Most People Never Die

TL;DR

Your odds of dying are infinitesimally small compared to the cosmic unlikelihood of ever being born and existing at all.

Key Points

• 1.Daily death odds are vanishingly small. For an average person, the chance of dying on any given day is roughly 1 in 47,000 (~0.002%); for a healthy 30-year-old male, it drops to about 1 in 250,000 from external causes.
• 2.Freak accidents are rare but real. Annual death odds include 1 in 112 million by vending machine, 1 in 11 million by elevator, 1 in 7,000 by another human, and 1 in 6,000 by accidental overdose.
• 3.Death odds climb sharply with age. A healthy 30-year-old male has a ~1 in 700 chance of dying from an external event in the next year, rising to nearly 3% (1 in 37) within a decade when health causes are included.
• 4.The odds of being born are incomprehensibly small. A specific egg and sperm combining has less than a 1-in-quadrillion chance, and this had to occur for every ancestor across billions of years back to the first microbes.
• 5.Cosmic fine-tuning makes existence itself a miracle. Life requires a habitable-zone planet, liquid water, specific elements, and precise universal constants — Carl Sagan noted we are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.