A Chinese man has died after a cell phone battery exploded in his chest pocket. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Joey Bishop is the last of the 'Rat Pack' to pass away. picked by 2manyusernames 12 months ago

Christian Brando, the eldest son of the late legendary actor Marlon Brando, is reported by several Web sites to have died at 1:47 a.m. today at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. picked by punthe 8 months ago

A French woman with a rare facial tumour, whose plea for doctor-assisted suicide was rejected by a court earlier this week, has died. Update on this story. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Heart attack picked by moe 12 months ago

He walked naked through the Australian outback and died without clothes in a canoe in the jungle - but it was learned yesterday that the so-called 'Naked Nomad' had left behind a £2 million fortune. picked by doggylives 6 months ago

A drummer for the Swedish pop group ABBA has died after an apparent accident at his home in Spain, a Civil Guard spokeswoman said Monday. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died? picked by super 1 year ago

...and the dogs died from heatstroke.

San Diego and Phoenix...You would think they'd remember their beloved canine partners. picked by suebe 2 months ago

Ling Ling, the male giant panda at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, died of chronic heart failure early Wednesday at age 22 years and seven months, equivalent to about 70 human years. picked by punthe 5 months ago

Claiborne died Tuesday at the New York Presbyterian Hospital after suffering from cancer for a number of years. picked by punthe 1 year ago

Sometime in 2004 a hamster got sick. Then it was sold from a PetSmart store. Then the woman who bought it died from a stroke. But she had contracted lymphocytic choriomeningitis from said hamster beforehand. Then her liver was donated to a guy. They guy then died several days later allegedly from the virus from the hamster.

The guy's wife is suing PetSmart for negligence. picked by moe 6 months ago

One of the many men who could lay claim to the title The Fifth Beatle has died in New York after a short illness.

Further details about his life can be found here. picked by Pocksucket 7 months ago

Myra Nicholson (December 14, 1894 – September 20, 2007) was the oldest living Australian and the eleventh oldest validated person in the world following the September 15, 2007 death of French doyenne Marie-Simone Capony. picked by punthe 1 year ago

Ayveq, the walrus whose bizarre, though oddly compelling, masturbation rituals made him an international sensation at the New York Aquarium, has died. He was 14.

If anyone feels compelled to see him in action see HERE picked by doggylives 3 months ago

The last haunting self- portrait of Andrew McAuley, a man and his kayak, alone. picked by cjmei 2 years ago

The father of a Hull man who died in raging floodwaters when he became stuck in grating has criticised the fire service's attempts to rescue him. picked by pjanaway 1 year ago

Madeleine L'Engle, the author of that great book, A Wrinkle In Time, loved by multiple generations of kids and adults went to that big tesseract in the sky. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

LeRoi Moore, saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle in June. He was 46. picked by Chez 2 months ago

The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman who counted eating well and getting rest as her hobbies, died Monday at age 114, a news report said. picked by Maven 1 year ago