Famous celebrities dead body

ByKathy Benjamin

If you want your 15 minutes of fame, you generally have to get it while you are still alive. It's a rare thing for a random nobody to die and only then become famous, purely because of something that happens to their body after they are gone.

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But occasionally, this does happen.

Even weirder, sometimes you have famous people who got their fame the old-fashioned way – while they still had a pulse – who then died and became even more famous for something their corpse did. It's a real kick in the teeth for anyone trying to become a YouTube star that some dead bodies are doubly successful in the celebrity department.

So how, exactly, can a dead body do something so notable that it becomes a household name?

We don't like to think about it, but weird stuff happens to corpses pretty often, whether it's falling out of the casket at the funeral or being part of wacky adventur