The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died
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No matter what your station in society everybody has to go sometime Even the wealthy powerful and worldrenowned must ultimately meet their Makerthough some have departed this life
more ignobly than they might have wished From Mozart to rock and roll which performers ended their lives on the wrong noteWhat famous US bridge is named after an explorer who was eaten by cannibalsEveryone wants to hit the lottery but does Lady Luck visit winners with deadly fangsPlus Learn the real fate of Gilligans Island castaways and all your favorite TV actors as well as famous writers senators saints dictators and philosophers among many othersMichael Largo the man who illuminated readers on the myriad ways of death in Final Exits has compiled a fascinating offbeat and darkly humorous necrology that provides the grim often outrageous details about the passing of influential persons Meticulously researchedemploying archaeological records published obituaries official documents and forensic evidencethis authoritative oneofakind reference presents the unabashed truth about a multitude of celebrity deaths while examining the various deeds misdeeds and lifestyle quirks that hastened the demise and determined the departeds role in history and popular myth The Portable Obituary has the skinny on what made our late iconswhether through overindulgence or neglect on the john in the sack or in some spectacular accidentwhat they are today dead