Donald Trump Burned in Effigy in Mexico
The Carnaval parade in Chapala, Mexico is a grand colorful affair, and this year a new character livened up the festivities: Donald Trump.
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.
Making Resinous Replicas of Dead People: Wax Museums of the World
The Musee Conti, in New Orleans’ French Quarter, is filled with life-sized wax figures depicting vignettes from Louisiana history: Napoleon as he sells Louisiana, Jean ...
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When we die swarms of bacteria lurking in the soil, on the living room floor, on the street, and in our own bodies help reduce ...
When Hollywood Actors Crawl Out Of Tombs – The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Six Strangest Buried Alive Movies of All Time
“As long as you can still grab a breath you fight! You breathe! You keep breathing!”
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Perhaps it’s the turning of the seasons, but something strange is in the air. A growing number of prominent academics appear to be convinced that ...
Who Was The First Death of 2016?
Who was the first person to die in 2016? According to a gaming site called Steam, it was Australian newsman Brian Johns, “who passed away on ...
Christmas and Death in North Korea
This year, Christmas again arrives in the middle of a religious storm. Islam has been pitted against Christianity, with flashpoints in Africa, Syria, and other ...
The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death
A woman had died, and Reverend Ginny Wheeler faced a dilemma. Wheeler, of the Community United Methodist Church, in Huntington Beach, California was conducting the ...
When the Weatherman Dies: A Brief History of Weather Forecasters Killed in the Line of Duty
Depending on how you define the term meteorologist, the first weatherman killed in the line of duty was quite possibly Pliny the Elder.
Hospice in Prison? As Inmates Age, Louisiana’s Notorious Angola Prison Tends To Their Elderly
The first shock is that just outside the gates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave plantation that into the 1960s was ...
How Much Death is Too Much Death? A Visit to New Orleans’ Newly Opened Museum of Death
Speaking from behind the welcome counter, on which sits a tall jar of teeth, a sheep skull and a photo of a dismembered human being ...
George Bell, and the Lonely Deaths of Japan
After the New York Times poignant story of George Bell, a 72-year-old New York City man who died alone in a Jackson Heights apartment “splashed ...
New Orleans Death Talk: Decatur Street Artist Blue Fletcher
Blue Fletcher, Decatur Street Artist, French Quarter "My name is Blue. I think about death constantly. My husband died last November and we’re coming up on ...
Nola Death Tete-a-tete: The Vanishing LGBT Bookkeeper
Otis Fennell, Owner of Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, Frenchman Street. "This store was founded in the ‘70s because there were very few sources for gay ...
Nola Death Tête-à-tête – Pirate’s Alley Artist Nathan Durapau
Nathan Durapau, 24, Pirate's Alley artist. "I was born and raised in Mexico. My parents were missionaries and I spent the first 12 years of my ...
