease not because we believe it is not possible for us, but because we have suspicions or even assume it is. Given the inevitable, our response is, for all our heads.
While the space freed mental leaves considerable room for manoeuvre on the proverbial lightning obsess. Take the case of collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis. Yes, it was the nature of the visual history intense that new television channels can not get enough and, yes, of death, estimates were initially as high as 80 However, within a few days, it seemed clear that far fewer people had died. And even if it does not make the collapse of the bridge (or, for that matter, which followed the collapse of mines Utah) all less a tragedy, it makes You wonder what other stories have been bumped securities for the benefit of the respiratory system, which - h - Report on the search and rescue action, families of victims and the presidential visit.
The death is not discrimination, but at least when it comes to the death of the foreigner, whether he is immune against certain hierarchical values. A look at what we are paying more attention to indicate that the major rules spectacle of the day. Ferry Sinking asset bus accidents, but the plane crashes, with its ineffable, almost supernatural brand of horror, most of all rivets.
The young victims, of course, keep the currency more emotional than their colleagues adults, so that the blocking of a more selective school best candidate for the mourning of the tilting train derailment, which in turn much more exciting that fatal highway Pile-Up.
Mammoth disasters like the tsunami in the Indian Ocean side, small-Plage on earth is almost starting more and more that large demonstrations of eyeballs away. As the tidal waves in Peru climbed past 500, on television, at least, it was the tragedy of Utah Mine, we have not been enough.
In the meantime, 3000 people, mostly south of the Sahara, African children are dying today with malaria Associated Press placed a story to disseminate messages.
We care, but diseases and wrecks that we kill thousands each day are so widespread that just the opposite of news. They are also often too frightening to watch. Freak accidents, however, are capriciously poor consolation.
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