10 Things You Never Knew About Death

Here is a list of 10 things that you never knew about death.

• When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.
• A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been Decapitated.
• 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
• Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body.
• When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
• Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people.
• It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days.
• An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.
• Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space.
• 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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