At 3 a.m. this past Wednesday Abraham Biggs announced via a website that he was going to kill himself. By 3 p.m. that day, the 19-year-old Broward College student was dead on his father’s bed. And a whole lot of people watched; some even egged him on. By the time the authorities were called and police arrived at Biggs’ home it was too late. And people were still watching. The reality of the situation didn’t really sink... 

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There are museums with weird stuff, and then there are museums of weird stuff. The folks over at Mental Floss have a great list of “12 Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History” (here). Here are a few weirder of the weird museums: National Museum of Funeral History It’s pretty hard to argue with the motto “Any Day Above Ground is a Good One.” So goes the backhanded optimism of the National Museum of Funeral... 

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