Death At the Ballpark
A compendium of all the people who have died at baseball games. In Morristown, Ohio, in 1902, one man asks another if he can borrow his penknife so he can sharpen the pencil he’s using to keep score....
View ArticleLuge Crash
CTV has been catching a lot of shit for their choice to air the video of Nodar Kumaritashvili’s fatal luge accident. But the New York Times has (in my opinion) taken it even further offering this...
View ArticleDeath and Star Trek
The fifteen cruelest deaths in Star Trek history. Very comprehensive. [via]
View ArticleDeath By Firing Squad
Earlier today a man in Utah was executed by firing squad. Here’s the attorney general’s tweet about it. You can’t make this shit up. Stay classy, America.
View ArticleThe modern condition: What happens online when you die? Or when someone close...
The modern condition: What happens online when you die? Or when someone close to you dies? Not many people have given serious thought to these questions. Maybe that’s partly because what we do online...
View Article➜ Gorey-style video game deaths
Edward Gorey-style video game deaths. [via] ★ Permalink
View Article➜ Fraggle Rock and death
For years I’ve been telling anyone that’ll listen that Fraggle Rock isn’t the kiddie puppet show they remember. It’s very deep and pretty damn dark. [via] ★ Permalink
View Article➜ Pia Farrenkopf, who lived for five years while being dead
The story of Pia Farrenkopf, who died in 2009 in her garage, but went undiscovered because of automated bill payments and friendly neighbours. Between those two moments—when she died and when her body...
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