Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate," wrote the sardonic writer Ambrose Bierce. Bierce was ...

Ambrose Bierce — an iconoclastic, politically conservative, wickedly humorous, and often acerbic atheist who admired Pancho Villa and wrote The Devil’s Dictionary — disappeared mysteriously in 1914.

"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate,” wrote the sardonic writer Ambrose Bierce. Bierce was unafraid of death; in fact, he welcomed it with open arms and a good ...