Ashes

Food

Student Allegedly Baked Dead Grandpa’s Ashes in Cookies and Handed Them Out at School

10.17.18

By Jelisa Castrodale
Sex

This Artist Creates Specialty Dildos That Can Hold Human Remains

09.04.18

By Sarah Bellman
Drugs

Cops Seized a Bag of Human Remains Because They Thought It Was Heroin

04.27.18

By River Donaghey
Tech

Grow a Tree from Human Remains With This Internet Connected Urn

06.04.17

By Anna Sterling
All the Strange Things People Have Done With Their Relatives’ Cremated Remains

03.18.17

By Jesse Donaldson
25 Major Artists Save an Art School Using Its Charred Remains

02.26.17

By Maya-Roisin Slater
Entertainment

I Chilled with an Artist Who Burns Old Works to Make New Ones

11.17.16

By Masha (Maria) Koblyakova
We Asked an Undertaker Why He Keeps Strangers’ Unclaimed Ashes for Decades

10.29.16

By Jesse Donaldson
Identity

The Vatican Says Catholics Shouldn’t Spread Their Dead Relatives’ Ashes Around Anymore

10.25.16

By Allison Schaller
Entertainment

You Might Be Able to Buy Truman Capote’s Ashes for Just $6,000

08.24.16

By VICE Staff
‘Ash Party,’ Today’s Comic by Ida Eva Neverdahl

06.05.16

By Ida Eva Neverdahl
Things You Only Know When Your Parents Are Dead

08.18.14

By Joel Golby and Joel Golby, Illustrations: James Burgess

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Life

‘The Voice’ Winner Sundance Head Accidentally Shoots Himself in the Stomach

Sundance Head was hunting by himself when a gun went off, hitting him in the stomach. He’s since been released from the hospital.

11.17.24

By Paige Gawley
Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Life

Someone May Soon Pay $1.5 Million to Tape a Banana to a Wall

The artwork that debuted in 2019 is set to fetch more than $1 million at auction. The purchaser won’t actually take home the item, though.

11.17.24

By Paige Gawley
Screenshot: Cartoon Network

Gaming

The Cartoon Network Shockwave Game Era

Believe it or not, there was a time where computer gaming was done on Cartoon Network’s website. And it was incredible.

11.17.24

By Anthony Franklin II
Screenshots: 11 Bit Studios

Gaming

‘The Thaumaturge’ Is a Delightfully Unhinged RPG Coming to Xbox and PlayStation Soon

‘The Thaumaturge’ is finally making the jump from PC to the Xbox and PlayStation, and I need y’all to play this unsung, awesome RPG.

11.17.24

By Dwayne Jenkins
Screenshot: Virgin Interactive Entertainment

Gaming

The Lion King: My Gaming Nemesis

The Lion King video game was my white whale. The game that haunted me for years before I finally decided to fight back.

11.17.24

By Anthony Franklin II