Post Mortem
What Happens if You Vote and Die Before Election Day?
Let's say you send in an absentee ballot and then you drop dead. Does your vote still count?
How Living People Are Wrongfully Pronounced Dead
Each year, about 1,000 living people are erroneously added to the Death Master File, a database of every American who has died since 1936.
Every Human Skull Is a Beautiful Snowflake
A new exhibit at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia explores the beauty and individuality of human skulls.
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.
'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.
The Strange Case of the Oklahoma Woman Who Dismembered a Corpse at a Funeral
This spring, Shaynna Sims was arrested for "unauthorised dissection" and later charged with stealing the dead woman's shoes.
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.