Life Before Death

The Astrological Magazine sez:

We regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the publication of The Astrological Magazine will cease with the December 2007 issue.

Any commentary is really superfluous.

(hat tip to Jesper Jerkert at the Swedish Skeptic Society)

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The parade of amusing google hits continues, but sometimes I really wish I could anticipate questions and answer them before they’re asked. You see, today someone found my blog by googling the phrase “honey contains all you need to survive”.

NO! No it doesn’t! You have to eat other kinds of food! You can’t live on sugar!

Unless, of course, you’re a bee, in which case I apologise and withdraw the above statement, although if you want to survive the winter I’d suggest eating some pollen as well. Hummingbirds may also wish to ignore my advice on this matter (just avoid the idiots feeding you nutrisweet).

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For some reason I seem to be getting a steady trickle of visitors who have googled for “death”, in a variety of interesting combinations, such as:

• astrology death
• atheist freaked out about death
• bee stings death (and of course the old classic, “DEATH AND BEES“)
• biologist mysterious death (intriguing…)
• death carnival
• death stuff
• death, but you’re still here
• life at death
• post human death energy
• systematics death dawkins (…what?!)
• things to do before death (how about … everything?)
• what people see before death (again … they’re not gonna see anything afterwards!)
• “roundabout” deaths

The latest one in the line is this:

• how they treat death in sweden

To answer the question: Uh… we don’t. I think death is one of those conditions well known for being, well, incurable.

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While this video on its own may seem a bit bland, I urge you to go ahead to YouTube and check the responses. Atheists are nodding all over the place! Even a couple of christians showed up.

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