Japan’s mummy-monks rise again
Last week, police in Tokyo broke into the home of Sogen Kato. According to local records he was 111, the fifth oldest man on earth. ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
Stripper funerals in China, naked funeral directors in America
Cai Jinlai and his son Cai Ruigong had a bet; if Jinlai lived past 100 his son would hire a stripper for his funeral.
Mock funerals for Sarah Jessica Parker and Saudi Arabian schoolboys
On a winter morning in New York City a handful of mourners gathered underground. They dressed in black with black armbands, hung their heads low ...
Build your own cremated remains rocket, just like Hunter S. Thompson
On Independence Day, about 200 people gathered at a remote lake in north-central Florida to see an old friend explode. They ate barbeque and corn ...
As the morbidly obese die, coffins change shape
Walter Hudson was the fourth most obese human in medical history. By age 12, he weighed 200 pounds and by age 33 his waist measured ...
Nicolas Cage will be buried like an Egyptian in the sunken city of strange cemeteries
Nicolas Cage owns a Gulfstream jet, two Europeans castles, a haunted mansion, a collection of shrunken heads, a dinosaur skull, a line of comic books ...
Uma Thurman, Harry Houdini and Saint Vitalis of Milan have all once been worm food
On a Virginia mountaintop, a man and a woman are buried alive by a massive mushroom which induces a hallucinogenic trip then digests its victims. ...
“Death at a Funeral” mayhem is a joke but family funeral violence is bloody for real
Men in sharp suits carry a well-lacquered coffin into a fancy suburban house. “Who is this?!” screams Chris Rock, when the lid is cracked. The ...
With Babcock dead there’s just one living doughboy left in North America
Jack Babcock joined the Canadian Army at age 15 and in 1916 shipped to England to fight in the Great War. Because he was underage ...
Smuggling corpses into Iraq – Part II
In the summer of 2004, the Mahdi Army battled U.S. troops in Wadi al-Salam, one of the largest cemeteries on earth.
Michael Jackson and many grandmas will spend eternity as diamonds
Four year-old Rusty VandenBiesen was alone with the pictures of Jesus in the scary room at his grandmother’s when he burst into tears. His older ...
Teaching Death to Immortals
Writing an obituary was their first assignment and next month Professor Marla Toyne’s students will visit a cemetery.
Morticians Draw New Blood: Females
How Caitlin Doughty came to a career in death is unusual.
