{"id":5609,"date":"2015-01-26T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2023-12-12T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:55:53","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-26-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5609","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for January 26, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Gummy Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Culled from Associated Press
\nSubmitted by: Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n

Update 03\/17\/15:\u00a0According 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<\/em><\/p>\n

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Morbid Art Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

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\u00a0pioneering facial surgeon Sir Harold Gillies. \u00a0Hartley’s website tells the tale of several of the men covered in the project.<\/p>\n

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Walter Fairweather: Lose His Nose at the Battle of the Somme.<\/a>
\nHenry Ralph Lumley: \u00a0Severely Burned and Doomed Airman.<\/a>
\nArthur Frederick Soole: Chinless Canadian.<\/a>
\nWilliam Spreckley: Aged Well Into His Replaced Nose.<\/a>
\nVictor Topping: Massively Burned Face.<\/a>
\nWilliam Vicarage: A Burned Sailor and a Turning Point in Surgical History.<\/a>
\nNorman Eric Wallace: Severely Burned In France.<\/a>
\nWalter Ernest O’Neil Yeo: Questionable Aesthetics.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Memorial Photograph Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

Here\u2019s another memorial photograph culled from the classic of the genre,\u00a0Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

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\nMother and Father with Dead Daughter,
\nUseless Medicine Bottles on Table
\nAnonymous
\n2 3\/4″ x 3 1\/4″ Daguerreotype
\nCirca 1848<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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