Category: suicide

Washed up Human Feet Mystery Solved

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A grim mystery has been baffling Washington state and British Columbia, Canada: Why do all these disembodied human feet keep washing up on our beaches? The appearance of 12 feet in rubber soled shoes in five years, with six surfacing in a six-month period, made officials worry that something fishy was afoot. Theories ranged from a serial killer to an aircraft crash. According to London’s Daily Mail, British Columbia coroner Stephen Fonseca, who has been studying the phenomenon for years, says the source is a bridge over Vancouver’s Fraser River, and most of the feet belonged to suicide victims.

Chinese Butter Bridge

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A thousand-foot-long bridge in southeast China has been coated in butter by authorities, in order to hinder suicide attempts and the traffic jams they cause. The result is surfaces too slippery to climb.

The bridge has been a favorite for some time among people looking to end it all, and officials did everything they could think of to discourage the practice. They put up fences, they positioned guards at each end, but ultimately nothing worked.

That’s when someone presumably discovered a mountain of butter sitting idle in a warehouse somewhere.

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/20/chinese-butter-bridge-hinders-jumpers/

 

 

Jack Kevorkian Dead at 83

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world’s medical ethics stage, died Friday at the age of 83 at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan.   

He had been hospitalized in Michigan for pneumonia and a kidney-related ailment.

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Kevorkian’s favorite musician, was put on the intercom so he could hear the music as he was dying.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/03/report-dr-jack-kevorkian-dead/?hpt=hp_t2

Click here to see some of his more well-known interviews:  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/03/national/main20068683.shtml

And click here to read about and view his artwork, siome of which is currently on display at the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Massachusettes.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20110603jack_kevorkian_art_work_displayed_in_mass_museum/srvc=home&position=recent