Scrubbed.

54% of deaths worldwide occurs in hospitals.

Cask(et)ade

Marc Bourjade, a French undertaker, died when a pile of coffins in his workshop fell on him in 1982. One of those caskets was used to bury him.

Cooling down

The algor mortis, or “death chill”, is a process that starts a few minutes after death and brings the body temperature down 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit per hour until reaching room temperature.

Just chillin’

If you are planning to be cryogenically frozen, you should have someone starting the procedure ten minutes after your death. No pressure.

It’s all swings and roundabouts

Every year, an average of 20 people die falling off swing-sets.

Enjoy your meal

You have one chance in 4404 of dying by choking on food.

Rematch, anyone?

The largest number of game-ending injuries in a football (and by football we mean soccer) match occurred in 1998 during Bena Tshadi-Basanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when a lightning bolt struck the pitch and killed all the 11 players of Bena Tshadi. The other team left the field unscathed, and heavily accused of witchcraft.

The Near Death gamble.

Studies showed that the content of the majority of Near Death Experiences don’t vary much by cultures: generally, they have some common elements (sense of peace, separation from the body, light at the end of the tunnel…).
The element of variance is the identity of the figures that are sometimes “seen” in such occasions, like Jesus for Christians or Yamaraja for Hindus, and so on.
Of course though, NDE are not necessarily positive: 20% of the people who had one described it as hellish and very distressing, often with a black void instead of the light, and a demonic figure taunting the subject. Religion does not affect the chances of having a bad NDE, and children are apparently “immune” to them.

A deep issue.

If you get buried alive by accident, you should be able to free yourself (depending on the type of coffin) only if the grave is about two feet deep. Of course, if you are really dead, at that depth your corpse will be likely to end up eaten by animals.

I actually thought more

So far (and with still two books to go), 281 named characters have been killed off by writer G.R.R Martin in the five published books of the series “A Song Of Ice And Fire”, on which is based HBO TV series “Game of Thrones”.