Human Life Lost

The purpose of this blog is to simply create a list of the number of humans killed by attributable and general category of causes of death. For example, at least 75,000,000 disarmed and then killed in the 20th century as a result of Gun Control laws (see www.jpfo.org/deathgc.htm for details) 47,282,923 abortions in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade 1973 (see http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html) about 46,000,000 preborn human babies killed each year worldwide as a result of Abortion (see http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_0599.html) 50,000,000 deaths worldwide are attributable to the following causes: from http://bio.fsu.edu/~reeves/MCB4403/SpecialTopics-Web/Death%20tables.pdf CAUSES OF DEATH - WORLDWIDE - 1990* RANK CAUSE OF DEATH NUMBERS AGENT (millions) 1. ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE 6.3 2. STROKES 4.4 3. LRT INFECTIONS 4.3 Influenza, S. pneum. 4. DIARRHEAL DISEASE 2.9 Rotavirus, Enterics V. cholerae 5. PERINATAL DISORDERS 2.4 6. CHRONIC PULMONARY DISEASE 2.2 7. TUBERCULOSIS (NON-AIDS) 2.0 M. tuberculosis 8. MEASLES 1.1 Measles virus 9. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS 0.99 10. LUNG CANCERS 0.95 11. MALARIA 0.86 Plasmodium sp. 12. SELF-INFLICTED INJURIES 0.79 13. CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER 0.78 14. STOMACH CANCER 0.75 15. BIRTH DEFECTS 0.59 (Rubella & CMV) 16. DIABETES MELLITUS 0.57 17. VIOLENCE (NON-WAR) 0.56 18. TETANUS 0.54 C. tetani 19. NEPHRITIS 0.54 20. DROWNING 0.50 21. WAR 0.50 22. LIVER CANCER 0.50 (Hepatitis B virus) 30. AIDS 0.31 HIV-1 TOTAL DEATHS 50.40 * Reported in the Lancet, May, 1997 2.4 million US deaths due to these causes (same link as above): CAUSES OF DEATH - USA - 1999† RANK CAUSE OF DEATH NUMBERS AGENT (thousands) 1. HEART DISEASE 725 2. MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 549 3. CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 167 4. CHRONIC PULMONARY DISEASE 124 5. ACCIDENTS 98 6. DIABETES MELLITUS 68 7. INFULENZA & PNEUMONIA 64 Influenza, S. pneum. 8. ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE 45 9. NEPHRITIS, NEPHORSIS 36 10. SEPTICEMIA 31 Bacterial sp. 11. SELF-INFLICTED INJURIES 29 12. CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER 26 13. PRIMARY HYPERTENSION (RENAL) 17 14. HOMICIDE 17 15. AORTIC ANEURYSM 16 16. ALL OTHER CAUSES* 379 TOTAL 2,391 If someone somewhere has already created such a list, please email me at shawnloy@ymail.com. Ideally, this list would eventually take the form of a sortable spreadsheet that would be sortable by date, number of lives lost, man-years of lives lost, or dollar value of lives lost (as is assessed for legal and insurance purposes--with the understanding that human life is truly priceless and not a commodity).