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The Strange Cult of Santa Muerte: Saint Death Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
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?
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Celebrity Death Beeper Posted: 3 years ago by steelshooter
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
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MKV aka The Flying Death Robot Of Doom Posted: 12 months ago by pocksucket
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.
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Mom pleads guilty in cult starvation death Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
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of starving her 1-year-old son to death is making an unusual deal with prosecutors — she wants her guilty plea to be withdrawn if her child is resurrected.
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Death special: How does it feel to die? Posted: 2 years ago by fogowar
"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."
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Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled Posted: 1 year ago by TraumaMamma
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.
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Man jailed for faking his death Posted: 1 year ago by bevissimo
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.
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Transplant surgeon prescribed drugs to hasten death Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
The drugs were prescribed "to accelerate Mr Navarro's death in order to recover his organs."
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Death & Taxes: 2010 Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
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 size to their spending totals and the percentage change from 2009 is included to spot trends and disproportion.
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Woman beat to death for dressing like a goth. Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
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.
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Life Before Death Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
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.
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Sentenced to death for spreading his brother's word Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
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.
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Quadraplegic could still be talked out of death Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
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.
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Charges dismissed in sherry enema death Posted: 2 years ago by Nicky666
yes, sherry enema death, that wasn't a typo
(not showing the bottle neck, I mean, who knows what's going on there...(?!))
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U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000 Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
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?
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Girl, 8, Starved To Death by adoptive parents Posted: 2 years ago by moe
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!
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Defibrillator Spark Brings Probe In Death Posted: 7 months ago by suebe
State health officials are investigating the death of an man who allegedly caught fire at a hospital while being treated with a defibrillator.
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Death Masks of the Famous Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
It was the tradition for many centuries for death masks to be made of monarchs, artists and politicians in the time directly after their demise. Take a look at the many faces of death.
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Parents guilty of manslaughter over daughter's eczema death Posted: 6 months ago by equinox
Even after their child dies horribly and they are both found guilty of manslaughter in the neglect death of their child, a homeopath and his wife still swear that homeopathy works and their daughter would have died anyway.
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What's the Next Right-Wing Scare Tactic? Zombie Death Panels Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
First it was the death panels, and then it was the death book, or, as it's also known, the Grim Reader. So it can only be a matter of time before Republicans bring us a new talking point on health care reform; Democrats will turn you and your loved ones into zombies.
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