{"id":10117,"date":"2006-08-31T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/31\/theres-a-mister-grim-here-about-the-reaping.html"},"modified":"2006-08-31T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T17:37:48","slug":"theres_a_mister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/31\/theres_a_mister.html","title":{"rendered":"“There’s a Mister Grim here about the Reaping …”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty things you (probably) didn’t know about death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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3<\/b> No American has died of old age since 1951. <\/p>\n

4<\/b> That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates. <\/p>\n

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I’d count that as “one thing,” but, hey, I’m not a popular science magazine editor.<\/p>\n

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18 <\/b>Eighty percent of people in the United States die in a hospital.<\/p>\n

19<\/b> If you can’t make it here . . . More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.<\/p>\n

20<\/b> It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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