21/08/11

Some interesting facts about death

Some interesting facts about death
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1. The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years, as evidenced by sebuahlubang along 45 feet in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.

2. Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including "be in Abraham's bosom," 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 contest.

5. Within three days after death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat. Ruptured cells become food for bacteria to live in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge out.

6. So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 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, pulverize with a high frequency vibration. They claim this "ecological burial" will decompose in 6 to 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 covered with diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever in livestock.

10. Queen Victoria insisted that her husband was buried with the robe is long dead, Prince Albert, and casts his hand.

11. In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to newly married couples and no children to cover the connubial bed.

12. During the railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies find so many mummies that they used it as fuel for locomotives.

13. English philosopher, Francis Bacon, founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.

14. For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet like ducks.

15. In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. It has been widely accepted as fact ever since.

16. In 19th-century Europe there was so much anecdotal evidence that living people mistakenly declared dead that the bodies set out in "hospitals for the dead" while attendants awaited signs of putrefaction.

17. Eighty percent of people in the United States die in hospitals.

18. More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.

19. It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began to exist.

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