7,000 People Die Everyday in the USA

You and I Ain't Dead Yet

April 12, 2015       2 Comments
By: O. J. Cunningham

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Seven thousand (7,000) people die in the USA every day.

I just learned this bit of "death trivia" while trying to come up with a "lead" paragraph for this TV column today.

Does anyone remember seeing the movie "Death Takes a Holiday" back in the 1970's?

Monte Markham played the part of "Death" and Yvette Mimieux was the cutie-pie love interest.

In a nutshell, Markham came to Earth to find out why humans were trying so hard not to die.

Duh!, Monte.

Anyway . . . While Markham was in town (falling in love with Yvette), people unceremoniously stopped dying. I think Markham was on Earth about a week. Hospital medical staffers noticed first. And then, everyone seemed to get really confused. Funeral Directors worried about business. Blah, Blah Blah.

You and I know why everybody's worried about dying.

We got stuff to do. We got pets and kids and grand kids and birthdays and super bowls and March Madness and Christmas . . . And yes, iPhone 7+.

Got me thinking why we all think about death all the time.

Every TV newscast starts with a dead body or a near dead body.

It's hard to name a successful TV DRAMA that doesn't have a Medical Examiner. Here's just a few. (NCIS, CSI, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, Bones, Castle, Major Crimes, Gotham, Backstrom and I'm sure there's a few more.)

So . . . to say we're all fixated on "death" is hardly an understatement. Remember all of these "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" fiascoes from the recent past?

Harold Camping's prediction for the End of the World" on May 21st (2011) came and went with little change to the general status quo on the planet.

Two days later, Camping admitted to a mathematical error and said that he had re-figured his "date of rapture" to be October 21, 2011. His apology for bad math was not well received. Here's Camping's "no show" doom and gloom prediction countdown clock.



There's was still something else to be scared of later that year . . . The YU55 Asteroid was bearing down on Earth's orbit -- predicted to arrive November 8th, 2011. This huge asteroid passed really close by the Earth. At its closest point . . . the big rock was actually closer to the Earth than the Moon. We were all "scared to death."

YU55 is the biggest space object to ever come this close to Earth. Here's the countdown clock that fizzled for the arrival of YU55.



And who can forget, the "End of the World" event predicted for December 21st (2012) -- The End of the Mayan Calendar. This truly had the world in a tizzy.

Here's the MyBayCity countdown clock (below) that reached December 21st in 2012 . . . the end of the Mayan Calendar . . . without incident.

One thing I want you to always remember about those Mayan dudes . . . They cut the hearts out of living virgins every night to ensure the sun would rise the next day -- Knowing this . . . Maybe we shouldn't have been so worried about their calendar.



And then, there's O.J. Cunningham's "Death Clock" . . . Just like the Energizer Bunny . . . "It's Still Going."







If you ever need to calculate "X" amount of days from a specific date . . . Use the "Days From Date" calculator. (For me, (and my Death Clock) it's about 8+ years from now = September 18, 2023 . . . to be exact

You Can See Into The Future

September 18th, 2023 is a Monday. It is the 261st day of the year, and in the 38th week of the year (assuming each week starts on a Sunday), or the 3rd quarter of the year. There are 30 days in this month. 2023 is not a leap year, so there are 365 days in this year. The short form for this date used in the United States will be 9/18/2023.

Two things are important about 9/18/2023.

Nah...

Only one thing is important.

OK . . . two.

I'll be 80 (almost)

And my first grandchild (Penelope Grace Reynolds) will be 8.

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josh Says:       On April 15, 2015 at 01:59 PM September??? In the middle of Salmon season?? I don't think so!

O. J. says:       On April 15, 2015 at 02:07 PM At least they'll say .... "He died doing something he loved."

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O. J. Cunningham
O. J. Cunningham is the Publisher of MyBayCity.com. Cunningham previously published Sports Page & Bay City Enterprise. He is the President/CEO of OJ Advertising, Inc. More from O. J. Cunningham

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