Category Archives: Death and Dying
In Brazil, the pursuit of ratings goes too far. A TV crime show host faces jail after allegedly ordering MURDERS in a bid to boost ratings Wallace Souza is accused of arranging crimes and then broadcasting exclusive footage of the scenes. His show built up a huge audience by showing dramatic film of police raids [...]
Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson in human mortality rates What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now. This [...]
From TehranBureau Photos and brief bios of some of the people who died in the post-fraudulent election showdown in Iran Martyred and Murdered This is the grave of Neda Agha Soltan shot on the street by a sniper, when all she wanted was the proper vote of the people to be counted. Her death, captured [...]
A fugitive couple who stole a yacht apparently starved to death after it was damaged in a storm. The story of their slow, agonising death was detailed in a vivid diary found on board. Sharon Arthurs-Chegini, 46, wrote: ‘The lights are going out in my heart. We have not eaten for four weeks. I dream [...]
A model of a woman that we all should know about Camouflage Angel’ Spends Last Moments With U.S. Combat Casualties The emergency-room trauma call and the medical staff’s immediate action upon his arrival is only a memory to her now; sitting quietly at the bedside of her brother-in-arms, she carefully takes his hand, thanking him [...]
Horrific murder of parents of 12 children (10 adopted) captured on film. Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome, and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room. It was those cameras [...]
Police were last night investigating the death of a man who fell into a vat of melted chocolate. Factory worker Vincent Smith II toppled into the mix as he was filling the eight-foot deep tank with hot chocolate. Detectives said the 29-year-old was dumping giant chunks of chocolate over the side when he was hit [...]
With Faith and Friends, Convent Offers Model for End of Life For the elderly and infirm Roman Catholic sisters here, all of this takes place in a Mother House designed like a secular retirement community for a congregation that is literally dying off, like so many religious orders. On average, one sister dies each month, [...]
Relatives of Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Decry Lack of Coverage Amid Jackson Spectacle The aunt of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan on the same day Jackson died asked why her nephew’s death went virtually unnoticed while the King of Pop got memorial shrines across the country. “Mr. Jackson received days of wall-to-wall coverage in [...]
Continuing on my Michael Jackson-free theme, here’s some oddities you may have missed. Two Mexican Midget Wrestlers Killed by Fake Prostitutes Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers. Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one [...]
