October 14, 2008
Destruction of Armenian Khachkars
Destruction of Jugha khachkars by Azeri soldiers captured in photos and movie clips. This movie clip, dated December 14-16, 2005, shows how Azerbaijani soldiers, with heavy machinery, destroy the last evidence of Armenian presence in Nakhichevan, the historical Armenian province which together with Nagorno Karabakh was given away to the neighbouring Azerbaijani Republic.
A Khachkar (meaning "cross-stone") is a carved memorial stone, typically found in Armenia
More Armenian Khachkars by Morten Oddvik
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Did you know that wikipedia also runs a daily list of notable deaths? What don’t they have? The names are listed by date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name
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September 06, 2008
Behind the Last Closed Door
Photographer Laura Peters went behind the scenes at mortuaries, funeral parlours and crematoria to find out about the 'death industry'. Her exhibition, Behind the Last Closed Door, is Wolverhampton's Lighthouse Gallery, September 3-18
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April 04, 2008
Mine Is Longer than Yours
…Of all the gifts that life and luck can bestow—money, good looks, love, power—longevity is the one that people seem least reluctant to brag about. In fact, they routinely claim it as some sort of virtue—as if living to ninety were primarily the result of hard work or prayer, rather than good genes and never getting run over by a truck. Maybe the possibility that the truck is on your agenda for later this morning makes the bragging acceptable. The longevity game is one that really isn’t over till it’s over…
The last boomer game by Michael Kinsley
German photographer Walter Schels was terrified of death, but felt compelled to take these extraordinary series of portraits of people before and on the day they died. His partner Beate Lakotta recorded the poignant and revealing interviews with the subjects in their final days
(No time to blog today)
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March 08, 2008
How to save a billion lives
The Traditional Five Stages of Grief: In Wisconsin, There Are Eleven
Tobacco may kill one billion people this century
Do you mean Sacrifice?...
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February 02, 2008
I'll Fly Away
(From a wonderful Metafilter thread - Songs about Dying)
Executions in Missouri: 1938-1965
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January 10, 2008
Crazy Frog
Pieter Hugo’s “The bereaved”
“I've got a loverly bunch of coconuts” and 10 other top Songs That Are Inappropriate For A Funeral
Another wonderful thread on Ask Mefi: Talking to the dying
The death of stars
9 People Who Died Laughing. Fatal hilarity is death as a result of laughter. The phrase was first recorded in 1596.[1] Death is usually brought about by asphyxiation from which the thoracic diaphragm can't expand or contract fully thus causing the inability to breathe correctly or heart failure/heart attack/cardiac arrest due to constant straining on the heart, ultimately preventing blood flow
“…Dying is nothing to a really great and brave man”, and other quotes by Mark Twain about death
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December 11, 2007
Broken hotline
..."I work in forensic engineering with cars. My firm only gets cases if there is a fatality or huge disability, since we end up fighting huge automobile corporations.
I have no qualms with that. Lawyers can fight that out.
My question is this:
How do I deal with what happened? I get literally hundreds of pictures and videos a week, all of accident scenes. I have seen thousands of dead people. I have seen people die in unimaginable ways on video and in pictures. I see this every day. It's like Youtube but you know it's real, and everyone dies, and there's usually a fire in the end. Every day"…
(One specific answer from coldchef, a member who works as a funeral director in Louisiana)
Suicide hotline out of order
Manila North Cemetery Houses More Warm Bodies Than Cold Corpses
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October 31, 2007
Dying with style
The Premeditated Murder Flowchart
Rainer Fassbinder's Gravesite
Victor Villenti, 50, was a strict vegetarian, and forced his family to follow the same regime. While jogging in 1991 he was killed by an eight pound frozen leg of lamb which fell from a third-story window. If You're Going to Die, Do It Differently
The 10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World at Neatorama
Is it distressing to experience consciousness slipping away or something people can accept with equanimity? Are there any surprises in store as our existence draws to a close? How does it feel to die?
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September 26, 2007
Total odds of dying, any cause: 1 in 1
What are the Chances of dying? (Click to biggify)
From The Extinction Website, Raphus cucullatus (= Dodo bird)
How To Cope With Death by Ignacio Ferraras (YT)
Tucked beside an ancient gate and within a bend in Rome’s third-century Aurelian Walls are two landmarks: one is the pyramid-shaped Roman tomb of a first-century civic magistrate named Gaius Cestius; the other is Rome’s Non-Catholic Cemetery (often called the Protestant Cemetery)… Save the cemetery
Polls on The Immortality Institute website
A Surprisingly Long List of People Who’ve Attempted Suicide
The man I killed did not want to die, but he no longer felt he had much of a choice
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August 26, 2007
Why do they call someone "late" if they died early?
Most obituaries are really not all that good and you are usually never around to read your own. Here are some great ideas if you want an exciting obituary that everyone will enjoy reading while you get back at your high school enemies. How to Write a Kick Ass Obituary
Some death masks of famous Soviet people by the sculptor Sergei Merkulov
The IUCN Red List of Endangered & Extinct Species
The Process of Modern Day Cremation
Corpus Obsurum, a Blog of Death. Also, reflections on Death by the obituaries editor at The Economist
Re-post: Tombstone Generator
The most kissed girl in the world
By the way, the bloody snowmen above is a recreation of a scene from Don Hertzfeld's animated short, Rejected. (Thank you, Shrift!)
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July 09, 2007
Autopsy
In the BBC four-part series, Autopsy, anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Professor John Lee perform a series of autopsy demonstrations at the Institute of Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany, in which they point up the process of finding a cause of death. With the aid of human dissection, live models and scientific models they are able to reveal what disease really looks like and how it works
Re-post: Instruments used in President Lincoln's autopsy
Gerald Carruthers, a retired insurance agent and father of three, died Monday at 77 following a long and painful battle with life
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March 23, 2007
You’re Going to Die
You’re Going to Die, directed by by Dennis Palazzolo and a finalist at the 2003 Student Academy Awards
Chatroom users 'egged on father to kill himself live on webcam' in Britain's first 'cyber suicide'
30 Strangest Deaths in History
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February 10, 2007
Ashes to ashes
From “What happens to the body after death”: Maggots
Michael Malloy (1873-February 22, 1933) was a vagrant in New York City, in the early twentieth century. He is solely known for his constitution. Many attempts were made to murder him
Odds of dying 1:1
A visit with my brother-in-law, who works in a mortuary, and watching him prepare an elderly woman's body for a funeral
Re-post: The Merry Cemetery in Romania
Ashes to Art Urns. (From Neatorama)
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January 20, 2007
Mike J. Curran, RIP
Our good friend & colleague, Mike Curran, died on January 3, and his memorial will be held today at the Elks Club in Garden Grove.
We’ll miss him.
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January 03, 2007
Cause of death - unclear
eBay spectacular: Large hard cover book loaded with black and white photos of gruesome wrecks and events. 175 pages. 166 pictures. 95% Photos!! 5% Words. Photos are much larger than shown here. They range from 4" x 5" to most being full page( 8 1/2" x 10 1/2"). Several are also 2 pages wide. Most show injured/deceased people, many much more graphic/gruesome than can be shown here. There are people thru windshields, missing limbs, decapitation, bodies, head ons, roll overs, fires, car/train wrecks, a camper wreck, and a couple murder/suicide scenes. (Save to your hard drive. These auctions usually disappear after a short while)
Margaret Thatcher. Elizabeth Taylor. Michael J. Fox. Pete Doherty. These are just some of the people who will probably die during the next 12 months. But how will they and others be remembered? B3ta’s 2007 Obituaries challange
Chinese Funerary Burners, the most common singular feature of overseas Chinese cemeteries. (From Pickles and pumpernickel)
British gallows prior to 1900. From a rich site about Capital punishment in Britain
World Map of Countries That Use The Death Penalty
Winners of the 2006 Darwin Awards to be honored posthumously
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