It’s been said so much that it’s beyond cliché, but it’s true. There are two things in life you can’t avoid: death and taxes. Taxes we can’t help you with and , frankly, we can’t really do anything to prevent death either, though a healthy diet, regular exercise and living in a bubble have been shown to delay its onset somewhat. Unfortunately, term life insurance doesn’t insure your ability to keep on breathing at all, instead paying your beneficiaries large sums of money when you keel over.

Let’s assume you don’t have relatives who would prefer the check to having you around for a while. Even if we take the money grubbing relative out of contention, there are still plenty of strange ways you can die. And when you add them up to the comparably mundane gamut of heart attacks, strokes, cancers, and other diseases and accidents, they add up to the stuff of water cooler legend.

If you have to die anyway, why not go out in style? While we’re not suggesting that you choose your own method of death, here are some of the more interesting ways you cold make your permanent exit:

• Asteroid. Unless you’re talking about the early ‘80s video game, your chances of being killed by an asteroid are dismally small. The British government actually studied the chances around the time the video game was popular, and came up with the notion that, on average, 1 person on the whole planet will die by asteroid every 7,000 years. So, if you can pull it off, you could become the talk of the whole world. For a day anyway.

• Death by coconut. While somewhat less dramatic, this is entirely more feasible, and should still be good for plenty of laughs from peripheral acquaintances (we hope your loved ones won’t find it funny).  Not only is this more likely than death by asteroid, it also beats out death by shark bite and death by amusement park mishap significantly. Falling at speeds exceeding 50mph, from heights up to 80 feet, those sneaky coconuts manage to take out about 150 people per year.

• Death by falling out of bed. This probably wouldn’t be so funny if it was only older people who died this way, but the statistics show that this cause of death is equally represented across the age spectrum. How exactly the two to three foot fall is causing fatalities, the studies don’t say, which is probably just as well. Let’s just hope it doesn’t have anything to do with their term life insurance beneficiaries.

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