Tag: DEATH

Bereaved Web surfers in Hong Kong now have a new way to digitally honor their lost loved ones, thanks to www.memorial.gov.hk, a site that lets users pay tribute to deceased friends and family with their own online memorials. Users can custom design dedicatory profile pages for their honorees, and upload photos, videos, and background music to the shrine. Mourners can also choose whether or not to ...

Share Lazy horror movie creators definitely overuse the haunted gadget routine. Tapping into people's mistrust of technology and their fear of the unknown, directors frequently regurgitate stories involving cursed televisions, radios, movies and cell phones. One of those film themes may be experiencing a mysterious reversal in reality, though, as a Bulgarian mobile firm has reportedly suspended ...

We all take it for granted now, but there once was a time, not too long ago, when withdrawing cash from your bank account meant waiting in lengthy lines at your local bank. Everything radically changed, of course, with the birth of the ATM. On Saturday, John Shepherd-Barron, the man widely acknowledged as responsible for creating the cash dispenser, passed away in Scotland at the age of 84. ...

Share In modern Western cultures, death is not something easily embraced. Most of us live in either fear or denial of the inevitable. But, as our society becomes more open and, for better or worse, turns us into a generation of over-sharers, death has crept into our public discourse in ways normally reserved for works of high art. The era of social networking and blogs has given anyone with ...

Share digg_url ='http://digg.com/people/Verizon_Bills_Dead_Customer_Requires_PIN_to_Cancel_Account'; How far will a cell phone service provider go to get your money? Apparently, all the way to the grave. According to the St. Petersburg Times, Verizon wouldn't cancel Cynthia Lacy's father's contract after he died last year, even after she showed the company his death certificate. Lacy ...

Do you know a person who truly can't go anywhere without his or her cell phone? If you do, we might have just found the perfect way to send them into the afterlife. According to an AFP report on France 24/7, a golden coffin equipped with an equally golden cell phone hit the market last week at a luxury fair in Verona, Italy. It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Till death do us part." ...

It's no secret how dangerous it is for truck drivers to use in-cab computers and navigation systems while driving. Yesterday, the federal Department of Transportation (DOT) prohibited truckers from texting on the road, but, unfortunately, there's no such ban on other devices. Now, we're seeing the heartbreaking results of this lack of action. According to an Associated Press report, a truck ...

Shellie Ross, a popular mommy blogger and Twitter personality, suffered a personal tragedy recently when her two-year-old son, Bryson, fell into the family pool and drowned. He slipped away from her side while the two were outside in the family's backyard. Ross immediately called the paramedics, but sadly, it was too late. Half an hour after calling an ambulance, a distraught Ross reached out to ...

With the level of anonymity it offers, it's no surprise that Twitter is ripe with fake accounts. The site has done its part to stop scammers from impersonating people, but the problem still remains. Unfortunately, the latest hoax to hit the microblogging site took a sad, eerie, and dark turn. According to Valleywag, a person posing as Dallas Morning News columnist Gerry Fraley reported the ...

Look, we've long been prepared for the proliferation of zombies. It's a good thing, too, because our own government is ready to turn hordes of soldiers into the undead. But first, they have to figure out how to make it work with pigs. According to ABC News, a recent medical breakthrough funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which involves putting the body in a state of ...

Walmart, America's most sprawling and infamous retailer, is now attempting to corner the death market. The discount warehouse has recently launched a line of caskets and urns on its online store, Walmart.com. The caskets run anywhere from $895 to $3,199, but for the moderate price of $1,699, for instance, you can get the Executive Privilege casket for your business-class loved one. Although ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/10/27/memorialize-the-facebook-pages-of-friends-who-pass-away/'; Dealing with the death of a friend or relative is never easy. But in the era of social networking, many are taking to the Internet, grieving and paying their last respects by writing to the Facebook pages of the deceased. However, Facebook has never officially decided what should happen to ...

Our request that our funeral be an orgy of booze, funk, and mocking has earned us more than a few eye-rolls and a dismissive, "nerd," or two. From now on though we have an example to point to when people say we're ridiculous. In a creative, yet incredibly geeky gesture, a man decided to bury his brother, Alan, in his 1990s-era SPARCstation. The high-end workstation from Sun was gutted and ...

Apparently all those studies and advertisements about the dangers of texting while driving are getting through to the American people. According to Motor Trend, Ford recently commissioned a survey that found 93-percent of the participants support a nationwide ban on texting while driving. It looks like the automotive giant surveyed a bunch of cynics though -- because only 42-percent said they ...

France's largest telecommunications company, France Telecom, has suffered through a staggering 22 employee suicides over the last year. If that isn't enough, another 13 workers actually survived failed attempts. In an interview with Reuters, company CFO Gervais Pellissier discussed exactly why he believes so many employees have been distraught and suicidal. He attributed some worker unhappiness ...