Five Death Things I’ve Found on the Internet This Past Week

One: SHAYNA SMITH CUTS THE CORPSE OF HER BOYFRIEND’S EX (IT’S COMPLICATED)

Shayna Smith

Look, we all deal with death in different ways. When someone important in your life passes there’s this huge emptiness inside and you don’t know what you’re gonna do with yourself. Even when it’s your WORST ENEMY.

Shayna Smith dealt with her grief over losing a rival by crashing the funeral and defiling that rival’s body. The deceased was the ex of Smith’s boyfriend and the police described their relationship as “frenemies.” Who needs actual enemies when you’ve got frenemies like this?

According to reports, the woman’s mother saw Smith with her hands in the casket. She walked over, probably not even imagining something so awful could be happening, and Smith bolted. That’s when she saw that the deceased’s make-up was smudged and her hair and FACE had been cut. Smith is now being charged with illegal dissection of a human body. Thanks for the head’s up that you need a permit to do an autopsy, coppers.

Two.  This story via We Love Cemeteries 

Three.  The Crawling Dead (This is horrible)

Four.  My Professor’s Transi project was recently featured on National Geographic‘s website

Paying an artist to sculpt a dead, emaciated, and nearly naked version of yourself sounds pretty bizarre; but that’s only because it’s out of fashion. According to Christina Welch, some wealthy individuals and families in the Late Middle Ages paid premium prices for carved cadaver selfies.

 
Sometimes people commissioned death sculptures of themselves while they were still alive; sometimes families has them made, either before or after a loved one’s death.

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Five.  This sale is probably over, but it might come around again next year.