How Many People Die Every Day?

[IceAndFire1328]

Poll Survey: The World’s Mortality Rate

Question: Onaverage, how many people in the world die every day?


Answer: Over 162,000



Question: What is their eternal destiny?



Answer: Obviously, we have no idea.


Observation: Some people have estimated that only 7%of the world’s population adheres to the Biblical plan of salvation. Even if that estimate is totally wrong andthe number is actually 70%, that still means that over 48,000 are going to Hellevery day.


Question to the Forum:

What is the relevancy of these numbers? I’m conducting a poll and would like your opinion on this issue:


Calculations:



World’spopulation: 7.08 billion

Alittle less than 1% (0.837%) of the world’s population died last year

7.08 billion x .837% (.00837) = 59,259,600 deaths a year

59,259,600 divided by 365 days = 162,355 deaths a day

162,355 x 30% (.30) = 48,706 people going to Hell

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

These numbers appear to be relevant to your pet fairy tale/revenge fantasy. Aside from that, no relevance at all to anything.

 

[DaSleeper]

It bothered You enough to answer..........So it must be relevant to you..............

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It bothered You enough to answer..........So it must be relevant to you..............

It's that kind of "thinking" that helps me to understand why the world is so messed up.

 

[Sal]

It's totally irrelevant from a religious perspective because there is no given. Now if you were talking about feeding the starving or ending conflict in war torn areas or saving people from despots then it would become relevant.

 

[Cliffy]

Other than the fact that there are seems to be more people being born than dying, the numbers mean nothing in the context of your OP. There is no proof of hell or heaven. Do people from different religious beliefs experience the afterlife according to their beliefs or your beliefs? And, is there an afterlife to be experienced?

 

[karrie]

When you die, do you suppose God will look kindly on you having decided the eternal destinations of your fellow men?

Judge not, and all that jazz?

 

[taxslave]

When you die, do you suppose God will look kindly on you having decided the eternal destinations of your fellow men?

Judge not, and all that jazz?

Way to ruin a preacher's day.

 

[petros]

I'm sure plenty of people go to the Jerusalem garbage dump (aka Hell) everyday.

Some even work there and go home at night to their families.

There is no proof of hell or heaven.

Hell according to the Bible is the Jerusalem garbage dump boiling execrement, rotting flesh of the animals sacrificed that the temple and all.

 

[L Gilbert]

Didn't vote as usual; the reason for my abstention is the editorials added to the replies.

Anyway, we COULD prevent some of those deaths but enough people don't value life high enough to give it a high priority. And I mean ANY kind of life, including human life. As I keep saying, it's a world of profit-over-people.
And heaven/hell is mostly irrelevant because most humans cannot fathom the concept of eternity.

 

[Walter]

How many people dye every day? I bet it's a lot more than 162,000.

 

[JLM]

How many people dye every day? I bet it's a lot more than 162,000.

I think if you divided 7 billion by 20,000 you'd be pretty close.

 

[L Gilbert]

How many people dye every day? I bet it's a lot more than 162,000.

Got the "real" figures? I bet you don't.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

How many people dye every day? I bet it's a lot more than 162,000.

You should probably ask the Society of Dyers and Colourists. I bet they'd have a pretty good estimate.

 

[DaSleeper]

Not talking to anyone in particular, But let's say that you are driving by a lake where you have never actually seen anyone catch a fish, and there's a guy there casting and reeling in time after time.... and even though it's a Big lake and you can't really know for sure, you might stop and tell the guy..."You're wasting your time there bud"..

Now the next day, and every day after that, you happen to see someone at that same spot fishing, (in your opinion), for nothing..

And if those folks are not hurting you by what they are doing.....

Why would you feel the need to stop, every day, to tell them there is no fish in that big lake???????

 

[Dexter Sinister]

162,355 x 30% (.30) = 48,706 people going to Hell

No way the level of Christian adherence is 70%, Christianity itself claims only 2 of the world's 7 billion, about 29%, so at least 71% are going to Hell. And probably more, the literalist view of salvation and damnation you appear to be espousing is very much a minority position even within Christianity, so a lot of Christians are presumably Hell-bound too, for getting some detail of dogma or observance wrong.

But if you really want to help people in this life, that's the wrong thing to focus on.

 

[wulfie68]

I wonder how many of those dead will go to Valhalla, to fight, feast and wench with the Aesir and the Vanir, until Ragnarok, and they must war with the Jotunn?

 

[Cliffy]

I wonder how many of those dead will go to Valhalla, to fight, feast and wench with the Aesir and the Vanir, until Ragnarok, and they must war with the Jotunn?

Sounds like a hell of a lot more fun than playing a harp on a cloud for eternity.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Sounds like a hell of a lot more fun than playing a harp on a cloud for eternity.

And even that sounds a lot better'n just sitting there adoring Gawd with a bunch of sanctimonious twits.

I'll take hell. The company's better.

 

[karrie]

Why would you feel the need to stop, every day, to tell them there is no fish in that big lake???????

Well, there are times that those fishermen are simply talking to one another, and yes, your point would hold true, they'd be butting in. But, there are times they've flagged someone down to ask about the fish, or to tell them they should be fishing in the lake too. At which point, someone may give their opinion about the lack of fish. Or, perhaps they're a fellow angler, casting a line into the same lake, and they may tell them it might make sense to put a hook on their line. Or to not eat the boot they reeled out.