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TIL that in China, there's a holiday where people go out and clean up graveyards, often washing and repainting the inscription, leaving flowers and messages to their loved ones in the afterlife

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Morbidly Beautiful

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A man's last words to his wife

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Letter from coal miner Jacob L. Vowell shortly before he died from suffocation in the 1902 Fraterville, Tennessee mine disaster.

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Altamura Man - Wedged in the narrow space and probably badly injured, he is thought to have starved to death. Over the thousands of years that followed, the body decayed and the remaining bones gradually became incorporated into the stalactites in a cave

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'Brinicle' aka "ice finger of death" filmed in Antarctic, freezes everything it touches

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Victorian Postmortem Photograph

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Colorized Hindenburg disaster

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Dead caribou frozen to a tree, oddly beautiful

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The "Thousand Yard Stare"

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Tiananmen square aftermath, more in comments.

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Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945

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Immurement: Mongolian woman condemned to die of starvation

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The Attack of 8 Year Old Robbie Middleton

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German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945.

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Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train, 1945.

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The last picture of Adolf Hitler, 1945.

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A liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint.

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The heart wrenching situation of a jaw-less man after getting treated for a mysterious disease.

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Meet the ‘Female Schindler’ Who Saved 2,500 Children during the Holocaust.

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Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964.

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Body of frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops, 1939

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Facing the Death: the different expressions of six Polish civilians moments before death by firing squad, 1939.

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I was at the Sedlec Ossuary. It was overwhelming!

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Children pretending to be nurses in a bombed out London, 1940s

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The creator of "Body Worlds" exxhibits and modern plasticization, Gunter Von Hagens, was heavily influenced by Jean-Honore Fragonard. Here are two of their most impressive works side by side, depicting a man riding a horse

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Aron Ralston's self-amputated arm stuck between a boulder and a canyon wall; he was trapped in the canyon for six days before freeing himself

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Complete facial degloving injury.

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My Dad witnessed a plane crash while at work last year. These are a couple of the pictures he took to document the crash site prior to emergency crews arriving. (Warning: death)

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Hornets nest fused to statue

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2/28/58 a KY school bus ran off the road into a river, 26 students and the driver drowned.

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Chinese Methods Of Execution At The Turn Of The 20th Century

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A Flasher In His Specially Tailored Outfit, 1938

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A Brief History Of The Garrote As A Method Of Execution

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An Imposing Pinkerton Detective Poses With His Lead Gloves circa 1875

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Man cries while playing Goin Home as F.D.R s body is carried to his funeral train.

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Photograph said to be taken during a slave auction in Cheapside Plaza in Lexington, Kentucky, c. 1860-1862. The man standing on a platform in the center waving his arms looks as though he is the auctioneer.

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White agitators kick a black man outside Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas during racial desegregation protests in September 1957

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Sculpture by Emil Melmouth

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Titanic 1912

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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified woman found on the body Union soldier killed during the during the American Civil War in 1864/1865.

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A wounded soldier, Ken Kozakiewicz (left), cries after being given the dog tags and learning of the death of a fellow tank crewman, in the body bag to the right, after a friendly fire incident on Feb 28, 1991.

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X-RAY showing the effects of foot binding on a chinese woman's foot

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Survivors huddle together in the street ten minutes after the atomic bomb was dropped on their city Hiroshima 1945

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67 million year old battle between a protoceratops and a velociraptor (fossilized, found in thr Gobi Desert in Mongolia 1971)

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X-ray of a U-boat captain who attempted suicide upon capture of his vessel during WWII

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The decomposing corpse of a Japanese soldier who committed suicide during World War II. His toe is still on the trigger of the rifle. Taken from the archives of All Hands, the official U.S. Navy magazine.

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"Highway of Death" during the Gulf War as seen from above. A different perspective from the charred Iraqi soldier seen in an earlier post.

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Two US soldiers from the Korean war comforting each other

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Crowd watching the South Tower collapse on 9/11

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The Mystery of Skeleton Lake

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Skull in the Dead Sea

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Medusa

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Just a preview of the electric chair mega album. Pic of Ruth Snyder taken mid-execution by Tom Howard (who had hidden a camera up his pant leg) published the next day in the New York Daily News.

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Aftermath of a trauma patient (who lived somehow) x-post from /r/medizzy

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Victorian criminal punishments for children were often very harsh. In 1880, there were 6,500 children under 16 in adult prisons, of whom 900 were under 12.

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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual. Edited by Loren Rhoads". Cover, publisher info, and first essay. Sorry this took so long! Time got away from me. I did not write this nor do I own the rights

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Just found this concrete tombstone digging in the yard that seems to have a 1960s date. Very hard to read. Possibly for a pet?

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Article on a 1865 double murder-suicide in Dedham, Massachusetts, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

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My step-granny killed herself. She tried to cut her wrists 2 times but wasn't successful. She took of her shoes and step into the pond at my step-mom and my dads house where she lived. She never learned to swim and drowned. They let her shoes at the place

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