- The Life, Times (and Death?) of Internet Explorer 6 (a Comic) http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/11/the-life-times-and-death-of-internet-explorer-6-comic-strip/ 4 comments browsers
- To help autonomous vehicles make moral decisions, researchers ditch the 'trolley problem', and use more realistic moral challenges in traffic, such as a parent who has to decide whether to violate a traffic signal to get their child to school on time, rather than life-and-death scenarios. https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/12/ditching-the-trolley-problem/ 261 comments science
- New York Times documentary on the life and death of Derek Boogaard http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bfeature=share&v=kFvhpDg9naU 7 comments hockey
- Walmart's Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA) http://www.alternet.org/food/walmarts-death-grip-groceries-making-life-worse-millions-people-hard-times-usa?akid=10246.155974.g9gan0&rd=1&src=newsletter815950&t=3#.uvqgufwxbdq.reddit 11 comments economy
- Most Americans support life in prison over death penalty for first time, new poll shows https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/death-penalty-us-gallup-poll-execution-life-in-prison-a9217561.html 27 comments politics
- James Fields Sentenced to Life in Prison for Death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/charlottesville-sentencing.html 6 comments politics
- Huge New York Times Article/Video Series on Derek Boogaard. Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sports/hockey/derek-boogaard-a-boy-learns-to-brawl.html 3 comments cogsci
- The death and life of my father - A bomb had been dropped on the house at our small farm in northern Gaza. My father was walking from the gate to the farmhouse at the time. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-death-and-life-of-my-father-1225793.html 56 comments politics
- Hedonic Nihilism: If nothing really matters, the end of life is death and the means to achieve this is killing your time through hedonism http://www.justethics.com/Articles/ArtMID/2952/ArticleID/8/Hedonic-Nihilism 474 comments philosophy
- Covid-19 may have caused the loss of more than 20.5 million years of life worldwide. In the countries most affected, and in relation to other global common causes of death, the life years lost rate has been between two and nine times greater than the mean YLL rate associated with seasonal flu https://www.upf.edu/en/home/-/asset_publisher/yjz7peikguzv/content/id/243620318/maximized#.ydffa2mnyyn 8 comments science
- Saddened by Sushant Singh Rajput's death, fan takes his life; leaves behind a suicide note - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/saddened-by-sushant-singh-rajputs-death-fan-takes-his-life-leaves-behind-a-suicide-note/articleshow/76406493.cms 31 comments india
- UC Berkeley Demographer Finds First Evidence That Maximum Age At Death In Humans Is Rising: "We are changing the limits of the human life span over time." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/09/000929072826.htm 4 comments reddit.com
- Real Madrid has qualified for the next stage of the UEFA Champions League every time they have a "life or death" match at the end of a group stage (6/6) https://www.marca.com/futbol/real-madrid/2020/12/02/5fc7dc73e2704edd368b45e6.html 46 comments soccer
- E Jean Carroll says she received death threats after accusing Trump of rape - The advice columnist said for the first time in her life she had bullets loaded into the handgun in her bedroom https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/12/e-jean-carroll-says-she-received-death-threats-after-accusing-trump-of?utm_term=autofeed&cmp=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=twitter#echobox=1562952277 31 comments politics
- Jealous hairdresser, 23, stabbed her boyfriend to death with a breadknife after losing her temper because he spent too much time on Facebook. Jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3458083/jealous-hairdresser-23-stabbed-boyfriend-death-breadknife-losing-temper-spent-time-facebook.html 5 comments worldnews
- "Once launched, in an astonishingly short time, a matter of a year or so, the Brithish NHS was accepted by even its worst enemies -- the doctors and the Conservative Party -- as indispensable and a civilized way of dealing with life, illness and death." http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-oe-sigal5-2009jul05,0,3611647,print.story 50 comments politics
- Pro-life Republicans spend a lot of time talking about their mission to save babies’ lives. So will they line up to support a new piece of legislation that’s designed to prevent infant deaths? It doesn’t seem like it. http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/02/12/3748704/moore-infant-mortality-bill/ 12 comments politics
- Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer - New York Times introduces the first in a three part series on Derek Boogaard http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/04/sports/hockey/boogaard-video.html 11 comments hockey
- NC judge ordered that a death row inmate's sentence be reduced to life in jail. "Its time we talk about Death Row's history of Racism" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/24/n-c-ruling-is-a-step-toward-honesty-about-death-penalty-s-racism.html 4 comments politics
- Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden’s Death: I know that because of this announcement, that reportedly Osama bin Laden was killed, Bob wanted me to say a few words about it … about al-Qaida. I spent a year of my life covering al-Qaida for The New York Times... http://www.truth-out.org/chris-hedges-speaks-osama-bin-laden%E2%80%99s-death/1304343151 3 comments worldnews
- Baron Corbin: "When I hit Becky with the End of Days, I was getting death threats. On a regular basis. 95% of [critics] are on the internet or safely behind somewhere they can’t be accessed. Roman said it the best one time, that he’s never met a hater in real life." https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/12/baron-corbin-says-he-received-death-threats-from-fans-in-2019-after-he-hit-end-of-days-onbecky-lynch/ 439 comments squaredcircle
- Hurricane Maria resulted in the greatest estimated loss of life on record from any storm in the U.S., with estimates of over 4,600 deaths (more than 70 times the official estimate), many from lack of access to medical care in the weeks and months after the storm https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02062018/hurricane-season-2018-noaa-storm-forecast-global-warming-atlantic-ocean-temperature-new-category-6 21 comments science
- What the discussions about 'the ethics of self driving cars' miss: We spend too much time talking about what decision the car should make in tough situations, not enough about the consequences of allowing a corporation to make those life and death decisions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozcaLnTuidU 82 comments philosophy
- Princeton University - In unstable times, the brain reduces cell production to help cope. People who experience job loss, divorce, death of a loved one or any number of life's upheavals often adopt coping mechanisms to make the situation less traumatic. https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/s47/19/74k78/?section=topstories 7 comments science
- Gunshot & Stabbing Victims to be Suspended Between Life & Death - Doctors will try to save 10 patients with knife or gunshot wounds. Neither dead or alive, they'll be cooled down & placed in suspended animation later this month as a groundbreaking technique tested for 1st time. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129623.000-gunshot-victims-to-be-suspended-between-life-and-death.html?cmpid=rss%7Cnsns%7C2012-global%7Conline-news#.uzp5y_ldxa8 1157 comments science
- The diary of German author Ernst Jünger, has been published for the first time. Its dispassionate description of life and death on the Western Front is a cold indictment of war -- even though Jünger embraced the conflict throughout as a glorious test of manhood http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,726672,00.html 5 comments worldnews
- Why we should not just allow but encourage transhumanism: "Arguments like 'death gives life meaning' and 'suffering makes us value the good times'—these statements are backwards. We find life meaningful in spite of, not because of, suffering, disease, and death.' http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/09/15/the-most-dangerous-idea-in-the-world/ 444 comments science
- The human craving for justification on matters like life and death cannot be satisfied, hence humans spend all their time trying not to be human. The human being, therefore, is a paradox. Meet Peter Wessel Zapffe, the bleak existentialist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peter_wessel_zapffe 10 comments philosophy
- Average life expectancy in Japan has fallen for the first time in a decade, and deaths from COVID-19 are the primary culprit, figures show. The last time a decrease occurred was 2011 when the magnitude-9.0 earthquake hit, generating towering tsunami that claimed nearly 20,000 lives https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14683513 6 comments worldnews
- The Death of James Jordan: What We Know. (NY Times) Two men are serving life sentences in prison for the death of Michael Jordan’s father, James, in 1993. One has maintained his innocence, and the other is now under review for parole. https://www.nytimes.com/article/james-jordan-death.html 13 comments nba
- A pregnant woman or newborn dies every 11 seconds, new estimate shows: " A skilled pair of hands to help mothers and newborns around the time of birth, along with clean water, adequate nutrition, basic medicines and vaccines, can make the difference between life and death: https://www.healio.com/pediatrics/practice-management/news/online/%7B931e9705-1a29-4dd2-843c-393bb04f3cfa%7D/a-pregnant-woman-or-newborn-dies-every-11-seconds-new-estimate-shows 11 comments worldnews
- How a person responds to a difficult life event such as a death or divorce helps shape the development of their wisdom over time. For many, the difficult life event also served to disrupt their sense of personal meaning, raising questions about their understanding of their world http://today.oregonstate.edu/news/how-people-cope-difficult-life-events-fuels-development-wisdom-study-finds 1097 comments science
- The human brain may retain latent capacities to respond with potential life-like and virtual properties even after death, once the brain is chemically perfused to maintain cellular and histological features which are maintained over extended periods of time, finds neuroscientists. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27907050 50 comments science
- Justice Scalia: The death penalty deters crime. Experts: No, it doesn’t.--Eighty-eight percent of the country's top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide--Executing a death row inmate costs up to four times as much as life in prison http://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8861727/antonin-scalia-death-penalty 83 comments law
- Now, lets get this straight one last time, I keep hearing people arguing for support of the Death Penalty because they think it will save them money. In reality, it's much cheaper to imprison criminals for the rest of their life than it is to kill them. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty 8 comments reddit.com
- For the first time, scientists have observed a red giant star transition into a supernova. Astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life, watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and final death throes before it collapsed into a Type II supernova. https://keckobservatory.org/dying-star 4 comments science
- Drinking tea at least three times a week is linked with a longer and healthier life. "Habitual tea consumption is associated with lower risks of cardiovascular disease and all-cause death. The favorable health effects are the most robust for green tea and for long-term habitual tea drinkers". https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2047487319894685 203 comments science
- [Lee] Kyrie Irving revealed that the death of his grandfather impacted his change of heart in Boston. Said a lot changed from the time he declared he wanted to re-sign with the C's; was drawn to going home but never felt like opening up about his personal life during the campaign. https://twitter.com/MrMichaelLee/status/1177601768248791042 90 comments nba
- Read Romain Gary, a Polish jew who fled to France with his mom, became a WW2 Ace aviator & Resistance hero,a diplomat; married Hollywood Star Jean Seberg,challenged Clint Eastwood in a life duel. Writer, he won 2 times the great Goncourt Prize,one of it under an alias, nobody knew until his death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/romain_gary 11 comments europe
- In 1991, doctors diagnosed Boston College safety Jay McGillis with leukemia, a disease that claimed his life seven months later. In the 20 years since his death, Tom Coughlin calls McGillis' parents four times each year to keep their son's memory alive. [X-post from r/cfb] http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=8673721 92 comments nfl