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And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara by Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty is a wonderful, informative and quite humorous little book about some of the more unusual possibilities for meeting our demise. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you accidentally stuck your hand in the particle stream at CERN? Your hand would not suffer as much damage as you might think, assuming you held it perfectly still. There would be pencil sized hole through it, but given time it would heal. The bad news is that you'd be long dead from radiation poisoning before that happened, but at least you'd get to see the world turn blue first as the radiation shot through your optic nerves. Cool; if you're particularly partial to blue. From talking a wrong turn and finding yourself accidentally on the surface of Venus to being sacrificed in a volcano, this short and captivating book gives us a glimpse of fascinating possibilities in which our grand finale could play out; all augmented with case histories where applicable. Highly recommended.
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