Post Mortem
Tattoos, Diseases, and Skin Pickings: A Museum Explores the Importance of Skin
The exhibit includes wax models of grotesque skin diseases, strips of preserved tattooed skin, and an entire jar of skin pickings.
The Bizarre Crimes of Detroit's Underground Cadaver Dealer
Arthur Rathburn is accused of hacking up bodies with chainsaws and selling diseased body parts to medical conferences—just one example of the shady ongoings in the cadaver dealing industry.
How to Freeze Your Brain and Live Forever (Maybe)
Companies have refined cryonics technology to better preserve peoples' brains after death. But so far, no one knows how to turn a cryogenically frozen brain back into a living person.
Death Is Way More Complicated When You're Polyamorous
Families tend to fight over inheritance and end-of-life decisions, but those squabbles get way weirder when you throw an extra boyfriend or girlfriend into the mix.
'Red Planeten - Begå Selvmord'
"Save the Planet, Kill Yourself" var et opråb til samfundet, der skulle skabe opmærksom omkring ødelæggelserne af miljøet. Samtidig indeholdt sloganet Church of Euthanasias løsningsforslag: At reducere befolkningen ved at opfordre til selvmord.
'Save the Planet, Kill Yourself': The Contentious History of the Church of Euthanasia
"Antihumanist" activist Chris Korda spent the 90s campaigning for the extinction of humanity. We asked her why she hates people so much.
How to Have Sex on Your Deathbed
Just because you're slowly dying of a terminal illness doesn't mean you're not thinking about sex.
Death Styles of the Rich and Famous: Stories From an Upper East Side Funeral Home
The author of a new memoir tells us what it was like to work at the place that gave John Lennon, Jackie Onassis, and Philip Seymour Hoffman their final sendoffs.
The Strange Case of the Oklahoma Woman Who Dismembered a Corpse at a Funeral
This spring, Shaynna Sims was arrested for "unauthorized dissection" and later charged with stealing the dead woman's shoes.
Kapløbet om at begrave mennesker på Månen
De to firmaer Elysium og Celestis kæmper om at blive det første selskab, der kan tilbyde begravelser på Månen for 65.000 kr. og opefter.
The Space Race for Lunar Funerals
"The time to change the vision of death from the underground to the celestial is now," says Elysium, a company trying to make lunar burials a reality.
Being in a Coma is Like One Long Lucid Dream
After contracting Legionnaires' disease, Stephanie Savage fell into a coma for six weeks. She dreamed about polar bears, ice cream, and scenes from science fiction movies.