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Man Found Dead in Tent Two Days Later at Occupy New Orleans
Adrian Chen · 11/09/11 01:25PMThe Air Force Is Having Trouble Keeping Track of Dead Body Parts
John Cook · 11/08/11 04:22PMSleep Alone, Mess Up Your Baby
Hamilton Nolan · 11/01/11 04:25PMSteve Jobs' Final Words
Max Read · 10/30/11 02:01PMToday's New York Times features a contribution from Steve Jobs' sister, the novelist Mona Simpson: the eulogy she gave at her brother's funeral. It's one of the better things we've read in the wake of Jobs' death—if we have to read platitudes, we'd rather they be written by someone who knew and loved him personally—and in it Simpson writes about her brother's final hours:
Man Abuses Wife While She Drives, Causing Car Crash—and His Own Death
Lauri Apple · 10/27/11 09:15AMPolice Sent Winehouse's Death Report to Wrong Address
Maureen O'Connor · 10/25/11 01:31PMYoga and Vitamins: Worthless
Hamilton Nolan · 10/25/11 11:53AMI've got news for you: everything you're doing to keep yourself healthy is worthless. Well, by "you" I mean "people who do yoga and take vitamins and generally try to be healthy." I know you just sit around on the internet all day. The point is: it doesn't matter, because you're wasting your time either way.
1 in 100 Americans Made Suicide Plans
Seth Abramovitch · 10/20/11 09:45PMIf you're the kind of person who likes to casually drop Debbie Downer statistics into your holiday party conversations, here's some new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will certainly be of interest to you: 8 million adults reported considering suicide at some point between 2008 and 2009, and 2 million actually made plans to do it.
Terminally Ill Man Mummified For New Reality Show
Seth Abramovitch · 10/16/11 09:26PMReality TV has certainly dabbled in ancient embalming practices before — Paula Abdul immediately springs to mind — but never, to my knowledge, has it been taken quite to these extremes. A terminally ill man with a longheld fascination for Egyptian burial rites donated his body to a documentary series about mummification on Britain's Channel 4.
Vincent van Gogh Was Maybe Murdered?
Richard Lawson · 10/14/11 03:11PMReal Talk: Dead People Don't Need Surgery
Hamilton Nolan · 10/07/11 04:09PMSteve Jobs Was Not God
Hamilton Nolan · 10/06/11 01:10PMMysterious White Powder Terrorizes America Anew!
Hamilton Nolan · 10/04/11 08:02AMSkeleton Found Near Buckingham Palace Turns Out to Be Guy Obsessed With Queen
Max Read · 10/03/11 07:58PMHot New Campus Accessory: Guns
Hamilton Nolan · 10/03/11 03:36PMGawker Friend Aaron Jamison Has Died
Hamilton Nolan · 10/03/11 08:27AMGawker friend Aaron Jamison—who approached his own terminal cancer with a wry and sometimes morbid sense of joy, starting with his plan to sell ads on his own cremation urn to help defray the costs of his medical bills—passed away last weekend. His wife Kristin has written an appreciation of her husband that can be read here. Aaron's blog, in all of its inspirational glory, can still be found here.
Gawker Friend Aaron Jamison Is Joyous to the End
Hamilton Nolan · 09/29/11 12:03PMTerminal cancer patient Aaron Jamison has hung on longer than anyone expected. We first met him last year, when he was selling ad space on his cremation urn in order to help his soon-to-be-widowed wife pay the bills. You, the generous Gawker readership, helped them out. Earlier this summer, we heard that Aaron did not have much time left. He's made it this far, but his situation is grave.
Coffee Cures Women, Bad Comedians of Depression
Hamilton Nolan · 09/27/11 03:20PMTexas Ends Special Last Meals for Death Row Inmates
Jim Newell · 09/22/11 04:40PMIt's just not good enough to kill them, in Texas. Because following last night's execution of Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist who killed a black man by dragging his body from the back of his pick-up truck and eventually severed his head, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has decided to stop granting special "last meals" to those being executed. Brewer's meal, see, was over-the-top!