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www.deadoraliveinfo.com
Not sure if a celebrity is dead or alive? Head to www.deadoraliveinfo.com to find out. One of four icons will help you figure out what you need to know. A smiley face icon means your celeb is still hanging around. A skull icon means he’s met his maker. Some celebs are ‘missing’ (Jimmy Hoffa – magnifying glass icon) and others are just “unknown” (escaped Alcatraz convict, Frank Morris – question mark icon). You can search lists of people who died before 30 and people who lived to 100.
Selected Bibliography
Abbot, Geoffrey. More Macabre Miscellany. Virgin Books, 2005
Cassell, Dana, Salinas, Robert C., Winn, Peter S. The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. Facts on File, Inc., 2005
Cyriax, Oliver, Wilson, Colin, Wilson, Damon. The Encyclopedia of Crime. Carlton Publishing Group, 2005
Cullen, Lisa Takeuchi. Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death. HarperCollins Publishers, 2006
Dunn, Michael. Good Death Guide: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask. How To Books, 2000
Ellis, Chris, Ellis, Julie. The Mammoth Book of Celebrity Murder. Running Press Book Publishers, 2005
Hickman, Tom. Death: A User’s Guide. Random House, Inc., 2003
Holder, R.W. How Not To Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms. Oxford University Press, 2003
Johnson, Marilyn. The Dead Beat. HarperCollins Publishers, 2007
Meijer, Fik. Emperors Don’t Die in Bed. Taylor & Francis, Inc., 2004
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death Revisited. Knopf Publishing Group, 2000
Skinner, Edward S. Presidential Facts: Topical Lists, Comparisons, and Statistics. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006
Recommended Websites
The National Safety Council: www.nsc.org
The Center for Disease Control (CDC): www.cdc.gov
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov
The US Department of Veterans Affairs: www.va.gov
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission: www.cpsc.gov
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/
The CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Ernie Heffner of the Heffner Funeral Chapel & Crematory in Pennsylvania and Ronald Salvatore of Matthews Cremation Division for all their help in answering our questions. Also thanks to Mary for the stroke of genius, my husband for his endless support, Felicity for her endless energy and wit, the ever-patient Chris Orcutt for the fantastic design, Jackie Costello, Uri, Monica, Pops, KEL, Spike & Alan, and of course the truly lovely Pink Pants for, well, everything.
Special thanks to the immensely talented guys at Cyanide & Happiness (www.explosm.net) for their hysterical illustrations and for the convincing argument that chicken & broccoli was meant to be eaten with a shot of Jameson. Or four.
About the Authors
Morgan Reilly lives in London with her husband. She is a freelance writer and editor, and she’s not obsessed with death. Not really. She only wears black a lot because it’s slimming.
Joanna Tempest lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. She has a degree in English Studies from the University of Stirling and when she is not obsessing about death loves to get out of the city and into the wilderness.
About the Illustrators
Rob DenBleyker, Dave McElfatrick and Kris Wilson all write and draw the wildly inappropriate webcomic, Cyanide and Happiness on www.explosm.net. Featuring a new strip every day, Cyanide and Happiness is one of the most popular webcomics and has been ranked one of the two thousand most-viewed pages on the web.
About the Publisher
Australia
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Canada
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United Kingdom
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United States
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