Dead // Current

Unclaimed dead stack up

The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one... more

asherp
added this
22 hours ago
|
10 comments

Stefanie Spielman, Chris’ Spielman Wife, Dies (PHOTOS)

Former NFL linebacker Chris Spielman’s wife Stefanie Spielman passed away at the age... more

c7girl
added this
2 days ago
|
0 comments

Daul Kim PHOTOS: Model Found Dead In Paris, Possible Suicide

Korean model Daul Kim was found dead in Paris, France, on Thursday morning (November... more

c7girl
added this
3 days ago
|
0 comments

Dead « Random Thoughts of a Zombie

“You know we shouldn’t be doing this.” “I haven’t agreed to anything yet.... more

remanns
added this
4 days ago
|
0 comments

‘Remote Control’ Ken Ober Dies At 52 (Photos)

MTV’s ‘Remote Control’ host Ken Ober was found dead at his home on Sunday... more

c7girl
added this
6 days ago
|
0 comments

Michael Scott, Chicago Public Schools Board President, Found Dead

Chicago Public Schools Board President Michael Scott’s body was reportedly found... more

c7girl
added this
6 days ago
|
1 comment

Actor Edward Woodward Dead At 79 (Photos)

British actor Edward Woodward died after battling several illnesses including... more

c7girl
added this
6 days ago
|
0 comments

Mexican Soccer Player Antonio de Nigris Dead at 31

Mexican footballer (soccer) player Antonio de Nigris was found dead in Greece on... more

phxboy
added this
7 days ago
|
0 comments

Murdered Mans Dead Body Sold To Russia Kebab House

Police in Russia have arrested three homeless men suspected of killing a man, eating... more

bigredkev
added this
8 days ago
|
5 comments

Fort Hood Shootings

An Arlington-born Army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people and wounding at... more

VSiskos
added this
16 days ago
|
15 comments

Dead Malls in Toronto

I've always been interested in man-made structures that have been left to decay. I... more

Scolirk
added this
19 days ago
|
0 comments

Softball Players found Dead

DICKINSON, N.D. - Police say three missing North Dakota college softball players have... more

vincius
added this
19 days ago
|
0 comments

The Dead Rat Prank!

Nextraker
added this
22 days ago
|
2 comments

Europe's Grand Cemeteries are a Treasure Trove of Buried History

Standing at Khrushchev's grave, one need only look around the graveyard, in the shadow of the dark salmon cupolas of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, to unearth an intriguing, tortured history. There's the grave of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, found dead in an apparent suicide after a spat with her husband, Stalin; there's the tomb of Nikolai Gogol, whose remains arrived at the cemetery from Danilov Monastery, which the secret police converted to a detention center in the 1930s; and there's the grave of Anton Chekhov, whose tubercular body was reportedly transported back to Moscow from Western Europe in 1904 in a railcar reserved for fresh oysters. The Russian cemetery, like its grand European counterparts, is a tapestry of cultural history that brings to bear the idiosyncrasies and paradoxes of individual personalities. But it also illustrates, in shades of stone grey, a vexed social topography of the past.

Across Europe, historically minded tourists are increasingly appreciating the allure of grand cemeteries like Novodevichy. Vienna's Zentralfriedhof, with over three million graves, including those of the twice-exhumed Ludwig van Beethoven and musical modernist Arnold Schönberg, has seen an increase in visitors recently. So has Venice's Isola di San Michele, the crowded, cypress-speckled funerary Isle of the Dead, a former prison island that was transformed into a cemetery at the behest of Napoleon and now houses the graves of Ezra Pound and Sergei Diaghilev. It is easy to understand the appeal. As Mark Twain noted after seeing the eerily expressive funerary sculptures of Genoa's Staglieno Cemetery, "To us these far-reaching ranks of bewitching forms are a hundredfold more lovely than the damaged and dingy statuary they have saved from the wreck of ancient art and set up in the galleries of Paris for the worship of the world." Compared to dingy museums, Europe's landscapes of the dead are infinitely more alive.

(Great article with much, much more at link. What better to read about at Halloween then the dead?)Standing at Khrushchev's grave, one need only look around the graveyard, in the shadow... more