The odds of you dying from any particular unlikely death (like lightning) is super low. The odds of you dying of any of them (bear mauling, tied to a railway tr

The odds of you dying from any particular unlikely death (like lightning) is super low. The odds of you dying of any of them (bear mauling, tied to a railway track, spontaneous combustion, etc) is significantly higher. That's the sort of thing I mean. Individual coincidences are rare. But if you start really looking for them, you will absolutely find some coincidence. The one that happens will have been unlikely and impossible to predict ahead of time, and yet you were more or less absolutely certain some coincidence would occur, because there are so many possible configurations of coincidence that one is bound to happen.