A senior software engineer dies after falling from the 14th floor of Google's NYC headquarters

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Google logo is displayed on the company's headquarters in Chelsea section of New York City.
Google's headquarters in Manhattan, New York.

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5 lessons I learned about debt after my dad's death that everyone should know

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Billionaire Peter Thiel says he's signed up to be frozen and preserved when he dies so people can revive him in the future — if the tech even works

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Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, gestures as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022 in Miami, Florida.
Peter Thiel has signed up to be cryogenically frozen.

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13 of the most famous last words in history

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"The quiet Beatle" George Harrison passed on one last message of love in his final breaths.

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Hawkish tech critics have labeled San Francisco 'lawless' following the stabbing death of Cash App creator Bob Lee. The city's crime rate tells a different tale.

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San Francisco police officers and F.B.I. agents gather in front of the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on October 28, 2022 in San Francisco, California.
San Francisco police officers and F.B.I. agents gather in front of the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on October 28, 2022 in San Francisco, California.

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See inside a facility that freezes people and pets after they die and stores their preserved remains upside down in cryostat chambers

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Automatic CPR machine is attached to a body while on standby.
Thousands of people are signed up to be frozen after they die in the hopes that they can wake up in the future.

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My family and I are going to pay $28K each to freeze our bodies in liquid nitrogen tanks after we die. We hope to wake up in the future.

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Dennis Kowalski has signed up to be preserved in a chamber that reaches freezing temperatures after death.

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This tech founder used ChatGPT to mourn the death of his grandfather. It helped him uncover a Bible verse he'd spent years trying to find.

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Ian Panchèvre and his grandfather, Lionel Panchèvre.

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The body collectors recovering Ukraine's war dead

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Men stand in ditches and shovel out dirt.
Black Tulip exhumes bodies from a mass grave in Yampil, Ukraine, near Sloviansk.

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Human Composting Is Changing the Landscape of Death Care—and It May Soon Be Legal Near You

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When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After a ceremony, his body will go into a hexagonal vessel with an internal structure similar to that of a honeycomb, where…

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