The Deathwashing of America: Results from a survey on TV show body counts
A woman gets nailed with a flying axe, a man gets his family jewels cut off, then his head, another woman flings herself off a ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
Death from above: killed by falling coconuts, meteorites, hail and frozen airplane shit
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is booming. Glassy office buildings are springing skywards, chic new hotels are popping up along the ...
Skull art, from Damien Hirst to the streets of São Paulo
If you were to drive through the tunnel in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo that connects Avenida Cidade Jardim to Avenida Europa in 2006 ...
Jeffrey Dahmer, man-eating alligators and child brainwashing – A look at the other Etan Patzs
We all now know the name Etan Patz, a New York City six year old who disappeared 33 years ago while walking to the school ...
Titanic deaths: A priest, an adulterer and the President of Haiti’s nephew
“Tell my wife, if it should happen that my secretary and I both go down…I played the game out straight to the end. No woman ...
Trayvon Martin and the ancient art of autopsy
A funeral director recently made national news when he revealed that in preparing Trayvon Martin’s body he found no bruises or signs of fight.
Greatest disease disaster movies and the strange recent flu deaths of Calvert County
Lou Ruth Blake, of Calvert County, Maryland fell ill with the flu on February 25; six days later she was dead.
The lethal link between Japanese dolls and Viking sex slaves
A friend from Japan recently emailed to say she was taking a pilgrimage to the countryside to attend a “funeral of dolls”. Turns out two ...
The sweet sick possibly fake story of Percy Shelley’s heart
On July 8, 1822 the English Romantic poet Percy Shelley drowned in mysterious circumstances, while sailing back from Livorno, Italy on his schooner, the Don ...
Trashy tabloid murder photos come to fancy NYC gallery
There is the man sprawled on the sidewalk outside a café in a pool of blood with a gun and a top hat beside him. ...
Bloody and forgotten journalist deaths, from a female Mexican blogger to an Azerbaijani critical of Iran
Mukarram Khan Atif was number two. The second journalist killed so far in 2012, that is. He was gunned down while praying at a mosque ...
Famous prison deaths, from the mafia to the Manson Family
Diane McCloud was freed from jail earlier this week, but only so she could die. McCloud, 48, was in Nassau County jail for shoplifting more ...
The weirdest deaths of 2011 – Killed by a cock, crushed by a cow, smashed by a horny black bear..
It was a strange year for weather and perhaps an even stranger one for dying, here are some of the weirdest deaths of 2011:
The lesser-known famous deaths of late December 2011
The past week saw the death of three very different famous figures: North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il; Czech playwright and president, Vaclav Havel and ...
Have you considered “grief tourism” in your holiday travel plans?
People come to Paris for the food, the museums, and the shops, but also for the cemeteries. There is the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, which opened in ...
