Today’s Gummy Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
21-year-old Shanice Clark was found unresponsive at three A.M. on Sunday, January 18, 2015, in her residence on the campus of California University of Pennsylvania. She was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Preliminary autopsy results indicate she choked to death on chewing gum while asleep.
Culled from Associated Press
Submitted by: Aimee
I guess she didn’t want her chewing gum to lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight. Cause when you chew it in the morning, it gets much too hard to bite. So her chewing gum she kept a-chewin’ overnight. This story’s really crazy, won’t somebody set it right? – Aimee
Update 03/17/15: According to an Associated Press article I read today, her death has been determined to be as a result of sickle-cell anemia and not choking. – Aimee
Morbid Art Du Jour!
Project Facade is a fascinating art project by Paddy Hartley that attempts to tell the stories of the men who were grievously disfigured during World War I and who benefited from the groundbreaking work of pioneering facial surgeon Sir Harold Gillies. Hartley’s website tells the tale of several of the men covered in the project.
Walter Fairweather: Lose His Nose at the Battle of the Somme.
Henry Ralph Lumley: Severely Burned and Doomed Airman.
Arthur Frederick Soole: Chinless Canadian.
William Spreckley: Aged Well Into His Replaced Nose.
Victor Topping: Massively Burned Face.
William Vicarage: A Burned Sailor and a Turning Point in Surgical History.
Norman Eric Wallace: Severely Burned In France.
Walter Ernest O’Neil Yeo: Questionable Aesthetics.
Memorial Photograph Du Jour!
Here’s another memorial photograph culled from the classic of the genre, Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America
Mother and Father with Dead Daughter,
Useless Medicine Bottles on Table
Anonymous
2 3/4″ x 3 1/4″ Daguerreotype
Circa 1848