after 2000, the average is about 26,000 dead people per year, or about 70 people passing every day.

weird to work in the clinical space on mortality. Who are these people? Where did they all go after passing?

I feel surrounded by the ghosts of these 682,000 people. I will interact with far more people as numbers on my screen than living people I can touch and see. But since I work on the text processing, for any number, I could reach in and see a glimpse of the person sitting in their doctor’s office telling the story of their life to the doctor who is typing away at the computer. Typing the notes that pass through an ethereal dance of electronic bits to appear on my screen, long after the person no longer exists.

who will know me only by these electronic bits displayed as squiggles that I create now? what row in someone else’s database will my time on this earth be reduced down to, a ghostly imprint of my life?

it is a weird thought.

but d*mn a chipotle burger is an amazing amount of food for $10. and it is morbidly interesting that according to the data, a few people died twice.