Dying is, as you might have guessed, a bad idea for more than one man or woman: for the one doing the dying, for the one helping out, for the close relatives and for pretty much everyone whom you've ever known and didn't owe any money to. But can you guess who suffers the most from your stepping into the light?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, for short), lacking any actual plague to tackle these days, likes to keep itself busy by getting its hands deep into the automotive world. Before we actually see them coming up with a cure for LaHood's distracted driving epidemic (did you know they even came up with the distracted walking name for the pedestrian that listens to his iPod and such all the time, even when crossing the street?), the CDC went on and calculated how much your death in a car crash costs the state you live in (we are unable to tell you whether dying from a bullet, for instance, would be cheaper for the state, or more expensive).
So, without further ado, here's what the CDC says: each year, motor crashes casualties (some 30,000 people, give or take) cost the US, in medical and work loss, $41 billion dollars.
Half of that is lost in only ten states, as follows: California - $4.16 billion, Texas - $3.50 billion, Florida - $3.16 billion, Georgia - $1.55 billion, Pennsylvania - $1.52 billion, North Carolina - $1.50 billion, New York - $1.33 billion, Illinois - $1.32 billion, Ohio - $1.23 billion, and Tennessee - $1.15 billion.
So, what should we do? Die less, or pay a tax for dying earlier than the IRS planned? Use the comment box below.
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