Thinning the Herd: Tales Of The Weirdly Departed
Description
In the tradition of The Darwin Awards, this darkly humorous compendium celebrates the absurd and often tragic ways people have managed to remove themselves from the gene pool through sheer stupidity and ironic circumstance. Cynthia Ceilan presents a collection of real accidental deaths that defy belief—stories where natural selection seems to work with a twisted sense of humor, sorting out those who perhaps shouldn't have been making their own decisions. With irreverent wit and unflinching candor, the book explores the fine line between random misfortune and deliberate Darwinian consequence, asking whether some deaths are simply the universe's way of maintaining balance. This is not a book for the easily offended, but rather for those who appreciate dark comedy and the strange ways fate can intervene. A provocative and entertaining read that finds dark humor in humanity's most embarrassing and fatal mistakes.
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paperback
Lyons Press
Published Jan 1, 2008
307 pages
ISBN: 9781599212197
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First Published
2008
Language
eng
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