Death. It can be a sad event in our lives but it happens to all of us at one point or another. Some people spend their whole lives trying to avoid it. Others have a scary fascination of dancing with it but at the end of the day, death is pretty much a guarantee. So might as well learn as much about it as you can right? At the very least you can feel a bit more prepared for the inevitable. It’s usually a lot harder to face something if you don’t know what it is or if you don’t know anything about it. To give you some examples, did you know that every 90 seconds, a woman dies during pregnancy? How about the fact that there are more than 200 dead bodies on Mount Everest because due to impossible conditions they must be left to serve as grim way points. What about the fact that you are more likely to die in the taxi on the way to the airport than in the plane itself. There’s a heck of a lot more death related facts on today’s list! So whether it’s depressing statistics about suicide or the way your stomach acids will eventually devour your corpse (it’s morbid, we know), these are 25 Death Related Facts That Might Make You Glad To Be Alive.
Within three days of dying, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to digest you
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Roughly 100 billion people have died in all of human history
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Roughly 153,000 people will die on your birthday
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia When you die, your sense of hearing is usually the last to go
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80% of all Soviet males born in 1923 died during World War II
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Although your body is alive, 35 million of your cells die every minute
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia We are born with over 270 bones but only die with 206 (some of them fuse)
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia The UK has a "rent a mourner" service that allows you to fill your funeral with fake friends
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Vending machines kill 13 people every year
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia There is a gypsy tribe in India (the Satiyaa) that celebrates death with happiness and births with grief
Source: dnaindia.com, Image: wikipedia Every hour, one person is killed by a drunk driver in the United States
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia There are more than 200 dead bodies on Mount Everest because due to impossible conditions they must be left to serve as grim waypoints
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Every 40 seconds, someone somewhere commits suicide
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Sharks kill roughly 11 people every year. People kill about 11,417 sharks every hour
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Every 90 seconds, a woman dies during pregnancy
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Crucifixion is still an official form of capital punishment in Sudan
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Falling out of bed kills 600 Americans every year
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia You are more likely to die in the taxi on the way to the airport than in the plane itself
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Nearly half a million people die from preventable medical errors every year
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Lack of physical activity has become a leading preventable cause of death in the western world
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia Cotard's Syndrome is a disease where living people believe themselves to be dead
Source: wikipedia 1 in every 8 deaths are linked to air pollution
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia The total number of people ever killed in war or conflict is estimated to be between 150 million and 1 billion
Source: wikipedia, Image: wikipedia 20,000 children die every day due to poverty
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