This was stupid.

Is there a picture of Pink's hotdog stand in LA? That is where Rush LImbaugh went and ate himself to death

You have to read that in an Ira Glass voice.

People die lots of places.

Walker: No captions to explain what happened at each scene?

my thoughts exactly

Isn't it pretty likely that someone has died on almost every single square foot of land on Earth?

It invites me to read the captions to learn the story, but without including the captions, they're just boring landscapes to me.

are there more people alive now, than all the dead of past generations?

Okay, so according to the comments in TFA, the names under the pictures are the names of the victims and not photographers. If only there were some way for the author of TFA to express this to us...

I would imagine that the average serial-murder-victim is killed, transported, then dumped. Not killed on the spot that they were found.

When I die I hope I go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather did. not screaming in terror like the people riding in the car he was driving.

I stopped after the 3rd pic when I realized they were captionless. Someone should be fired.

Ant: Isn't it pretty likely that someone has died on almost every single square foot of land on Earth?

Not even close. The earth has some 57 million square MILES of land. There have been maybe something like 50 billion people-ish over the years, maybe. So roughly 1,000 people per square mile, but a square mile's around 25,000,000 square feet. And of course the distribution isn't normalized, and hasn't ever been.

Those are some nice pictures of pretty areas. I'm not really getting the creepy part. Since I have to die somewhere, I wouldn't mind if there was some good scenery for it.

Why Would I Read the Article: This was stupid.

Done in 1

Reminds me of this:

PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.

That could have worked if they weren't being so goddamn subtle about it. Instead of writing the victims names like they are photography credits, they should have put a paragraph about what happened there. How they died. How they were found. Who the fark they were. Then it would have knocked the farking socks off of people.

Context is a powerful thing.

Why Would I Read the Article: This was stupid.

In the absence of captions, shall we provide our own? Someone got killed by a leprechaun in photo #7.

inflatedKarma

When I die I hope I go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather did. not screaming in terror like the people riding in the car he was driving. his passengers.

just sayin'

Edziak: Reminds me of this:

PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.

As we used to say in the USMC, "Blood makes the grass grow, kill, kill, kill!"

Ruined their whole vacation.

metametameta: That could have worked if they weren't being so goddamn subtle about it. Instead of writing the victims names like they are photography credits, they should have put a paragraph about what happened there. How they died. How they were found. Who the fark they were. Then it would have knocked the farking socks off of people.

Context is a powerful thing.

The photographer says in the article that he doesn't know anything other than the name and doesn't want to. Strikes me as an awfully incurious individual.

Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo: In the absence of captions, shall we provide our own? Someone got killed by a leprechaun in photo #7.

A leprechaun named Jane Doe.

inflatedKarma: When I die I hope I go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather did. not screaming in terror like the people riding in the car he was driving.

Can someone photograph a landscape of 1990 when this zinger surely should have died?

stucka: Ant: Isn't it pretty likely that someone has died on almost every single square foot of land on Earth?

Not even close. The earth has some 57 million square MILES of land. There have been maybe something like 50 billion people-ish over the years, maybe. So roughly 1,000 people per square mile, but a square mile's around 25,000,000 square feet. And of course the distribution isn't normalized, and hasn't ever been.

With some combine equipment and a heavy woodchipper the distribution could be normalized.

I happen to know the previous owner of my house died...in my room (from neighbor who was a close friend). Should I be freaked out by this? Or just be a normal human being and realize that everyone has gotta die somewhere?

The captions were the names of the deceased.

Well, that was certainly pointless.

the story behind #10.

http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/yates.html

It really wasn't the most beautifully serene collection of photographed landscapes I've seen today. Can I get a rebate on my minutes spent looking at this?

PYROY: I stopped after the 3rd pic when I realized they were captionless. Someone should be fired.

They have the names of the victims in the captions. Google them if you're curious.

WTF? Stupid NPR... CAPTION THE FARKING PHOTOS!

Stucka


I didn't agree with your 50 billion guess (figured you were way high) and went to look.


This link states there have been over 107 billion. whoa.
how many people have ever live on the planet (new window)

Since man began, generation after generation, wouldn't almost every inch of the planet have had someone die on it?

hmm I missed that someone else brought the topic up...

stucka: Ant: Isn't it pretty likely that someone has died on almost every single square foot of land on Earth?

Not even close. The earth has some 57 million square MILES of land. There have been maybe something like 50 billion people-ish over the years, maybe. So roughly 1,000 people per square mile, but a square mile's around 25,000,000 square feet. And of course the distribution isn't normalized, and hasn't ever been.

What if you reduce that to the area in and around inhabited land ?

Ant: Isn't it pretty likely that someone has died on almost every single square foot of land on Earth?

There are many mountains that are still unclimbed, many parts of Antarctica that haven't been walked on by man, and even many areas in Alaska and Canada that have rarely been visited. A rough guess is that around 107 billion people have ever been born and around 7 billion are alive right now, so you're looking at 100 billion deaths. There's approximately 149 million square km of land on Earth which is 16038226500000000 square feet. Even if you assume that each person that ever lived died in a completely different spot (with wars, hospitals, and population density that's a HUGE assumption), that's still just one death for every 16038226 square feet or every 368 acres.

/somebody died in this photo

By the way, around 14m square km of Earth is considered arable. Even using that figure and not just habitable land, you're still looking at over 30 acres per death.