Today’s Motoring Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Author James Agee (famous for his quote, “How far we all come away from ourselves… you can never go home again” in his novel A Death In The Family) died in 1955 at the age of forty-five when he suffered a massive coronary while riding in a New York City taxi cab. According to the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, a typical Manhattan resident will take a hundred cab rides a year, and have only 0.4% chance of dying in one over a ten-year period.
Culled from: Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
I would think, actually, that for the purposes of Morbid Fact du Jour, the best of Agee’s works to point out would be “A Mother’s Tale”… the story of a cow describing slaughterhouses to her calf…
http://www.amybrown.net/women/mother.html