1. The practice of burying the dead may have been started since the time of Prophet Adam, but the oldest tomb ever found are 350,000 years old, as evidenced by a 45 foot long hole in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.
2. The trigger of death in all cases, the lack of oxygen that causes muscle spasms, or the phase of "agonal," from the Greek word agon, or contest.
3. Within three days after death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat the bodies. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge out.
4. Much for recycling: Burials in America to contribute as much as 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol into the ground every year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
5. A Swedish company, Promessa, making the bodies freeze-dried in liquid nitrogen. They claim this "ecological burial" will decompose and in 6 to 12 months.
6. Zoroastrians in India leave the bodies of the dead to be consumed by vultures.
7. Vultures can be dead and dying after eating cattle carcasses containing diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever in livestock.
8. Queen Victoria insisted on asking buried with the mantle of long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and casts his hand.
9. In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied.
10. During the railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies find so many mummies that they used it as fuel for locomotives.
11. English philosopher Francis Bacon, founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it from decay.
12. For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we will all be born with webbed feet like a duck.
13. In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. It has been widely accepted as fact ever since.
14. Eighty percent of people in the United States die in hospitals and more people committed suicide in New York City than are murdered.
15. It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began to exist.
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