death
A Match Made in Heaven: The Tinder for People Who Work with Death
With Dead-Meet.com, finding love as a mortician, EMT, or anatomical illustrator has never been so easy.
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.
Do Drug Dealers Worry About Their Customers Dying?
We caught up with three dealers to chat about the risks and ethics of what they do. Is it true dealers never consider the consequences?
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.
I Just Heard a Thud: A Train Driver Explains How Hitting Someone Affected His Life
Every year 130 people are killed or seriously injured on Australia's train lines.
The VICE Guide to Surviving the Nuclear Holocaust
It's a-comin' friends. Prepare your bodies for eventual death with our handy guide.
Searching for Solitude in South India
This summer, I visited South India for the first time since my grandfather died nearly two years ago. A familiar space had suddenly become unfamiliar, and I searched for serenity, devotion, and solitude in a city where privacy is scarce.
Why I Ghosted My Boyfriend and My Best Friends
We talked so much online that we became unable to deal with the emotional fallout of our lives in person.
How to Tell a Mass Shooting from Gang Gunfire: Lessons from the Streets of San Bernardino
As investigators gathered evidence at the Inland Regional Center in the hours after the December 2 attack, longterm residents shared stories of one of the most overlooked strains of gun violence.
Why Are People Still Dying at Music Festivals?
Some believe "drug checking" stations, which test drugs for harmful substances, set up outside festivals could help curb the deaths.
'The Yellow River': Fiction by Jake Hooker
In this debut short story, a journalist, a photographer, and an interpreter travel through western China, and come across the ritual of minghun: marriage after death.
Rural Cambodians are Hunting and Killing Suspected Witches
The sad, but not uncommon, tale of an elderly healer who was murdered with an axe.