Via IFL Science: According to TV mobsters, to be “sleeping with the fishes” is the worst punishment anyone can receive. There are many reasons that human bodies end up in the ocean, but they all have one thing in common: it is not entirely clear how scavengers in the ocean deal with them. In order to […]
This from Steve Kemple’s blog Horrible Suicide.
Sometime today (Sunday, November 2nd, 2014), Brittany Maynard took her own life under Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act”. In the final paragraph of her obituary, she wrote, “It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you […]
WARNING: If you are sensitive to images of decomposition, please don’t view this post. Via VOX: There are dozens of dead bodies lying in a field in Texas, as part of Texas State University’s forensic anthropology research. We recently visited this “body farm,” one of five such laboratories in the world (all located in […]