In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless) mother’s li...

In 1893, Henry Ziegland ended a relationship with his girlfriend. She didn’t take it so well and ended up killing herself. Her brother bla...

Buffalo Courier Press photographer I. Russell Sorgi did a little impromptu ambulance chasing on his way back from another job. He wound up...

The body of David Sharp still sits in a cave, known as "Green Boots Cave," at the top of Mount Everest. David attempted the clim...

Though suicide is a common element in tales of lost love and heartbreak, the subject usually ends it all because of a lover’s death or bet...

Her name was Mary Shaw... ...the ventriloquist who lost her voice.   Ever since she was buried, Raven's Fair has been plagued...

I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So I behold them not: It is enough...

Cruel Death! The young leaves droop and languish; Evening's gentle air may still restore - No! the morning sunshine mocks my anguish -...

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality - Emily Dickinson

DEATH, to the dead for evermore A King, a God, the last, the best of friends - Whene'er this mortal journey ends Death, like a host, ...

Life is short, and shortly it will end; Death comes quickly and respects no one, Death destroys everything and takes pity on no one. To ...