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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 some Death Related
Facts That Might Make You Glad To Be Alive.
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Roughly 100 billion people have died in all of human history
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More people commit suicide in New York
City than are murdered
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When you die, your sense of hearing is usually the last to go
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Although your body is alive, 35 million of your cells die every minute |
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We are born with over 270 bones but only die with 206 (some of them
fuse)
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The UK has a "rent a mourner" service that allows you to fill your
funeral with fake friends
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The UK has a "rent a mourner" service that allows you to fill your
funeral with fake friends
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There is a gypsy tribe in India (the Satiyaa) that celebrates death with
happiness and births with grief
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Every hour, one person is killed by a drunk driver in
the United States
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Every 40 seconds, someone somewhere commits suicide
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Falling out of bed kills 600 Americans every year
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Nearly half a million people die from preventable
medical errors every year
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1 in every 8 deaths are linked to air pollution
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20,000 children die every day due to poverty |