In 2014, media outlets gave 43percentt more coverage to the 992 commercial flight deaths than they did to all of the 1.24 million ground traffic deaths worldwide, according to a Google Trends analysis.
Yet despite the fact that we know there's no progressive safety concern, we still give definitively more attention to flight deaths than other more common and lethal tragedies.
Birthright citizenship, and indeed, the entire body of laws around families and inheritance, embody societies' collective flight from death.
What STREB is trying to do, she says, is to "bracket the distinction, and the culled and beautifully transient language, that lies between flight and death".
In 1762, after almost dying from lung hemorrhages, he fled the damp air of England into France, a journey he described as Tristram's flight from death.
The moves, similar to recent government rescue packages in the United States, Britain and Germany, came hours before the insurance industry said it would limit coverage to $50 million a flight for death, injury and property damage on the ground for crashes, hijackings or other disasters.
Oliver Reik captured a super cool video of a flight over Death Valley, the Hoover Dam, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Frances: There's a great documentary called Flight from Death that explores how we respond to our own mortality.
Witnesses said Sister Duquet was imprisoned at the Navy Mechanics School before her body was tossed from a plane into the Atlantic Ocean on one of many "flights of death" meant to dispose of prisoners' bodies.
