false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171239076m/91942.jpg 91942 1 <P>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 under&ndash;whatever death is called, it's 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? It's the enormous variety of HOW that enlivens FINAL EXITS.</P><P> 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 man&ndash;made medicines. In FINAL EXITS the causes of death&ndash;bizarre or common&ndash;are 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.)</P> 88682 1 10 2006 Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die total:274|5:89|4:114|3:58|2:11|1:2| 274 1099 485 74 3 12 false false Sat Mar 15 16:01:58 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 23:38:23 -0700 2008 3 2 false false Wed Jan 30 17:25:15 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 17:27:07 -0800 2008 2 2 false false Tue Jun 17 09:10:27 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 09:13:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 12:42:23 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 07:25:15 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 16:23:54 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 14:10:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 20:23:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 12:28:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 15 13:24:20 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 17 06:11:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 09:03:11 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 09:03:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 14:08:12 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 15:02:07 -0700 2007 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 20:42:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 10:00:19 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 19:24:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 17:02:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 22 22:42:47 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 21:48:57 -0700 2008 57 kids died since 1990 due to toy basketball net entanglements?
golf carts cause 25 fatalities a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 07:15:23 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 07:52:17 -0700 2007 The writing itself is nothing to write home about and some causes of death don't really seem worthy of an entry (i.e. "dwarfism" - they have shorter life expectancy rates....zzzzzz...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 13 10:12:17 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 10:13:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 04 11:17:12 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 21:17:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 03 22:27:27 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 22:30:49 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 25 10:56:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 10:58:46 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 07:38:51 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 07:42:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jul 01 11:09:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 11:10:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 15:19:37 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 15:21:12 -0800 2009 There are a few mistakes in it, if you're picky enough to pick up on them, like me]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=91942