Hugo Chavez's funeral scheduled for Friday, Venezuela declares 7 days of mourning

By Henry Funk

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died in hospital on Tuesday afternoon (March 5, 2013) at the age of 58 after developing a severe respiratory infection during his a long battle against cancer. With his voice cracking and close to tears, vice President Nicolás Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a national television broadcast. The hardest and most tragic news left Venezuelans seven days of painful and public mourning. Hugo Chavez had been seriously ill with cancer for nearly two years, undergoing four operations in Cuba, and had not been seen in public since his last surgery on December 11. The heroic leader died at 4:25 pm local time in a military hospital in Caracas, the capital of the country he has ruled since 1999. His charismatic style, anti-US rhetoric and oil-financed policies won favour among many country’s residents. The government said Mr Chavez's body would lie in state until Friday (March 8, 2013) when his funeral would be held. The president's death is expected to trigger a snap election that will test whether his socialist revolution can live on without his dominant personality at the helm.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died in hospital at the age of 58 after developing a severe respiratory infection during his two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader's 14-year rule of the South American country.

Hugo Chavez was looking at the Cuba Communist Party newspaper Granma, smiling between his daughters, Rosa Virginia and Maria while recovering from cancer surgery in Havana. The photograph was released by the Ministry of Information on February 15, 2013.

The president hugged his daughters Rosa and Maria while appearing to supporters on a balcony of Miraflores Palace soon after his return to the country from Cuba in July 2011.

Hugo Chavez and his wife Marisabel Rodríguez de Chávez watched a parade on Children's Day with their daughter Rosa Ines in Caracas, Venezuela in 2001.

Hugo Chavez’s wife Marisabel Rodriguez waved to cheering supporters after his inauguration ceremony at the Congress in downtown Caracas. The socialist leader was first elected president of Venezuela in 1998.

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Cohabitating with the dead in Manila

By Phoenix Rose

It is hard to believe that many people can cohabitate with the dead. However, this happens in North Cemetery, the massive graveyard in Manila, Philippines. The cemetery houses more warm bodies than cold corpses.

10,000 Filipino families live there. Some families end up there almost by accident. Others are too poor to afford to live in the big city. In other words, they basically have nowhere to else to go. People also work to support their lives from collecting scrap metal or repairing tombs. According to Filipino custom, it is obligatory for children to carry coffins for the belief of keeping them safe from vengeful spirit.

There are also basketball hoops, stalls, and mini-markets among the tombs

The Cemetery Houses More Warm Bodies Than Cold Corpses

People there are hired to maintain and repair tombs

The house could be the family mausoleum or their employers' mausoleum. 

Sheryl Ann M. Muros works voluntarily as a schoolteacher

Children earn money from collecting scrap metal, plastic, and other garbage 

Unidentified bones are found around the Manila North Cemetery and they become children's toys

Teenagers carry coffins for 50 Filipino pesos

Residents pay five pesos to sing karaoke in a vacant mausoleum which is used for relaxation or entertainment

Playing cards on top of tombs is a favorite pastime.

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People died of their own career

By Elizabeth Woods

Scientists have made considerable improvement in various aspects to bring great discoveries and inventions to the human being. However, many of them were injured or even killed by their own experiments or scientific career in the pursuit of knowledge.

Horace Lawson Hunley (America)

Horace Lawson Huntley (1823-1863) was a Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War (1861 – 1865). He gained fame for developing early hand-powered submarines. Because his invention lacked safety, five men among nine crews died in the first test. In the second operation in Charleston, the vessel sank again and all the crew members were killed including Hunley. Later, the vessel was improved and made its successful journey.

Hand-powered submarines were invented by Horace Lawson Huntley.

Marie Curie (France)

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) was the first woman to be awarded two Nobel prizes in science. She discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. Curie spent most of her life doing research on radiation, which made her health get worse. On July 4th 1934, she died of constant exposure to radiation.

Marie Curie died of radiation exposure

William Bullock (America)

William Bullock, born in 1813, was the inventor of the web rotary printing press. He was reported to be killed by his own invention. In 1867, Bullock was adjusting one of his new presses when he kicked a driving belt onto a pulley. Unfortunately, his leg was crushed, which made him suffer from gangrene. Bullock died during an operation to amputate the leg.

William Bullock invented the web rotary printing press

Thomas Andrews (Ireland)

Thomas Andrews (1837-1912) was really a responsible shipbuilder. He was one of the architects who were in charge of the plans for the ocean liner Titanic. On April 14th 1912, on its maiden voyage, the Titanic hit an iceberg. Thomas Andrews perished in this disaster along with 1,517 other people.

Thomas Andrews was a businessman and shipbuilder

Jimi Heselden (England)

Jimi Heselden was the founder of Hesco Bastion Ltd. In 2010, he bought Segway Inc., maker of the Segway personal transport system. On September 26th, Heselden fell into the River Wharfe from a cliff while driving a Segway vehicle. According to paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Millionaire Jimi Heselden was born in 1948 and died in September 2010.

Alexander Bogdanov (Russia)

Alexander Bogdanov (1873 – 1928) was best-known for his experiments with blood transfusion. He worked in many fields as a science fiction writer, philosopher, physician and economist. In a search for eternal youth, he performed on himselft 11 transfusions. However, at the 12th attempt, Bogdanov took a transfusion of blood infected with malaria and tuberculosis. As a result, he died shortly after that.

A portrait of Alexander Bogdanov

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Whitney Houston Funeral Details: Pop Music Queen Laid to Rest in New Jersey

By Zidane Randall

Whitney Houston’s funeral is held at New Jersey where she was born later this week after the weekend autopsy is complete. The late “Saving all my love for you” singer cum actress’s body was released by the LA County Coroner on 13 February 2012 and is flown back to Newark, New Jersey in the days ahead.

According to multiple sources, the funeral arrangements for the late music icon were set up at Newark's Whigham Funeral Home - funeral home in Houston's hometown which also handled the services for her father, John Houston, who passed away in 2003. A source claimed, “Houston's family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and funeral Friday at Newark's Prudential Center, an arena that hosts college and professional sport events and seats about 18,000 people”

Pictures of Whitney Houston's hotel room have been released. The singer ordered a hamburger, fries and turkey sandwich. It also appeared that she drank Heineken and champagne shortly before her death

Another photo shows the leftover turkey sandwich and jalapenos on a tray laying on the bathroom floor which supposed that the singer have planned on eating in the bathroom after her bath

Whitney Houston may be laid to rest next to her father at Westfield cemetery in New Jersey

The Whigham Funeral Home is said to be making all of the arrangements while fans began placing flowers outside the church where she sang as a child

Whitney's body is being flown from Los Angeles to Whigham Funeral Home in her native Newark, New Jersey, where she will be laid to rest. A source told that “Tyler Perry rushed to the L.A. hospital Saturday as soon as he heard about Whitney Houston’s death, and immediately offered up his private plane to the family”

Blacked out SUV is thought to contain the body of the late singer heading to Perry's jet

Fans have continued to pay tribute to the much-loved singer, who was found dead on Saturday (11 February 2012). There are no official results about Whitney Houston’s cause of death

Fans place flowers and candles out of Beverly Hills Hilton

A recent report suggests that Whitney could have suffered from a heart attack due to the mixing of drugs and alcohol

Whitney Houston's death announced on news tickers

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Whitney Houston's Cause of Death: Pop Legend Died of Drowning In Bath Tube

By Phoenix Rose

Whitney Houston, the world’s famous diva known as pop music's queens thanks to majestic voice and regal image, was found dead at 3:55 p.m. Saturday, 11 February 2012 in her room on the fourth floor of the Beverly Hills Hilton. While the cause of death remains in unknown, the first official investigation reveals that, “There were no obvious signs of any criminal intent at this time”. Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen also told the reporters that “She has been positively identified by friends and family that were with her at the hotel, and next of kin have already been notified”.

Reportedly, Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton hotel yesterday by her hairdresser at 3:55 PM with her face below the water’s surface. Houston’s hairdresser had gone to check on the singer after becoming concerned that she had been in the bathroom for more than an hour. One of Houston's bodyguards pulled her out of the water and attempted CPR until paramedics arrived, but it was already too late for the music legend. Her body was removed from the Beverly Hilton around midnight. The previous day, Houston was spotted heavily partying with friends at the hotel bar and drinking a mixture of alcohol with Xanax. Prescription drugs have been found in Houston's room but no illegal drugs had been seized by police.

Whitney Houston’s cause of death: According to early autopsy report, the pop legend died of “falling asleep or lapsed into unconsciousness in the bathtub and drowned” and “there was water in the singer's lungs at the time of her death”

Whitney Houston's only daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was moved to the hospital after she learned that her mother was found dead. She is believed to have a complete meltdown in the wake of her mother's passing

The autopsy was completed on 12 February 2012. Although the autopsy results have not yet been released and are pending toxicology results, an early report states, “Although the cause of death is unknown, it is increasingly looking like Whitney may have fallen asleep or lapsed into unconsciousness in the bathtub and drowned” and “there was water in the singer's lungs at the time of her death”. The results of Houston's post-mortem toxicology test will not be known for 4-6 week.

Whitney Houston was found dead in a bathroom which is similar to the one on the right on the fourth floor of the Beverley Hilton Hotel

The body of Whitney Houston is removed from the Beverly Hilton hotel on Sunday, 12 February 2012

Whitney Houston, one of the world's most popular singers, was seen looking radiant in a white one-shouldered dress in the peek of her career

Whitney Houston's ex-husband, Bobby Brown, was performing in Nashville for a concert with his band New Edition just hours after her death. He appeared visibly upset before walking off the stage mid-song

A Coroner's van makes the way to the parking garage at the Beverly Hilton hotel to pick up the body of legendary songbird Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston heavily partied with friends at the Tru Hollywood nightclub on Friday night before “clashing” with security guards

An insider told that Whitney Houston clashed with former X-factor contestant Stacy Francis over her boyfriend Ray J just days before her death. The diva failed to remember Stacy and Ray J stepped in to defend her that apparently angered the music legend

Whitney Houston was all smiles when signing autographs for fans outside the club, describing “she would get moody again in a split second”

A witness told that the diva was ‘wasted’ and ‘moody’ as she exited the night club late on Thursday night and added, “She reacted angrily to the security guards trying to get her into her car...and started cussing them out”

Donning in a short black dress, the star appeared with her hair messed up and gestured aggressively to the waiting photographers. The releasing photos sparked concerns over the singer’s health

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