Dying at the Ritz – Can You Name History’s 3 Most Famous Hotel Deaths?
Earlier this week, guests in a Los Angeles hotel got horrifying news: there was a corpse rotting in the rooftop water tank.
Category: Death in Politics
Four Ancient Weapons Much Scarier Than a Gun
As the gun control debate heats up, Digital Dying decided to take a look at a handful of more ancient weapons and just how they ...
Death by Video Game and the Unfortunate Case of “Evil Otto”
Earlier this week, President Obama outlined a series of possible actions in response to the Sandy Hook Shooting. On the list is the allocation of ...
Serial Killer Art And Homemade Guillotines – Interview with the World’s Most Provocative Museum Owners
JD Healy and Cathee Shultz once built their own guillotine. The couple now runs the Museum of Death, in Los Angeles.
What Do Asia and Africa Think About the Sandy Hook School Shooting? Comments From Around the World
The horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut has reignited the debate on gun control in America, but what does the rest of the world think? Digital ...
Dead on the Same Day I was Born, Millionaire Murderers and an Early Toilet Inventor
Yesterday was December 9th and my birthday. I decided to play that fun game of looking to see who else was born on the same ...
Was Yasser Arafat Poisoned? These Famous Actors, Spies and Philosophers Were
Last week, former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was exhumed to see if his death eight years ago was actually brought on by poison. With tensions ...
The World’s Largest Funeral Processions, from Brazilian Racecar Drivers to Iranian Leaders
More than 200,000 people recently gathered in Mumbai for the funeral procession of Balasaheb Thackeray, a famous newspaper cartoonist, creating a veritable “ocean of humanity ...
How Napoleon’s “Death Mask” got to New Orleans
The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is buried in a crypt in Paris but if you want to see his “death mask” you need only go ...
The Boring Deaths of Extraordinary People, from Belle Boyd the Civil War Spy to Casanova
Edwin Wilson, a CIA operative turned illegal arms dealer lived a life like something out of a James Bond movie. And yet, he recently died ...
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 rebels attacked his compound with ...
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 crashed into southern Florida with ...
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 German Shepherd named Lex.
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 or signs of fight.
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 building and collapsed.
