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...think there is such a morbid fascination with certain suicides, sometimes even centuries after they took place? Because suicides are like riddles with the answers left out. So people are constantly struggling to find that "aha" moment - the event or encounter that pushed someone over the edge from sadness to suicide. There is this need to know what made them do it - and, perhaps, how it could have been prevented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries Behind Society's Most Famous Suicides | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...care," she said. "It's the most awful, morbid thing. They have to remember Jack alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys Face Death: The Agony of Grieving in Public | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...vultures - despite their morbid reputation - will certainly respond warmly to human assistance. As the vulture barbershop quartet sings to Mowgli in Disney's The Jungle Book, "We're your friends to the bitter ends ... Who's always eager to extend a friendly claw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Restaurant for Vultures. Literally | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

Booker is obsessed with the murder statistics. While Booker and McCarthy discuss a recent homicide investigation in the mayor's office, the creases on Booker's forehead increase tenfold. He admits to posting a murder target for 2009 on his bedroom wall, a practice that he knows is somewhat morbid. (Booker won't share the number he wishes Newark to beat.) Booker has dumped the 4 a.m. chases, however. "I made a deal with Garry that as long as the crime numbers are going where they are going," Booker says, "I will not get in the police cars anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cory Booker Likes Being Mayor of Newark | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...morbid connotations of half-dead creatures, bloody foam around the mouth, and putrid flesh, it's no coincidence that the zombie walk happened on the most happy day of the year for Christians...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Square of the Living Dead | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

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