“But first let me take a selfie… on top of a cliff.”

Our lives are filled with technology: cars, electricity, 3D printers, and, of course, cell phones.

In today’s society, this statement couldn’t be more true. How many times do you go to a restaurant and see people looking down at their bright HD screens rather than talking to those sitting right across them?

This magnetic force causes us to feel that we must take our phones out every 10 seconds to check Twitter or Instagram and of course, take a selfie.

In today’s world, all our friends, and even the public,  must be constantly informed of every single thing we do.

So, why wouldn’t we love selfies? They are great ways to show the world that you are at the beach, drinking a pumpkin spice latté at Starbucks, or in the bathroom at a mall.

As any trend has it, the art of taking selfies has die-hard fans willing to die in order to get the perfect photo. At least 12 people have died from taking selfies this year, in comparison to the eight deaths from shark attacks, according to the London Telegraph newspaper.

The issue has become so extensive that Russia has actually released a safe selfie guide that gives tips to successfully take a selfie and live to tell about it.

In September 2015, a Houston man died when attempting to take a selfie with a gun pointed at his face (for Instagram of course) and accidently pulled the trigger.

Guns and selfies simply don’t mix.

How about trains? In the attempt to take the “ultimate selfie” on the top of a moving train, an 18 year-old Romanian was killed in May when 27,000 volts were sent through her body by a live wire. How shocking.

Trains aren’t the only vehicles selfie-lovers should watch out for. Puerto Rican musician Jadiel El Tsunami’s life ended when he tried (unsuccessfully) to take a selfie on a motorcycle. Earlier he had written a song called “Me Descontrolo” (“I Lose Control”). How ironic.

Like motorcycles, volcanoes can be quite dangerous as well. An active volcano, Mount Merapi, claimed the life of an Indonesian man who, in the attempt of taking the hottest selfie ever, fell into a crater.

The question raised with this new phenomenon of extreme selfies is this: Is it really worth it to take the the coolest picture possible if the risk is death?

The answer, of course, is yes. As long as your picture on Instagram gets at least 100 likes, who cares if you die taking it?

We always talk about leaving life in the best way possible. If becoming an Internet celebrity with a viral extreme selfie taken hanging from the top of the building is what it takes to make it in life today, why would anyone not want to take the risk?

Would you rather die of brain cancer or by trying to take a selfie with a bull, which is how a man died at a bull running festival in August. One could say he grabbed life by the horns.

So get out your phone and a selfie stick and don’t be afraid to take some extreme selfies to become a part of the “Now Trending” section on Twitter. What is there to possibly lose?

There is no limit to stupidity in today’s world.