19 Facts About Death

1. The practice of burying the dead may have begun 350,000 yearsago, as evidenced by a hole 45 feet long in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.
2. Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including "located in the chest of Abraham," and "sleep with the Tribbles" (Star Trek favorite).
3. No Americans died of old age since 1951.
4. The trigger of death in all cases, is lack of oxygen that causes muscle spasms, or the phase of "Agonal," from the Greek word Agon, or contests.
5. Within three days after death, the enzymes that digest after dinner, will begin to eat the bodies. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release harmful gas enough to bloat the body and force the eyes protrude.
6. So many ways of recycling taken: Death in America deposit827,060 gallons of embalming fluid formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol into the soil every year. Cremation pumps dioxins,hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
7. Or. . . A Swedish company, Promessa, making the bodies freeze-dried in liquid nitrogen, crushed with a high frequencyvibration. They claim this funeral "ecological" will decompose in 6to 12 months.
8. Zoroastrians in India leave the body of the dead to be consumed by vultures.
9. Vultures are now dying off after eating cattle carcasses coveredwith diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever inlive stock.
10. Queen Victoria insisted that her husband was buried with the robe long dead, Prince Albert, and casts his hand.
11. In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of relatives who had died they do parade around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remainder was then wrapped in a new shroudand buried again. Old shroud is given to newly married couple sand no children to cover the marriage bed.
12. During the railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies find so many mummies that they used it as a locomotive fuel.
13. English philosopher, Francis Bacon, founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after filling a chicken with snow to see if the cold will keep it.
14. Because the organs are formed during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we will all be born with webbed feet like ducks.
15. In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor has been experimenting with a specially designed bed and reported that the human body loses 21grams when dying. It has been widely accepted as fact ever since.
16. In Europe the 19th century there was so much anecdotal evidencethat living people mistakenly declared dead that the bodies set outin "hospitals for the dead" while officers waited for signs of decay.
17. Eighty percent of people in the United States die in hospitals.
18. More people commit suicide in New York City than it killed.
19. It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began to exist.

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