"These are the things people worry about incessantly. But we are going to die of cancer, heart disease, in a car accident, of old age, etc... how mundane." Yup

"These are the things people worry about incessantly. But we are going to die of cancer, heart disease, in a car accident, of old age, etc... how mundane." Yup - when I teach probability, I start with the idea that what gets into the news is novel. What will kill you will not be in the news unless you are amazingly unlucky.