Postmortem corneal clouding and tache noire. If the eyes remain open after death, the areas of the sclera exposed to the air dry out, which results in a first yellowish, then brownish-blackish band like discoloration zone called tache noire.
currently obsessed with this taxidermied great white that was left to gather dust in an abandoned display in a park in australia. something about it is so simultaneously eerie and melancholy to me
im pretty sure this is actually the art piece “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” by Damien Hirst ! :0 the first one at least. It started to decay despite the preservation and got all cloudy and old looking witch was contradictory to what the artist wanted so he made a new one. (Bad idea, this one is way better)
Evelyn McHale is arguably the most iconic Empire State Building suicide victim. On May 1st, 1947, the young and pretty woman took a leap from the 86th floor Observation Deck and landed on a United Nations limousine parked on the street below. Photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash and captured this photo of her just four minutes after her death. The car’s metal folded like sheets and framed her head and arms. Everything about the elegance of her pose—from her gloved hand clutching at her pearl necklace to her gently crossed ankles—suggests why her death was given the title of ‘’the most beautiful suicide’’.
In a black pocket book next to her coat contained a suicide note which read:
‘’I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don’t think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies.’’
A photo of two bodies stuffed into a barrel found in the 1900s in New York. The victims are of unknown identity but are believed to be victims of the mob.
