Mourning Roundup: Feb. 5, Weekend Edition
FEBRUARY 5, 2010 TAGS:
OD's or not?Yesterday, the coroner’s reports for two celebrities who tragically died last month hit the Web. In the weeks since Casey Johnson and Brittany Murphy died rumors swirled about their drug use, fast living and the cost of fame and fortune. Seems like Casey Johnson, the estranged heiress of the Johnson & Johnson, though once drug addled and oddly carousing with the strange reality star Tila Tequila, died from complications of her diabetes. Specifically, she died of diabetic ketoacidosis, “a life-threatening condition caused by lack of insulin and sky-high blood sugar,” according the USA Today.
Brittany Murphy died from, “community acquired pneumonia, iron deficiency anemia, and multiple drug intoxication.” The drugs in this case seem to have been prescription medication, though nothing more specific has been given.
Let Atheists Care for your Pets, Post-Rapture
Last year, we wrote a piece about youvebeenleftbehind.com, a service that promises to arrange your earthly possessions and distribute your important financial information to your relatives that have not been beemed to Heaven during the Rapture.
Another entrepreneur is trying to help you take care of four-legged members of your family, your pets. Eternal-Earthbound-pets.com will adopt your pet during the tribulations after the rapture for a modest one-time fee of $100.
From the founder:
“We're saying in very clear language that we do not believe, but if we're wrong, and you're right, then we're here."
They have about 100 customers. Not bad.
More Buried Alive Solutions
The good librarians at one of Obit’s favorite sites, DeathReferencedesk.org, have assembled a chronological list of patents for devices, machines and solutions for one of mankind’s oldest fears: being buried alive. Obit’s own Joyce Gemperlein took on the topic last year, but not with such an archivist’s obsession.
Potential Salinger archive has librarians salivating
Speaking of archives, a potential deluge of writing by J.D. Salinger may be waiting to be released, to the delight of readers and librarians everywhere.
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