Turns out you don't necessarily need a wooden stake to rid yourself of pesky vampires... you can just wait for them to die of old age - or complications from a fall.
As substantiated by the recent passing of Barnabas Collins, centuries old matriarch of the Collins family.
Hey, I never said old age came early for a vampire.
But if you're fortunate enough to be born in the 175th year of the neighborhood vampire, well then don't sweat the lack of a sharpened stake because you have a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the undead.
My musings of the life span of vampires was prompted by the recent passing of Johnathan Frid, the actor who portrayed Barnabas Collins in the Dark Shadows television soap opera and made vampires "all that".
Seems Mr. Frid took a fall in his eighty-seventh year and died from complications.
Hmmmm...could those complications have included landing on a broken piece of wood when he fell? Maybe I better rethink the whole old age thing.
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