I posted about turning a loved one's ashes (or anyone you want to dig up and burn, really) into a diamond back in 2009, so this isn't really a new concept. But death diamonds can cost up to $20K, where as dead body beads will only set you back $870, making them the obvious cho... / Continue →

"...he was here a minute ago." When you go how do you want your body finished off? I used to want to be shot out of a cannon but now I'm thinking I wanna be fed to sharks to kick off Shark Week one year. Pretty cool, right? "Whatever, just as long as you're dead." Damn y... / Continue →

I'm digging the parachute shorts/tights combo, bro. Seen here struttin' that ass at a Renaissance Festival, Shakespeare (personally, I shake a trident) nonchalantly carries his pipe behind a row of porta-potties to get a fix. Aaaaaaand now a group of nutjobs want to dig up an... / Continue →

Turkey vultures, hands down one of the ugliest-faced birds ("It looks like a ballsack!") in a family of ugly-faced birds, are being trained by German police to sniff out dead human bodies in areas much larger/difficult to access than traditional tracking dogs could cover. You ... / Continue →

Knock knock. Who' there? Doctor. Doctor Who? HOW THE F*** DID YOU KNOW -- I WAS THROWING MY VOICE! This is a Doctor Who themed dead body receptacle from custom casket creator Creative Coffins. Because if there's one thin that matters to a dead person, it's a cool looking coff... / Continue →

Let's not kid ourselves: any urn without a really badass looking dragon on top is creepy. And an urn that looks like your ugly mug is just about as creepy as they come. Obviously, the only thing worse would be genitalia-shaped urns, which I can't believe I just wrote. I bet ... / Continue →

Star Trek urns: niche product or the new standard in ash receptacles? I'm gonna go with niche product. BURN ME UP, SCOTTY. The $800 urns, from funeral products retailer Eternal Image, come with one of two inscriptions: "To boldly go" (pictured above) or "The voyage continues... / Continue →

According to Dr. Kristen Gates, all we need to do is attach a giant drag-causing balloon to the defunct spacejunk, then sit back and watch it burn as it slowly enters the earth's atmosphere. Interesting concept Doctor, but I suggest we keep exploring our options until we come ... / Continue →

Have you ever eaten brains? I have not. But one time I did find a dead opossum in the street by my house and broke a rake handle trying to crack its skull open. Then my mom yelled at me for playing with a dead animal. Oh yeah? Well I kept my gerbil in a coat pocket for a m... / Continue →

Two German women have been arrested after trying to fly one of their dead husbands from Liverpool to Berlin over the weekend. But not in a casket, oh-no, in a suit with sunglasses on. Classy! Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, ... / Continue →