This is the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, January the 11th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

On average, 7,708 Americans die each day. Most of them are known primarily to their families,

friends, co-workers, and so on. But when a space heater sparks a fire in the Bronx that

kill 17 people, including eight children, the nation grieves, as we should. When a cliff collapses

on tourist boats in Brazil, killing 10 people, the world watches the video in shock. When a beloved

actor like Sidney Portier dies, his passing makes international headlines. It was the same

with television actor Bob Sagitt, who died Sunday and with Betty White after she died a few days ago.

Other deaths make the news less for who they were than for how they happened.

A father in Virginia tried to walk home in a snowstorm last week.

His body was discovered three days later.

The body of a skier missing since Christmas was found last weekend.

A Los Angeles Taco Bell worker was fatally shot last Saturday

during an argument over a fake $20 bill. As the news constantly reminds us, any of us could die at any time.

And yet, if you ask Americans to name their top fears, their personal death ranks

surprisingly low. More than half of us are either not very afraid, 27%, or not at all, afraid,

25% of death.

Only 11% of us are very afraid of death,

while 31% are somewhat afraid to die,

and 7% just don't know.

We're more afraid of the way we might die than the fact of our death.

In a list of our top ten fears, mass shootings comes in at number three, followed by terrorism at number five,

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