Dying To Live Here

The numbered dead and dying. You would think that the largest states would have the most dead and while people die in any state in the United States we were surprised that there are some states where the dying isn't consistent with the population. Since 2007 to 2009 there hasn't been a census to change the total population numbers we've been using. The most populace state in our region from 2007-2009 is North Carolina, followed by Virginia then Maryland and South Carolina. Washington DC though not a state is larger in population than Wyoming. If DC were awarded statehood it would number fiftieth (50th) out of the fifty (50) states making Wyoming fifty-first (51st) state in size of population.

If location didn't matter then tenth most populated state North Carolina should be tenth in number of deaths. Instead if you reside NC you'll be in the state that ninth (9th) in deaths for the past three years. Twelfth (12th) place Virginia has fluctuated between thirteenth last year, eleventh the year before and where you'd predict the state to be were all things equal twelfth (12th) in 2007. Maryland though nineteenth (19th) in size has maintained twenty-first (21st) in deaths for the same three (3) year period. The twenty-fourth (24th) state of South Carolina was only so in 2007 and since has only been the twenty-fifth (25th) state in deaths. Only the District of Columbia has improved since 2007 and every year since to the fifty-first (51st) from forty-ninth (49th) in 2007.

Location Location Location isn't as important as staying alive but it's more like location, diet and stress or location, location, diet, exercise and or stress. We get the number of deaths from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We want to focus and have been like the government agency, on prevention. Let's stay alive and while they're cities and communities that are doing better than others it's all so true that we all are pretty much feeling the same thing. Or at least we have over the last three (3) years.