The rising death rate in Japan has lengthened the average wait for cremation to roughly four days. That’s a long 96 hours to let you lay there and ripen. So what do you do after shuffling off this mortal coil? You get yourself to a corpse hotel, obviously. More »
Like life insurance, most people aren’t keen to talk about what should happen to their digital selves after they die. Morbidity, the macabre, creepy—pick your poison. Nevertheless, there exist companies that deal with such things once you check out. More »
We’re pretty obsessed with the idea of a death ray. After all, we see these weapons of annihilation in movies, read about them in books, and run from them in nightmares – so why haven’t we invented one yet? More »
