Things you Don't know about DEATH

clipped from www.shorttext.com When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space