ABOUT DEATH...


Some interesting things you didn't know about death

  • When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
  • A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
  • 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
  • Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
  • When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
  • Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
  • It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
  • An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
  • Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space
  • Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant. 

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