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To: Mogger; RedMonqey; All
Well, it's probably safer to be a missionary than to be a college student in America. I read recently where 4000 or so college students die every year.

That's probably accurate...I found one source that seemed to say that the death rate per college student was about 22.4 per 100,000. And the Mormons have had 10 this year (more than one per month avg) among about 75,000. So the Mormons would need to have 16-17 deaths -- 6 or 7 more in the remaining three months of 2013 -- to equal a rate equivalent.

But these Lds missionaries are your more "valiant" Mormons ... the BYU types. So a fair comparison would be to compare the death rate among BYU students vs. Lds missionaries. I presently don't have those stats...but could easily conclude that it would have been safer for Lds missionaries to be BYU students in 2013.

Your 4,000 deaths per year among college students could be accurate...there's almost (at least) 17.5 million students.

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Btw...for more on these missionary deaths, See: With 10 deaths this year: Are Mormon missionaries safe?

22 posted on 10/03/2013 9:04:57 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian; Morgana; Sybeck1; Nifster; Mr. Lucky
Btw...for more on these missionary deaths, See: With 10 deaths this year: Are Mormon missionaries safe?
I know you are impressed with the flashy hewadlines but do you ever care to read the WHOLE article? From the article you cite:

The church does not share its statistics on missionary deaths, but independent counts since the 1980s indicate the rate hovers between three and six a year.

That is substantially below death rates for those same age groups across U.S. and world populations — as tracked by the World Health Organization and several prominent academic journals. Liked-aged rates of death for non-missionaries are six to 20 times higher, depending on the measures used.


According to the source you cited it's safer to be Mormon missionaries than a non missionaries
38 posted on 10/03/2013 12:34:50 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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