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The ancient toe from a human relative in South Africa could have important implications for modern medical research.

The Cemeterio Del Norte is inhabited by people who pull bones from tombs to move in. It's an entire slum community, populated by gang members, runaways, sex workers, and laborers who rank among the poorest of the world's poor.

#Philippines #cemetery #slum

The Secret Lives of Cadavers

How lifeless bodies become life-saving tools.

#cadavers #dissection #anatomy #medical students #medicine

Thousands of people donate their bodies every year to be used for research and medical education in the US. But the procurement of non-transplant human tissue is largely unregulated, and years of grisly scandals have led to demands for more oversight.

#body donation #medical science

Hold These Tiny Crime Scenes in the Palm of Your Hand

Death is precious in these artistic mini worlds.

#crime scene #dioramas #dieorama

Cadavers in pearls: meet the Anatomical Venus

They were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models

#anatomical venus #anatomy #art #sculpture #anatomical models

This Is What It's Like to Burn Bodies for a Living

Cremation is booming in the US. In 1958, only 28 people were turned to ash. Today, more than 40 percent of Americans are cremated after they pass. We spoke to a man who's making a living off of this uptick. This crematory operator hails from California, a state where a surprising 58 percent of the deceased are cremated annually. He's in his mid-30s and is still learning his craft. He requested that we maintain his anonymity due to the concerns of his employer. He had a lot say about how and why he fell into the business of burning the dead. —Rick Paulas

#cremation

Beyond Trump—America’s Obsession With Presidential Hair

For early Americans, presidential locks were popular souvenirs.

The chilling exhibit is a bold response to the Venice Architecture Biennale’s theme, “Reporting from the Front.”

#venice architecture biennale #Holocaust #replica #gas chambers

This Photographer Spent a Decade Shooting Cryonics Enthusiasts

From 2006 to 2015, British photographer Murray Ballard investigated cryogenics, the act of freezing a body in the hope that one day it will be revived. Recently, Murray's endeavours – which took him around the UK, US and Russia – were published as a book, The Prospect of Immortality, by GOST (you can pick up a signed copy here).

#cryonics #immortality

Archaeologists scan Reading garden for bones of King Henry I

Researchers look for tomb of William the Conqueror’s fourth son, whose remains are believed to have been buried in local abbey

Gorgeous, Spooky Photos of Old Cemeteries

"Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace." –Oscar Wilde

It is an age-old – and delicate question – but set to become ever more pressing as life expectancy reaches unprecedented levels: how soon is too soon for someone recently widowed to consider a new partner?

#love #bereavement #grief #mourning

Jesus may not be involved, it turns out

#near-death experience #life after death.#afterlfe #death #dying #science #religion

Drivers are no longer slowing down to show their respect to funeral cortè

#funerals #funeral processions #funeral cortege #cortege etiquette

We talked to the guy who's responsible for rehydrating dried-up fetuses, fixing wonky skeletons, and cleaning skulls at the Mütter Museum.

#joseph hyrtl #Mutter Museum #human remains #human specimens #conservation

A recent study shows staggering discord between doctor and patient perception when it comes to cancer prognosis and projections of survival

#end of life care #terminal illness #cancer #cancer prognosis #cancer survival #doctors

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