Artist Chet Phillips (previously at Neatorama) designed this downloadable mask for those who waited until the last minute to plan your Halloween costume. It's described as "a cross between a monkey skeleton, the Grim Rea...

It's difficult to put large crowds of people toget...  ...ut for the amount of violence, injuries, and even death . This list tells about the big ones you recall, A...

Covered with actual skin from slaves, this mask was carried like a flag on a pole by the medicine man of the Ekoi tribe of Cameroon, Africa, during funerals. Created as a representatio...

The golden toad is pretty gorgeous. Too bad you'll never see one in person. They went extinct in 1989: Scientists aren't totally sure what led to this Costa Rican toad's decline, but the best theory is that the El Nino...

Alex posted an item about stem cells living long a...  ...ow Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death , who says medical doctors and scientists don't se...  ...who says medical doctors and scientists don't see death in the same way, and there are differences even a...  ...speak loudly about the flaws...

How long do stem cells in your bod...  ...How long do stem cells in your body last after death ? New research by histologist and neurop...  ...nditions that they stay alive up to 17 days after death ," Chrétien said. [...]...  ...uspect that chemicals given off after *strong cla...

Yes, we might not yet have the technology to bring people back from the dead, but even if we did, it still is probably something we won't want to do. If you need a few reasons to leave the dead the way they are, then...

(Video Link) Robots are increasingly active i...  ...strokes and says soothing words to a human on his deathbed . Because it cares. Link -via Nerdcore

"Helter Skelter"This song off The White Album probably wouldn't be so famous were it not for the Manson murders. More on that in a sec. But first, the inspiration for "Helter Skelter." Paul McCartney has said he'd read a...

Here's a sure-fire way to ruin a perfectly good fu...  ...rial Friday evening. A doctor sent to sign the death certificate found it strange that his body was wa...