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 while praying at a mosque ...
Category: Death in Politics
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 of her life. Her husband ...
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 65 percent of Brits are ...
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 wall in his Indiana home ...
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 followers attacked recruits at a ...
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 to do? Will he attain ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 from mass in 1981 when ...
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 the capitol.
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 missions retraced his route but ...
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 2008 Sichuan China earthquake and ...
Death Panels refuted, but not in Serbia, Japan or the Arctic
The elderly are a burden and should bow out, saving society money.
