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One in a million for those other activities doesnt seem quite right. You hear about skiers getting hurt all the time.

Per this article "A total of 274 skier deaths occurred between 1980 and 2001 in Colorado. Death rates ranged from 0.53 to 1.88 per million skier visits." - sound like one in a million to me. Per this article, "In 1979 there were three fatal accidents per million flights, compared with one fatal accident per two million flights by last year, according to International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) figures." - again, sounds like one in a million. Believe it or not, car travel clocks up the same order of magnitude of bad things per day trip. Bikes are just shockingly worse.

Now remember, everybody has to die of something sometime, presumably the average 1st world risk of dying in a given year is something like one in 75 or so. At age 59, my risk of dying must be one in 40'ish (if I want to get it over with in the next 40 years). My risk of dying on my bike looks like being one in 1500-2000, so no biggie.