Death in Politics

The Hazards of Serving the President, 3 Recent Deaths Examined

One man was killed when a pickup truck ran him over on a highway in Florida. Another died when Libyan…

12 years ago

Andrew, Katrina and the Deadliest Hurricane You’ve Never Heard Of

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew and next week is the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Andrew…

12 years ago

Dogs Die in War Too: American Military Dogs, from Nemo and Lex to Sergeant Stubby

Dogs fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, too. Earlier this spring one of the most famous canine veterans died, a bomb-sniffing…

12 years ago

Trayvon Martin and the ancient art of autopsy

A funeral director recently made national news when he revealed that in preparing Trayvon Martin’s body he found no bruises…

12 years ago

Death by burning death by vulture, a look at dying in Tibet

Dorjee, an 18-year-old from the provincial town of Chara, set himself on fire yesterday then walked to a government office…

12 years ago

Bloody and forgotten journalist deaths, from a female Mexican blogger to an Azerbaijani critical of Iran

Mukarram Khan Atif was number two. The second journalist killed so far in 2012, that is. He was gunned down…

12 years ago

An Iraq War Widow Speaks Out, and Starts a Project

Taryn Davis married the love of her life and was about to finish college, then she got the worst news…

13 years ago

Britain reconsiders hanging criminals, and other weird ways of execution

The last criminal hanging in Britain was in 1964 but according to an opinion poll taken after the recent riots…

13 years ago

The History of Condolence Letters, and Why President Obama Allowed Suicide

In 2009, two weeks into his second tour in Iraq, Army Specialist Chancellor Keesling committed suicide. His family decorated a…

13 years ago

Revenge killings, from Pakistan to Palestine to Papua New Guinea

He killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11 2001, earlier this month we killed him, ten days after that his…

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