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Top 10 things you didnTop 10 things you didn't know about death

1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider

4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle

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

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space

10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.



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156. argh, i liked this website, but they should implement some antispam thing against comments, donno, but it was easy writing trash comment and post it ;) good luck, ahh, and thanks for the facts above!
2/28/2010 7:26:41 AM
155. kugiug
2/28/2010 7:25:15 AM
154. @87: how many right-handed people even know how to use left handed products?
2/17/2010 2:01:38 PM
153. i hate fat people
1/30/2010 1:01:01 AM
152. especially 137, i hate you with a passion you asshole
1/16/2010 1:36:30 AM
151. all of you are fucking twats
1/16/2010 1:35:36 AM
150. 146 is right. cursing increases adrenaline.
12/24/2009 12:38:30 AM
149. Piss
12/17/2009 3:23:10 PM
148. Fuck
12/16/2009 4:50:11 PM
147. Interesting! But when you write "Alexander's funeral"...it really should be "alexander The Great" Can get a bit confusing...:D
12/12/2009 2:03:02 PM
146. i think if you really studied the linguistics, you'd find there are other motivations for swearing besides lack of vocabulary
12/11/2009 10:32:35 AM
145. 143...shut your noise mate, you're boring
12/11/2009 8:47:55 AM
144. wowza....check facts much? at least 7 of these are total BS
12/11/2009 5:49:33 AM
143. 137, you crease, to quote the wise Stephen Fry - "Swearing is a really important part of one's life and it would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enoying swearing

there used to be mad, silly, prissy people who would say swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary as such; utter nonsense! The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies!"
12/11/2009 3:26:06 AM
142. Ahahaha win for 136
12/10/2009 10:31:32 PM
141. Look, another top-ten list full of bullshit!
12/10/2009 8:51:07 PM
140. Band aids?
12/10/2009 6:38:07 PM
139. I have AIDS
12/9/2009 12:30:35 PM
138. i love you 139
12/9/2009 12:23:55 PM
137. 136: And the immaturity of others. Profanity is what people use when they don't have enough command of the English language to effectively express themselves. But go ahead though. I would imagine you think it's cool regardless.
12/9/2009 11:13:51 AM
136. Hey 134, shut up and let 133 talk how he or she wants. Christ, the fucking nerve of some people...
12/8/2009 11:52:59 AM
135. @107 - convex polyhedron with 12 rhombic faces. duh.
12/6/2009 11:48:54 PM
134. Hey 133... lose the profanity. You'll be more effective
12/6/2009 11:33:33 PM
133. You should probably grammar check your shit. I would be more apt to believe it then... of course you stole it from somebody who stole it from somebody else... we've all played telephone, right?
10/6/2009 12:54:44 AM
132. http://www.copytaste.com/ip5f9tq
2/4/2009 1:05:27 AM
131. haha this was more usefull!
2/4/2009 1:05:01 AM
130. btw, use http://www.copytaste.com instead, you can thank me later...
1/30/2009 9:27:39 AM
129. bullshizzle
1/30/2009 4:35:33 AM
128. No thanks, 131.
1/10/2009 2:56:38 AM
127. blow me
1/7/2009 8:46:16 PM
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1/5/2009 11:38:27 PM
125. My doctor says I have blood pressure.
12/18/2008 3:09:33 AM
124. weird but cool :)
12/13/2008 10:50:18 PM
123. shopped
11/23/2008 10:39:19 PM
122. lmao at the person who thought edison wasn't alive in the 1900s
11/15/2008 9:06:58 PM
121. 118 stops crying long enough to change tampon..
11/15/2008 12:56:42 PM
120. What about Robert Plant leaves?
11/12/2008 1:29:08 AM
119. actually yes, edison lived from 1847-1931
11/10/2008 12:48:19 PM
118. Footsanlegga, torta malaga beena pratzi.
11/7/2008 9:08:21 AM
117. @118, just yank right up there and pull the panties out of your ass.
11/7/2008 2:00:07 AM
116. Why are there so many of these dumb-ass lists on Stumble Upon? There is no spell checking and there are no citations.

Can we all agree to stop perpetuating urban legends, and could all you retards out there agree to stop eating this bullshit up?
11/6/2008 2:23:06 AM
115. Edison wasnt even alive in the 1900s?
11/4/2008 5:31:42 PM
114. 1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch <--- we know that HOW?
11/1/2008 3:58:30 PM
113. dude fact check when talking about bots. shit.
10/30/2008 8:22:18 PM
112. Hi just to clarify Kenji Urada, was not the first person to be fatally injured by a robot. The first man killed by a robot was an american named Robert Williams - he was killed Jan 25th 1979 in flat rock Michigan at a ford Plant by a robot intended to retrieve parts. His family was awarded 10 million in damages after a legal ruling
read about it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)
10/29/2008 6:02:42 PM
111. aahhh that feels better
10/28/2008 11:14:23 AM
110. scratch scratch
10/28/2008 11:13:50 AM
109. my ass is itchy
10/28/2008 11:12:23 AM
108. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)
10/28/2008 1:25:11 AM
107. #49 - rhombic dodecahedrons <---- WHAT DOESSS THAT MEANN!!
5/15/2008 8:32:56 AM
106. GROOOOOVVVVVVYYYYY DUDDDDEEE!
5/15/2008 8:30:53 AM
105. #100 what the fuckk iss that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
5/15/2008 8:29:12 AM
104. #88 stop caringgg sooooooo much! its just facts
5/15/2008 8:28:40 AM
103. howwww the helll are you going to capture someones last breath in a bottle... what a jokeee!!!
5/15/2008 8:25:57 AM
102. this is bullshitttttt!!!!
5/15/2008 8:25:04 AM
101. buried in space what a trekkie
5/15/2008 8:24:47 AM
100. yaaay 101
12/29/2007 6:24:48 AM
99. نانسی

10/30/2007 3:44:49 AM
98. OH my god im number 99
10/29/2007 6:54:17 PM
97. look down
10/27/2007 6:45:55 PM
96. like a dick
10/27/2007 6:45:49 PM
95. death gotta be easy cuz life is hard
10/27/2007 6:45:43 PM
94. pussy sucks dick
10/27/2007 6:45:21 PM
93. I wonder if #91 failed to notice that there were quote marks around the word 'buried'...
9/27/2007 10:59:32 PM
92. 4456
9/4/2007 1:30:01 PM
91. If you offer Basil Plant leaves to a dying person he directly goes to heaven, this is as per Hindu Mythology- Sanjoy Banka, india
6/26/2007 7:22:57 AM
90. Take note number 86; Roddenberry's ashes were sent into space and were in orbit around the Earth for 5 years before burning up in the atmosphere. They were never buried.



James Doohan however, the actor who played "Scotty", did have his ashes launched into space, where they stayed for a whole 4 minutes before coming back down somewhere in New Mexico.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6671887.stm



Booyakasha!
6/15/2007 4:31:18 PM
89. I think the guy who wrote "LEARN TO WRITE PROPER ENGLISH" about 3 comments down actually meant to write "LEARN TO WRITE ENGLISH PROPERLY".
6/15/2007 4:23:00 PM
88. I WANT sex badly, I am 14 and am tired of only having my teacher to suck off. E mail me, ericads@hotmail.com
6/12/2007 4:17:35 PM
87. 2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated

Actually a human head can remain functional for 4-5 minutes ...the amount of time it takes for oxygen deprivation to occur ...it all depends on how fast shock sets in.

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider

This depends on how old you are and what country you live in...1000's of children in Asia and India die from spiders and their parents will never be able to afford a chance at a champagne cork.

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

In the Middle Ages people thought left-handers were not as smart as right-handers....so how many right-handers are killed by left hand products each year???

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space

Turns out that the "shot to space thing" is a hoax anyhow....the rockets are designed to return to Earth....so really it is just a chance to have your ashes reach earth orbit and then return for interment however your relatives choose....

UP: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070402_upaerospace_ashes.html

http://news.com.com/Ashes of Scotty return safely from final frontier/2100-11397_3-6185036.html


Cheers!
6/5/2007 1:02:56 AM
86. I love all of the spelling and grammatical errors on this site as well as in the comments. LEARN TO WRITE PROPER ENGLISH!!!
5/27/2007 11:36:05 AM
85. Actually Roddenberrys ashes were sent into space then were to return to earth for burial. Unfortunately the commercial rocket was lost in the Sierra nevada mountains and has not been found.
5/26/2007 12:03:45 AM
84. It all just show you death is final. Nothing lingers on after
death. Religion is fake , never proofed by no-one.
5/13/2007 8:53:08 AM
83. This is so weird. I do not know how you can catch the last breath of a diing human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5/2/2007 5:23:25 PM
82. shaaaaa
4/7/2007 8:17:20 AM
81. I really hate dead things. They follow me around.
3/22/2007 6:42:58 PM
80. I never knew any of this it is so awesome!!
3/21/2007 4:08:17 PM
79. That is so cool
3/21/2007 4:06:15 PM
78. hope its all true
3/9/2007 2:49:00 PM
77. lol wtf omfg
2/26/2007 8:10:15 PM
76. The thing about the head remaining conscious is not really a proven fact. Heads may be technically "alive," but I don't know about the rest. Read the book Stiff; it has a chapter on this
2/26/2007 3:16:00 PM
75. omfgbbq
2/19/2007 4:45:02 PM
74. lol noob roflcopter hax omfg lol
2/19/2007 4:44:48 PM
73. Number 10: known, not know, dammit!
2/16/2007 11:22:30 PM
72. how do they know you remain concious 15 to 20 seconds after decapitation. unless you have been decapitated?
Because when people were decapidated as punishment someone went round to the heads saying their names and when their names were said they briefly opened their eyes
2/15/2007 12:26:43 PM
71. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
2/9/2007 9:42:21 PM
70. how do they know you remain concious 15 to 20 seconds after decapitation. unless you have been decapitated?
2/7/2007 10:07:55 AM
69. That left-handed thing is really weird..
1/27/2007 11:18:53 PM
68. yeahh what the hell is with deaths fingers?
1/24/2007 11:32:10 PM
67. Neat.
1/16/2007 1:54:19 PM
66. Posetite http://www.shorttext.com/97mbim za download besplatnih programa(free programs)
1/4/2007 11:34:53 AM
65. Mr Ford ALSO drove around with that breath in the jar for a long time, kept it on the dash of his car.

-Eddie
1/3/2007 4:41:37 PM
64. =O
1/2/2007 12:27:56 PM
63. :D
12/29/2006 5:14:40 AM
62. Seriously, most of these are disproven myths....why do people keep putting this crap up?
12/29/2006 2:44:12 AM
61. 1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch



wow.......how did they find out? :P
12/28/2006 8:56:50 PM
60. woot?
12/28/2006 8:55:10 PM
59. No, wrong.
12/28/2006 6:06:48 PM
58. Yeah, right.
12/28/2006 3:15:25 PM
57. what the fuck... do any of you guys belive this shit????

i do
12/27/2006 11:25:00 PM
56. why do i need to know???
12/25/2006 11:29:51 PM
55. um....disturbingly nice
12/25/2006 11:29:27 PM
54. what
12/25/2006 11:14:47 PM
53. Hearing, sight, taste, smell and touch are properties of the body. Actually it does not matter which sense goes first or last because the soul that survives death does not need any of the five senses. Our consciousness matters after death, therefore, be good for the sake of goodness.
12/24/2006 10:12:32 PM
52. "1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch"

- and just how wud they know this??
12/24/2006 9:33:11 PM
51. Why did I read this Bull
12/24/2006 9:27:05 PM
50. heh, i almost choked on a pen once :O
thank God i'm a righty
12/24/2006 8:21:31 PM
49. rhombic dodecahedrons are nice!
12/24/2006 4:55:16 PM
48. i think its funny!
12/24/2006 3:59:24 PM
47. this shit is retarded
12/24/2006 11:09:05 AM
46. www.keithstar.piczo.com
12/24/2006 7:26:35 AM
45. 8iyu
12/24/2006 7:25:41 AM
44. In soviet russia, the television watches you!
12/23/2006 4:30:01 AM
43. haha
12/20/2006 5:25:48 AM
42. wow! I want to die!
12/20/2006 5:25:24 AM
41. tobacco kills 20% more people than murder.
12/18/2006 9:05:17 AM
40. yeah but if god can do anything...can he create a rock that he cant pick up? Yes? Then he cant do something. No? Then he cant do something
12/17/2006 10:33:12 PM
39. wow this is awsome. and no many of these facts arn't bullshit u dumbasses. alot of it is true and im glad someone finaly let it be known. these are really awsome!! life's a bitch then you die. the after life kicks ass!!
12/15/2006 10:11:51 PM
38. snazzy... I didn't know that about how hearing was the last sense of yours to go...
12/15/2006 6:00:33 PM
37. Well, honestly, what won't you find if you google it?
12/14/2006 6:56:33 PM
36. Some people just don't get it... when you die.... there isn't nothing, because nothing is still something, regardless of how you look at it example: hey dave whats in the jar?" "nothing" hence there is "something" in the jar even if it is nothing. oh and one more thing. your brain is alive for up to five minutes after your body stops working, the nerological pathways and synapses remain open until the positive energies (protons) are completely expelled from your body (documented cases of up to 5 hours of brain activity after death, google it, you will find it)
12/12/2006 1:54:48 PM
35. More brain cells die from internet use than smoking hashish.



http://www.employeedirt.com
12/11/2006 7:57:03 PM
34. Hi guys im death and well ill see you all soon oh john ur first and then bill and then whoever i feel like so ya and yes Osama bin Laden is dead he was crashed to death by rocks it was great i found it funny to cause he said oh yes here come the virgins and i brought him up to heaven and well he got beat so ya there you go and well bye im on break now to kill Brad Pitt
12/9/2006 7:30:46 PM
33. ok its not 40 virgins its 40 virginians one of which is George Washington whom beat up Osama binLaden caause hes dead now so ya hahaha i win u lose jk but really it is true just watch william shatner
12/9/2006 7:25:55 PM
32. penis and balls
12/9/2006 4:18:12 PM
31. All of the medical-related facts above are totaly false.
see any serious medicine source of information (new englad journal of medicine, JAMA, pubmed, cochrane, etc.)
12/8/2006 8:24:20 PM
30. 1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated

that is scary .........
12/8/2006 6:56:24 PM
29. Yeah, he is made of plastic
12/8/2006 12:10:42 PM
28. Why does 'Death' have such huge fingers? Do you know something about the rest of his anatomy that we don't??
12/8/2006 11:46:56 AM
27. what a load of shit
12/7/2006 7:32:11 PM
26. if we eat enough preservatives , could we attain imortality?
12/7/2006 7:16:18 PM
25. And for your information, Mohamed was NOT a jewish person.
12/7/2006 1:51:01 AM
24. jesus was a jew, yes. His 'big beef' was not about them being jewish enough... after his death and ressurection the jews rejected him as the true messiah, thus beginning christianity.... maybe there wouldn't be so much hate if people would actually do some real research for themselves and not post ignorant comments about groups of people.
12/6/2006 10:24:30 PM
23. Did you know that Jesus was a nice Jewish boy whose big 'beef' was that the jews were not Jewish enough?
600 years later another nice Jewish boy Mohamed had the same 'beef',,,,, So why do these religions (?) hate the Jews so much????
12/6/2006 5:52:17 PM
22. we believe all kinds of myths at different times in our existance as humans. and often, we take truths as myth. so who the fuck cares. it may be true, it may not be true. either way, stop chewing on your pens.
12/6/2006 5:14:25 PM
21. Without sources this is kinda pointless... especially the piece about 2,500 lefties dying from right-handed tools. Yea right!
12/6/2006 2:39:29 PM
20. why so angry?
12/5/2006 7:25:07 PM
19. Oh, in reply to a previous comment, worms are hermaphriditic, so it's doubtful that they are virgins.
12/5/2006 3:43:27 PM
18. "Some of you are way to serious. Get the stick out of your ass and just enjoy, if you don't like what was written, shut the hell up, quit bitching, and go to a different website. Or, be useful for once in your miserable life and find out the correct information and post that instead of bitching about it."

^^
Hey, Shut the hell up and quit bitching; Be useful for once in your miserable life.
12/5/2006 3:41:59 PM
17. LOL...good one last post :)
12/5/2006 5:54:55 AM
16. Some of you are way to serious. Get the stick out of your ass and just enjoy, if you don't like what was written, shut the hell up, quit bitching, and go to a different website. Or, be useful for once in your miserable life and find out the correct information and post that instead of bitching about it.
12/4/2006 5:51:38 PM
15. 11. These are all myths. kekeke.
12/3/2006 8:15:43 AM
14. When you die, there is an afterlife party. Where you get those 40 virgins or whatever. And all your dreams come true. It's so cool. Or maybe you just pass out then decompose slowly in a coffin, and it's the worms and ants that party. (Most ants are virgins right?)
11/28/2006 8:53:23 AM
13. what a crappy list. Half of them are dubious, some are established urban myths. Rubbish.
11/28/2006 7:03:37 AM
12. Search for "Eternal flame Buddhist Nara, Japan" in Google. There are enough sources...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=eternal flame Buddhist Nara%2C Japan&btnG=Search
11/28/2006 6:23:26 AM
11. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_flame

Look for Nara in the article...
11/28/2006 6:22:08 AM
10. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years



What is your source ?
11/28/2006 4:18:23 AM
9. That's eleven things. #3 has two separate things no sane person would have known
11/28/2006 2:28:24 AM
8. VERY NABULATING
11/27/2006 11:10:23 PM
7. Sorry, I *did* know some of those.. needs new title
11/27/2006 10:04:08 PM
6. pussy cats that is
11/27/2006 9:33:10 PM
5. i love pussy
11/27/2006 9:32:43 PM
4. i like death
11/27/2006 9:32:25 PM
3. BELL MEND
11/27/2006 4:25:38 PM
2. i am a lefty (i have been warned)
11/27/2006 1:29:29 PM
1. AR YOU MAD OR WHAT.
11/26/2006 11:13:00 PM