Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Blood Countess
Vampires are in, and Valentine’s Day has become yet another excuse to celebrate them.
Category: Death in Popular Culture
Among Hmong, death is a long journey back to the womb
Vang Pao’s funeral will continue for six days straight and feature animal sacrifices, the burning of paper offerings and a spiritual guide called a pointer ...
Dead Apple Tours: Where Death is the Beginning of the Adventure
http://funeralwise.wistia.com/medias/ppkkibwhj2?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=780 Step inside New York’s most unique tour vehicle and take an intimate journey to the sites where famous New Yorker’s have died and famous New ...
Fasting to death for politics, religion and pain relief
Dorothy and Armond Rudolph, both in their nineties, were recently evicted. The Rudolphs, who had met at church in 1941 and were living at an ...
“Fire baptism” and self-burning, from Saigon to Siberia
On December 17, 2010 a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouaziz set himself on fire, just weeks later the country’s government was toppled.
A fight over how to display roadside death
A man driving a van packed with mourners returning from a funeral in northern India crashed through a mound of sand then collided head-on with ...
The world’s dumbest deaths, now on TV
The 2010 Darwin Awards are out, given each year to the world’s stupidest deaths.
Photos of decomposing bodies shock Virginia
Seven slender bones, chipped and splotched, some even burnt, lined up neatly on a table. A young boy with eyes wide open, they are bright ...
Mummy found in suburban Los Angeles has communist roots
In the passenger seat of a car parked outside a home in Costa Mesa, California police recently found a mummy.
Weird deaths caused by animals, including the monkey that killed 250,000 people
Charlie the smoking chimp is dead. Several years ago a visitor to the Mangaung Zoo in Bloemfontein, South Africa tossed Charlie a lit cigarette through ...
New York students find friend’s brain in jar, New Mexico family gets brain in the mail
Seventeen year old Jesse Shipley of Staten Island, New York died in a car crash in 2005. Three months later, on a field trip to ...
To Live Forever: Eat supplements, abhor soda and upon dying, head to Arizona and bathe in liquid nitrogen
Every day, Ray Kurzweil, an American writer and inventor, ingests 150-250 supplements and drinks 8-10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea.
Waiting decades for bodies of those taken in the night
After thirty years, the body of Charlie Armstrong has finally been found. The Northern Irishman was on his way home from mass in 1981 when ...
In the land where they kill kings for lack of rain
Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania from 1974 through December 1989, when a revolution forced him and his wife Elena to flee the capitol.
The sad story of how to appear at your own funeral
Last month, Theodore “Pete” Peterson sat at a New Jersey bar with a vodka tonic in hand and an oxygen tank at his side. There ...
