Actually, I'm not sure how much we can really learn from this poll, or sticking your hand up in a room full of pilots. Sure, lots of people know someone killed in aviation, but I think too many people are distorting that fact into something it's not. I do have a friend who was killed in an aircraft accident. I've also got a father killed in a shooting accident, a great grandmother killed in a car accident, a cop friend killed in the line of duty, another cop friend who blew his head off with a 12 guage one night, an uncle who was stabbed to death in Akron, on and on and on. Death is part of life. The aviation community is a small close knit one, and as result when a pilot is killed, there is a better than average chance you'll know them. When someone starts exploiting that, I start wondering what their real point is. Now, if you want to break down the senseless ways some pilots have killed themselves and their families, and you may learn you may learn something, which is why I find things like ASF's accident reports so useful. Same for NASA's ASRS reports.