This book is about how 19 famous people in the
past spend their last days. It retells
19 gory stories of their awful death before the modern medicine we have today.
From King Tut to George Washington, Beethoven, Marie Antionette, Henry VIII, and
many more, their deaths are described in gory, yet humorous detail. Several of these famous people might have
survived if they lived in our modern world.
For example, George Washington instead of getting blood drained from his
body to bleed to death, he should have been given antibiotics. Beethoven had
a horrific death, from pneumonia, a hole being drilled in his stomach without
any pain medicine, a hose being placed in his stomach, to the infection that
killed him was an unnecessary way to die. The author also describes how Marie Antionette
and Henry VIII were executed. Braggs
cites various sources with more books and websites to look at. She also charts how all these lives are
intersected in some way. The style and design
used was gory, humorous detail by the author and th illustrator used cartoon like illustrations to
highlight their death.
Each chapter begins with a clever title, a tombstone that includes
place, date of birth and death, and age of death. This book combines science and history in a unique manner to captivate the reader. In a lesson, students may pick a character
from the book and create a collage of information about them using the same
style of writing and illustrations used in the book.
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