Bram Stoker Awards To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under--whatever death is called, it\'s going to happen. (Ants, bad words, Bingo, bean bag chairs, flying cows, frozen toilets, hiccups, lipstick, moray eels, road kill, starfish, and toupees are only some of the more unusual causes.).
In Final Exits the causes of death--bizarre or common--are alphabetically arranged and include actual accounts of people, both famous and ordinary, who unfortunately died that way.
People are now killed by everything, from cell phones, washing machines, lawn mowers and toothpicks, to the boundless catalog of man--made medicines.
With each advance of technology, people find new ways to become deceased, often causing trends that peak in the first year.
Today there are 3, 000.
According to death certificates, in 1700 there were less than 100 causes of death.
But how do we die? It\'s the enormous variety of how that enlivens Final exits.
In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Death remains a certainty.
Bram Stoker Awards To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under--whatever death is called, it\'s going to happen
