Burning bodies outside becomes popular in Colorado, has roots in Bali
Belinda Ellis got her wish, upon death her body was covered in red cloth and laid atop a rectangular steel grate inside a brick hearth. ...
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.
Traveling to Switzerland to die, the death tourism boom
In July of 2009, Lady Joan Downes, the wife of famous English opera conductor Sir Edward Downes, sent a letter to her family explaining she ...
Mexican death art, both joyous and horrific, comes to New York City
There is a large face without skin, just bare muscles and eyes wide open and staring. In a cavern-like lair are a group of naked ...
If you control the funeral you control the revolution
As the Middle East erupts in protest, funerals have served as the flashpoint. On Tuesday in Bahrain 10,000 mourners gathered in a hospital parking lot ...
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Blood Countess
Vampires are in, and Valentine’s Day has become yet another excuse to celebrate them.
Among Hmong, death is a long journey back to the womb
Vang Pao’s funeral will continue for six days straight and feature animal sacrifices, the burning of paper offerings and a spiritual guide called a pointer ...
Dead Apple Tours: Where Death is the Beginning of the Adventure
http://funeralwise.wistia.com/medias/ppkkibwhj2?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=780 Step inside New York’s most unique tour vehicle and take an intimate journey to the sites where famous New Yorker’s have died and famous New ...
Fasting to death for politics, religion and pain relief
Dorothy and Armond Rudolph, both in their nineties, were recently evicted. The Rudolphs, who had met at church in 1941 and were living at an ...
“Fire baptism” and self-burning, from Saigon to Siberia
On December 17, 2010 a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouaziz set himself on fire, just weeks later the country’s government was toppled.
Interview with America’s only high school death ed teacher
New Paltz High School teacher George Campbell taught chemistry, biology and for 20 years, a course on death and dying called “Death Education.”
Fish kills, bird deaths and the coming Aflockolypse
Thousands of turtle doves rained down on car roofs in northeastern Italy.
A fight over how to display roadside death
A man driving a van packed with mourners returning from a funeral in northern India crashed through a mound of sand then collided head-on with ...
Americans are most likely to die on Christmas
Christmas brings gifts, twinkling lights, eggnog, and according to a recent article in the Social Science & Medicine journal, death.
The Mysterious Death of Henry Hudson
http://funeralwise.wistia.com/medias/r2y5cgpq7v?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=780 Digital Dying travels to upper Quebec to uncover the mystery surrounding the death of famous explorer Henry Hudson.
The world’s dumbest deaths, now on TV
The 2010 Darwin Awards are out, given each year to the world’s stupidest deaths.
