How many die each year?
 

I hear the ambulance quite often..how many people die here each year?

I'm not sure but if you read the paper they conveniently die in alphabetical order.

And they all try not to.

best idea--check the t-times

I have friends that live in Sun City Grand in Surprise, AZ and the saying out there is whenever people hear an ambulance is "there's another golf cart for sale". :laugh:

You'll probably just have to count them in the paper.

Sirens aren't always for an ambulance. Fire trucks, police cars as well as ambulances go by with sirens on. See them go by my house which backs to Morse Blvd. Winter brings more people, more traffic, more sirens.

Our next door neighbor's husband was taken by ambulance yesterday. 3.5 minutes response time! Where we lived in Costa Maya, Mexico for the past 10 years it was 4 plus hours to a good hospital in Cancun. When I left there in late September, after selling our home there, I drove by the small clinic in the village and noticed that their 30 year old ambulance had a flat tire!

Many of our villages here have AED's and folks trained to use them. We are all trying very hard to stay alive and enjoy life too.

Think positive! I like to think that some of these sirens are for accidents and not deaths.

If they were all deaths, page C-4 would be bigger.

Z

When I was little my mother told my brother and me to say a prayer any time we heard a siren. I'd be praying day and night living here. [emoji6]

Morbid topic. Live every day, do not dwell on death.

There will always be houses for sale in the villages
 

Nationally the rate of over 65 deaths is 4% to 5% apparently it varies by state and I couldn't find Florida stats on the net. I read someplace that the villages had a lower rate because the people tend to be more active so they live longer and most are pretty healthy and active when they move here.
So using national stats 100,000 people that's 4,000 a year. So if two to a house on average then 2,000 homes should be up for sale any given year not counting those who move back to be close to kids when they get frail. There appears to be about 400 pre-owned on the market most months at the moment but that includes those who have decided to move within the villages.

May I ask, WHY you ask?

Another factor in a lower death rate in TV would be that chronically, or morbidly sick people would be unlikely to move away from family and their doctors. If you start with a healthier population you will be likely to always have a healthier population, on average.

:what:Good answer, And I always wonder WHY THAT IS?:2excited:

IMHO two assumptions have been made in this thread First that it is likely that healthy people move here because....... and secondly that since this is an active community people live longer. And while i do work out on a regular basis I do not believe it will allow me to live longer. I told believe it will allow me to live better why I live

Given the demographics of this community there are those who will hold onto anyrhing they view as a possible longevity edge.

I beleive the ratio of emergency calls to fire calls is at least 90% but since fire trucks are a huge investment the Fire Dept uses them as oftn as they can. i just hope if i am having heart attack thy come by ambulance rather than fire truck b ecause i don't cherish riding to the hospital on a ladder

Also remember that quite a few people choose to move "back home" if they know that the end is near. There are also a shortage of nursing home beds here, so a sizable number move to other towns around here for skilled nursing care.

Why? Inquiring minds...etc. So far we've met some very active seniors here. But I'd imagine there are those folks here that their main activity is taking out the garbage. Thanks for all the responses! What impressed me was the EMT response time..excellent!

There is an undertaker in my neighborhood, who said 2 die per day here in TV.

Thats a different answer than I got from a guy planting flower's.:shrug:

There are at least three funerals a week during daily Mass at St. Timothy's. Every week, every month, all year. I know on Eagles Wings, all verses and I can sing it by heart.

I know this because my neighbor goes every morning and sometimes I hitch a ride. I am not pious or anything, but I do love daily Mass the best. The nicest people are there.

When we hear an ambulance we figure that is another tee time open.

A good day
 

Place a small mirror on your night table at bed time , Each morning when you wake hold the mirror to your mouth,
If you see fog on the mirror it's going to be a good day for you

Probably seems to be a higher number that it actually is!!!

Would these same people have died, if they lived, in another state?

That to me, is to the question.

I agree with Z that all people going to the hospital in an ambulance, don't die. Maybe an accident or some other medical emergency.

We also experienced a huge amount of ambulance siren noise, seemingly constan
 

We also experienced a very large amount of ambulance siren noise, unlike anything we had ever experienced anywhere else.

I was told it was due to the fact that we were near the route to the hospital??? Could be heart attacks, not necessarily deaths? But who knows?

Here, we live less than 2 miles from our town's medical center, yet only hear the siren noise once a month, if that. We usually chalk it up to an accident, with the ambulance rushing the patient to the hospital.......especially during the winter on snowy or icy roads.
Sometimes we do NOT hear the ambulance at all during a given month.

However, it was "nerve wracking" to hear them & see them so often in T.V. I understand your questioning that siren noise.

Truthfully, I thought "accidents" at the time. Not death.

A lot of erratic drivers on those roundabouts.

Now........up here, now is the season for the occasional **HELICOPTER noise as they bring the skiiers with the broken legs, etc. or head injuries to our hospital..........now that is NOISE especially when they fly right over our house.........it's usually in the evening.....or about suppertime.........guess they get them stabilized up in the mountains & then transport them to our hospital to see the orthopedic surgeons who patch them up.

**Hospital Medivac

everytime a siren rings, an angel gets its wings.

My dad used to say 'the old must die, the young may die'

:loco:

My wife said to ask how many babies are born....she loves kids having been a teacher

Oh, whew! We're "W."

Oh oh. We start with a "B". Better go check today's Daily Sun.

Wishful thinking on his part???

I worked at a golf course up north that was set between two streets which were routes to two different hospitals. We heard sirens all the time. Members didn't notice it, but guests would always comment on it.

How about a name change? You could be D. Zuzonne. Or better yet, D Zabaglione. that stuff's really tasty.:mmmm:

What was life/existence like in that part of the hemisphere? Were you working there? ... not trying to be nosy, just curious as hell what it might be like! Just in case we (all) have to get out of Dodge :thumbup:

Fred

I guess I could be called worse! (And have been.)

I asked a friend who worked on our fire department about these calls and he said most are non critical.