diff --git a/lib/spawn.js b/lib/spawn.js
index 9e75b84..50e83f5 100644
--- a/lib/spawn.js
+++ b/lib/spawn.js
@@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ function spawn(phantomJsConfig) {
 
                 prepareChildProcess(child);
 
+                child.stdin.on('error', function (err) {
+                    // Ignore errors if the child has died.
+                    // child.on('exit') will still be fired.
+                    // @see https://github.com/peerigon/phridge/issues/34
+                    if (err.code === 'EPIPE') return;
+                    if (err.code === 'ECONNRESET') return;
+                    throw err;
+                });
                 child.stdout.on("data", onStdout);
                 child.stderr.on("data", onStderr);
 
@@ -156,4 +164,4 @@ function disposeChildProcess() {
     childProcess.cleanStdout = null;
 }
 
-module.exports = spawn;
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+module.exports = spawn;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 359fded..7e7ca97 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     "when": "^3.4.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "chai": "^1.9.1",
+    "chai": "^2.3.0",
     "chai-as-promised": "^4.1.1",
     "getport": "^0.1.0",
     "istanbul": "^0.3.0",
diff --git a/test/Phantom.test.js b/test/Phantom.test.js
index b595854..44314b3 100644
--- a/test/Phantom.test.js
+++ b/test/Phantom.test.js
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ describe("Phantom", function () {
                 });
             });
 
-            it("should be save to call .dispose() multiple times", slow(function () {
+            it("should be safe to call .dispose() multiple times", slow(function () {
                 return when.all([
                     phantom.dispose(),
                     phantom.dispose(),
@@ -412,8 +412,10 @@ describe("Phantom", function () {
                 ]);
             }));
 
+            it("should be safe to call .dispose() after the process has died", slow(function () {
+                phantom.childProcess.kill('SIGTERM');
+                return phantom.dispose();
+            }));
         });
-
     });
-
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+});
diff --git a/test/disposeAll.test.js b/test/disposeAll.test.js
index 90d293d..bb3ec08 100644
--- a/test/disposeAll.test.js
+++ b/test/disposeAll.test.js
@@ -32,4 +32,29 @@ describe("disposeAll()", function () {
             });
     }));
 
-});
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+    it("should ignore EPIPE errors", slow(function () {
+        var exited = [];
+
+        return when.all([
+                phridge.spawn(),
+                phridge.spawn(),
+                phridge.spawn()
+            ])
+            .then(function (p) {
+                p[0].childProcess.kill('SIGINT');
+                return p;
+            })
+            .then(function (p) {
+                p[0].childProcess.on("exit", function () { exited.push(0); });
+                p[1].childProcess.on("exit", function () { exited.push(1); });
+                p[2].childProcess.on("exit", function () { exited.push(2); });
+
+                return phridge.disposeAll();
+            })
+            .then(function () {
+                exited.sort();
+                expect(exited).to.eql([0, 1, 2]);
+            });
+    }));
+
+});