A Sailor’s Dying Wish
Today’s guest post is written by Jennie Haskamp: After signing my Pop, EM2 Bud Cloud (circa Pearl Harbor) up for hospice care, the consolation prize I’d given him (for agreeing it was OK to die) was a trip to “visit the Navy in San Diego.” I emailed my friend and former Marine sergeant, Mrs. Mandy McCammon, […]
Death in the News: Five Weird Stories from the Past Week
1. Doctors remove a 36-year-old baby skeleton from a woman’s body Jyoti Kumar went to the doctor after she started experiencing constant abdominal pain—and experts in the Indian city of Nagpur discovered the cause was a baby skeleton that had been inside her for 38 years. Kumar, 62, had an ectopic pregnancy when she […]
This is how a hospital moved the dead body of the world’s former heaviest man to the crematory
On May 26th of this year Uribe “Meme” Garza died. At one point in his life, “Meme” weighed 1,230 pounds. A year ago, I helped remove the deceased body of a man who weighed 600 pounds. It took four of us to move him thirty feet from his bed to our hearse. A couple years […]