Death in Politics

Will Osama bin Laden get 72 Virgins? A talk with an Islam death expert

Osama bin Laden’s body was placed on a flat board and slid into the sea, was that the proper thing…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

“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…

13 years ago

Mummy found in suburban Los Angeles has communist roots

In the passenger seat of a car parked outside a home in Costa Mesa, California police recently found a mummy.…

14 years ago

Waiting decades for bodies of those taken in the night

After thirty years, the body of Charlie Armstrong has finally been found. The Northern Irishman was on his way home…

14 years ago

In the land where they kill kings for lack of rain

Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania from 1974 through December 1989, when a revolution forced him and his wife Elena to flee…

14 years ago

Burying the forgotten soldiers of bygone wars

Thomas Rice’s chopper went down deep in the jungles of South Vietnam just before dawn on December 28, 1965. Several…

14 years ago

Hate mongering funeral family has legitimate predecessors

Pastor Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church have protested the Academy Awards, gay pride parades, museum exhibitions, synagogues, the…

14 years ago

Death Panels refuted, but not in Serbia, Japan or the Arctic

The elderly are a burden and should bow out, saving society money. (more…)

15 years ago