Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead today by his housekeeper in his Manhattan apartment. picked by unzercharlie 2 years ago

Thousands of starfish have been found washed up dead on a beach in Kent. A carpet of the dead creatures covered hundreds of yards of the beach at Pegwell Bay near Sandwich. picked by topofall 2 years ago

Cue Monty Python
Government drone pushed the wrong button, dead husband gets sympathy letter regarding the loss of his wife. picked by tigertony 2 years ago

Authorities are trying to find out who stuffed 70 dead Siamese cats into seven large trash bags and dumped them onto a road in suburban San Antonio. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Laura Todd Says Situation Prevents Her From Living

What a grave situation...

(Theme photo not of dead woman) picked by buddha 2 years ago

The author of PUSHING 50 IN THE DEATH CAR, LIFE'S BLOOD befriends a small wiener dog at a house call where a person was found dead. Initially the dog was aggressively trying to protect the deceased body and was very hostile. picked by kelaltieri 11 months ago

Design student Anna Schwamborn has created a range of jewellery made with the hair and cremated ashes of a dead loved ones.

What better way to mourn the loss of a loved one than to wear their hair around your neck? I'll tell you a better way, don't wear their hair around your neck, that's how. picked by Doggylives 5 months ago

An Oklahoma man declared brain dead shocks everyone when he suddenly reaches for the nurse who was prepping him for organ donation. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A 2-year-old boy was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive beneath his passed-out mother -- who investigators say admitted she'd been drinking.


*No. Not Florida. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Heavy coffee drinkers are more likely to have hallucinations or feel "the presence of dead people", according to new research. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the entire file — among the most sought-after and examined documents on earth — available to all on the Internet. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

A man in southern China dropped dead after a three-day marathon online session at a cybercafe. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police say 21-year-old Heath Benedict was found dead on his couch Wednesday evening in his Villages of San Jose home. They do not suspect that any drugs or alcohol were involved in his death, or that foul play is suspected. picked by ImNotBlue 2 years ago

An elderly woman who had been missing for seven years was found dead in her own home!

The remains, nothing more than a skeleton at this point, appear to have lain undisturbed in her apartment since the day she had been reported missing. picked by funkfrost 8 months ago

Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, BBC correspondent Jonathan Head has reported. picked by cmgoings 6 months ago

Police suspected he wasn't really dead when they saw him breathing.

The funeral home said it was mystified about what the man could have been after, because there were no valuables or cash inside the funeral parlor. I guess they never heard of (dare I say it) necrophilia. *shudders* picked by tigertony 2 years ago

A prominent human rights activist was found dead after being kidnapped in Russia's troubled republic of Chechnya Wednesday, provoking outrage from President Dmitry Medvedev and the international community. picked by nateebiinature 5 months ago

“And I called them because (my goverment disability check) wasn’t there and they said, ‘You’re dead,’ and I said, ‘No, I’m not dead.’ And they kept trying to tell me I was dead but I’m not.”

Typical government response. Unless the theme pic is a posed corpse (with pancakes), she IS alive! picked by Moe 2 years ago

maybe its not dead, it says some people still speak it. in my opinion it's an unborn language
*it was intended as a world language, FAIL* picked by picklebob12 2 years ago

The dead monkeys found in the forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) might be behind the outbreak of the Ebola virus in DR Congo's southwestern Kassi province, Angola's official news agency ANGOP reported on Tuesday. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago