This dark but hilarious book provides an account of 75 gruesome but all-too-real mechanisms by which life can be extinguished. Each process is described in the second person, designed to put you in more clearly into the hot seat. Some are unique (polonium), others the result of bad luck (lightning) and still others are contenders for a Darwin Award (binge-drinking, volunteering to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, using a hair-dryer in the bath etc.).
I never quite worked out what the authors do when they're not penning macabre yet strangely compelling books, but the afterword was penned by a funeral director who has noticed that deaths in the under-25s appear to correlate well with having a tattoo. There are many other arresting anecdotes in this strangely compelling volume.
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