Five people have won election to Congress, despite being dead
It's hard to believe but, yes, it is possible to be elected to national office if you're dead. In fact, five people have been elected ...
Category: Death in Politics
Who Needs to Visit a Torture Museum?
As we walked by, the sign out front invited us to visit the Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments. Who could pass that up? We’re in ...
Lincoln funeral train procession to be reenacted.
In 1999 Dave Kloke began work on construction of a full-sized working replica of a 1980s steam locomotive. Considering the fact that Kloke had no ...
On 50th Anniversary of JFK’s Funeral, the President’s Personal Archbishop, the Man Who Walked the Riderless Horse and Others Reminisce
Fifty years ago today, a million people lined the streets of Washington D.C. to watch a funeral procession like none the nation had ever seen ...
Halloween Unmasked Part II – The Man Behind the World’s Most Famous Mask
The mask, a stylized white face with a gigantic smile, rosy red cheeks and a mischievous mustache, has been worn by protestors in Thailand, Egypt, ...
“The Act of Killing” Shatters the Boundaries of Documentary Film
In the mid-1960s, government-supported gangsters in Indonesia killed between half a million and 2.5 million of their own countrymen. Fast-forward 50 years, you’d think the ...
Imagine A Future Where We Record Our Own Deaths On Tiny Video Cameras Implanted In Our Foreheads
What will it be like to live in a world where we all record our own deaths on tiny video cameras implanted in our foreheads? We ...
Suicides In Public Places, A Strange And Troubling History
Why are some people compelled to commit suicide in public spaces?
The Last Funeral Director on Earth – Profile of a Man Burying Bodies in Syria
He has buried more than 234 bodies from the river. Most are men and boys, their hands bound behind their backs, their skulls broken by ...
Where Will The Boston Bombing Suspect Be Buried? Touring The Cemeteries Of Russia
The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead Boston Bombing suspect want his body shipped back to Russia. And just what are the cemeteries of Russia ...
Boston Marathon Bombing Forces a Look at the Grisly and Often Forgotten History of U.S. Bombings
My heart goes out to those in Boston. Sadly, the U.S. has a grisly and often forgotten history of bombings...
Economic Suicides Spread Through Europe – People in Italy, Ireland and Greece are Jumping to their Deaths
In Italy last week it happened again, three people ruined by the financial crisis committed suicide.
What do Rasputin’s Penis and Einstein’s Brain Have in Common? Interview with Corpse Expert Bess Lovejoy
What do Rasputin’s penis, Shelley’s heart and Einstein’s brain have in common?
The Week in Death and Dying, as a Prose Poem – Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn and Deviled Eggs
A funeral home in Compton offers drive-thru funerals behind bullet proof glass, no different from a McDonald’s.
Death and Dying in Chalmette – Touring the Battle of New Orleans
A major American battle occurred just a mile from my home, earlier this week I visited the old battlefield.
