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12 September 2006

IMDB Morbidity. [More:] Sometimes, when I'm idly browsing, I'll go to IMDB and start looking through people's entries by 'Year of Death.' I like seeing people with names like 'Egbert' and 'Winifred,' who died of 'apoplexy' and 'consumption,' and were born in places that don't exist anymore like 'Oklahoma Territory' or 'Austria-Hungary.'

It's kind of a digital cultural version of those cutaways of the earth that are supposed to show you natural history.

Anybody else do this, or just me.
"Consumption" is tuberculosis. "Apoplexy" as a cause of death probbaly means stroke, seizure, or haemorrhage.
posted by orthogonality 12 September | 12:58
Yeah, so I think it's just you.
posted by kyleg 12 September | 18:34
I haven't before, as I hadn't found this site, but I shall join you in morbid curiosity, JonMc.
posted by redvixen 12 September | 18:41
Not unlike my penchant for cemeteries, the older the better. I like wondering about their lives. Some were so young. I like to say, You're missing a fine day, folks.
posted by Pips 12 September | 18:55
Pips, you should come to the Princeton, Jersey meet up on October 1st! We're touring the Cemetery, and visiting the town of Princeton.

(Unless you guys are still honeymooning, of course)
posted by redvixen 12 September | 19:09
Welcome to the world of genealogy. That's basically what it's all about- considering lives past and what they were like. There is one twist to genealogy, though: the story ends happily enough with.... you!
posted by Doohickie 12 September | 19:53
Is anyone else having trouble with Pandora? || Humor, a la Mother Nature.

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