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There were 40k suicides in the USA in 2020, and about 20k murders. So statistically, if you die by violence, you killed yourself.

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Idk about these numbers.

~38k people died in USA [1] from car crashes. Thats pretty violent but doesn't necessarily count as murder or suicide.

[1]: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8132....

I thought about specifying some form of "human induced killing" but couldn't figure out how to word-lawyer it to be the group consisting of "murder + suicide".

Violent deaths are murder suicide and overdose per CDC programs in place at medical examiners

Car crashes aren't typically included in "violent deaths", because the definition of "violence" typically includes intent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence

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