20 things you did not know about the death

1. The practice of burying the dead began back 350 000 years ago. One example of this - a hole 14 meters deep in Spain, completed 27 hominid fossils (a type of Homo heidelbergensis). Perhaps the ancestors of Neanderthals and modern humans.

2. There are at least 200 euphemisms for the word "die." For example, "to be in Abraham's breast» («to be in Abraham's bosom»), «only add larvae» («just add maggots»), «sleep with trёhtrubkami» ("sleep with the Tribbles"). (approx. .: translation in this case mean euphemisms in English)

3. No American has died of old age since 1951.

4. Current - the year when the government (meaning the US government) has canceled the classification of death certificates.

5. "trigger" of death in all cases - a lack of oxygen. Its shortage can cause muscle spasms, or "agonal phase," from the Greek word «agon» - «struggle».

6. Within three days after the death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Deaths cells become food for living bacteria in your stomach, which release a sufficient amount of harmful gas to bloat the body and roll his eyes out.

7. funeral America sent embalmed 827 600 gallons of liquid formaldehyde, methanol and ethanol in the ground each year. Cremation sends into the air dioxins (a strong poison), hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide.

8. Alternatively, a Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze the body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize them and seal the resulting powder in corn coffin. They argue that such "ecological burial" will decompose in the body for 6-12 months.

9. followers Zarashustry India leave out the bodies of the dead are not zamle for eating vultures.

10. The vultures are killed after eating dead animals dosed with diclofenac - a substance that helps to relieve fever in livestock.

11. Queen Victoria insisted that it was buried in a bathrobe her deceased husband Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.

12. In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and put them on display in the village in a ceremony called Famadihana. The remains wrapped in a new shroud and buried again. The old shroud is given to a married, childless couple to cover their marital bed.

13. During the railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies, to be used as fuel for locomotives.

14. The English philosopher Francis Bacon, the founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 from pneumonia after being stuffed chicken with snow to see if it will keep the cold.

15. To organs form during the embryonic period, some cells must commit suicide. Without this particular all of us would be born with webbed feet, like ducks.

16. In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed "Death bed" and said that after the death of the human weight is reduced by 21 grams. This is acknowledged as a fact.

17. In the 19th century in Europe were common cases where real people were declared dead by mistake.

18. 80 percent of people with the United States die in a hospital.

19. In New York, people who commit suicide, more than those killed by someone else.

20. As long as there were people who died 100 billion people.