Health | death The Top 10 Things That Kill Us Heart disease, cancer top the list By Arden Dier Posted Apr 20, 2016 6:25 PM CDT Copied (Shutterstock) Don't count on leaving this world in a bizarre hot tub incident. According to the CDC, your death is much more likely to be, well, boring. Live Science rounds up the top 10 leading causes of the death in the US, based on the most recent stats from 2013: Heart disease Cancer Chronic lower respiratory diseases Accidents (like car accidents and falls) Stroke Alzheimer's Diabetes Influenza and pneumonia Kidney disorders Suicide (Click here for details, including numbers, on each; compare to 2011's numbers here.) Read These Next The Wall Street Journal is naming more names tied to Epstein. Trump isn't talking about a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. South Park episode on Trump may be a real 'mess' for him. The sheriff says he's never seen a worse case of child sex abuse. Report an error