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title: "Thinning the Herd: Tales Of The Weirdly Departed Paperback – November 1, 2007"
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price: "$57"
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# Thinning the Herd: Tales Of The Weirdly Departed Paperback – November 1, 2007

**Brand:** cynthia ceilan
**Price:** $57
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- **What is this?** Thinning the Herd: Tales Of The Weirdly Departed Paperback – November 1, 2007 by cynthia ceilan
- **How much does it cost?** $57 with free shipping
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## Description

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			        		So you think life is weird? It would appear that our desire to show respect and honor the dead is an instinct deeply encoded in our nature as humans. Even Neanderthal man, who walked the Earth more than 60,000 years ago, buried his loved ones with carefully arranged animal bones and flowers. Some of us, alas, choose to ignore that instinct. Take, for example, the case of Katherine Knight, a butcher who stabbed her boyfriend thirty-seven times, then invited his adult children to dinner and served them a nice stew of potatoes, vegetables, their father&apos;s boiled head, and his baked buttocks, filleted. Or David Galvan, whose drunk uncle permanently cured him of the hiccups by accidentally shooting him in the head. Or Jean-Louis Toubon, who choked to death on his girlfriend&apos;s edible panties. Maybe all of death is happenstance. Or maybe it&apos;s just life, filtering out the gene pool. Thinning the Herd: Tales of the Weirdly Departed is a delightfully irreverent collection of real-life anecdotes, facts, and observations regarding Death. You know . . . that thing that only happens to other people.
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Cynthia Ceilan has been a professional writer, editor, and researcher since 1985. She&apos;s had short works of fiction published in Potpourri and The Sun (literary magazines) and has written regularly for an alternative monthly periodical called Aquarius: A Sign of the Times. 
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best books for that room of the house
        
*by P***G on April 11, 2014*

In the vein of the Darwin Awards, this book tells true tales of all the odd, stupid, sad, hilarious, and bizarre ways one can snuff it, check out, buy the farm, kick the bucket or drop off the twig. And in the spirit of this book, one can reflect that all these stories are now, for most of the world, merely amusing tales to pass the time. But amuse they do. If death can ever be a fun read, this is it.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Satisfied
        
*by L***N on March 3, 2019*

Satisfied
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not What I Expected But Really Fun Anyway
        
*by J***4 on August 1, 2012*

I must admit that this book wasn't what I expected. This is, of course, a strange way to say this since I didn't really have any actual expectations of what this book would be like to start with. It's funny, irreverent, ironic, and sometimes heartwrenching. If you're someone who feels that death is not something to be laughed about, then this is not the book for you. It's not disrespectful, but it could be taken the wrong way by those who see it in the wrong light.
  

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