Not too sure about the article's premise, but there's some interesting bits in the feature: 'When we think about Christ in the manger, we see the added vulnerability of babies born in poverty, especially in societies with high rates of child mortality. No wonder that The Woman in Black, a story...

Hmmmm. I think all death can be described as "medically-related". Shot in the head = suffered catastrophic impairment of brain function, leading to death = medically-related death.

It's supposed to be almost impossible to be buried at sea off the UK these days, due to worries about health risks & contamination. But I remember a case nearly forty years ago when a widow had her husband buried at sea as per his wishes, off the Scottish islands & in a bronze coffin. A...

Dying people see very specific things in final moments before they pass away ‘Julie is often around death due to her job, with hospice care focusing on helping terminally ill patients reduce their pain and suffering. According to her, it's extremely common for dying patients to see dead...

Nobody really knows what it's like to experience death. However, people who have undergone near-death experiences often come back with tales of what happened after their hearts stopped—from leaving their bodies and seeing themselves from above to waking up in a meadow. Now a new virtual...

Bet she didn't see that one coming ... Mystic Meg, one of Britain's most famous astrologers, dies aged 80 https://uk.yahoo.com/news/mystic-meg-one-britains-most-094200095.html

I think this fits here. Vid at link. A telephone for grief after the Japanese tsunami In the small town of Otsuchi in northern Japan, 2,000 residents were lost in the tsunami in 2011. One resident, who had already been grieving his cousin before the tsunami hit, had the idea of placing an old...

3 Rainbows and a stream of light after Queens death. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11205043/Touching-moment-ray-sunshine-shines-Queen-Elizabeth-IIs-coffin.html

In the 1980s roughly, the public bathroom in China is popular. Most families warm water with coals for a shower that time, but the public bathroom commonly makes use of the waste energy of manufactories to provide hot water. One day, a new bathroom was going to open, and the owner of the...

I have just come across these strange cases and can find no thread about them, here is the story: "Keith Reinhard was a middle-aged journalist who is taking a break from his daily activities. He then visited a small town called Silver Plume. This man rents a place where the previous resident...

Is There Life After Death - Moderated By John Cleese.

Assume there is an Afterlife. You throw off the Mortal Coil, and next thing you awake surrounded by your mother and father; who died fifty years before you. Would you want this to happen ? Particularly if they opened the conversation with something like 'Hi, Son. We have been watching your...

I'm surprised to find we don't seem to have a thread dedicated to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, so I'm starting one to contain these posts. They describe discovery and analysis of the earliest known version of the Book of Two Ways (generally considered the precursor to the Book of the Dead)...

This is one of those curious circumstances, in life so far, where I have been possessed of a vague foggy understanding of a funereal ritual, only through verse. Everyone of course knows the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen, that memorable cry from the 1914-18 war. Across the...

We had a thread on this but I can't find it. Or if it's still around, how about bumping it? Anyway, I'm not having a funeral. No need. I'll be dead. Instead, I wish to be cremated with no ceremony whatsoever and then my ashes are to be scattered along a beach with those of another beloved...

I have a theory about the afterlife that I would like to share. Bearing in mind, this is just a theory. Let's just say for arguments sake that there is an afterlife. I've often heard the afterlife being referred to as a "veil". What if that veil is actually a semi-permeable membrane that...

I have just finished reading about this, being from the U.K. I knew little about it beforehand. But having been featured on the HBO channel, those from the U.S. may be more aware of it. On balanceI can see that the intention of the experiment is honest enough, but that it did suffer from flaws...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4417760.stm I like this bit - There are also reports of decidedly un-funereal music. Any other new customs?

What to do? Heaven seems far too dull and I doubt any of my family or friends would be there. The idea of being consumed by love for eternity is also undesirable; most people who subscribe to that view leave me feeling nauseas in a matter of minutes so eternity really is too long. Hell seems...

No chance of resting in peace now!! Source Source

Sadly this sort of thing goes on all 'round the world. What's wrong with our communities? (Not to mention poorly trained and uncaring poice officers...) :(

I couldn't decide if this should go in the General Forum or this one or the Ghosts one. Anyway, hope this is the right place to ask. Just curious as to what people think happens after death. Do we get to hang out with our loved ones? Is this it?

Scientist Claims Proof Of Afterlife Research Finds Accuracy Of Mediums Channeling Dead People UPDATED: 10:19 AM EST March 4, 2004 CLEVELAND -- What happens after we die - do we continue on or is this life the end? Many of us hope there is an afterlife, and now some Arizona scientists...

I am increasingly aware of what appears to me to be a "new" folklore in the making. A phenomena that is coming into being, but not yet commented on. My own account has been told by me several times and I won't take up space in my first posting by giving the full story. But the bones of it...

Yep, the Grim Reapers alive and well! So some scientist belives, check out this link http://www.manchester.com/interactive/exta2.html Theres a couple of articals but this ones the best with witnesses to seeing the collector of souls himself. Read it and Reap..........:eek!!!!:

How To Make A Mummy German Team Finds Secret of Mummies' Preservation By Chris Slocombe LONDON (Reuters) - A German research team has unravelled the mystery of how the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead, using sophisticated science to track the preservative to an extract of the cedar...

Mummies for fuel. The excellent 'Unearthing Mysteries' on Radio 4 (available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagainflash.shtml), had a programme on the modern investigations into the diseases suffered by ancient egyptians. They also mentioned the occurance of mummies being shipped...

This one leaves me rather gob-smacked. Original link: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5987253%255E11869,00.html Link is dead. No archived version found.

I know the Christian view is you go straight to hell.....but what are other views?

Then there is the strange phenom of clocks stopping at the exact moment of someone's death. I wonder how far back these legends go? I remember reading that supposedly a famous French clock stopped at the exact moment of the death of Louis XVI, and has never worked since. Sound familiar to anyone?

Is it me or are famous people dropping like nine-pins. Usually you seem to get them 3 at a time, but over the last fortnight/3weeks there seems to have been God knows how many. Are we just short of news, and thus more are being reported, or is there something more sinister at work?

I very much enjoyed the autobiography of a famous British hangman, Albert Pierrepoint. He'd hanged most of the famous Brit murderers of the 20th century, it seemed, and the book was a cracking read. Though not exactly up there with the literary greats- Ruth Ellis 'seemed a nice woman' Derek...

Has anyone else come across the astonishing appearance of a celebrity/personality in the media that you thought had died many years earlier? This seems to have happened to me on a number of occassions. Each time, I have a hazy recollection of reports of the persons death. So what is...

Just a bit of a poll, based on a previous thread... where d'ya reckon you'll all end up, based on the highly questionable and sordid lives I'm sure we all lead?

Strange deaths - by chainsaw http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1683000/1683738.stm thanks Uncle Bulgaria

Someone told me that during the French Revolution the exectuioner would hold the severed head up so that the last thing the dying eyes could see was its own headless body . . . how long does a severed head still retain its sense for?? :confused: Carole

I grew up in Wells, Somerset, on the Keward Estate which looked out over rolling fields to a delightful sewage farm. Behind this stands the imposing Hay Hill (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?x=352500&y=144500&zoom=3&isp=200&ism=1000&arrow=y?151,86) We had a pet Chichuahua at...

That's the prize put up by some Aussie lawyers (to counter the well known Skeptic's prize for PROVING the paranormal). The boot is on the other foot! Put up or shut up, Randi et al! victorzammit.com/challenge.html Link is long dead. The latest viable (2003) version of the MIA webpage can be...

On the subject of reincarnation, there is also the ancient Celtic theory of the 'Otherworld'. Basically, when you died in this world, you were supposed to be reborn in a sort of parallel universe (the Otherworld). When you had lived your life and died in the Otherworld, you were reincarnated...

Cleaning dusts off a ghostly murder story The last thing Roy Madelin expected when he cleaned out his cupboards on a fine summer's day was to be reminded of the ghostly story of a murdering rogue who robbed pilgrims of their gold. His parents, Phylis and Roy, had told him the tale of a...

HEY, I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE HAD ANYTHING INTERESTING TO SAY ABOUT LIFE AFTER DEATH. I MYSELF BELIEVE IN IT (HEAVEN AND HELL PLUS REINCARNATION). YOU KNOW THE STORIES PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN CLINICALLY DEAD SAY? " I SAW A BRIGHT LIGHT" OR "I SAW MY DEAD RELATIVES IN THE END OF A BRIGHT...