10 Things You Never Knew About Death
Here is a list of 10 things that you never knew about death.
10 Things About Death
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go - the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and
touch.
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
.
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by
a spider.
4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his
body
.
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a
bottle.
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people.
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these
days.
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried'
in space.
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first known fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a
car plant.
Here is a list of 10 things that you never knew about death.
10 Things About Death
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go - the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and
touch.
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
.
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by
a spider.
4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his
body
.
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a
bottle.
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people.
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these
days.
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried'
in space.
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first known fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a
car plant.
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