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July 2007
- In Virtual Graveyard, Friends, Voyeurs Gather
  
  Associated Press | Jul 30, 07 3:36 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A site that collects obituaries, often of young people, and links to their social-network profiles is gaining traction, the AP reports. MyDeathSpace.com lists more than 2,700 deaths and receives more than 100,000 hits daily. "This site does kind of let you look into the heart of darkness," one professor says. More »
  
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  Internet • obituary • social networking • MySpace • suicide • death • teenagers
- UN Eyes Congo After Gorilla Murders
  
  CNN | Jul 28, 07 3:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Four mountain gorillas were shot to death in a nature preserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and UNESCO is flying in to help with the unsolved crime, CNN reports. The massacre of an alpha male and three females follows the recent killing of three other mountain gorillas—only 700 of which exist worldwide. More »
  
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  murder • animal • death • Democratic Republic of Congo • gorilla • UNESCO
- The End Is Near: Hospice Cat Senses Death
  
  Boston Globe | Jul 26, 07 5:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An upscale nursing home in Rhode Island is home to a cat that can sense impending death, the Boston Globe reports. Oscar, whose domain is the dementia ward, shows little interest in patients who are ill but not dying. But when he curls up in a bed, the patient usually dies within hours. Caregivers take Oscar's cuddling as a signal to call loved ones. More »
  
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  death • pets • cat • nursing homes
June 2007
- Sen. Craig Thomas Dies of Leukemia
  
  Associated Press | Jun 5, 07 5:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Craig Thomas, GOP Senator from Wyoming, died yesterday of leukemia at age 74. The popular conservative congressman began his Senate career in 1994; he was in the hospital when he was reelected by 70% of the vote last year, and announced his diagnosis shortly afterward. More »
  
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  Republicans • obituary • death • Wyoming • leukemia
- Prison Hasn't Mellowed Dr. Death
  
  New York Times | Jun 4, 07 6:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Jack Kevorkian, who was paroled Friday after 8 years in prison, says he won't be involved in any more suicides—except perhaps his own. "When I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right,” he tells the New York Times . But prison hasn't blunted the passion for phsyician-assisted suicides that earned the combative former pathologist the sobriquet Dr. Death. More »
  
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  murder • suicide • prison • death • Oregon • assisted suicide • physician assisted suicide • Jack Kevorkian • Dr. Death • Jack Kervorkian
May 2007
- Pitcher Was Drunk at Wheel
  
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch | May 4, 07 4:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was drunk, speeding, talking on the phone and not wearing a seatbelt when he died in a traffic accident, officials announced today. The St. Louis medical examiner said the 29-year-old right-hander's blood-alcohol level was 0.157, nearly twice the legal limit, when he crashed his SUV early Sunday morning. More »
  
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  MLB • accident • death • St. Louis Cardinals • drunk driving • car accident
- Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84
  
  Associated Press | May 3, 07 2:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Astronaut Wally Schirra, a reporter once said, geared up for space flight with "the ease of preparing for a family picnic." The third American to orbit the earth and the fifth ever to fly into space, Shirra died today. He was 84. More »
  
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  NASA • obituary • death • astronauts • space exploration • Apollo
April 2007
- Cricket Coach Poisoned and Strangled
  
  BBC | Apr 30, 07 6:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The murder mystery that cast a shadow over international cricket is deepening. A BBC investigation claims Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, found strangled to death last month, was also poisoned. "It now seems certain that he had already been rendered helpless—leaving him unable to fight back," BBC's Adam Parsons reports. More »
  
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  murder • death • poison • cricket • Bob Woolmer
- Longtime Movie Lobbyist Valenti Dead at 85
  
  CNN | Apr 27, 07 7:39 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Despite being neither movie star nor studio exec, Jack Valenti was one of Hollywood's most influential figures. An era ended Thursday when the longtime president of the film industry's trade association died at his home in Washington. The veteran lobbyist, who also served in the Johnson administration, was 85 and had suffered a stroke in March. More »
  
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  movie • film • obituary • Hollywood • death • lobbyist • Lyndon Johnson • MPAA
- Suicide Takes A Communal Turn
  
  Atlantic Monthly | Apr 23, 07 2:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Of all the things initiated in anonymous online chat rooms, group suicide has to be the most macabre. David Samuels explores why hundreds of Japanese adults, previously unknown to each other, have gathered to die together in small groups, often asphyxiating themselves in cars by carefully placing charcoal burners to suck the oxygen out of the air. More »
  
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  Japan • suicide • death • depression • chat room • group suicide
- Boris Yeltsin Dies at 76
  
  BBC | Apr 23, 07 10:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Boris Yeltsin, who orchestrated Russia's uneasy transition to democracy, died this morning, according to the Kremlin. He was 76. The cause hasn't been released, but Russia's first democratically elected leader had a history of heart problems. Yeltsin ascended to power after a struggle with reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, who finally ceded in November of 1991. More »
  
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  Russia • obituary • death • democracy • Mikhail Gorbachev • Chechnya • USSR • Boris Yeltsin
- Professor Gave Life to Save Students
  
  New York Daily News | Apr 17, 07 8:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A 77-year-old Virginia Tech professor who barred the door to his classroom against the gunman wreaking havoc down the hall sacrificed his life to save his students. Professor Liviu Librescu was teaching a class on solid mechanics when he heard gunshots. He held the door closed as students escaped through the window, and was shot through the door. More »
  
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  death • school shooting • Virginia Tech shootings • Virginia Tech
- 32 STUDENTS DEAD AT VA TECH
  
  Washington Post | Apr 16, 07 2:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - At least 32 students are dead after a gunman opened fire on a Virginia Tech dormitory and classroom building this morning. The shooter is dead; two dozen other students were wounded in the attack. “This place is in a state of panic,” one student told CNN; others report watching classmates jump from dormitory windows to escape the attack. More »
  
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  murder • death • school shooting • Virginia Tech shootings • school • Virginia Tech • Columbine school massacre
- Death Be Not Proud (At a Discount)
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Apr 12, 07 4:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - What does it say about us, Mark Morford asks, that wandering the aisles at Costco in Palm Desert, CA, we come upon not only drums of olive oil and eighty-packs of frozen cream puffs, but over there, right next to the tires and the lawn furniture and right behind the 10-foot plasma TV: discount caskets. More »
  
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  death • consumer • shopping • Costco • coffin • casket
- Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
  
  New York Times | Apr 12, 07 9:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most popular novelists of the 20th century, died yesterday at 84 in Manhattan. Defying genres, he wrote on everything from the firebombing of Dresden to alien abduction—and that was just Slaughterhouse-Five. More »
  
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  obituary • book • death • literature