"Carbon Monoxide is something everyone knows about but everyone also seems to forget about."
"Garage door springs. Also garage doors are not as light as people think. They weigh hundreds or thousands of pounds depending on the type and size of door and all that weight is counter balanced by tension on those springs. If you don’t know what you are doing do not attempt to repair a garage door."
"Stress
Stress is a state when your body feel threatened and produce hormone to defend yourself, which will typically boost your muscle and reduce to minimum other function, like digestion, your kidneys, and overall all organs that aren’t involved in fighting off a bear.
If you’re always stressed (Chronic stress), you will damage your organs. All of them. At once. Chronic stress is a poison, you must avoid it."
"Mixing cleaning supplies. Cleaners are usually dangerous chemicals, mixing certain chemicals can create dangerous gases. One of the common cleaner mistakes people make is dish soap and bleach, a lot of dish soaps have ammonia in them, and you don’t want to be around the gas that ammonia and chlorine make. Also, don’t clean your kitty litters with bleach, use chlorine free disinfectants instead. Cat pee naturally has ammonia in it and can cause a reaction too."
"Once read about someone who died when they had the flu – they were medicating with over the counter cold and flu medicine and drinking multiple cups of lemsip, one after the other, not realising lemsip also contained painkillers. they died of an overdose, iirc"
"Pinched electrical wires – having for example, a table leg or something on top of a wire creates a hot spot that can eventually start a fire"
"High blood pressure"
"Taking selfies. Several die each year in my area from selfies on rock ledges in the mountains."
"Poor dental hygiene, gum infections hit the brain fairly quickly and can be fatal before you even knew something was happening."
"Balloons. Specifically kids. I was watching a video how a lot of kids die from playing with balloons, you know how kids are all dramatic and breathe really hard in and out to blow them up? Sometimes they suck in so hard that they suck the balloon into their throat, lodging it in there. And cpr doesn’t work once they stop breathing because you’re just inflating and deflating the balloon in the throat and the air cant pass through."
"People are not nearly careful enough driving vehicles. you are operating a 2,000lb bullet, please stop texting and pay attention"
"Slice your hotdog in half. You are more likely to choke to death on a hotdog then getting bitten by a Shark."
"Areas with rust and no ventilation. The oxidation pulls the oxygen out of the air. Upon entering, you’ll pass out after just a few seconds, and you’ll be dead in minutes.
Chain lockers are really bad for this."
"Driving while sleepy. It’s estimated more accidents are caused by drowsiness than alcohol."
"Manure. When it is collected in a poorly ventilated space and you climb down there for any reason, you can pass out from lack of air. If someone notices this and instead of calling for help, they just follow you, there can be more than one fatality."
"Potatoes. They release toxic chemicals when they go bad. People have died from this."
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#10 I’m pretty old, and I’ve never heard of someone dying from a gum infection.
Left untreated, any infection can kill you. It's called sepsis, and technically it's your body killing itself. Sometimes if the immune system's combative measures are ineffective, it will overreact and release too many toxic chemicals into the blood stream. Sepsis has three stages, and the third one is fatal.
Correct. Additionally, the bacteria from an abscess seems to have an affinity for the human heart, and can cause a serious and possibly fatal myocarditis if it leaves the dental infection site and travels through the circulatory system.
I experienced a spring breaking and had a large piece of it miss me by maybe an inch, scary situation.