In 2009, the mortality rate in the United States fell 2.3 percent to 741 deaths per 100,000. Here are some of the factors behind the nation’s lowest-ever death rate:
Ignoring that one week when everyone in Minneapolis died
Loading up boats with really sick people and sending them out to die in international waters
The so-called “741-per-100,000 Murderer” was captured and incarcerated
Dr. Christopher Walsh of Youngstown, OH started washing his hands
Horace Mann Middle School’s 1971 removal of asbestos finally started to pay off
Good chunk of population now getting three nutritious meals a day via correctional facilities
Shorter bridges that make it easier for people to hold their breath all the way across
National Rounded-Scissors Act of 2008
None of this exists
