In all these years here I have not come across many of your posts but you are hitting the nail on the head on this thread.
I like that attention getter you use wonder if that would work for our biology teacher friends at the high school at least once anyway.
I don't know about that. It might push some gloomy goth kids over the edge. I prefer to use with audiences over 25 or so -- not teenagers, who still think they're immortal.