The Grim Reaper as a cross-dresser? In South America, Saint Death (Santa Muerte) will visit you one day - or so it is believed - and it will come in female form dressed up to the nines. Take a look at the strange tradition of Saint Death. A pagan mix of the supernatural and black magic or a Catholic saint worthy of veneration? picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Emails you (example) when a celebrity or sports figure dies. Free. Simple. Easy. Fun. No bull.
Now checking for deaths every 10 minutes at excite.com entertainment, sports & top news.

WARNING: Cheesy factor VERY high picked by steelshooter 3 years ago

Seeing a Windows blue screen of death is fine, if annoying, if you’re just balancing your checkbook, but what if you see it in more… precarious situations? Like when you’re pumping gas? picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

It is a question, ultimately, about the right to check out of the hotel once you know that you have got to go, under your own terms. Paying with your own credit card; signing your own signature; walking out that big swing door in the manner of your own choosing. Nobody likes thinking about death, but several brave people are, quite rightly, forcing us to do so. picked by DAVEthefish 9 months ago

Either name is good - MKV means Multiple Kill Vehicle. Is that so as to distinguish it from the Single Kill Vehicle.

Looks like it's main purpose is to hover about 5ft up in the air and kill you to death with guns. picked by pocksucket 12 months ago

A religious cult member accused of starving her 1-year-old son to death is making an unusual deal with prosecutors — she wants her guilty plea to be withdrawn if her child is resurrected. picked by suebe 8 months ago

"None of us can know the answers for sure until our own time comes, but the few individuals who have their brush with death interrupted by a last-minute reprieve can offer some intriguing insights. Advances in medical science, too, have led to a better understanding of what goes on as the body gives up the ghost." picked by fogowar 2 years ago

If you or a loved one develops pneumonia or has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital, do you know what the chances are of getting out alive? Hospital death rates are difficult to pin down because some see sicker patient populations than others. Your chances of survival have become a little easier to find, thanks to information included in the government's Hospital Compare Web site. picked by TraumaMamma 1 year ago

The drugs were prescribed "to accelerate Mr Navarro's death in order to recover his organs." picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341 ($243,600) in insurance money, a newspaper reported Saturday. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

A 15-year-old boy kicked and stamped to death a woman because she was dressed as a Goth, a court heard.

The drunk teenager was among a gang of five who "savagely and mercilessly" attacked Sophie Lancaster, 20, and her boyfriend, Preston Crown Court heard. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Death and dying are arguably our last taboos

This exhibition features people whose lives are coming to an end. It explores the experiences, hopes and fears of the terminally ill. All of them agreed to be photographed shortly before and immediately after death. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Death and Taxes" is a large representational graph and poster of the federal budget. It contains over 500 programs and departments and almost every program that receives over 200 million dollars annually. The data is straight from the president's 2010 budget request and will be debated, amended, and approved by Congress to begin the fiscal year. All of the item circles are proportional in siz... read full post picked by nateebiinature 4 months ago

Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, 23, has been sentenced to death by three judges in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.

His crime is that he printed an article written by his journalist brother that violates Islam. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

"You would like for the president of the United States to die?" Alan Colmes asked the Rev. Wiley Drake once more. "If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around, I am asking God to enforce imprecatory prayers that are throughout the Scripture that would cause him death, that's correct." picked by lynxears 8 hours ago

yes, sherry enema death, that wasn't a typo

(not showing the bottle neck, I mean, who knows what's going on there...(?!)) picked by Nicky666 2 years ago

Perth quadriplegic Christian Rossiter has won a landmark legal case giving him the right to starve himself to death, but now says he could yet be talked out of taking his life. picked by kakana 3 months ago

Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad late Sunday, raising the death toll for American forces since start of the war to 4,000, according to the Pentagon.

*wait, didn't the "surge" make baghdad safe? picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

So they take the kid away from mom due to drug use. Then the aunt & uncle chain her to a wall and starve her to death. HANG THEM NOW! picked by moe 2 years ago

State health officials are investigating the death of an man who allegedly caught fire at a hospital while being treated with a defibrillator. picked by suebe 7 months ago