balzaccom
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Post by balzaccom on May 24, 2024 21:27:47 GMT -8
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Travis
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Post by Travis on May 25, 2024 1:33:42 GMT -8
If you go to the NPS page that the information was derived from, there is a "mortality dashboard" that allows breaking the data down by years, cause, national park, age, gender, and so on. If you combine hiking and walking, the fatalities are almost as numerous as vehicle accidents. And suicides outnumber any unintentional cause of death, including even vehicle crashes. Some people choose to die in a national park. Others choose to take closeup selfies with bison and grizzlies, as if those people were not a bit suicidal. But that data is not included here, of course.
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ErnieW
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Post by ErnieW on May 25, 2024 17:17:22 GMT -8
From those numbers the national parks are a risk for old men.
(Not really: In 2019, the NPS mortality rate was 0.11 death per 100,000 recreational visits, which is very low when compared to the 715 deaths per 100,000 people rate of the overall U.S. population)
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