Correction of the day.

From the Onion:

Last week's Onion Chess column, "Checkmate In 6 Moves," totally missed the black knight on C5, rendering the entire attack a catastrophic blunder. The Onion regrets the error and apologizes to any readers who attempted the gambit in chess matches against Death. 

About the image: Bill (Alex Winter) takes on Death (William Sadler) in a game of Twister in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (dir. Peter Hewitt, 1991)

Corpse tourism?

The Book Show of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. looks at the new literary magazine The Death Mook, which is all about the last hurrah, including "corpse tourism."

The burial club: One organization that even Groucho would avoid.

In this interesting podcast from the National Archives-UK, Audrey Collins explores nineteenth-century burial clubs or "friendly societies"—sort of like a Christmas Club for poor people to pay for the funerals and burials of themselves and their nearest and dearest. Except these friendly societies were not so friendly; rather, they were hotbeds of fraud (e.g., people dying several times, people reported dead who were alive, imaginary people reported dead) and murder (family members disinclined to wait for the death benefit).

About the image: "Death found an author writing his life. Author protests the intrusion of Death before writing is complete." Edward Hull, Dec. 1827. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division.