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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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'Dead' girl wakes up at own funeral
A 3-year-old girl, who was clinically pronounced dead woke on Sunday during her funeral service in a church in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, police said.
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Why Dying Is Easier for Doctors
For all the effort they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with their own death
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Tales of the Dead Come Back: How Modern Medicine Is Reinventing Death
They can fly through walls or circle the planets, turn into pure light or meet long-dead relatives. Many have blissful experiences of universal love. Most do not want to return to the living. When they do, they're often endowed with special powers: They can predict the future or intuit people's thoughts.
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The Death that Could Kill Lethal Injection
The horrific execution of Clayton Lockett by lethal injection this spring in Oklahoma took an astonishing 43 minutes to complete. Together with other botched killings, the incident has focused attention on the inexperience and incompetence that now accompanies many executions in America.
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First hint of 'life after death' in biggest ever scientific study
Southampton University scientists have found evidence that awareness can continue for at least several minutes after clinical death which was previously thought impossible
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Would You Wear a Diamond Made From the Ashes of a Loved One?
A Swiss company wants to change the way people mourn by transforming the remains of their loved ones into gems.
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Basketball player likely died from chewing gum in sleep
A Pennsylvania university student and basketball player likely inhaled chewing gum into her lungs while asleep before being found dead in her dormitory over the weekend. The Washington County coroner's office said 21-year-old Shanice Clark of Toronto was found unresponsive at about 3 a.m. Sunday at California University of Pennsylvania. University officials said they were "deeply saddened" by the death of the 6-foot senior forward, who was...
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Julie McCabe death: Mother may have died because hair dye reacted with her henna tattoo
The tragic death of a mother-of-two caused by an allergic reaction to hair dye has raised serious questions about its use in conjunction with henna tattooing. Estate agent Julie McCabe, 38, went into a coma in October 2011 after she suffered a massive allergic reaction to a chemical in her L’Oréal dye and died a year later. North Yorkshire coroner Geoff Fell heard expert evidence that a black henna tattoo that Mrs McCabe had in Dubai in 2007 could have contributed to her death.
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Death, Redesigned
There’s an ugliness — an inelegance — to death that Paul Bennett gradually came to find unacceptable. It seems to offend him the way a clumsy, counterintuitive kitchen tool might, or a frumpy font. At first, that disgruntlement was just “a whisper in my mind,” Bennett explains. “But it’s gone from being a whisper to a roar.” The solution, when it finally occurred to him, felt obvious. “Oh,” he told himself. “You need to redesign death.”
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Iranian Man Burns Himself to Death in Anti-Government Protest
There are growing fears that human rights abuses in Iran are being overshadowed by the ongoing nuclear talks, highlighted by the death of a young Iranian who set fire to himself in protest against the government last week. Ahwazi Arab and father of two Younes al-Asakirah, 34, died last Sunday as a result of his burns, which he received when he set himself ablaze to protest against the government who had confiscated his fruit and vegetable stall earlier in March.
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Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven by photographer Noriko Hayashi explores the ways in which Japan is dealing with the issue of real estate for the deceased.
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What happens to our bodies after we die
The breakdown of our bodies after death can be fascinating – if you dare to delve into the details.
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New York court rules examiners can keep organs without notifying family
An appeals court made the ruling on Wednesday, prompted by the case of a Staten Island forensic pathologist who kept the brain of a 17-year-old car crash victim
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'No One Should Have The Right To Prolong My Death'
Jennifer Glass was a newlywed when she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. "I'm doing everything I can to extend my life," she says, while advocating for a right-to-die law in California.
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Death is the Road to Awe (from The Fountain)
Another beautiful piece of music. Unlike the last song that is about hope, I believe this song embodies loss and overcoming it. Really emotional from beginning to end. The movie is fantastic too, but really out there.
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The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead
Inside the autopsy lab, pathologists talk about the emotional rewards of medicine's most-maligned specialty—and what it's like to work side-by-side with death. By Rachel Wilkinson.
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Death by Flatulence and Other Shortcomings of Big Data
Bizarre fatalities and the limitations of the data revolution emerge from a review of CDC records
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A startup founder reportedly jumped to her death from the top of New York City rooftop bar 230 Fifth
Faigy Mayer, 30, was an iOS developer and the founder of New York startup Appton.
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Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table
I look forward eagerly, almost greedily, to the weekly arrival of journals like Nature and Science, and turn at once to articles on the physical sciences — not, as perhaps I should, to articles on biology and medicine.
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