Micromort: The unit of death
![Micromort: 1 day of living, 20 miles by bike, 250 miles by car](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/693a3e25-b405-4801-8f04-11d38c9d9fcb_131180149365.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
A micromort is a one in one million chance of sudden death during the activity. You get a day of regular living for one micromort (though clearly that probably depends on what your average day is). Turns out you get a lot further per micromort by car, and that motorways are by far the safest form of road. You’ll experience 7 micromorts from running a marathon and 39,427 from climbing Everest.
Introduced by Stanford Professor, Ronald Howard.
Also see: Microlife, the unit of life
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