death

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Two very different choreographers work out if Mahler’s ‘Farewell’ can be danced to.

Via Annie Mole‘s blog: a body was reportedly discovered early this morning on the tracks at Bayswater tube. The discovery, and the police investigation that has followed, have caused the closure of the Circle line and suspension on the District line. More details from The …

Not many events are targeted at ‘folklorists, undertakers, storytellers, clergy, singers, mediums, anthropologists, vampires and historians’. But then the Folklore Society is a broad church. Their annual conference, this time themed around the cultural aspects of death, takes place this coming weekend in the appropriately …

Michael Jackson stops…gets enough Michael Jackson is dead. The whole world knows by now. After a cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, the King of Pop has departed for wherever Elvis, Marilyn and Diana hang out these days. The exact cause of death is still unknown …

Image by lindseymclarke 25 year-old Pawel Modzelewski died on the 36 bus in January this year; his body was undisturbed for at least six hours as he lay in the garage overnight then set off on the next morning’s journey. While there’s an On the …

Here’s a club night that sounds so macabre and twisted, we couldn’t help tell you about it, even though we’re too scared to go. Memento Mori: Be Mindful Of Death happens on Black Tuesday (9/6/9) at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Light candles, wear a veil …

It’s been confirmed this afternoon that Ian Tomlinson did not die of a heart attack but of an abdominal haemorrhage. A second post-mortem was ordered by the IPCC and “a substantial amount of blood in the abdominal cavity” found. What caused the haemorrhage is still …

As we discussed on Monday, allegations have been made that Ian Tomlinson, a bystander at the G20 protests last week, was ‘assaulted’ by police shortly before his death. Now The Guardian has obtained and published video footage, recorded by a fund manager from New York, …

Last week we witnessed some glaring discrepancies between certain newspaper reports on the G20 protests and the observations of many who were present at the demonstrations. While the Daily Mail was reporting the events with headlines claiming “… thousands of anti-capitalists ransack the City in …