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What to do when you see dead people on Facebook

Ever since Facebook started offering members "suggestions" on how to interact with their Facebook friends, users have complained that they have been offered suggestions for interacting with dead friends. In response to the complaints, Facebook security chief Max Kelly reminded Facebookers on Oct. 26 that they can have their dead friends' profiles memorialized.

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Iran Sentences Three Election Protesters to Death

Three protesters who were arrested in the violent unrest that occurred after the disputed Iranian elections in June have been sentenced to death. The report came from the ISNA news agency on Saturday.

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Michael Jackson Overloaded with Propofol When He Died: Report

The mystery, if it was in fact one, of Michael Jackson's death appears over. According to a search warrant affidavit unsealed today in Houston, L.A. County coroner's officials found lethal levels of the powerful anesthetic propofol in Michael Jackson's body.

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Billy Mays Died From Hypertensive Heart Disease

So the rocky airplane landing was not the cause of Billy Mays' death after all. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner, Vernard Adams, ruled that Billy Mays died of hypertensive heart disease.

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Walter Cronkite on Deathbed

Some say deaths come in threes, but it seems we are going way overboard in terms of losing celebrities. First Ed McMahon, then Farraw Fawcett, then Michael Jackson, and today Billy Mays. Reports are now emerging that retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite is near death and is not expected to recover.

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Ed McMahon Dies at 86

Ed McMahon, beloved talk show host who was Johnny Carson's sidekick for three decades, died at 86 years old.

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David Carradine Death Photo Causes Anger, Threats

A Thai tabloid has printed a photo of David Carradine as police found him, showing him hanging, but with some of the more explicit details censored. Nevertheless, the photo as published shows the dead actor hanging, and should never have been published, the family says.

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Bad Taste or "House" Shocker as Dr. Kutner (Kal Penn) Kills Himself

TV and reality blur the line often, and not even on reality shows like Survivor. So let's be up-front: Kal Penn the Actor is OK. Dr. Lawrence Kutner the House character is not.

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Shane McConkey, Skier and Base Jumper, Dies in Accident

Skier and BASE jumper Shane McConkey, 39, was killed Thursday in a ski-BASE accident in the Italian Dolomites.

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Robert Aragon, Young Hypothermia Victim's Father Charged with Murder

Robert Aragon, 55, the father of an 11-year-old girl who died of hypothermia while trying to walk to her mother's in the snow, has been charged with murder.

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Search For Jennifer Seitz Ends, Presumed Dead

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for Jennifer Seitz, 36, the woman reported as missing last Friday morning from the cruise ship Norwegian Pearl.

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Anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's Assassination Mourned by Thousands

December 27th, 2007, exactly one year ago today, Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated. Today, thousands mourned her death, filing by her gravesite to kiss her grave on the first anniversary of her assassination.

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