Ebook: And then you're dead: a scientific exploration of the world's most interesting ways to die

What would happen if ... -- You were in an airplane and your window popped out? -- You were attacked by a great white shark? -- You slipped on a banana peel? -- You were buried alive? -- You were attacked by a swarm of bees? -- You were hit by a meteorite? -- You lost your head? -- You put on the world's loudest headphones? -- You stowed away on the next moon mission? -- You were strapped into Dr. Frankenstein's machine? -- Your elevator cable broke? -- You barreled over Niagara Falls? -- You couldn't fall asleep? -- You were struck by lightning? -- You took a bath in the world's coldest tub? -- You skydived from outer space? -- You time traveled? -- You were caught in a human stampede? -- You jumped into a black hole? -- You were on the Titanic and didn't make it into a lifeboat? -- You were killed by this book? -- You died from "old age"? -- You were stuck in ...? -- You were raised by buzzards? -- You were sacrifices into a volcano? -- You just stayed in bed? -- You dug a hole to China and jumped in? -- You toured the Pringles factory and fell off the catwalk? -- You played Russian roulette with a really, really big gun? -- You traveled to Jupiter? -- You ate the world's deadliest substance? -- You lived in a nuclear winter? -- You vacationed on Venus? -- You were swarmed by mosquitoes? -- You became an actual human cannonball? -- You were hit by a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State building? -- You actually shook someone's hand? -- You were the ant under the magnifying glass? -- You stuck your hand in a particle accelerator? -- You were holding this book and it instantly collapsed into a black hole? -- You stuck a really, really powerful magnet to your forehead? -- You were swallowed by a whale? -- You took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine? -- You stood on the surface of the sun? -- You ate as many cookies as Cookie Monster?;What would happen if you stuck your head into a nuclear particle accelerator? What if you jumped into an interstellar black hole, or slipped out of a deep-sea submarine wearing only a pair of Speedos? In And Then You're Dead: The world's most interesting ways to die, we'll give serious answers to these horribly interesting questions in a way a layperson can understand. Illustrated with straight-forward technical art and leavened by small doses of dry humor, the book will be both scientifically informative and gruesomely entertaining. Relying on the deeply human observation that things which actually happen compel little interest, there will be no discussion of heart attacks or car wrecks. But there will be plenty to learn about those people unfortunate enough to get swallowed by a whale.