Elephants Love Their Dead – Is That Why We Love Them?
Do elephants have the power to vote?
Category: Death in Popular Culture
Would you like to play a game? A Look at “A Mortician’s Tale”
We're used to seeing and hearing about death in video games. The way it usually works is whoever is dead is killed in some kind ...
Baylor Adds Course in Death and Dying.
Students at Baylor University in Waco, Texas can now take a course that explores the topic of death and dying. The for-credit class is offered ...
People Are Dying, No One Is Crying (Updated)
Several years ago, our Justin Nobel discussed the the way some Middle Eastern cultures hire women to weep and wail at funerals. At the time, ...
The Media Is Obsessed with Florida’s Nursing Home Deaths—The Real Problem Is We’ve Abandoned the Elderly
The news was devastating, and it came in dribs and drabs. First, there were three dead. Then five. Then seven. The tally now rests at ...
Hurricane Harvey “Lonely Deaths”
Hurricane Harvey is responsible for killing at least 47 people in Texas. According to a story last week in the New York Times, at least ...
Searching for Eternal Life in a Chinese Cave, Or a Florida Spring
Step aside Juan Ponce de León, the long-sought secret to longevity may not be a mysterious Florida spring, but a Chinese cave.
The Mysterious Case of Fumiko Kimura, the Mother Who Drowned Her Children
On January, 29, 1985, 32-year-old Fumiko Kimura waded out into the cold waves off Santa Monica Beach on a deadly mission.
Thousands Cheer On the Cubs from Heaven
It’s the top of the 9th inning and Cubs fans everywhere are standing, watching, and anxiously waiting for the Cubbies to close out the Dodgers ...
Amelia Earhart Lives! And Five Other Terrific Tales of Death at Sea
Amelia Earhart lives! At least she may have lived for nearly a week after crashing near the coral atoll of Gilbert Island on her world-famous ...
The Lonely Death and Fantastic Reincarnation of Nikola Tesla
In an attempt to inspire Americans to be innovative and inventive, President Obama called out to inventors, and in particular, immigrant inventors in his State ...
Do Italian Ghosts Haunt New Orleans? A Look at America’s Forgotten Lynch Mob
Ghosts haunt the streets of New Orleans, and a few months back I may have heard one.
