Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo.
Title: Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die.
Author: Michael Largo.
Genre: Non-fiction, history, death, sociology.
Country: U.S.
Language: English.
Publication Date: October 3, 2006.
Summary: Death remains a certainty. But how do we die? It's the enormous variety of how that enlivens final exits. According to death certificates, in 1700 there were less than 100 causes of death. Today there are 3,000. With each advance of technology, people find new ways to become deceased, often causing trends that peak in the first year. People are now killed by everything, from cell phones, washing machines, lawn mowers and toothpicks, to the boundless catalog of man-made medicines. In this book the causes of death are alphabetically arranged and include actual accounts of people, both famous and ordinary, who unfortunately died that way.
My rating: 8/10