Humans are notoriously hard to kill on purpose but laughably easy to kill by accident.
We have people that jumped on grenades, bombed, shot at, cut to pieces and survived but how dare we stumble funny on a curb.
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This is a great example of survivorship bias! Someone surviving those types of events is a very rare occurrence, so when it happens, it's noteworthy and the word gets around. You don't hear about all of the times those things happen and the person doesn't survive (or at least, you don't hear about them as prevalently.) Similarly, when someone stumbles on a curb and survives, it's not news, but when someone stumbles and dies, it is!
Also true. But it's funnier if you don't see it that way.
Well it's still true in the sense that if the average person wanted to kill another person they'd have a difficult time figuring out a method, if they don't want to get caught. Granted most murders are men killing a spouse or other known person which often includes suicide, or they don't care about spending the rest of their life in prison or the getting capital punishment anyway.
Where as accidently killing someone is technically speaking always entirely effortless.
They always catch the people who search for “most popular way to get away with murder” but they rarely catch the ones who search for “most embarrassing way to die.”
I would emend that to: It’s easy to kill random people, but hard to kill specific people. (Which is a logical consequence of increasing population density.)
God, I've seen what you've done for specific people, please help me be less random
Podcast ep this morning talked about a murder that required six knives because they kept breaking. Meanwhile, you can drink too much and drive home and take out a whole family.