death Shave the corpse David Pescovitz

music Prince died of a pain medication overdose Xeni Jardin

psychology If you could choose to find out your death date, would you? Rose Eveleth

cars Brilliant billboard for faux funeral home is anti-texting and driving PSA David Pescovitz

death Bardo-tripping with Timothy Leary David Pescovitz

3d printing Funeral parlor 3D prints new faces for disfigured corpses David Pescovitz

aviation Airlines celebrate record profits, having killed bereavement fares Cory Doctorow

death Read a CIA manual on assassination David Pescovitz

art Last words from 129 films David Pescovitz

death Americans more likely to die younger than people in other developed nations Jason Weisberger

Space Man killed by meteorite, first case in modern history (UPDATE: maybe not!) David Pescovitz

videos How to prepare to join the Internet of the dead Cory Doctorow

death This graph shows causes of death by age Mark Frauenfelder

Science Watch this film about living with Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) by a filmmaker who has it David Pescovitz

music Keith Richards tells his kids to snort his cremation ashes David Pescovitz

death Connecticut kills death penalty Rob Beschizza

crime Somebody stole the skull of Nosferatu director FW Murnau David Pescovitz

books Memento Mori: the beautiful ways we have kept the dead among the living Cory Doctorow

canada Short film: "Denali" Xeni Jardin