{"id":602,"date":"2017-03-27T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2018-05-20T00:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T04:12:57","slug":"10-things-probably-didnt-know-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2017\/03\/27\/10-things-probably-didnt-know-death\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Funny Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death is the great unknown. When, how, where and why will happen is a big mystery. In fact we know a lot more about dying than you may think. It’s a heavy topic so here are a few facts to lighten the mood and maybe put a smile on your face.<\/p>\n

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  1. You can still be mummi\ufb01ed but it comes with a $67,000 price tag.<\/li>\n
  2. You can buy caskets shaped like kites, surfboards or beer bottles.<\/li>\n
  3. With cryonics, you can just “freeze” your head and choose a body when science is advanced enough to revive you. Let’s all take a moment and think about the kind of body you would choose.<\/li>\n
  4. The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years, as evidenced by a 45-foot-deep pit in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.<\/li>\n
  5. Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.<\/li>\n
  6. A dentist invented the Electric Chair.<\/li>\n
  7. Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually.<\/li>\n
  8. Within 3 days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.<\/li>\n
  9. Left-handed people die 3 years earlier than right-handed people.<\/li>\n
  10. You are more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a shark attack.<\/li>\n
  11. We are born with 270 bones but die with only 206.<\/li>\n
  12. The lack of physical activity is one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide.<\/li>\n
  13. A new funeral GoFundMe<\/a> campaign is started about every 5 minutes. That means approximately 280 GoFundMe funeral campaigns every single day and have raised over $340 million dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Death is not a fun thing to talk about however just like taxes it is inevitable. Don’t wait until its too late to have the “what happens when I die” talk to make sure your family is taken care of – being unprepared is not interesting or funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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