Have you ever wondered how many people die on average every single day on this planet? I hadn’t really, until yesterday that is, so I googled it. It turns out that this figure seems quite high, well in my opinion it seems high, but when you think about it as a percentage of the total human population of this planet (6.2 billion) I guess it sounds about right.

I enjoy reading foreign newspapers (ahh the beauty of the internet) to see how certain news events are reported (portrayed) in other countries. I spent a bunch of time last night review many foreign papers to see if there were any mention of the 3rd anniversary of the Asian tsunami where some 170,000 people lost their lives. I was unable to find any real mention of it other than in some Australia online news papers (I didn’t check any Asian papers for language reasons).

When September 11 rolls around all we hear about for 2 days before this date is the tragic events of that fateful day in 2001 where 3,000 people lost there lives. I agree 9-11 was tragic. But in my opinion this day, as tragic as it was, pales in significance to the events of December 26th 2004. Yet the media barley mentions it. I guess I just don’t understand why one event is so news worthy and the other one isn’t.

By the way, an average of 155,000 people leave us each and every day. A little less than the 170,000 that left us in the tsunami. Don’t worry, birth rates nearly double the death rate so we are in no real trouble…….