That being said, she gets right to the task at hand, sharing some of the odd ways people have departed this world. From the contents found in the stomach of a 16-foot, half-ton crocodile villagers discovered in Jakarta to chronicling the passing of such well known figures as Al Capone, Albert Camus, and Mata Hari, Ceilan's research is certainly far ranging to say the least.

Not just humans are the subject of the author's vigorous digging into death. There's the story about a possum's unfortunate encounter with a power line in New Zealand that sparked a fire that threatened a ski resort, and the weird tale of an Oregonian who tried to shoot her husband but ended up blasting her favorite chicken away instead.

The section on sex-related deaths ("So Sexy It Hurts") is particularly bizarre, but rather than share a few of the "gems" in this chapter, I'll let you discover them for yourself! Note: The purported death in 1899 of French President Felix Faure explains why the French were so "unfazed" by Bill Clinton's sexual shenanigans!

Where, one has to wonder, does a person research a topic like this?