Tag: death
For their latest action, the safe streets advocacy group Right of Way created stenciled tributes to seven senior citizens who were killed by drivers in the last half year. The group spray painted chalk outlines on the streets where the deaths occurred, as well as text that echoes the NYPD’s mantra for incidents in which […]
What a way to go. An unidentified man died instantly after crashing his car in Brazil, but the force of the impact wasn’t what killed him; it was the 500 kg (1,100 lbs) of weed he had in the car with him, falling onto and crushing him. The man was reportedly trafficking the cannabis from […]
In the five weeks since the British tourist Sian Green was maimed by a taxi in Midtown, there have been at least nine pedestrians killed by automobiles in the five boroughs and thirteen other accidents involving pedestrian injuries. It seems like an extreme number, and it is, but for NYC it’s business as usual: cars have been killing […]
Peeing on the subway tracks is a pretty serious faux pas, but no one deserves this kind of punishment. According to the New York Post, Matthew Zeno, 30, was electrocuted and killed after urinating on the third rail at the Broadway-Union Avenue G Train stop at 3:30 this morning. No word on whether he fell, or if […]
A Staten Island family is suing a local cemetery for putting their sibling in the wrong grave, then doing away with her casket entirely. The bizarre case of the missing corpse came about when the family sought to move Juanita Scarfia’s body to a new grave in a family plot, only to discover she wasn’t in […]
No, not that Death. This Death. The seminal pre-punk punk band from Detroit, formed in 1971, didn’t receive proper recognition until the 2000s, and now, they’re getting a fantastic looking documentary tribute. Alice Cooper and Henry Rollins both show up to pay tribute in the trailer, but the most magical moment comes when the son […]
Are you going to die? No worries. Not only is there a new Google service that manages your data when you’re dead, it cleverly seems to sidestep any actual mention of death. Rather, it says, “What happens to your account when you stop using it? Google puts you in control.” Your account will go into a “time-out” […]
Back in the 80’s, shows like Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock kept it real, teaching children from an early age that everyone they love will eventually rot in the ground alone after dying a slow, painful death. Here is an adorable supercut of Fraggles talking about death. A lot. […]
Did you ever want to know the biggest causes of death in the 20th century, but from an infographic complete with cheerful colors? Information Is Beautiful has you covered. With clean, peppy design, you’ll almost forget you’re looking at the statistics behind millions of deaths. View a full-size version here. […]
So you’ve tweeted your last tweet, just before heading into the great social network in the sky. Would you rather have your feed lie unpopulated and empty for the rest of eternity, or, if you could, would you like to have it keep on tweeting, retweeting, and favoriting, long after you’ve passed beyond the physical […]
