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发表于2024-09-22
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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. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." 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 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. (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.)
迈克尔•拉尔戈,出生于纽约,后随家人移居迈阿密。作为美国作家协会、美国侦探小说作家协会、美国科幻作家协会的成员。他发表过200多首诗歌、散文和小说,出版过三本小说,曾荣获纽约州艺术协会奖。他一直致力于收集有关美国人死亡方式的统计资料和信息。
我是很少被明目张胆说死这类型的书籍激发哲学思考的人 活着,好好活,越长越好,买别墅,换更大的别墅,游泳池边躺着两个比基尼美女,去加拿大滑雪,到瑞士度蜜月,一个人包下影院看一场电影,租一栋古堡开party。 我想说的意思只是,既然活着还有很多好东西值得我...
评分离奇死法大百科,这是一本好厚实的书啊。 从没想过原来死法也可以写这么厚的百科书。 对死亡恐惧与虔诚,让人不得不去认真面对,总有一天会来临的时刻。 与其被动,不如主动去了解,去认识,去知道,让自己不那么害怕,甚至活的不那么忧心忡忡。 那样活着比死更痛苦。 嘿嘿...
评分很久前听说过有本书叫《死猫的一百种用法》,马桶刷、不求人、沙发扶手等不一而足,十分喷饭。现在看来此书大约是杜撰的,因为如此喷饭的书居然从来没见它有卖或网上有连载,谁见过请一定通知我。 死猫的用法暂且不论,猫死的方法可能不是太多,世界上有多少猫谁也数不清,相...
评分我是很少被明目张胆说死这类型的书籍激发哲学思考的人 活着,好好活,越长越好,买别墅,换更大的别墅,游泳池边躺着两个比基尼美女,去加拿大滑雪,到瑞士度蜜月,一个人包下影院看一场电影,租一栋古堡开party。 我想说的意思只是,既然活着还有很多好东西值得我...
评分這書是并不屬於有趣類型的書,也沒有很緊密的三觀構造。畢竟,這是一本對數據進行陳述的“公告”。 也許是東西方對於死亡這個概念的理解不同,東方人逃避關於死亡的各種討論但也將“死”字經常掛嘴邊;西方人更多的是對生命的客觀看待。 本書中數據跨年代之久和項目類型之多,...
Final Exits pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024