Ten things you might want to know
Death may be a natural consequence of human progress, but that does not mean that there are no people who are afraid of it or even can not talk about it.
Read below some interesting and strange truths about death…
- More people commit suicide than are murdered in New York.
- About 153.000 people die on their birthdays.
- When a person dies, hearing is the last sensation to stop.
- One is more likely to die from a coconut fall than from a shark attack.
- 600 Americans die each year from falling out of bed.
- You are more likely to die in a taxi that takes you to or from the airport than on a flight.
- We are born with over 270 bones and we die with 206.
- At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to death in the US are innocent.
- There is a service provided in the UK, which undertakes to fill someone's funeral with fake friends.
- There is a tribe in India that celebrates death as one of the happiest events while facing births with great sadness.