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。
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.)
我小时候有种怪病,姑且称为“宇宙恐惧症”。一般入夜便发,很有些欧阳锋华山顶上苦思“我是谁我生从何来死往何去”的腔调。类似于《三国演义》里秦宓刁难张温:“天既轻清,轻清外又有何物?”着了此道,每念及生死大事,不免悲从中来,越悲越胡思乱想。求诸于书,夫子们也不...
评分这本书之前刚买到的时候,翻开看内容,跟我想象中的还是有些出入。介绍总是比较诱人,内容总是比较失望。但是还好,这么书写了各种各样的死的方式,看了有些有点好笑。我觉得还是不错的。因为有好多同学都找我借这本书看。
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...
评分昨天晚上十点晃到光合作用溜达,本来很郁闷,一翻这书简直要笑死了。就特开心的抱着回家了...比起莫名其妙的就死了,我觉得自己还是幸福多了~捉迷藏、吃冰淇淋、吃巧克力、消化不良、失眠...没什么不是死亡的诱因....难道我真是变态....看见那么多人都那么委屈的死了自己还活着...
评分说实话这本书不那么有趣,至少不像简介里介绍的那样有趣,也不像看完目录后想象的那么有趣。比如“被老鼠要死”“被蚊子咬死”不过是说被这些东西要过后感染病毒死去。这实在是平淡无奇,跟被狗咬了得狂犬病而死有什么区别吗? 不知是翻译的问题还是本就如此,书中文字非常直白...
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