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• [Death fact 1] NBA player Pete Maravich said in an interview when he was 26 that he "didn't want to play in the NBA for 10 years, then die of a heart attack at 40.” He proceeded to have a 10-year NBA career, and then die of a heart attack at 40.

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• [Death fact 2] In 1977, three men were arrested for attempting to steal Elvis Presley's remains for ransom. This is why his body along with his mother's, was moved to Graceland where they are monitored by security.

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• [Death fact 3] Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro is the only Coast Guard Medal of Honor Recipient and helped save 500 Marines at Guadalcanal. He died while getting the last Marines out. His last words were “Did they get off?” referring to the last of the Marines.

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• [Death fact 4] The Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens - the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.

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• [Death fact 5] A holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.

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• [Death fact 6] Alberta Williams King, Martin Luther King’s mother was also assassinated. A deranged man who believed Christianity was harming African Americans gunned her down as she played the organ in church. He was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment because the Kings opposed capital punishment.

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• [Death fact 7] Former death row inmate Betty Lou Beets, shot her first husband, shot her second husband twice, ran her third husband over and also murdered her fourth and fifth husbands.

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• [Death fact 8] In 2012, a man named Jose Melena was cooked alive in a 270-degree pressure cooker oven along with 12,000 pounds of tuna. In California’s largest workplace safety violation settlement ever ($6 million), Bumble Bee Tuna agreed to pay $1.5 million to the deceased’s family, $1.5 million to state government and courts, and $3 million to purchase new automated ovens.

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• [Death fact 9] DeForest Kelley disliked repeating Dr. McCoy's catchphrase "He's dead, Jim", which appears 20 times in the original Star Trek series. It became so famous, however, that he joked that the line would appear on his tombstone. It did appear in the first sentence of Kelley's obituary.

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• [Death fact 10] Zoroastrian funerals involve a ritual called sagdid (dog-sight). A dog was brought in before the body. If the dog stares steadily at the body, the person is still alive. If it doesn't look at the body, death is confirmed. This was useful in ensuring that a coma was not being mistaken for death.

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