Thanatorama – Une aventure dont vous êtes le héros mort.
Thanatorama
November 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
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Executed Offenders – Last Statement
November 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
“You all brought me here to be executed, not to make a speech. That’s it.”
Charlie Livingston, November 21, 1997.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Executed Offenders.
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Illnesses Whose Victims May Not Be Safely Eaten
October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Thirty illnesses, sorted according to whether or not you can eat the victims (Via o.a. Anarchaia.)
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My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals
October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
José Andrés
Time: My Last Supper
“For his last meal, Andrés would recreate a barbecue he once had in an old mill in Tazones, a village in Asturias (northern Spain). It consists of warm tortillas and potato omelets, piles of percebes (gooseneck barnacles), llámpares (snail-like mollusks), and centollos (gigantic spider crabs).”
Melanie Dunea, My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes
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Anatomical Crucifixion
October 25th, 2007 · Comments Off
Anatomical Crucifixion (James Legg). Plaster cast, wooden cross. 1801
Royal Academy of Arts Collection: Object of the month August:
“This gruesome figure was cast from the corpse of a murderer, taken straight from the gallows to be nailed to a cross and flayed in order to settle an artistic debate. Three Royal Academicians – the sculptor Thomas Banks and painters Sir Benjamin West and Richard Cosway – conducted this experiment to prove their belief that most depictions of the Crucifixion were anatomically incorrect.”
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Oude begraafplaats veelal onbekend
October 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

AT5: Oude begraafplaats veelal onbekend:
“Midden in de Jordaan, op de Dam en rondom de Westertoren vonden duizenden Amsterdammers in de afgelopen eeuwen hun laatste rustplaats.
In totaal zijn er zeventien oude begraafplaatsen in de stad. Meestal blijven ze onopgemerkt, maar soms komen ze onverwacht boven als de grond wordt afgegraven. Historicus Leon Bok is gefascineerd door de begraafplaatsen en heeft ze allemaal in kaart gebracht. “
Zie ook dodenakkers.nl.
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Digitale grafzerk
May 31st, 2007 · Comments Off
NOS: “In Rhenen staat sinds vandaag een grafsteen met tv-scherm waarop beelden van de overledene zijn te zien.”
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Kinderen maken kist voor stervende juf Eri
February 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
Eindhovens Dagblad: “Voor de kinderen heeft het gevaarte niets afschuwwekkends of engs. Ofschoon ze weten dat daar straks juf Eri in opgebaard en begraven zal worden, zagen en timmeren ze er bij tijd en wijle naar hartelust aan, om er op een ander moment mee te spelen als ware het een onderzeeboot.”
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How a Hanging is Supposed to Work
January 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
LiveScience: “There is nothing kind or gentle about a hanging. It is a process scientifically designed to break the neck and choke a person to death as efficiently as possible.”








