April 28, 2013: What are the chances? Death, lottery jackpots, and other likelihoods!

Given the choice, ninety-nine percent of us would prefer to die quietly in our sleep.  But the fact is, for ninety-nine percent of us, death won't be peaceful.  We'll either get shot or drown or killed in a car crash or accidentally swallow a toothpick and die of peritonitis.  I've often said that I don't…