Yes, I got quiet. No, I didn't give up (again). Far from it. Over the last year I have taken up a new sport: existential rockclimbing (aka supporting the bereaved).
So, I have always been drawn to the mystery of death. As a child I would read books on murder …
When my youngest brother Eddie died in 2015, I quadrupled my shoe collection overnight. Despite our inside legs being inches different (I got the brains and he got the height and the beauty), our shoe sizes were fortuitously similar. We shared a taste for converse trainers, and so there seemed …
Consider this sorry yet intriguing tale from the BBC, about the death of a window cleaner, who drowned head first in his own bucket:
A window cleaner drowned in his bucket of water after suddenly collapsing while he worked, an inquest heard.
...The father-of-one, of Fowler Close, Scholes, was working …
Over at the Times is an article about the human vivisection experiments conducted by the Japanese during WW2. An extract:
“The first time it was one prisoner, a middle aged man. He’d already given up - there was no struggle. He was tied to the bed and anaesthetised with ether …
So this is a story that I saw a while ago that quite worried me. Apparently 17 year old, Kasia Ber, died unexpectedly in bed, after being literally scared to death by her mobile phone ring-tone. From the BBC:
An inquest in Hartlepool heard evidence from Miss Ber's boyfriend Scott …
I'm sure you've all seen that there have been more hangings in Iraq. This time two of Saddam's henchmen received the death sentence, following him to the gallows. Apparently as the two men dropped to their deaths, the presiding officials believed one had escaped, only to discover that he had …