1001 Ridiculous Ways to Die

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Prion, 2010 - Family & Relationships - 320 pages

We all have to die someday--some people just find more bizarrely hilarious ways to go

The woman who drank herself to death with water trying to win a games console by holding in her pee. . . the mechanic who blew himself up while trying to open a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer. . . a lottery winner killed by the gates of his new luxury home. . . a woman felled forever by a fatal falling lettuce. . . an octogenarian who met his maker while riding a shopping cart. . . a German artist crushed by one of his own sculptures, called Woman with Four Breasts. . . the convicted murderer who electrocuted himself on the toilet as he repaired a TV--all true reports from across the globe which reveal the silliest ways you can meet your maker. Death may seem like a serious business, but this is a seriously funny book.

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About the author (2010)

David Southwell has written and contributed to a number of strong-selling humor books, as well as titles on parapolitics and true crime. A regular broadcaster in the UK, Europe, and the US, he spent more than 15 years as a journalist and editor before turning full time to writing.

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