Portable Obituary

<p>No matter what your station in society everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy powerful and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker--though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished. </p><ul><p><li>From Mozart to rock and roll which performers ended their lives on the wrong note?</li></p><p><li>What famous U.S. bridge is named after an explorer who was eaten by cannibals?</li></p><p><li>Everyone wants to hit the lottery but does Lady Luck visit winners with deadly fangs?</li></p><p><li>Plus: Learn the real fate of <em>Gilligan's Island</em> castaways and all your favorite TV actors as well as famous writers senators saints dictators and philosophers among many others.</li></p></ul><p>Michael Largo the man who illuminated readers on the myriad ways of death in <em>Final Exits</em> has compiled a fascinating off-beat and darkly humorous necrology that provides the grim often outrageous details about the passing of influential persons. Meticulously researched--employing archaeological records published obituaries official documents and forensic evidence--this authoritative one-of-a-kind reference presents the unabashed truth about a multitude of celebrity deaths while examining the various deeds misdeeds and lifestyle quirks that hastened the demise and determined the departed's role in history and popular myth. <em>The Portable Obituary</em> has the skinny on what made our late icons--whether through overindulgence or neglect: on the john in the sack or in some spectacular accident--what they are today: dead!</p>