Despite efforts by doctors, rescue workers and other medical professionals worldwide, the global death rate remains constant at 100 percent. This metabolic affliction causes total shutdown of all life functions and represents humanity's number one health concern. Plus, death:
- Is responsible for 100 percent of all recorded fatalities worldwide
- Has no cure
- Affects both the dead and the non-dead
It is beginning to seem possible that birth, and the subsequent life cycle that follows, may be a serious safety risk for all involved.
Sources:The Onion
19 Facts About Death You May Not Want to Know
The life insurance Web site, LifeInsure.com, collected its own longer list of 19 historical errata, superstitions and just plain weird facts about death that make you wonder how and where they found all of them. Then again, it's a site meant to sell you life insurance...What follows are a few of the most interesting things about death, so you'll need to hit the link below for the rest.· It takes 2.5 minutes from the top of Mount Everest to reach the bottom.
- Cowboys carried pistols to avoid being dragged to death by their horses.
- Some 2,500 left-handed people lose their lives annually by using instruments meant for the right-handed.
- One hundred people die every year merely by choking on a ballpoint pen.
- Despite the dreaded death curse of King Tut, only one of the 22 people who witnessed his exhumation were actually dead a decade later.
The 30 Weirdest Ways People Have Died This story from Neatorama takes a decidedly different and more acerbic direction, listing some of the strangest ways people have died in history. What follows are a few of the weirder ways people have met their demise, then hit the link below for the entire list.
- Slipping on an orange peel.
- Buried in garbage.
- Hit by a robot.
- Pushed off a cliff by a flock of hungry sheep.
- Growing too long of a beard.
By the way, you probably won't be surprised to learn that a few deaths were related to poor eating habits, prescription drugs or both.
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