Eating gas station sushi on a road trip (one convenience store sushi pack): 1 in 10 million chance it kills you

~0.1 micromorts. Like taking the train 1,000 km. Best guess.

Mortmeter: Not worth it. Trading bowel integrity and your life for tepid, graying tuna is an objectively terrible trade.

Assuming: One chilled plastic tray of raw fish nigiri or rolls bought at a highway petrol station.

How we got this: US foodborne illness causes roughly 3,000 deaths across hundreds of billions of meals, giving baseline meal mortality around 0.008 micromorts. Raw seafood stored in variable-temperature commercial display cases increases severe infection risk by about twelvefold. That gives 1 pack of suspect sushi times 0.1 micromorts per pack = 0.1 micromorts.

What gets you: Listeria and Salmonella sepsis, Vibrio infection from temperature abuse, Severe dehydration from acute gastroenteritis.

Cheaper version: Buying a sealed bag of salted peanuts or a heated roller dog cuts the bacterial hazard by 90%.

Sources and method: how Mortmeter prices things, and the Atlas of measured risks.

More priced risks: Jet skiing in the Bahamas, Riding a rental e-scooter after two beers, White water rafting, Sharing a bottle of Flor de Pingus, Riding Polyppen at Bakken in Denmark, Eating 2 whole pizzas, Drinking a bottle of red wine, Winter bathing in the Øresund.