Selfie Deaths
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More than 250 people died while trying to take selfies, study finds
USA Today NetworkBrett Molina, USA TODAY Published 7:42 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018 | Updated 8:27 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018
Our interest in capturing selfies has introduced a new problem: a rise in selfie deaths, suggest a new study.
The study by researchers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi found 259 people died while attempting to take a selfie between October 2011 and November 2017.
Researchers pulled together a list of English newspapers worldwide and performed a comprehensive search of key words or phrases such as "selfie deaths" or "selfie accidents." They then attempted to cross-match those search links with links from their list of newspapers.
The results found selfie deaths rose from two reported in 2011 to 98 in 2016. The number of selfie deaths last year dipped to 93, said the study.
Findings were published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
The study said more than 72 percent of the deaths were men, and drowning was the most common cause of death during a selfie-taking attempt.
"Although our study has enlisted the largest number of selfie deaths and incidents till date, this is just the tip of iceberg," reads an excerpt from the study. "Many cases are not reported."
Researchers advise the creation of "no-selfie" zones at high-risk areas including bodies of water, mountain peaks and tall buildings.
In 2015, a report from Mashable claimed more people died from trying to take a selfie than from shark attacks.
More than 250 people died while trying to take selfies, study finds
USA Today NetworkBrett Molina, USA TODAY Published 7:42 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018 | Updated 8:27 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018
Our interest in capturing selfies has introduced a new problem: a rise in selfie deaths, suggest a new study.
The study by researchers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi found 259 people died while attempting to take a selfie between October 2011 and November 2017.
Researchers pulled together a list of English newspapers worldwide and performed a comprehensive search of key words or phrases such as "selfie deaths" or "selfie accidents." They then attempted to cross-match those search links with links from their list of newspapers.
The results found selfie deaths rose from two reported in 2011 to 98 in 2016. The number of selfie deaths last year dipped to 93, said the study.
Findings were published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
The study said more than 72 percent of the deaths were men, and drowning was the most common cause of death during a selfie-taking attempt.
"Although our study has enlisted the largest number of selfie deaths and incidents till date, this is just the tip of iceberg," reads an excerpt from the study. "Many cases are not reported."
Researchers advise the creation of "no-selfie" zones at high-risk areas including bodies of water, mountain peaks and tall buildings.
In 2015, a report from Mashable claimed more people died from trying to take a selfie than from shark attacks.
Again, this is from only English written newspapers. This does not include all the other language papers and those, that were not reported. The actual number of selfie deaths is likely a lot higher.
Besides drowning, some of the deaths included taking a selfie while holding guns and accidently shooting oneself, taking a selfie with a dangerous animal, being hit by a moving object, and taking a selfie too close to a potential high fall.
Taking a selfie for a CS profile only leads to a social death.
Comments (22)
Selfie is not really my cup tea, but I noticed, in my mobile, my front Camera is more clear ...::laugh:
I read in one article...selfie is counted as one of mental disorder too..
It is the idiocy of the person
Sorry for the need to be accurate.
I just think it is kinda natural that when people do stupid unnecessary things that can lead to death that it is a way of weeding out future generations of the gene
You know what I mean
"Weeding out" would have more to do with a dynamic situation from selective pressures.
And yeah, I know that is only a myth
E - Unfortunately, many humans do not learn from the mistakes of those in the past. Take Nixon, I mean Trump.......PLEASE !
Some of them actually drowned taking those photos.
This is all an Ego boasting as far as I am concerned.