Final Exits : The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die

English

ISBN: 0060817410

EAN: 9780060817411

Category: Social Science / Death & Dying

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 10/03/2006

Synopsis: To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet underwhatever death is called, its going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Death remains a certainty. But how do we die? Its the enormous variety of HOW that enlivens FINAL EXITS. According to death certificates, in 1700 there were less than 100 causes of death. Today there are 3,000. With each advance of technology, people find new ways to become deceased, often causing trends that peak in the first year. People are now killed by everything, from cell phones, washing machines, lawn mowers and toothpicks, to the boundless catalog of manmade medicines. In FINAL EXITS the causes of deathbizarre or commonare alphabetically arranged and include actual accounts of people, both famous and ordinary, who unfortunately died that way. (Ants, bad words, Bingo, bean bag chairs, flying cows, frozen toilets, hiccups, lipstick, moray eels, road kill, starfish, and toupees are only some of the more unusual causes.)

Awards: Bram Stoker Awards – null 

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Final Exits : The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.31 inches

Width: 5.49 inches

Length: 9.09 inches

Weight: 20.85 oz

Pages: 464