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Charts & Graphs

Spoiler Alert

Murders, accidents, and suicides from novels and films.

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Intimations of Immortality

Elixirs and tricks to achieve everlasting life.

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How They Went

Match the deceased with cause of death.

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Tales of the Crypts

Fabulous final resting places.

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The Funeral For...

Notable send-offs through the ages.

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Death Tolls

From five seconds to five years, death is on the clock.

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Body Snatchers

The plundering of famous corpses.

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American Ways of Death

The cost of dying in the United States.

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Last Words

The final statements of historical figures.

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Final Resting Places

A (death) map to the stars.

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Average Life Expectancy

Will you live longer than a Founding Father or a wife of Henry VIII?

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Reanimators

Techniques for returning from the land of the dead.

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Instruments of Death

Tools used for capital punishment.

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