Hello there. I'm doing some research for a post in another community and I'd like your help. I'm looking to find out what the leading causes of human death have been over the past decade and would like some links to scientifically accurate scources. I'm especially interested to see the number of deaths caused by war, terrorist acts, starvation, and ( Read more... )

Most of them involve death of the more unpleasant variety. Maybe I'll find that book of epitaphs later and look for some good ones ...

( Aztec Leader's Tomb Found )

Jana Hollingsworth ( Read more... )

Throughout history, civilizations have developed ways to deal with and honor the dead. From embalming to cremation, funeral services to burial ceremonies, the rituals of death tell us a lot about the living. What do our customs say about our society? And how do our practices shape the way we view our final fate?Including ( Read more... )

Doppelgänger ( Read more... )

A person's online space can turn into a place for friends to post memorials ( Read more... )

Recently when I channel surfed I saw a little bit of a very interesting documentary. Sadly since I was in a great hurry to meet someone I couldn't stay at home and watch it. I don't remember even in what channel it was showed at (In Russian)and can't look the film up.

( Shamanic saint princess in Russia? )

By M.L. Johnson, Associated Press Writer | January 7, 2006

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Brown University's library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather.

But here's its secret: the book is bound in human skin.A number of prestigious libraries -- ( Read more... )

Blown up, electrocuted and horribly emasculated in 2005

Robin McKie, science editor, Sunday January 1, 2006, The Observer

In retrospect, it was an obvious error to make. Last January, Marko, a 55-year-old Croatian, thought up an 'ingenious' solution to the problem of cleaning his chimney. It was too high to push a broom up from the ground, he ( Read more... )

New find in Uruguay 'missing' dig

Forensic experts in Uruguay have unearthed remains of a person believed to be one of the victims of the military rule in the 1973-85.

A skull was found at army barracks near the capital Montevideo after officials were sent a hand-drawn map anonymously.

It was a second find in a week after recently-elected ( Read more... )