Death Risk Calculator Predicts Your Death Risk Rankings

The death risk calculator is based on publicly available data and is really designed for information purposes only. Since there are many factors into when you will actually die, such as your lifestyle, family health history and the unforeseen accident, the program cannot tell if you exactly will die within a certain time or from a certain cause. It will give you the odds based on relative information.

The death calculator determines its death risk rankings based on available date from both Europe and the US. It compares death risk for causes of death, age, race in the US only and gender. You can compare the death risk rankings of up to 66 causes of death. Both accidents and various diseases are compared by the death risk calculator.

You can obtain information on topics such as how does the US compare to Europe in death rates. You can also find out that men have a higher death risk than woman do at every age. As well as that the US has a higher death risk for obesity-related deaths than Europe. You can even find out what your chances are of dying of breast cancer if you live in the southern part of the US as part of your death risk calculator report.

The creators of the death calculator hopes that it will help inform not only the general pubic on death risks, but that it is a resource for those that are debating the health care reform issue in the US. With the information available through the website, more people can become more aware of just what the death risk rankings are in the US compared to the world.

While the death risk ranking from Carnegie Mellon is new to the web, there are other death risk calculators on the web for you to look at as well if you are interested. One fun one is called the death clock.

Touted as the internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away…second by second, the death clock will give you a predication of the exact day you will die. This death calculator determines your death date based on the information you enter.

This information is comprised of your birth date, sex, what kind of mood you see yourself as, your body mass index (BMI) and if you smoke or not. As you can see there are some major medical factors not being used in computing this death risk ranking.

The death clock is meant only for fun. On the website it states “This is a game, folks. Nothing more, nothing less.”

The death clock will give you some laughs; which is considered one of the healthiest activities to do. It will not tell you when you really are going to die. Carnegie Mellon's death calculator will give you some helpful insists on your death risk rankings. Based on the odds for your gender, age and other factors such as where you live, you can become more aware of health issues to be on the watch for and maybe become aware of something before it is too late.