Fighting...

[Tant01]

Fire! Everyone out!

This would be a bad way to die...
The threat is as real as any other. What have you done to prepare for fighting the beast? How do you plan to protect yourself or family from the potentially deadly event? Prevention goes a long ways but, "What if...?"
Do you know your firefighting ABC's?

[zhorner]

what if you are the one starting the fire?

[Lizard]

You raise a good point, I mean... How can I adapt my current fighting style to protect against fire... or what about flood? Or disease... :S

[Tant01]

Deaths from Fire: 3,348 deaths reported in USA 1999 from accidental fire or smoke (NVSR Sep 2001)


On average less than 100 fatalities per year due to flooding in the USA.

[Tom Yum]

You raise a good point, I mean... How can I adapt my current fighting style to protect against fire... or what about flood? Or disease... :S

Deveop your Chi .

[Tom Yum]

Deaths from Fire: 3,348 deaths reported in USA 1999 from accidental fire or smoke (NVSR Sep 2001)


On average less than 100 fatalities per year due to flooding in the USA.

Do you also have statistics for heart disease related fatalaties? Cancer?

[Tant01]

Do you also have statistics for heart disease related fatalaties? Cancer?

Nope but you're hitting a little close to home...My wife is a cancer victim.

Chances are good someone you know has it even if they don't know it.

[Tom Yum]

I don't keep up with breakthroughs in cancer research and drug design, but it seems like a complex and confusing disease.

From what I understand, anything that can alter part of your DNA can cause cancer. From excessive UV exposure to the sun, excess contact with cigarettes or similar substances, improper or unhealthy diet and even genetic predisposition.

[Toudiyama[NL]]

Don't have the stats for my country but I'm shure we are more likely to die from any of the above mentioned that to be violently attacked
And still the latter has the most influence, both for us MA's as for non MA people

[Tant01]

I don't keep up with breakthroughs in cancer research and drug design, but it seems like a complex and confusing disease.

From what I understand, anything that can alter part of your DNA can cause cancer. From excessive UV exposure to the sun, excess contact with cigarettes or similar substances, improper or unhealthy diet and even genetic predisposition.

Sadly I know more about cancer than I ever wanted to know.

Cigarette smoking is a primary cause of accidental fires in the home. It is listed as the cause of about half of all fatal home fires. In adition to the thousands killed in the US by fire every year there are thousands and thousands more injuries that are related to fire and smoke.
Cooking accidents are high on the list as well.
The elderly are especially vulnerable to fire. Risk of death by fire increases with age.

[Sensei Saki]

That remark was either too complex or too simple for me. We were talking about accidents.