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The lost art of the death mask
The Western world was once obsessed with these macabre memorials.
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Your microbes live on after you die − a microbiologist explains how your necrobiome recycles your body to nourish new life
With the help of the microbes that once played an essential role in keeping you alive, the building blocks of your body go on to become a part of other living things.
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Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels
Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, from Romano di Lombardia, was buried when a shelf broke in his warehouse
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Religious US broadcaster Pat Robertson dies at 93
The evangelical Christian ran for president and helped put religion at the heart of Republican politics.
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Tina Turner, unstoppable superstar whose hits included 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' dead at 83
With admirers ranging from Beyoncé to Mick Jagger, Turner was one of the world’s most successful entertainers, known for a core of pop, rock and rhythm and blues favorites.
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15 Hopeful Ways for Atheists to Think About Death
In the eternal words of Freddie Mercury, someone whose life was cut tragically short: “Who wants to live forever?” Lots of people, it turns out. Or at least they want to live for a very long time (I doubt anyone would really want to live forever, which I discuss here).
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Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die
Suffering and death are facts of life: “Everyone dies, their bodies rot, and every face becomes a skull.”
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Archaeologists uncover oldest human burial in Africa
‘Quite spectacular’ discovery shows three-year-old child was carefully laid to rest nearly 80,000 years ago
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'More and more people don't want a traditional burial'
With cremations on the rise, firms now offer such things as turning your ashes into artificial reef formations or human compost.
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The First U.S. Funeral Home That Turns Bodies Into Compost Is Now Open
For almost a decade, Katrina Spade has been developing a new way to deal with dead bodies. In 2011 as a graduate student in architecture, Spade began questioning what would become of her corpse after death. Unsatisfied with the options available, she spent years refining her own solution: “natural organic reduction.”
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Charley Pride, Pioneering Black Country Singer, Dead at 86
Country Music Hall of Fame member died in Texas from complications related to Covid-19
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About 8,000 Facebook users die daily, is your digital will ready?
Nearly 8,000 Facebook users die daily. By the end of this century, Facebook will become the world’s biggest virtual graveyard as there will be more profiles of dead people than of living users. Facebook is just one of the several social media platforms. Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit and others have flooded us, garnering millions of users.
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When a parent dies by suicide, how are the children told? – Jesse Bering
Afrayed leather wallet. A broken watch. Some coins. A ballpoint pen missing a screw. For 11-year-old Maddy Reid, this was all that remained of her soft-spoken accountant father … an assortment of 59-year-old George Reid’s meagre belongings emptied onto the kitchen table. ‘It’s gruesome, I know, but I think they still had his blood on them.’
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Opinion | I’m Going to Die. I May as Well Be Cheerful About It.
Generally, I don’t think about death during the day. My schedule is full, and I focus on what is right before my eyes. It’s usually only when I go to funerals that I reflect upon deaths past, present and future; most of the time I think about life. Still, about once a month I wake in the night and know with absolute clarity that I will soon be gone.
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Why millennials are the "death positive" generation
Simon Sotelo was 27 when she donated her body to science. The Portland, Oregon-based graphic designer is still very much alive — and presumably will be for decades to come. She doesn’t have any life-threatening afflictions or high-risk hobbies. But, Sotelo says, signing a contract that grants medical students in the distant future the right to study her body gives her a sense of peace in the present.
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WWE Legend Rocky Johnson Passes Away At 75
Former WWF Tag Team Champion Rocky Johnson died at the age of 75 on Wednesday, as was announced by [...]
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Advice from a Death Doula: Unlocking Life Before Death
"I'm having a very deathly week," the young woman says, starting the conversation after a round of introductions. All 26 people sit in the dark room in the back of Washington D.C.’s The Potter's House Cafe, encircling a single candle. It isn't the woman's first time talking about death in a group setting. She has been to one of Nicole Heidbreder's "death cafes" before. She says she came out of it feeling very heavy and drained. It called up emotions from her father's death three years ago. Still, she felt compelled to attend a second time.
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7 Beautiful Picture Books to Help Kids Understand Death
Whether it’s the passing of a beloved pet, friend, or loved one, every child has to cope with death at some point. These beautiful picture books will help your child process their sadness and understand why death happens.
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Professional wrestler Harley Race dead at 76
Former professional wrestler Harley Race died at age 76 reportedly due to complications from lung cancer.
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‘None of this happened the way you think it did’
For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called. By Elena Saavedra Buckley.
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