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The Distance Between Art and Death – An Interview with Visual Artist Susan Silas
There is something sacred about taking a walk, seeing the places others have seen, following in the footsteps of another’s journey. Your own images leave your head, new images...
Death For Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner – An Interview With The Guru Of Cremation
According to the Cremation Association of North America some 42 percent of Americans are now getting cremated, might this mark the beginning of the downfall of civilization?
Another Mangled Meat Death, And Other Sad Slaughterhouse Accidents
A man fell into a meat blender at an Oregon meat distributing plant earlier this week. As strange and horrible as this type of accident sounds, it happens often...
The Week in Death and Dying, as a Prose Poem – Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn and Deviled Eggs
A funeral home in Compton offers drive-thru funerals behind bullet proof glass, no different from a McDonald’s.
The Deathwashing of America: Results from a survey on TV show body counts
A woman gets nailed with a flying axe, a man gets his family jewels cut off, then his head, another woman flings herself off a cliff with a baby...
What does George Bush and 9/11 have to do with flying in dreams? A death psychologist explains all
Does being reminded about death lead to hatred, killing and war? Does it make you want to buy a Lexus? Did George Bush win reelection in 2004 because we’re...
Greatest disease disaster movies and the strange recent flu deaths of Calvert County
Lou Ruth Blake, of Calvert County, Maryland fell ill with the flu on February 25; six days later she was dead.
Famous prison deaths, from the mafia to the Manson Family
Diane McCloud was freed from jail earlier this week, but only so she could die. McCloud, 48, was in Nassau County jail for shoplifting more than $3,500 worth of...
Talking death with pharmacopeian Hamilton Morris, who traveled to Haiti in search of zombie powder
Hamilton Morris, a pioneering young pharmacologist, has hacked through the Amazon looking for ayahuasca and hunkered down in a missile silo with an LSD kingpin; one of his most...
Americans are most likely to die on Christmas
Christmas brings gifts, twinkling lights, eggnog, and according to a recent article in the Social Science & Medicine journal, death.
Death Panels refuted, but not in Serbia, Japan or the Arctic
The elderly are a burden and should bow out, saving society money.
Welcome Spring! Now Here Are Three Ways to Compost—Your Human Body..
With the beginning of Spring, the time of yard chores has begun. Planting flowers, putting out the lawn furniture, and getting that compost pile going. Although, this year brings a new type of composting into the mix, as the world has taken one step further along the path of composting human bodies. Learn more by reading Justin Noble's latest article on the Digital Dying blog.
Sweet Donna – Remembering The Woman You Love, With A Song
When Donna’s sickness took a turn for the worst, her husband Larry wrote a song.
Dead Alone In A Hotel Room In A Lonely Era
It's a familiar and always sad story--dying alone in a hotel room. Our Justin Nobel explores how this type of death may be as much a symbol of the times as anything.
