Interesting Facts about Death

On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.

Over 2500 left handed people are killed from using products made for right handed people each year.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.

Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation.

In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder.

Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote 'Nutrition for Health', died of malnutrition.
Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed that his small intestine contained five gold Krugerrands.

When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.

A man once died when he fell into a vat of chocolate and drowned at a in Pennsylvania cookie factory. It is ironic because his name was Robert Hershey.

A Dentist named Dr. Albert Southwick first proposed the idea of the Electric Chair in 1881 after seeing a man get electrocuted.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously; it can kill you.
In Italy, it is against the law to make a coffin out of anything except wood or nutshells.

In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.