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The Strange Case of the English Porpoise That Fucked Itself to Death
Last week, a sexually exhausted porpoise was found on a side street in Sussex wrapped in a yellow tarpaulin. Weirdly, this isn't even a rare occurrence.
This Mortician Wants You to Take a Hands-On Approach with Corpses
"We are entrenched in the idea that dead bodies are dangerous, and we are entrenched in the idea that it is better to have professionals do it... American death is a really recent invention."
Tana Toraja Villagers Take Tomb Sweeping to a Morbid Extreme
The Tana Toraja regency on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has an unusual death ritual: Every few years, families reunite to exhume the bodies of their deceased relatives, clean up the inside of their coffins, and sometimes give their ancestors a...
Postmortem: The Life and Deaths of a Medicolegal Death Investigator
I've spent most of my life employed as a medicolegal death investigator. My career began at a coroner's office in New Orleans and concluded more than three decades later. I participated in 7,000 forensic autopsies and completed more than 2,000 next-of...
A Visit to the Little Shop Where Hollywood Buys Its Dead Bodies
Dapper Cadaver is where the prop masters of your favorite movies and TV shows shop. Sure you could make your own corpses from scratch, but when there's a shop that offers medically realistic dead bodies, not just of humans, but of all creatures great...
Lickey Louise
In the middle of the woods is a tree that bleeds. If you kill the tree and drink its blood, you get very high. And as you've probably already guessed, the kids are getting very high off the tree's blood these days.
Take a Stroll... with Rob Delaney - Cooking Up a War? Don't Forget the Piss
People are understandably upset after video emerged of what appears to be U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan corpses. If they're surprised, however, they need to pick up a history book.
Living, Dead
10,000 Filipino families live in this massive graveyard in Manila. I recently spent five days walking among its residents taking photos and hearing stories of struggle and survival.