I think on an individual level survivial is a binary equation. You get in your car and you make it to your destination or you don't. Your plane crashes or it doesn't. You don't live 98% of the time and die 2% of the time. You either live or die. Group statistics do not mean much on an individual basis.
Well said. This is why the mortality rate hasn't changed in the past ten thousand years: one per person.
Given this, it is important that every one believe in something: I believe I will have a beer.