Death
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 22, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Eighteenth Century, Love & Romance
Equine Hitchhiker
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 20, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, Animals, Death, 1930s, Cars
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 20
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 12, 2024 -
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Category: Death, 1940s, Facial Hair
Anyone At All: Safety in the Community
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 30, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Domestic, Health, PSA’s, 1950s
Plastic Gravestones
Back in the 1980s, Edgar Dakin hoped to revolutionize the funeral industry by introducing cheap, plastic gravestones. Though he acknowledged that he was opposed by powerful interest groups:I'm not familiar enough with the funeral industry to know if plastic gravestones are available today. Googling 'plastic gravestones' only brings up the kind that you put in your front yard for Halloween.
London Independent - Jan 9, 1988
Dakin was granted a patent (GB2210080) in 1989 by the British patent office for his plastic gravestone.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 18, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Patents, 1980s
A Double Barrel Blast
Side 2 is particularly relevant to today's AI debate.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 03, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Technology, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
Wrong Corpse, Wrong Decapitation
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 02, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Law, Identity Mistakes, Thefts and Mix-ups, Bodies, Corpses, Remnant Parts
Death by Gas-Lift Bed
Helen Davey recently died when her "Ottoman-styled gas-lift bed" collapsed on her neck and asphyxiated her.I didn't know what a "gas-lift bed" was, so I googled it and found the video below. I agree with the coroner that the design of these beds seems dangerous.
We've previously posted about dangerous beds with the case of the man who was trapped for five days in a folding bed.
More info: cnn.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 15, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Furniture
Killer Tree
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 03, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Nature, Synchronicity and Coincidence, 1960s
Death by Manhole Cover
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 26, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Explosives, Luck, Good and Bad, Urban Life, 1930s
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