Official Cause of Death: selfies! Last week, a German tourist was killed when he tried to pose for a selfie in Machu Picchu of Peru. Just one day another tourist died in his attempt at a selfie at the top of the Gocta cascade in the same country.
Selfies can not be a formal cause of death in a formal sense, but these new episodes are growing the number in a growing number of deaths attributed to dangerous selfie.
According to his research Priceonomics, the most common cause of deaths from selfie is associated with the height of the ground, while drowning is the next.
The average age of selfie-death victims is 21, with 75 percent of reported cases being male. Priceonomics reports that men are more likely to take xtreme vacations than women Women who take more selfies in general.
The issue affects the world's population: in January 2016, the Washington Post reported that the India saw the highest number of selfie deaths of any country in the world.
Meanwhile, the Russian government released last year a public guide to safe selfie practices.
It is already known from various published studies that addiction to Internet affects our psyche health. Let's not let selfies be another one of the many technologies that define our lives.
