Tag Archives : death

People who haven’t had a near-death experience always crave to know what it feels like, before kicking the bucket. Now, you don’t have to try all that hard as these T-shirts will help you to experience that rush of adrenalin! The bloody T-shirts designed by WWF can trick you into believing that you are shot at, and thus mimic that near-death experience. [...]

With so many things we have in this digital world, a question that always remains is: what happens when I die? Before you think that social networks on the topic, many profiles have been turned into memorials, some were excluded by family and friends who may know the password, or were left in the air, with no updates and no visits. However, Twitter [...]

As everyone knows, live in big cities is expensive. It begins with the square meter of the property (house, apartment or land). But in Sao Paulo besides being expensive to live, is even more expensive to die. The square meter of nine cemeteries in the capital is equally or more expensive than the houses and apartments in their neighborhoods. Who wants [...]

As matures, Facebook sees growing a new problem: how to deal with former users of the system who died. As the age profile of the regulars – the U.S., the largest number of new registrations is people over 65 years old – the problem becomes more frequent. The problem also affects younger people, and as time passes, many of these participants [...]

Virtual world and blogosphere have almost become synonymous for a very thin blurring line defines boundaries of content people share on the internet. Some bloggers are in virtual world for business interests and some like Professor Mark Cato are here to share their personal experience of coping up with degenerative disease (motor neuron disease) and [...]

Dick Cheney admits being a supporter of the near-drowning torture technique called waterboarding, even if the US generally regards its use as a war crime. Robert Parry, author of a new book entitled Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, writes in AlterNet, “Cheney was unrepentant about his support for the technique. [...]

Facebook announced it will offer “memorials” profiles to the profiles to friends or relatives that have died. The site leader in social networking invited users to report when any of its users to die, to remove sensitive information such as updates and contacts, according to the website of the newspaper The Guardian. For this, however, it [...]

Daily Mail’s controversial homophobic column by Jan Moir after death of Stephen Gately has met with severe criticism and public outrage. More than 21,000 complaints have been filed about the piece with Press Complaints Commission. This is more than sum total of all the complaints PCC has ever received in last five years. PCC cannot ignore the matter [...]

Earthquakes in Indonesia and South Pacific islands of Samoa and tsunamis followed by quakes have wrecked havoc and killed hundreds of people. Thousands are still missing and has left both places totally destroyed. Death tolls are expected to rise in next few days. Entire communities living on Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga have been left in ruins [...]

Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was a 21 year old Marine who succumbed to injuries in Afghanistan recently. Julie Jacobson of Associated Press had captured a picture of Bernard as he lay in the mud after an ambush. The picture was published recently on front pages and it has sparked a debate in America. It is intriguing that instead of war which is killing [...]