Random Death Facts

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    Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    On average, women have always lived longer than men.
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    Although men ARE more likely to suffer heart attacks, women are more likely to die within a year from having a heart attack.
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    Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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    There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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    In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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