Confessions of a Funeral Director

Mortician Caleb Wilde is a 6th generation funeral director, who garnered international attention through a blog and TED talk that explores the humanity ...

Killing Patients to Save Them?

A recent article from the BBC opens with a line that sounds like it could be from a sci-fi flick: "'When you are at 10C [50 degrees Fahrenheit], ...

Yes, I Want to Go to Heaven … Just Not Yet

A Pew forum report asks religious Americans about their views on radical life extension—the near-future possibilities of medically prolonging one's ...

Woman Wakes Up As Doctors Prepare to Harvest Her Organs

It sounds like something out of a nightmare. "Doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center were about to remove organs for transplant from ...

Sending Tweets to Aliens

Is there something or Someone out there who is really listening to us? Does anyone care beyond our little planet? Apparently, a group of techies and scientists ...

The Corpus Clock Depicts Time Gobbled Up

A Time magazine article on the 50 best inventions of 2008 recognized a mechanical timekeeper called the Corpus Clock, invented by Englishman John Taylor. ...

How to Live Longer

An article in National Geographic identified three regions of the world where people have consistently shown longer life spans: Okinawa, Sardinia, and ...

Famous Last Words

The following are the last words spoken by famous individuals:

"Nothing matters. Nothing matters." —Louis B. Mayer, film producer; died ...

Medical Quiz Predicts Chances of Dying

Would you like to know your chances of dying over the next four years? Researchers with the San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Medical Center say they ...

Town Ignored Signs of Impending Disaster

In 1903, a mountain fell on a town in the Canadian Rockies. The town of Frank, Alberta, was buried under 100 million tons of limestone. At least 76 men, ...