15.The Battle of the Somme followed. Britain lost sixty thousand men on the first day. By the time the battle was over, losses for both sides totaled more than a million.
16.And you know you've just been told by scientists that that comet is racing toward the Earth and it's going to kill everybody and everything in a big fiery storm.
17.The final throes of death come when the muscle cells have run out of energy and cannot stop calcium flooding into them, followed by a brief fit and then a rigor mortis-like rigidity of the muscles before death occurs.