The Discover Magazine, on the 28th of October 2008, has a list of different ways the earth will finial be destroyed. It gives a list of events and for some of them it also gives the odds of them happening in our own lift time.
Will it be a solar flare? Or a gamma-ray burst? DISCOVER's own Phil Plait lays out the odds.
Asteroid impact
1 in 700,000
Solar flare/cme, collapse of power grid, potential ozone depletion
Supernova, ozone depletion, radiation
1 in 10,000,000
Gamma-ray burst, ozone depletion, radiation, setting planet on fire
1 in 14,000,000
Black hole, destruction of Earth
1 in 1,000,000,000,000
Alien attack, humanity wiped out by aliens, space bugs give us runny noses
Death of the sun, earth cooked to a crisp
Galactic doom, ice ages, radiation, eaten by supermassive black hole
Death of the universe, decay of all matter, collapse of false vacuum
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