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For years, experts have observed a disturbing trend in the mortality rates of young Americans aged 25 to 44.

If You’re a Millennial, We Have Bad News About Your Rapidly Impending Death

UK courts sentenced one man to 12 months in jail after he was found ditching his asbestos waste in a cemetery.

Man Busted Dumping Toxic Waste in Human Cemetery

By Ashley Bardhan

Scientists were astonished to find that recirculating preserving agents through a severed pig's head caused its brain to show signs of life.

Doctors Intrigued by Treatment That Makes Dead Brains Show Signs of Life

By Victor Tangermann

An Arizona bank employee was found dead in her cubicle days after her death after clocking in on a Friday and never clocking back out.

Employee Found Dead in Cubicle After Apparently Dying There Days Earlier

By Noor Al-Sibai

A near-death experience expert insists that one's heart stopping doesn't have to be the end with current death-defying interventions.

RX and Medicine

Professor of Medicine Says Death Appears to Be Reversible

By Noor Al-Sibai

In England, a woman was told repeatedly by healthcare providers that she was dead — even though she was, obviously, very much alive.

Woman Puzzled When Hospital Tells Her She’s Dead

By Noor Al-Sibai

A shocking case of mistaken identity at a Canadian hospital led a family to mourn their son's untimely death — until he texted his mother.

Health & Medicine

Mom Stunned to Get Text Message From Son After He Died at the Hospital

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing "liters of blood" — a horrifying scene.

Travelers Horrified as Fellow Plane Passenger Starts Spewing Blood

By Victor Tangermann

A 76-year-old woman who'd been declared dead after a stroke gasped for air when her coffin was opened at a funeral home.

Funeral Home Startled When Body in Coffin Turns Out to Be Alive

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rest in peace! A Dutch startup has created a $1,000 mushroom coffin that will biodegrade in less than two months.

Get Buried in a $1,000 Organic, Biodegradable Mushroom Coffin

By Sharon Adarlo

One of the world's foremost psychedelics researchers is taking a curious approach to the knowledge of his own death — by treating it as a beautiful mystery.

Pioneering Psychedelics Researcher Gets Terminal Cancer, Is Totally Chill

By Noor Al-Sibai

California has just become the fifth state in the US to legalize the planet-friendly and slightly macabre practice of human composting.

California Legalizes Composting Human Bodies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Famous French director Jean-Luc Godard decided to end his life this week via the controversial, yet legal, option of assisted suicide in Switzerland.

Famed Director Dies by Assisted Suicide

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's official: Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has passed away at the age of 96. And we have no idea why.

Nobody Is Sure What Queen Elizabeth II Died From

By Victor Tangermann

Keith Crawford and David Odusanya, two former Nike marketers, are trying to reinvent the cremation business, a direct-to-consumer (DTC) pivot.

Direct-to-Consumer Companies Are Trying to Disrupt the Cremation Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Remember when John McAfee died last summer? According to one of his exes, that didn't really happen, and he's still alive today.

John McAfee Faked His Death and Is Still Alive, Ex-Girlfriend Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai