Conglomeration of wonders

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 from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body.

5. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days.

6. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.

7. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried'in space.

8. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.