In May 1944, SS men decided to photograph the selection process in Auschwitz. The series of photos show hundreds of Hungarian-Jewish women and children being selected, and then walking towards the gas chambers for extermination

In under 2 minutes, Adam Lanza fired 80 rounds of ammunition into this 4×3 foot bathroom crammed with 16 kids, killing 15. Many were so pulverized only their clothing could identify them. The sole survivor was a 6-year-old girl. Crime scene photos were taken, but never released to the public.

Andrea Yates drowned her 5 children in the bathtub to “save them from the devil” during a psychotic break. The youngest was 6 months old.

Life offers a different experience for virtually every single human who has ever lived, and will ever live. Just as no two people are exactly the same, neither is anyone's life experience.

Check out this collection of pictures and stories from the darker side of life, that if nothing else may make you stop and think about your own life, and maybe reconsider the direction it's going.

Aloha Airlines Flight 243 – A plane with almost half of its ceiling torn apart could land with just one causality

A father looking for his two missing sons that went missing during the Kosovo war in 1999

Nikocado Avocado before and after ruining his life for social media

Duane Puryear, an AIDS/HIV activist, with the panel he made for the 1988 AIDS quilt project.

All of the pieces found from the space shuttle Columbia disaster that happened on February 1st, 2003. Pieces of all 7 astronauts were also found scattered across Texas and Louisiana.

After being abused by her mother’s boyfriends for years, including allegedly being raped and burned with cigarettes when she was nine, Ashlee Martinson killed her mother and stepfather. In prison, she said she felt safer and happier than she ever did at home.

A dead Russian soldiers military I.D with drawings and love letters from his significant other.

20 year old Armita Abbasi was taken to hospital due to multiple rapes and internal bleeding due to anal trauma after a week of captivity and torture by Iranian authorities. She has since been kidnapped from hospital with no clue on her whereabouts.

A group of friends took this photo at the Borderline Bar and Grill. Just a few minutes later, a gunman walked in and shot and killed 12 people. Two people in this photo died, including Telemachus Orfanos, who had survived the Las Vegas strip shooting a year before.

This teenager in DR Congo putting her baby into a cardboard box, so she can dig cobalt used for batteries

The mask alleged to have been worn by sex offender Edward Paisnel aka “The Beast Of Jersey” when he committed a number of sex crimes on Jersey, 25th November 1971

In 1974 Christine Chubbuck, a 29-year-old news presenter, announced “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, we bring you another first – an attempted suicide.” She then shot herself in the head with a revolver on live television.