MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.;Flaming marshmallow / Camille Alexa ; Shannon Wheeler, ill. -- Fudge / Kit Yona ; Vera Brosgol, ill. -- Torn apart and devoured by lions / Jeffrey C. Wells ; Christopher Hastings, ill. -- Despair / K.M. Lawrence ; Dean Trippe, ill. -- Suicide / David Michael Wharton ; Brian McLachian, ill. -- Almond / John Chernega ; Paul Horn, ill. -- Starvation / M. Bennardo ; Karl Kerschl, ill. -- Cancer / Camron Miller ; Les McClaine, ill. -- Firing squad / J Jack Unrau ; Brandon Bolt, ill. -- Vegetables / Chris Cox ; Kevin McShane, ill. -- Piano / Rafa Franco ; Kean Soo -- HIV infestion from Machine of Death needle / Brian Quinlan ; KC Green, ill. -- Exploded / Tom Francis ; Jesse Reklaw, ill. -- Not waving but drowning / Erin McKean ; Carly Monardo, ill. -- Improperly prepared blowfish / Gord Sellar ; Jeffrey Brown, ill. -- Love ad nauseum / Sherri Jacobsen ; Kate Beaton, ill. -- Murder and suicide, respectively / Ryan North ; Aaron Diaz, ill. -- Cancer / David Malki ; Danielle Corsetto, ill. -- Aneurysm / Alexander Danner ; Dorothy Gambrell, ill. -- Exhaustion from having sex with a minor / Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw ; Cameron Stewart, ill. -- After many years, stops breathing, while asleep, with smile on face / William Grallo ; Scott C., ill. -- Killed by Daniel / Julia Wainwright ; Marcus Thiele, ill. -- Friendly fire / Douglas J. Lane ; Kelly Tindall, ill. -- Nothing / Pelotard ; John Allison, ill. -- Cocaine and painkillers / David Malki ; Jess Fink, ill. -- Loss of blood / Jeff Stautz ; Kris Straub, ill. -- Prison knife fight / Shaenon K. Garrity ; Roger Langridge, ill. -- While trying to save another / Dalisa Chaponda ; Dylan Meconis, ill. -- Miscarriage / James L. Sutter ; Rene Engstr?m, ill. -- Shot by sniper / Bartholomew von Klick ; John Keogh, ill. -- Heat death of the universe / James Foreman ; Ram?n P?rez, ill. -- Drowning / C.E. Guimont ; Adam Koford, ill. --? / Randall Munroe ; Kazu Kibuishi, ill. -- Cassandra / T.J. Radcliffe ; Matt Haley, ill.