Strange Deaths 2015: Another big year for selfie deaths.
Last year, our strange death report uncovered a disturbing trend--death by selfie. The 2014 list identified 10 cases where people died trying to get that perfect ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
Christmas and Death in North Korea
This year, Christmas again arrives in the middle of a religious storm. Islam has been pitted against Christianity, with flashpoints in Africa, Syria, and other ...
The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death
A woman had died, and Reverend Ginny Wheeler faced a dilemma. Wheeler, of the Community United Methodist Church, in Huntington Beach, California was conducting the ...
TV Character Deaths 2015: A big year for goodbyes.
SPOILER ALERT: Both the gallery and the story are packed with spoilers. In the world of TV character deaths, 2015 was a big year. Showrunners ...
When the Weatherman Dies: A Brief History of Weather Forecasters Killed in the Line of Duty
Depending on how you define the term meteorologist, the first weatherman killed in the line of duty was quite possibly Pliny the Elder.
Hospice in Prison? As Inmates Age, Louisiana’s Notorious Angola Prison Tends To Their Elderly
The first shock is that just outside the gates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave plantation that into the 1960s was ...
How Much Death is Too Much Death? A Visit to New Orleans’ Newly Opened Museum of Death
Speaking from behind the welcome counter, on which sits a tall jar of teeth, a sheep skull and a photo of a dismembered human being ...
George Bell, and the Lonely Deaths of Japan
After the New York Times poignant story of George Bell, a 72-year-old New York City man who died alone in a Jackson Heights apartment “splashed ...
New Orleans Death Talk: Decatur Street Artist Blue Fletcher
Blue Fletcher, Decatur Street Artist, French Quarter "My name is Blue. I think about death constantly. My husband died last November and we’re coming up on ...
Funeral music sets the tone and honors the deceased.
Thinking back on the funerals I have attended, what often comes to mind is the funeral music. For me, one service, in particular, stands out. ...
Not who done it but who is it: Learn to be a forensic scientist for free.
People have been fascinated with crime solving as entertainment since before the introduction of Sherlock Holmes in the late 1800s, but the famous fictional detective’s ...
A Sack of Sacred Skulls That Makes It Rain Has Disappeared
On the rolling prairie of western North Dakota, fields of wheat, barley and rye kiss a sky that is too often blue and dry, but ...
Strange deaths 2015 mid-year check-up: Selfie deaths keep coming.
We normally save our strange death report for the end of the year, but with two men meeting their maker while shooting fireworks off their ...
Mystery writer Jaden Terrell talks death, murder, and figuring it all out
For crime novelist, Jaden Terrell, writing about death is a way to confront her own fears. The Nashville-based author has three successful detective novels on ...
At the Bonnie and Clyde Museum: Why Louisiana Man Happily Runs a Room Dedicated to Murderers
Why visit Gibsland, Louisiana? Because it was near here that America’s most famous love-tangled pair of murderers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, met their end, ...
