I really expected “car crash” to be much higher up on the list.
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I’d love to know the details of the grenade-related ones…
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from what i usually read young, male, russian/eastern european and heavy drinking are a bad mix to add a hand grenade to.
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"Here, hold my beer and hand me that selfie stick."
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Yeah… total (and unfettered) self-involvement is surprisingly lethal. 49 selfie deaths is a drop in the bucket when compared to deaths due to texting-while-driving: a little over 16,000 a year in the US. 1 in 4 automotive accidents are due to distracted driving and 50-percent of adults admit to texting-while-driving.
Self-absorption (narcissism) isn’t a survival trait.
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The important thing is that we can now pretend that selfies are actually lethal as opposed to merely tacky. This is going to revolutionize modern get-off-my-lawn-ism.
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*squints*
Um, let’s see. Don’t flip people off, don’t wash the windows of oncoming trains, don’t surf, don’t try to be a lion tamer, don’t take birds hostage, don’t hang off flagpoles, don’t joyride on the front of trains…
Looks like pretty solid advice, but where’s the selfie part? 
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Where is the chart detailing selfi-time-related deaths?
Young male, full of testosterone and self-confidence, with no sense yet of his own mortality. I wouldn’t call it suicidal, just stupidly reckless they way some guys that age are.
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Some of that can be genetically determined. There are variations in novelty-seeking and stimulus-seeking, determined by variations in certain receptors in brain.
Then there is Darwin, to maintain the optimal balance of such traits for the environment of the given population.
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Selfies don’t kill people…
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