Posts Tagged ‘decomposition’
Soylent Green is Dead Bodies Eaten by Mushrooms
17, Aug 2011Green Burial Project Developing Corpse-Eating Mushrooms Paul Ridden, gizmag.com (July 29, 2011) The Infinity Burial Project Jae Rhim Lee Every once in a while I come across a new-dead-body-disposal-concept which I really like. Indeed, I really wish that I had tons of excess cash so that I could start my own dead body technology R&D [...]
Postmortem on Frontline’s Post Mortem
10, Feb 2011Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America Frontline, NPR, and Pro Publica (February 01, 2011) Go Go Frontline. There are moments in this documentary on postmortem examinations in America and the attached medical-legal investigative personnel that made me physically groan. Out loud. And then slap my forehead. None of the dead body images elicited any kind [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + Technology|Death + the Law
- Tags: decomposition, forensics, video
And the Corpse Rides Shotgun Follow-Up
30, Oct 2010Portrait Emerges of Woman Whose Mummified Body was Found in Car Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times (October 28, 2010) Last week I wrote about a California news item which involved the police finding a dead body in a car. A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times did a follow-up piece and as I suspected [...]
And the Corpse Rides Shotgun
22, Oct 2010Woman Drove Around With Mummified Body Salvador Hernandez and Greg Hardesty, The Orange County Register (October 22, 2010) I am a little surprised that only a few people sent me this recent decomposing-dead-body-in-the-news article. Like so many of the other dead body stories on Death Ref this particular California tale is both macabre and sad. [...]
Murder?! The Maggots Are on It
11, Jun 2010Crime Scene Insects BBC World Service (June 11, 2010) This episode of BBC Documentaries explores forensic entomology: “the investigation of insects recovered from crime scenes and corpses.” Guests include Amoret Whitaker of the Natural History Museum in London, who studies the flies and maggots that congregate on corpses to find clues about the time and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Crime
- Tags: animals, anthropology, death and smell, decomposition, forensics, homicide, research