death

What Kind Of Drugs Kill The Most People?

Don’t do drugs, people. But if you do do them, don’t overdose on ‘em. But if you do overdose on ‘em, make sure the drugs you’re doing are weed, LSD, opium and mushrooms, and not pharmaceutical pills. That’s because pharmaceuticals kill more people than any other type of drug. What?


How To Deal With Your Google Data After You’re Dead

Google just launched an “Inactive Account Manager” to help you deal with your data after you die. The tool lets you decide what to do with you data after your account has been inactive for three, six, nine or 12 months. This is Google’s death tool.


How We All Die, Visualised

Here’s one for the morbid amongst you: this visualisation reveals how everyone across the world died during the entire 20th century. It make for interesting — and surprising — reading.


The Odds Of Dying In A Freak Accident Are Higher Than You Think

When I hear that someone died in some freak accident that involves fireworks or sidewalks or parked cars or wild animals, I wonder to myself, what the hell are the odds of that freaking happening? The good thing? They’re pretty high! The bad thing? It really, really sucks for that poor soul who’s one in 50,729,141 to die from fireworks or one in 25,364,571 to die from a bee sting.


What Is The Most Dangerous Place On Earth?

The Outback? The Antarctic? The top of Mount Everest? The bottom of the ocean? In the middle of your parent’s kitchen during a political argument on any given holiday? All good guesses, but none are quite right. Between environmental hazards, plagues, and other human beings, the world is a dangerous place, sure. But what local takes the proverbial death cake? Vsauce explains. The answer might surprise you.


Steve Jobs Died One Year Ago Today

I don’t want to go and bum everyone out or anything, but today marks one whole year since the death of Steve Jobs.


Is This The Saddest Corner Of The Internet?

Most of the time, the internet is home to happy and humorous memes and viral content. A fun and funny realm for us to play in and with.


Do You Want To Live Forever?

If you saw James Cameron’s Avatar and thought it looks like a wise and wonderful way of existing in the world, a Russian dreamer named Dmitry Itskov is the man you want to know. His “2045 Initiative” is a modern, multibillion dollar answer to mortality — or so he hopes.


Does America Really Need To Feature Death Symbols On Military Badges?

I know that weapons kill. And I know that drones can be particularly deadly. That’s the destructive nature of war, after all. But do we really need to feature the symbol of the death in our military badges?


An Urn Shaped Like Your Head Is The Creepiest Way To Spend Eternity

Some people spend their lives accomplishing great things so that when they die they’re never forgotten. But the rest of us now have a more couch potato-compatible solution. A company called Cremation Solutions will create an urn that looks like your severed head, so your family and friends will never forget you as long as it’s prominently displayed after your passing.