Can Adult Men Die as Infants? – Britain’s Real Life Benjamin Buttons
Imagine being born an old man and dying an infant. That’s exactly what happens to Brad Pitt in the 2008 movie "The Curious Case of ...
Author: Justin Nobel
Digital Dying is written by Justin Nobel, whose stories about science, culture and travel have appeared in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, Audubon, Gourmet.com, Nunatsiaq News, Point Reyes Light and The Smart Set www.justinnobel.com. Comments and ideas can be sent to justinnobel@gmail.com.
The Most Ridiculous Deaths of 2013
Ah, Christmas! Eggnog, sleigh riding, hams and finding out from relatives who died in the last year. 2013 saw men killed by beavers and wine ...
To Live and Die in LA – Interview With the Guru of Celebrity Death
How many people guessed that Paul Walker was going to die this year? The answer, at least as far as the celebrity death pool goes ...
Home for the Holidays, and Your Aunt’s Corpse Has Been Rotting On The Sofa For a Year
This holiday season there have already been at least two cases in the news of people “living with corpses”. And over the past few years ...
Death and the Higgs Boson – Talking Mortality with a Physicist
For Dr. Mark Kruse, a Duke University physicist specializing in high-energy particle physics, mortality is often on the mind. Not just mortality of the individual, ...
On 50th Anniversary of JFK’s Funeral, the President’s Personal Archbishop, the Man Who Walked the Riderless Horse and Others Reminisce
Fifty years ago today, a million people lined the streets of Washington D.C. to watch a funeral procession like none the nation had ever seen ...
Bloody Benders – The Forgotten Story of a Family of Pioneer Kansas Serial Killers
Last week I drove from New Orleans to Kansas to pick up a guitar my friend Jack Jacomo had left at a gas station while ...
Thought You Had A Scary Halloween Costume? Return of the “Plague Doctor” Mask
One of the scariest costumes of all time seems to be staging a comeback: the plague doctor. Plague doctors tended to victims of the Bubonic ...
Interviews Before Execution – The Chinese TV Show That Was Just Too Good
One episode features a handcuffed man in khaki pants and an orange vest, flanked by two guards. The prisoner is condemned to die for murdering ...
Best Halloween Costume Ever – Pants Made Out Of Your Dead Friend’s Skin
As far as we know, there is just one pair of intact necropants left on earth and they are locked behind glass at the Museum ...
Hungry Hungry Ghosts – Celebrating The Chinese Halloween
There is no Halloween in China, complained one recent traveler. But there is the Hungry Ghost Festival! Celebrated on the 15th night of the seventh ...
Halloween Unmasked Part II – The Man Behind the World’s Most Famous Mask
The mask, a stylized white face with a gigantic smile, rosy red cheeks and a mischievous mustache, has been worn by protestors in Thailand, Egypt, ...
Halloween Unmasked Part I – The Nobel Prize Winner That Invented Ectoplasm
If you react to bee stings or seafood then you ought to know a bit about Charles Robert Richet. In 1913 he won the Nobel ...
The 8 Most Haunted Places in China – Haunted Houses, Haunted Villages and Even Haunted Hotels
In 1949 the Nationalists fled the Communists and went to Taiwan. The wife of one high-ranking official, abandoned by her husband, hung herself from the ...
The Spectacular Death Rituals of the Philippines
Hanging coffins, kitchen burials, blindfolded corpses, tree trunk burials and coffin hexes, oh my. Tourists flock to the Philippines for the beaches, the food and ...
