One method of death that didn't make it into the book was one that Doherty described ominously as "death by the devil's Super Soaker."
The book includes 45 horrible ways to die, a list that was winnowed from about 200 examples garnered from research and suggestions from friends and colleagues, Doherty told Live Science. They cited an example of a high-school student who stayed awake for 264 hours in 1964, and though he suffered from severe hallucinations and loss of motor control, he recovered completely after getting some sleep. Writer Cody Cassidy and co-author Paul Doherty, a senior scientist with the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, kicked off the AUA with a brief and disarmingly gleeful description of some unlikely but thought-provoking death-causing scenarios that are covered in their book.Īnother Redditor asked about the strangest fact the authors encountered during their research: They admitted that they were surprised to discover that it "seems impossible" to die from insomnia. Then on April 5, they fielded questions from the curious in an Ask Us Anything (AUA) session on Reddit.
Others are equally lethal but somewhat less likely - tumbling into a volcano, standing on the sun's surface, or going for a moonwalk without your spacesuit.Ī physicist and a writer spent two years pondering the most outlandish, gruesome and extreme ways to die and wrote a book about them, published April 4, "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" (Penguin Books). Some are hazards of everyday life - drowning in a bathtub, getting hit by a bus, falling onto train tracks, or having a severely allergic reaction to a bee sting.
WORST WAYS TO DUE FULL
Let's face it - the world is a treacherous place full of dangerous substances, organisms and situations that can kill you.
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