All That Remains: A Life in Death

by Sue Black

unit of risk of death, which he quantified as 1 in 100,000 and named the ‘micromort’. The principle is very straightforward: the higher the value in micromorts of a particular activity, the more dangerous it is and the greater the chance it will result in your demise. It can be applied to both daily tasks and more hazardous enterprises,

I think I will die before I am seventy-five. I suspect it will be heart-related, and as deaths from myocardial infarction peak on Mondays, at 11am, apparently, I am booking mine in for a Wednesday at noon.