Category: Death
Gregor Schneider.
Artist is looking for people who are dying to be part of an art exhibit. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008.
Readers of jasonspage.
Sorry for the lack of post. A death in the family has put blogging on hold for the rest of this week. Will be back blogging on Monday.
Post date: Thursday, August 3rd, 2006.
Hamburg SV.
German football club that is offering its fans the opportunity to be buried next to their stadium. (via)
Post date: Thursday, July 20th, 2006.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Disease listed as the official cause of death for the first time is also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
Death vans.
China operates a fleet of mobile execution vehicles. (via)
Post date: Thursday, June 15th, 2006.
Viewing hours.
Egyptian tycoon wants to be mummified and attached to the arm of a clock after he dies. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 27th, 2006.
The end.
Frozen French couple are forced to be cremated after their cryongenic freezer brakes.
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
Sixth Extinction.
Earth is losing 50 species of life per day.
Post date: Wednesday, March 8th, 2006.
Mormon crickets.
Insects that organize into a massive cannibalistic swarm when deprived of food. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.
Dead Man Dancing.
Comatose man given up for dead regains conciousness after life support is turned off and attends his daughter’s wedding.
Post date: Monday, February 27th, 2006.
Chikungunya.
Incurable disease on a French-controlled island off the coast of Africa has infected 1/5 of the population and is responsible for 77 deaths this week. (via)
Post date: Saturday, February 25th, 2006.
Parapsychology 101.
Indiana University to offer course in ghost hunting. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 16th, 2006.
We shall never forget.
Delinquent teenage elephants are exacting revenge for poaching that took place in the 70’s and 80’s by attacking humans.
Post date: Thursday, February 16th, 2006.
Biogerontology.
Progressive science that has identified potential technological fixes for ageing that would allow humans to live for hundreds of years.
Post date: Thursday, February 16th, 2006.
Chicken run.
Firefighters armed with rifles run through Florida town slaughtering wild chickens.
Post date: Sunday, February 12th, 2006.
Final act.
Terminally-ill director will lay in state as an art exhibit so that he can experience his own funeral while still alive.
Post date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2006.
Achilles’ knee.
King Tut was felled by a sword injury to his knee. (via)
Post date: Friday, February 3rd, 2006.
Final note.
Scientists discover that dying stars emit a middle C range sound which ultimately causes them to explode.
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Go to heaven!
Kenyan woman curses God and dies in her sleep.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Cold case.
French police conduct a two year murder investigation on the skeleton of a woman and discover that she died almost 600 years ago.
Post date: Tuesday, January 24th, 2006.
Cryonics movement.
Rich people, dubbed cryonauts, are creating trust funds that they can reclaim when their bodies are unfrozen and reanimated in the future. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Profound hypothermia.
Doctors have successfully put pigs into suspended animation. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 20th, 2006.
Chupacabra?
Unidentified animal that ‘looked like something that has been dead for a month’ shot and killed in Texas. (via) UPDATE: Animal identified
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
Iranians I trust.
Osama bin Laden died in December of kidney failure and is buried in Iran. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Permanent press.
Woman suffocates under 6-foot pile of her own clothes. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006.
Dead woman watching.
Ohio woman has been sitting in front of her TV dead for 2 ½ years.
Post date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006.
Dead woman displaying.
Canadian woman will donate her body for public display after she dies.
Post date: Monday, January 9th, 2006.
Kill ‘em all.
Secret British documents reveal Churchill wanted Hitler to be electrocuted, Ghandi to be starved. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 9th, 2006.
AvrPtoB.
Protein discovered that causes plant cells to commit suicide.
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
There you are.
Missing Russian patient found mummified under clinic floor. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
Body farm.
Iowa professor proposes outdoor body farm to advance the science of forensics studies.
Post date: Monday, December 19th, 2005.
Unstoppable.
Man who dies 32 times in 20 minutes survives. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 14th, 2005.
Dead Body Guy.
Man who wants to play dead for a living. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Know when to fold ‘em.
British man bets that he will die and loses.
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Dying prohibited.
Brazillian mayor proposing for law making it illegal to die.
Post date: Friday, December 9th, 2005.
Instant messenger.
Newborn baby delivers spoken prophecy to South African village.
Post date: Thursday, November 3rd, 2005.
Dead drunk.
Bartender sent to prison for mixing a drink that killed a customer. (recipe)
Post date: Monday, October 31st, 2005.
Divine recall #2.
Priest and parishioner drown during baptism.
Post date: Monday, October 31st, 2005.
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