Death Facts Generator

• [Death fact 1] An Australian-born Major Mitchell's cockatoo named Cookie, (born on June 30, 1933) resident at Brookfield Zoo, Illinois, was the oldest member of his species in captivity and died in August 2016 at a verified age of 83.

  Animals, Deathsource

• [Death fact 2] It is estimated that about 100 billion people have died since Homo sapiens appeared over 200,000 years ago.

  Death, Law

• [Death fact 3] Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) was a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity who experimented with blood transfusion, attempting to achieve eternal youth or at least partial rejuvenation. He died after he took the blood of a student suffering from malaria and tuberculosis, who may have also been the wrong blood type.

  Death, Discoverysource

• [Death fact 4] In 1982, a man named David Grundman who was shooting at cacti with his shotgun near Lake Pleasant, Arizona, was crushed when a 4 foot (1.2 meters) limb of the cactus detached and fell on him.

  Death, Plantssource

• [Death fact 5] In 1994, a 31-year-old woman named Gloria Ramirez, died from kidney failure related to her cervical cancer. While treating her, several of the hospital staff became ill, suffering from loss of consciousness, shortness of breath and muscle spasms. Shortly before dying, Ramirez was allegedly covered with an oily sheen, which smelled of fruit and garlic. When drawing her blood with a syringe, nurses noticed it had a smell similar to ammonia and there were unusual particles floating in it.

  Death, Peoplesource

• [Death fact 6] Freddie and Truus Oversteegan were two teenage sisters who lured, ambushed, and killed a lot of German Nazis from their bicycles. They never really revealed how many Nazi men they had assassinated.

  Death, Nazisource

• [Death fact 7] When Joseph Stalin was dying, his private physician was not available because he was already being tortured in the basement of the KGB headquarters for suggesting that the Soviet leader required more bed rest.

  Death, Historysource

• [Death fact 8] In 1935, Senator Huey Long was assassinated by Carl Weiss in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Years later, when the case was reopened, it was found that he was accidentally shot to death by his own bodyguards, who had opened fire on Carl Weiss when he pulled out his gun.

  Death, Peoplesource

• [Death fact 9] Alzheimer's can't be "officially" diagnosed until after death. They have to confirm the diagnosis with an autopsy. So essentially they say a person has "dementia." The proteins involved still can't be detected without the autopsy. Today new methods can diagnose it with a 90% accuracy rate though.

  Death, Diseasesource

• [Death fact 10] In 2001, Bernd Brandes, a German engineer from Berlin, was willingly slaughtered so that he could be butchered and eaten by aspiring cannibal Armin Meiwes. Brandes had responded to an internet advertisement which Meiwes had placed for this purpose. In prison, Meiwes became a vegetarian.

  Death, Peoplesource

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