Archive for year 2014
23 Horrible and Humorous Facebook Death Fails
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This is the woman who was caught stealing from cemeteries
Death brings out the best and the worst in people. During times of death, family and friends can create acts of love they never knew they were capable of doing. Acts such as forgiveness. Acts of grace and kindness.
But, death also brings out the worst in people. Or, rather it brings out the worst people. Without fail, when there’s a tragedy, there’s crooks. Like the people who set up fake charities for the victims of Sandy Hook, only to stash all the donations for themselves. And like this women (the story is below her picture):
62-year-old Joyce Christie points out objects to police in front of her home on Bluebird Circle in Belfast Thursday afternoon.
“Solar lights, figurines, a little humming birds and decorative weather balls. Stuff like that,” listed Belfast Police Chief Michael McFadden.
Police say she stole them.
“She actually literally dug flowers up off of grave sites and replanted them here,” he said.
Sunday, police say a man went into the station to report items missing from his wife’s grave at Grove Cemetery.
“It was really kind of heartbreaking and I was angry for him. I believe that you better be able to put something on your loved one’s grave and have it be there a 100 years from then,” said Chief McFadden.
That man wasn’t the only victim.
We spoke to another man who found things missing from his wife’s grave Monday.
He asked to not have his face on camera.
He said, “My thoughts were between anger and disgust. I just can’t describe, I just can’t understand the type of people who would take things from peoples loved ones.”
Police brought him to Christie’s home. He identified two items taken.
“I’ve been on cloud nine this morning since we saw them. Very glad to be able to finally get them back,” said the victim.
You can read the rest of the story HERE.
I hope this woman can get some help. Cause it just ain’t right.
23 Photos of the Cremation Process
WARNING: Some of these photos are disturbing. Please do not view if you are sensitive to grotesque images.
These photos are sourced from a YouTube video on cremation. I believe the YouTube video is a supercut from the documentary called, “A Certain Kind of Death”, which documents what happens to people who die with no next of kin.
You can watch the full video (where these photos are sourced from here:
The Story Behind This Photo
A young boy standing at attention near a mass cremation pit, about to inter his younger brother, who died in the wake of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1945.
Here’s the full story from Rare Historical Photos:
Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of fire bombs and atomic bombs. Over the next seven months starting September 1945, he traveled across Western Japan chronicling the devastation, revealing the plight of the bomb victims including the dead, the wounded, the homeless and orphaned. Images of the human suffering was etched both on his negatives and his heart.
In the photo, the boy stands erect, having done his duty by bringing his dead brother to a cremation ground. Standing at attention was an obvious military influence. Looking at the boy who carries his younger sibling on his back, keeps a stiff upper lip, tries so hard to be brave is heart-breaking. He has epitomized the spirit of a defeated nation.
Sometimes later Joe O’Donnell spoke to a Japanese interviewer about this picture:
“I saw a boy about ten years old walking by. He was carrying a baby on his back. In those days in Japan, we often saw children playing with their little brothers or sisters on their backs, but this boy was clearly different. I could see that he had come to this place for a serious reason. He was wearing no shoes. His face was hard. The little head was tipped back as if the baby were fast asleep. The boy stood there for five or ten minutes.”
“The men in white masks walked over to him and quietly began to take off the rope that was holding the baby. That is when I saw that the baby was already dead. The men held the body by the hands and feet and placed it on the fire. The boy stood there straight without moving, watching the flames. He was biting his lower lip so hard that it shone with blood. The flame burned low like the sun going down. The boy turned around and walked silently away.”
