Death & Afterlife

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A Bitter Last Will And Testament

by Alex Ginsberg
They were crabby to the end - and beyond.


Mark Schwartz and Christina-Maria
Petrowski-Schwartz

Monday, August 25, 2008

Lack Of Grave Causes Burial To Be Cancelled

by Darryl Sneed
An 83 year-old British womans funeral was canceled because somebody forgot to dig the grave.


St Leonard’s churchyard

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Corpse Left Standing For Three Days

by Susan Glimmer
A Puerto Rican mans family honors his last wish.


A stand up guy

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Remembering Mom

by Dean Terry
One of the saddest obituaries ever.


In remembrance

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Photo Ops With Corpses Okay In Michigan

by George Hunter
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled it’s legal for nursing home employees to pose corpses and take cellphone pictures with them.


Indecent exposure

Saturday, July 19, 2008

I See Dead People - In Space

by Mark Carreau
Personnel working under contract for NASA used cadavers in tests to develop landing systems, spacesuits and seats in the new Orion moonship, space agency officials said Friday.


Uncle Larry confronts his fear of flying

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Cemetery Casanovas Charges Reinstated

by Ryan J. Foley
The Wisconsin Supreme Court today reinstated sexual assault charges against three young men accused of digging up a corpse so one of them could have sex with it.


Looking for love in all
the wrong places

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Houses Of Horror After The Crimes

by Sara Bonisteel
They are where some of America’s most notorious and gruesome crimes took place - the homes where murderers like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy killed or stashed their victims. But what happens to them… after the crime?


What happens to
murder houses?

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

‘Dead’ Model Sues Undertaker

In Russia, a 24-year-old student was shocked to learn that his graduation photo was being used to advertise the services of an undertaker.

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Vitaly Bushmin - alive and well

Mystery Of Human Ashes Left At Theatre

by Catherine Jones
Did someone leave the cremated remains of a dead loved one behind after watching a psychic performance?


Left behind

Friday, June 20, 2008

Mystery Still Surrounds Lizzie Borden Case

by Kingston Adler
On June 20, 1893, A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.


Lizzie Borden

Sunday, June 15, 2008

At The Edge Of Life And Death

At various times run over by a tractor, frozen in a blizzard, swarmed by bees, and thrown through a windshield in a car crash that killed his brother, Stephen Redding said, he survived.

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