• 21,900,000: Google search results for “Las Vegas” + dead
Death Issue
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- Las Vegas Death Map
- Death's answer man
- The (un)dead tell no tales
- The Weekly buries its pets... and somebody else's, too
- Death goes window shopping
- Three death FAQs
- What's wrong with a few fake dead children?
- Mayor Goodman's last day on earth
- Works you may not read before you die, and what you'll miss
- Death don't have no mercy for musicians
- Movies about the afterlife
• Irony: What comes to Las Vegas to die (according to common saying)
• 64-70 percent: Cremation rate in Nevada, double the national average
• $300,000: Amount county spends annually on cremating indigent dead
• Dignified burial: What irony would prefer
• Vegas Die: Book we haven’t read
• Divas 2 Die 4: Local beauty salon
• The living dead: What infests Las Vegas in Resident Evil: Apocalypse
• Ditto: Legislature 2009: Apocalypse
• Dead Rabbits: Pool team that placed 17th in Las Vegas tournament in August
• “The dead are everywhere in Las Vegas, and they are thriving”: Writer Charles Marowitz on celebrity impersonators
• 2: Museums commemorating dead entertainers (Elvis, Liberace)
• 2: Local taxidermists listed in yellowpages.com
• Taxidermy: Not enough of it in Elvis, Liberace museums
• 31,800,000: Google search results for “Las Vegas” + death
• Grim Reaper: Will officiate “gothic” ceremony at Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel
• “I don’t want to die, not here”: Esquire writer Scott Raab, on Laughlin (January 1998)
• “Where low-rollers hobble off to die”: Esquire, same issue, sticking it to Laughlin just a little bit more
• 4,860,000: Google search results for “Las Vegas” + murder
• 6: Murder-suicides in Las Vegas since September (year to date: 7)
• 22: Murders that late mobster Anthony Spilotro is suspected of
• 15,800,000: Google search results for “Las Vegas” + suicide
• Just visiting Las Vegas: Doubles risk of suicide, 2008 study concludes
• Imagine living here: Suicide is 54-62 percent more likely for residents here than elsewhere (same study)
• “I came here to drink myself to death”: Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
• “I came here to think myself to death”: No one, ever, in history of Las Vegas
• “Phoenix-Las Vegas death match continues”: Real-estate headline (suggestion: Let Phoenix win)
• Killing us: What compiling this page is doing
• 24/7: Hours/days that Palm Mortuary’s Downtown crematorium operates
• Jeff Beacher’s near-death experience: Near enough? Discuss.
• 42,400: Google search results for “Las Vegas” + croak
• Go for Croak: 1969 episode of Tijuana Toads cartoon featuring minor Las Vegas reference
• “Vegas, nice place to visit, wouldn’t want to DIE there”: Tagline for 2004 movie Deathranch
• 10: Casinos imploded since the Dunes in 1993
• 170-plus: Signs in the Neon Boneyard
• 96,000: Google search results for “Las Vegas” + cadaver
• “Cadaver jobs”: Came up in that last search. Okay, we’re listening ...
• 112: Deaths associated with construction of Hoover Dam
• $20: Cost of death certificate
• 13,790: Deaths reported in Clark County, 2007
• 1,412: Autopsies performed by county coroner’s office, 2007
• More proof TV lies to us: “It is not required or usually necessary for the next of kin to come to the Coroner’s facility to visually identify the decedent.” (Coroner’s website)
• “Casino floors in Vegas”: “Great place [to have a heart attack] since there are cameras everywhere and they have defibrillators around every corner.” (Dr. Sanjay Gupta)
• 459,000: Google search results for “Las Vegas” + demise
• Brain-cell death scream: Sound in our heads as we Googled the previous factoid. Help us ...
• At least 12: Deathy band names in LasVegasWeekly.com local band guide (Apathy of a Murder, Cutthroat Cadavers, Deth Kids, more)
• Oh, right: Also, The Killers (duh)
• No: Can a pet be buried with a human in a human cemetery?
• Yes: Can a human be buried with a pet in a pet cemetery?
• 40: Size, in acres, of Palm Memorial Park-Northwest
• $4,700: Cost of “Cherry Orthodox” casket at Palm Mortuary
• $25: Cost of cardboard box, for cremation at Palm Mortuary
• Cardboard, my ass: I want me a Cherry Orthodox, honey!
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