Is a Sickness Spreading? Violent TV in Faraway Countries
The results are in from Funeralwise.com’s Fall 2012 TV Body Count Study: TV is more violent and bloody than ever. How does violence on TV ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
The Mayan Sport That Makes Football Look Lame – Losers Actually Got Decapitated
Sunday is the Super Bowl, the culminating game in a sport that involves teams of men tackling each other into the ground as they try ...
How to Avoid the Ghosts of Murdered Slaves on Your Next Visit to New Orleans
People are filing into New Orleans for Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl, and as they frolic and wander about the streets so merrily I ...
Death by Video Game and the Unfortunate Case of “Evil Otto”
Earlier this week, President Obama outlined a series of possible actions in response to the Sandy Hook Shooting. On the list is the allocation of ...
Serial Killer Art And Homemade Guillotines – Interview with the World’s Most Provocative Museum Owners
JD Healy and Cathee Shultz once built their own guillotine. The couple now runs the Museum of Death, in Los Angeles.
The World’s Oldest Animals, From Hanako the Japanese Fish to Lin Wang the War Elephant
Scientists may have found a creature that lives forever.
The World Will End Tomorrow, Just Like It Did in the Year 365
The end of the world may be tomorrow and we all know the present day apocalypse scenarios—a secret planet will smash earth, a giant black ...
What Do Asia and Africa Think About the Sandy Hook School Shooting? Comments From Around the World
The horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut has reignited the debate on gun control in America, but what does the rest of the world think? Digital ...
Dead on the Same Day I was Born, Millionaire Murderers and an Early Toilet Inventor
Yesterday was December 9th and my birthday. I decided to play that fun game of looking to see who else was born on the same ...
Was Yasser Arafat Poisoned? These Famous Actors, Spies and Philosophers Were
Last week, former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was exhumed to see if his death eight years ago was actually brought on by poison. With tensions ...
The World’s Largest Funeral Processions, from Brazilian Racecar Drivers to Iranian Leaders
More than 200,000 people recently gathered in Mumbai for the funeral procession of Balasaheb Thackeray, a famous newspaper cartoonist, creating a veritable “ocean of humanity ...
The Best James Bond Deaths Ever, from Goldfinger to Baron Samedi
Bond is back. "Skyfall", the new film in the epic series, stars Daniel Craig as James Bond and Javier Bardem as the elusive Bond villain.
Famous Hobos and their Sad Deaths, from Alexander Supertramp to T Bone Slim
This past August the 112th National Hobo Convention was held in Britt, Iowa. A friend of mine attended the event in true hobo style, that ...
The Country’s Top Haunted Houses: Ghosts of Murdered School Children, Haunted Corn Fields and Zombie Clowns
There was a time when haunted houses were simple; slap some fake blood on a freaky looking guy, paint a few spooky cardboard dioramas and ...
The Best Real Life Zombie Halloween Costumes, From Pete the Marsh Man to Juanita the Ice Maiden
Zombies are still huge and this year stores are offering numerous variations on the traditional zombie Halloween costume. There is the zombie doctor outfit, the ...
