Ohio county to pay $8 million to end lawsuit over photos of posed bodies in its morgue Posted: 2 years ago by moe
Yes...we have today's "Creepy-weird" piece. A county morgue employee took posed pics of dead people with doll furniture, fruit, and other props "as part of an art project to illustrate the cycle of life from birth through death". Hilarity ensues in the lawyers' offices.
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Dead Friends Posted: 2 years ago by doggylives
They're All Dead: Christopher Keeley posts lots of photos of and commentary about the many friends he has made and lost during his years in the intervention business. Everyone pictured is dead and includes the reasons they died. Some of the pictures contain nudity and are NSFW.
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Unsettling Old Photos of the “Living” Dead Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
Victorian mourning photography, in which the dead are posed as if they were “just sleeping” and photographed, creating an expensive memento mori that was often the only photograph a family would have of the deceased loved one.
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Maggots make themselves at home at Fresno County Morgue Posted: 6 months ago by bornbad
When our loved ones pass, the hope is they go to a better place.
But for most of us, this is not what we imagine.
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Celebrity Morgue Posted: 2 years ago by Neiako
Morbid/Bizarre pictures of dead celebrities. Not for the easily disturbed.
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Old photos find new home Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Hundreds of family photos dating back almost 100 years were found an an abandoned storage locker in Fox Point, Wis.
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Polish woman wakes up in morgue Posted: 6 months ago by kakana
A funeral company took the body to the morgue. Several hours later, a worker there noticed the bag containing the body was moving.
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Man climbs into morgue freezer Posted: 2 years ago by funkfrost
A Taiwan man grieving over the death of his girlfriend climbed inside a morgue freezer to be with her.
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Terror suspect posed for celebratory photos at WTC site Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
The Massachusetts man arrested today on federal terrorism charges once traveled to New York City and posed for photos at ground zero showing him grinning widely and pointing one finger up in the air.
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Man rapes 17-year old girl. Instead of prosecuting, the county attorney opts for showing pictures of the sexual assault. Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
A county attorney in Kansas violated a girl's privacy by showing around photos of her sexual assault, the teen and her mother claim in Topeka Federal Court. The Anderson County Attorney refused to prosecute the assailant, but showed other parents photos of the sexual assault, and was suspended from practicing law for 6 months for it.
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The Dead People Server Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
Here's where to find out. The Dead People Server is a database of interesting celebrities who are long dead or newly dead.
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Are Dead People Really Dead? Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
The living dead aren't just characters in low-budget horror movies, according to a new book that details the history of premature burial and the technology used to detect death.
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Dead salmon 'responds' to portraits of people Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
The latest weapon in the battle over the legitimacy of some functional brain scanning studies is a dead fish.
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Murdered Venezuelan man taken to morgue in taxi Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A Caracas family was forced to send a murdered son to the morgue in a taxi after waiting five hours for police who never arrived
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Real-Life Weekend at Bernie's Posted: 2 months ago by proverb
Brunswick County teen charged after driving dead friend around for hours.
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Grateful Dead Fan Site to be Reborn as a Social Network Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
The new version of Dead.net, the fan site for Dead Heads, which is soon to be released, will be a full blown social network similar to Myspace.
Mershaullk, don't leave us!!!
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Ethicist seeks law to say when dead is truly dead Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
A new trend to harvest transplant organs from people whose hearts have just stopped - but may not be yet brain dead - has underlined the "pressing need" for federal legislation to define exactly when someone has perished, a leading medical ethicist argues.
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People and life in the Iceland Posted: 2 years ago by kairo
Crazy photos and crazy people from Iceland. Photographer G.Hjöll.
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Google gives online life to Life mag's photos Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
*this is great*
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Drink coffee, see dead people Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Heavy coffee drinkers are more likely to have hallucinations or feel "the presence of dead people", according to new research.
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Man Mistakenly Declared Dead; Family Sues Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Larry Green was walking across a highway in 2005 when he was hit by a car. He was put into a body bag and sent to the morgue, and the medical examiner did not notice Green was still alive until roughly 2½ hours after the accident.
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