A 66-year-old tourist from Japan recently died after falling down some stairs while trying to take a photo at the Taj Mahal in India.
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Mashable went a step further in putting this so-tragic-it’s-tragic trend into perspective, crunching to numbers to determine that more lives in 2015 have been lost to selfie mishaps (12) than to shark attacks (eight).
Meanwhile there have been just eight fatal shark attacks worldwide.
Interestingly, however, the latter has been associated with more deaths than shark attacks. That saying, don’t get too relaxed next time your hanging around within the vicinity of a shark, and maybe don’t try to take a selfie with one.
This rise in selfie related deaths is highlighted by horrendous incidents involving the photography technique.
Selfie deaths have become so rife in Russian Federation that the government released a guide detailing how not to die while taking a picture of yourself.
Concern over the dangers inherent with posing for a photo without taking in what is happening around you is leading to selfie bans in public areas.
Selfie-deaths are becoming so common that there is even a Wikipedia page dedicated to listing selfie-related injuries or deaths.
“Parks have closed because visitors keep trying to take selfies with bears, bull runs – an already unsafe activity – have had to expressly outlaw selfie-taking, and even Tour de France cyclists are concerned about selfie danger”, Mashable noted.
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There’s nothing to indicate that people will take fewer selfies in the future, so it bears repeating: No amount of Instagram likes are worth getting hit by a bus or gored by a bull.
