Either cancer or car accident.
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I'll probably slip on a banana peel right down the stairs
Probably taking my health for granted and not taking care of it when younger, combined with societal constructs that make that difficult - nutrition, car culture, climate change, well care/health insurance, etc.
Probably heart attack.
I'm physically active and in good shape, but it's genetic.
Your list is pretty wild. If you're serious about #2, please talk to a mental health professional if you haven't done so yet. And if you seriously put #4 ahead of, like, cancer or infectious diseases, you should definitely consider leaving for another country.
As for me, I live a relatively normal life in a relatively peaceful environment. I'd put my money on cancer.
to much shit and piss
Unfortunately mom & her mom got dementia, so unless something comes along earlier to kill me, or unless we get a good preventative, that is more likely my fate.
No, they weren't overweight or smokers or physically idle, my mom was a professor and kept lifelong friends, really no lifestyle risk factors. Of course that's only on the one side of my family, my dad died of heart condition that I don't have and I'm not sure about his parents.
Just like the old fortune teller said!
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Suicide as my body/finances will have deteriorated to the point where life isn't worth living.
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Cancer
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Heart attack
My most likely cause of death is the same as most men my age:
Falling off a ladder.
Hate crime.
Killed in 2050 by my own housework robot, which has been hacked by chinese criminals, in a failed attempt to steal all my pixel coins.
God willing, age? Natural death as they call it, ideally 85+. If not, probably lung or stomach cancer. Hopefully in my old age, again. 🙏
Me and my life choices.
Something stemming from me being overweight.
Climate change? WWIII? I dunno...
an accident cancer suicide
Suicide is possible for me but i am in a much better place then i use to be so i may have avoided that at least for now.
I drive a lot for work so hit by a car or accidentally murdered by some trigger happy moron who forgot they ordered food are both fairly likely
Organ rejection/degradation probably
If i get the chance to retire then it will be of old age.
- Hit by a vehicle
- Natural causes
Most likely a skiing/mountain biking/car/surfing/hiking/tragic boating accident would be my best guess, other than cancer... If you're not suicidal, a risk taker or into extreme sports it's most likely going to be cancer though
Some kind of vascular accident or cancer I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯
1 car accident 2 age related (heart attack, cancer, getting sick when too old to deal with normal sicknesses) 3 firearms accident 4 house fire 5 underestimating a sickness Edit to add 6 workplace accident (manufacturing)
Heart attack easy. Runs in the family
Melanoma. I've already had like a dozen pre-cancerous moles removed.
Butt too small
I'm Canadian. I'll probably die in an internment camp for Trump Derangement Syndrome when the US annexes us.
Unlikely. I'm sure the other nato countries will step in.
You're more likely to die from a drone attack in the USA-NATO war than in some camp.
Step in and do what? Cross the ocean to launch a counter-invasion against the biggest military force on the planet? And how long that would take? It took 5 years until Europe was liberated, well long enough for 11 million people to be executed in the concentration camps.
You forgot about the nukes UK and France have.
Drop a few tactical nukes along the US-Canada border and make it a toxic wasteland to cross.
And threaten to escalate.
Also, the US Military will splinter immediately before the war begins, there will be infighting. Along with all those in National Guards. It will be a US Civil War 2.0 happening concurrent with the US-Nato War. NATO will support the anti-fascist part of the US Civil War.
The US might be powerful, but is a fascist US also that powerful?
Think about all the women and black military officers they fired. All those classified intel they have in their head. Surely they aren't just gonna let the US go full fascist. They'll leak intel. Maybe reveal secret backdoors, etc... the fascist's OPSEC isn't exactly good
A - UK uses Trident, an American launch system, so it's likely that any attack against America by the UK would somehow be disabled
B - that's not how MAD works. If France, or the UK, launched anything nuclear the retaliation would be immediate and immense.
C - why try to invade 11 million canadians when there are only a few tens of thousands of greenlanders? If an intra-NATO war happens, that's the more likely one imo.
Your saliva contains microscopic amounts of toxins. As you swallow, these toxins collect in your body, and eventually they'll reach critical mass and kill you. The amount of toxins in your saliva, and the total amount required to kill you is very individual, so nobody knows which will be their last drop. Still, one day I'll swallow my last bit of saliva and die.
Considering the 30+ year long streak of pure good luck in my life I'll probably get cancer when I hit 50.