10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Death

1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road