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
Odes 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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December 18, 2006
"Cyber Activist" found dead
Virgil Butler worked for five years in one of Tyson Food’s Arkansas slaughterhouses as a chicken hanger before he turned animal activist. In testimony given via PETA in January 2003, he documented the horrific treatment of chickens that he witnessed at work. His testimony and ongoing website revelations resulted in a front-page article in the Los Angeles Times and many other presentations, “Inside Tyson’s Hell – Why I Got Out of the Chicken Slaughtering Business.”
I featured his blog "Cyber Activist, A slaughterhouse worker turned activist" as 'Blog of the Day' here on December 9, 2003. Now I read that he died on December 15, 2006. No other details are given. RIP, Virgil
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After you die, will the world remember anything you did? Clifford A. Pickover’s new book A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
Baseball teams endorse caskets and urns
Saddam's visit to the gallows, explained. How Do Hangings Work?
(Calligraphy of the character for Immortality above by Alex Kerr)
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October 13, 2006
Life Lessons
War! John's blog about fighting the battle of late stage cancer. (From Madam Jujujive)
Unusual Death is Usual. Death is the end of a life. Thousands people die every day of famine, illnesses, on war, in accidents, etc. But we don’t see it and we don’t wish to notice. While it will not concern us and then it isn’t so interesting as it shown in movies. Often it occurs suddenly and unexpectedly: dying of the favorite person is always heavy loss and bereavement. There are collected cases of unusual death on this blog to pay attention to a problem of death, to give mental pabulum about death
Deathstyles of the Rich and Famous
10 Valuable Life Lessons ..Learned From Coffins
Wikipedia has a running list of notable deaths
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August 26, 2006
A I lie dying
A weird ham-radio/gargoyle themed tombstone. (Thank you, Rob)
Choose Your Own Adventure: WTC
Atheist headstone in Nashville National Cemetary. All “Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers” from the VA
How to be with a Dying Person, by Renuka Potter
Tell me you love me.
Be Quiet
Turn down the lights (except for the candles), unless I ask otherwise. Keep bright lights out of my eyes.
Don't tell me I'm hallucinating. Learn from what I am telling you about the next life.
Special request for a funeral service. In a similar vain: China bans strippers at funerals. Bare-assed ladies are apparently deployed at rural send-offs to boost mourner numbers, since "large crowds are seen as a mark of honour".
The encyclopdia of death and dying
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August 04, 2006
Beautiful plumage
Depressing obituaries from the late 19th century. (From Things magazine)
How long can humans last without water? A lot of the reason for the confusion is that it depends on what you mean by "survive". If you mean "still breathing at the end" then it's possible for most people to go up to a week
Graveyards of Chicago. (Found on Cemetery Photos Webring)
Repost: Graham Chapman, co-author of the 'Parrot Sketch,' is no more. He has ceased to be, bereft of life, he rests in peace, he has kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the Great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky, and I guess that we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, such capability and kindness, of such intelligence should now be so suddenly spirited away at the age of only forty-eight, before he'd achieved many of the things of which he was capable, and before he'd had enough fun. Well, I feel that I should say, "Nonsense. Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard! I hope he fries." The eulogy at Graham Chapman's funeral. (YouTube). Text
Liquid nitrogen pulverization alternative to cremation
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June 17, 2006
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Old Peoples’ Hands. (Slide speed handle if you want)
Kurt Cobain's suicide note with Google ads
So Long, Spaz - Jason Scott’s sad story about the death of a tiny, old shrimp in a Bio-Sphere globe
The heart of the history of any New England town can be found in its cemeteries. This web site is a collection of photographs and historical information of colonial cemeteries and gravestones of New England. (Beautiful galleries)
Jason Nelson’s Death Spin. A slot machine for predicting death. (From Norman Roberts)
When your time comes, you’ll meet Mr. Friendly again
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
China's new fleet of mobile execution chambers
(I always knew that) Suicide contagion is not a new phenomenon. Evidence of suicide clusters and imitative deaths has been reported in accounts from ancient times through the twentieth century
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May 24, 2006
The Five Stages of Grief
Unidentified dead bodies in Punjab death
A clever Swiss death notice
My Death Space - many car accidents, some murders, suicides, Iraq
(Fictional) Fred Phelp’s obituary
Afterlife Telegrams sending telegrams to people who have passed away. (Thank you, Paul Kinsella)
Am I alone here? What goes through your mind when you think you are about to die?
By the way, if you want to read this blog thru a different feed, here you go
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March 27, 2006
Elements of an Effective Suicide
You don't have to live fast or die young to leave an attractive corpse. If you are seriously, sincerely suicidal and want to make a good impression on your way to a better place, Attractive Corpse can help make your final wish a reality
"It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful." Abbie Hoffman’s Suicide note.
The Lego Suicides. Combining a morbid sense of humor and LEGO ® bricks
How NOT to commit suicide. (From a long & intense thread on Metafilter)
Emma Crawford Coffin Race in Manitou Springs, Colorado
Death by car and by fire
Donate a Body for medical research - There's a shortage of cadavers
Autopsy Q & A. Leave questions for Dr. Michael Baden
Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks
By the way, my sisters may be coming to visit me next week, and if they do, you’ll find me blogging less for three weeks or so…
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October 30, 2005
Morgue humor
The 50 most embarrassing ways to die. No 35: Drowning during your Born-Again baptism
List of unusual deaths. Example: 1923: Frank Hayes, jockey, suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race
Also: Lists of people who died, by cause of death, in alphabetical order of cause
In the morgue with Bernie
Gallery of beautiful Italian funeral art. (From ”Metafilter”)
Why is there death and suffering? Creation scientists looking for answers
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act
Autopsy on HBO
Re-post: Ars moriendi, The Art of Dying by Edward Gorey
Dying, Yamaraja and Yamadutas - Vedic view of death
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October 12, 2005
There had been a death in the family of a friend. I’m not going to blog tonight.
See you tomorrow.
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September 28, 2005
We don’t do body counts
“Once I wasn't and then I was And now I ain't all over again”. Virtual tour of Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, including many famous graves…
Violent Art. (Warning: Violent Art!)
Obituary for one Dorothy Gibson Cully, 86: She was born the second child of six in 1919, daughter to Kathleen Heard Gibson and Calvin Hooper Gibson, an inventor best known as the first person since the Middle Ages to calculate the arcane lead-to-gold formula. Unable to actually prove this complex theory scientifically, and frustrated by the cruel conspiracy of the so-called "scientific community" working against his efforts, he ultimately stuck his head in a heated gas oven with a golden delicious apple propped in his mouth. Miraculously, the apple was saved for the evening dessert. Calvin was not. (From “Bifurcated Rivets”)
Death in Venice, based on the novel by Thomas Mann
Smelleze™ Funeral Home/ Autopsy Deodorizer Pouch
Another great product: Vidstone, a pioneer in multimedia tombstone technology, has introduced the first product of its kind, the Serenity Panel
Rapture Letters online death notification. After the rapture, there will be a lot of speculation as to why millions of people have just disappeared. Unfortunately, after the rapture, only non believers will be left to come up with answers. You probably have family and friends that you have witnessed to and they just won't listen. After the rapture they probably will, but who will tell them?
We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place, and you and I have been taken to heaven
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August 10, 2005
Schrödinger's Cat is Dead
Goodbye to Kitty. A children's story about a dead cat, by Matthew Frederick Davis Hemming
John Cleese's eulogy for Graham Chapman. “Graham Chapman, coauthor of the "Parrot Sketch," is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky...” (From The Primate Journal)
Postcard from Varanasi.. (From ”Screenhead”)
Is suicide against the law? Do such suicide laws really exist? If so, where and why?
The Immortality Institute. For Infinite Lifespans
Wikipedia’s long list of wars and disasters by death toll. A death toll is the number of dead as a result of war, violence, accident, natural disaster, extreme weather, or disease. Below is a list of death tolls for various infamous incidents
What is death rattles?
Dying, Yamaraja and Yamadutas. Vedic view
The Celebrity Dead Pool. Stiffsville. Death Central. (Thank you, Earl)
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July 04, 2005
Dead Passes
City of the Dead in Cairo, over 500,000 graves and at least 20,000 people living among the tombs
Eternal Reefs - Reef balls forever
Aftermath, Inc. , specializing in the proper clean up and decontamination after suicides, homicides and unattended deaths
Re-post: Inside Tennessee's 'Body Farm'
How do cemeteries make money? (An AskMefi Thread). Forever Cemeteries, abour the death empire of 34-year old Tyler Cassity. (From The Sputterly Utter)
What To Do Before and After the Moment of Death
Mr. Suicide Bathtub Plug, $30
Grateful Dead Tickets (and passes)
Cash Machine installed in UK Jewish cemetery
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April 23, 2005
Suicide - Man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit"
“I lost more than just a bet today…” How Not to Start a Eulogy
A Practical Guide to Suicide: “There are sure-fire plans to kill yourself, but they don't always factor in the character and feelings of the person carrying them out. This is why I have put some emphasis on contemplation and reflection in the Practical Guide to Suicide that I'm compiling: I think it is very important that the person him-/herself is taken into consideration, because any "sure-fire" plan can be disrupted by fear, uncertainty, or just plain self-deception”…
Teen Suicide Prevention ad from a Honolulu school
Lundgren Monuments creates handmade translucent cast glass memorials as an alternative to the traditional granite and bronze headstones
Botched executions. Update: Oops, I Blogged it before. Thank you, Billie
What Kills Billionaires? Billionaires are killed by the same unglamorous things that kill the rest of us: diseases such as cancer, heart attacks, kidney failure and others. The only difference is they may live a little longer. (From ”Inman Blog”)
Hope cemetery of Barre, VT. is an art gallery, celebrating life in the midst of death. (Found on The Dead Zone of New Hampshire)
Frank Rich (NYT) on the sexploitation of John Paul's "culture of life"
Re-post: I love death, a nasty, accurate, funny summation
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March 19, 2005
Suicide is Painless
Dying is... "Soon, I will be dead. I have a recalcitrant tumour in the neck, and it's a real pain. It's given me plenty of time to prepare for my death, and now it's finally going for the kill. I am completely powerless in the face of it. My only option is to flee to my mind, where I have so, so much to say and tell... but I have no one to tell it to. This is the loneliness of death."
Sleeping Beauty: Grief, bereavement and the family in memorial photography. (From ”Haircut”)
Making your loved one comfortable during the last days of life
The morbid art of Polish illustrator Franciszek Starowieyski
List of songs about suicide. From Wikipedia
A Grisly suicide. A suicidal New Jersey man set a new standard for self-inflicted brutality
Death Of Parents Boosts Area Woman's Self-Esteem, sources close to the 27-year-old said Monday
Coroner Stories - The real-life world of death investigation
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January 17, 2005
Interactive Cremations
Funeral Planning for children: Everything You Need to Know about Cremation
Interactive Autopsy: “The first step in any forensic autopsy is the external examination of the body”
50 Top Movie Deaths. Guess what No. One should be before looking.
Need a Death Ray, Atomic Blaster, or New Combat Robot for your Space Age Lounge? Fun with Death Rays. “This monster is the finger of God”
'Suicide tree' toxin is the 'perfect' murder weapon
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC
Seen on a t-shirt: Why do we kill people -
Visionary Anatomies and the Changing Conventions of Anatomical Representation
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is ” Searchblog” - “Walker Percy would be proud”. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
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November 23, 2004
“Her Death was caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time”
How to commit suicide, the novel way. A woman trying a suicide attempt by jumping off a bridge…
Death Dot Com - What’s more real than death? (And, I need a volunteer… From “Conform & Obey”)
Virtual tour of Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise, Burial ground of Francois Raspail, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Allan Kardec, Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust
Ohio Death row. Life on Death row in Huntsville, TX. Revealing piece of statistics at the bottom of the Arkansas death row list. 38 states with the death penalty
One more photo from Underbunny, the hands of an 102-year-old woman in her casket
Why Men Die Younger, Four photos from the Wallis "Dress to Kill" ad campaign. Also, Chinese dude trying to catch a tree
Irreverent obituaries of the future
“Farewell, Godspeed”: The Greatest Eulogies of Our Time
Great eulogies make great funerals. From “The Funeral Directory”
The Dubuisson cemetery in Slidell, LA, is an old family cemetery somehow related to our colleague, Lee Dubuisson. It’s pretty cool when you have a cemetery named after your family… (Fake login needed)
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Planet Dan”, bound to offend. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
Quote above from George Carlin, naturally, who also said: “If you have twins, a good idea is to sell one of them. What the hell, you’ve got two. Why not pick up a few dollars?” (I’m afraid that I’m going to have to start quoting Carlin at any opportunity from this point onward.) Many More Unusual Links About Death and Eternity and about Unusual Coffins & Caskets Here
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October 24, 2004
Walking in the shadow of Death Valley