This will kill you : a guide to the ways in which we go /

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by Newquist, H. P.
[ 01. English Non Fiction ] Authors: Maloof, Rich. Published by : St. Martin's Griffin, (New York :) Physical details: xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subject(s): Death --Causes. Year : 2009 01. English Non Fiction Item type : 01. English Non Fiction
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Two-minute med school -- Description of icons -- Alligators -- Alzheimer's disease -- Anaphylaxis -- Anthrax -- Arsenic -- The bends -- Black widow spider -- Bombs -- Botulism -- Brain aneurysm -- Bullet wound -- Burning at the stake -- Cancer -- Car versus tree -- COPD -- Death cap mushroom -- Dehydration in the Sahara Desert -- Dogs -- Diabetes type 2 -- Drinking binge -- A drink of drain cleaner -- Drowning at sea -- Drug overdose at a rock show -- Ebola virus -- Executions -- Falling from a mountaintop -- Fatal insomnia -- Freezing -- Gangrene -- Garrote -- Going over Niagara Falls -- Great white shark -- Guinea worm -- Hairdryer in the bathtub -- Heart attack -- Helminth parasites -- Hemlock -- Hepatitis -- HIV/AIDS -- Hole in the head -- House fire -- Hunger strike -- Jumping off a bridge -- Knife wound -- Komodo dragon -- Lead poisoning -- Lightning on the golf course -- Lions, tigers, and bears -- Meningitis -- Mosquito -- Natural disasters -- Nerve gas (sarin) -- Nuclear explosion -- Oleander -- Peptic ulcer -- The plague -- Playing professional sports -- Pneumonia -- Poison dart frog -- Polonium poisoning -- Pufferfish -- Radiation exposure -- Red imported fire ants -- Ricin -- Septicemia -- Smallpox -- Snakes -- Space suit malfunction -- Stampeding and trampling (herd animals) -- Stroke -- Syphilis -- Tetanus -- Trying to beat a locomotive across the tracks -- Tuberculosis -- Unscheduled plane landing -- Working in a coal mine.