Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
then open in external browser
and click "Open in External Browser" 
“Crazy Way To Go Out”: 50 Ways People Died That Are Almost Hard To Believe
Interview With Expert
We all know we are going to die one day but the vast majority of us don't know when or how. While data shows the top causes of death worldwide are heart disease and cancer, there are an infinite number of ways we could possibly meet our end.
“She dried up in the desert. Drowned in a hot tub. Danced to death at an east-side night club,” sang Train back in 2012. “She went down in an airplane. Fried getting a suntan. Fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand.” While some of those causes of death sound too odd to be true, it turns out stranger things have happened. Redditor u/Mairon3791 recently racked up 4,000 comments when they asked, “What's an actual cause of death so extremely rare that it's hard to believe it's possible?”
Keep scrolling for some of the most bizarre situations that have led to an unexpected funeral. And if you’re scared of dying (whether it be in a crazy or common way), we invite you to take a look at the discussion we had with a “death expert” on why you shouldn’t worry.
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
Patricia Stallings, was wrongfully convicted of murder after the death of her son Ryan on September 7, 1989. Because testing seemed to indicate an elevated level of ethylene glycol in Ryan's blood, authorities suspected antifreeze poisoning and they arrested Stallings the next day. She was convicted in 1991, in jail had another baby, diagnosed with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a rare genetic disorder that can mimic antifreeze poisoning. They both died of an illness that mimics antifreeze poisoning.
Tired-Panda 1 year ago
Even sadder is that she wasn't allowed to go to the first baby's funeral, or even be with him in his last moments after the life machine was turned off despite please from her husband to the judge who said she wasn't going to let this "baby - killer" anywhere near the son. All of this is before she's convicted wrongly of murder. I learnt of this case the other day and it's so so awful. She missed the beginning (and only life for one) life of both her sons. I'm just glad she and baby 2 are home now thankfully
It’s quite normal to fear death. Many people do. Surveys show the main reasons people are scared dying are fear of leaving loved ones behind and the actual process of death itself.
For some, it’s a mild fear or worry but for others, it’s extreme and there’s a name for it. Thanatophobia. Also known as death anxiety. It’s estimated up to 10% of people have thanatophobia. And psychologists say you’re more likely to develop it if you’ve had a near-death experience, you have PTSD, an anxiety disorder, if you’re terminally ill or have a serious illness.
If you are scared to death of dying, and suspect you might have thanatophobia, Cleveland Clinic suggests the following, “If a fear of death affects your ability to function at school, work or in social situations, seek treatment from a healthcare provider. You may benefit from psychotherapy, which helps you talk through your fear and anxiety.”
RELATED:
#2
Laughing to death. Fifty-year-old Alex Mitchell could not stop laughing for a continuous 25-minute period—almost the entire length a tv show called “Kung Fu Kapers” and suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the strain placed on his heart. Alex's widow later sent the Goodies, who were staring in that show, a letter thanking them for making his final moments so pleasant.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Think you're a tough guy, eh? See if you can survive this episode of "The Goodies" that killed Alex! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6u0reg
MEB 1 year ago
Thanks for the link. Still alive, not planning on changing that tonight.
Load More Replies...
Karina 1 year ago (edited)
I almost died of laughter once. It is not much funny when your body expells out all your breath again and again, while you cant stop compulsing with laughter. I litteraly couldnt stop, and even tho I guess i would have been saved by unconsiousnes, it was scary. Dont do d***s while watching Hurra Torpedo "total eclipse of the heart 😂 (i like drums) eta "funny" friends and repeat was involved
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
This had happened to several people: Chrysippus, a greek playwriter, died laughing at one of his plays, and a Zeuxis, a greek painter, had an old lady comissioning him a painting of her as Aphrodite, and the painter laughed so much that he died.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago
Ironic. i can't laugh anymore. It seems i can't even remember how to laugh, or how to find something funny anymore. I had no physical accident but only a severe emotional hit and the shock took away my physical ability to understand fun anymore
PiAnisum 1 year ago
Have you been diagnosed with depression? I had a very severe episode of depression 16 years ago and I couldn't have fun anymore. Laughing wasn't possible only fake grins that looked very forced.
Load More Replies...
Sean O’Connor has made dealing with death his life’s mission. He’s the host and producer of the podcast How To Die. He’s also a death coach, doula, an end-of-life companion and a soul carer. He kindly agreed to chat to us in an exclusive interview.
And while some might consider his work morbid, he doesn’t. He has a wicked sense of humor. Hopefully, what he had to say will help put some of your fears about death to rest.
#3
I remember reading about a famous case of that…a woman named Jennifer Strange died of water intoxication while she was trying to win a Wii. A radio station had a contest called Hold Your Wee for a Wii, where you had to drink as much water as you possibly could without going to the bathroom. She drank nearly two gallons of water and ended up dying. The radio station’s parent company paid over $16M to her family in damages.
The Other Guest 1 year ago
And as if that weren't bad enough, during the contest a caller warned the DJs of how dangerous drinking so much water could be. They basically laughed and said, "Yeah, we know, but they signed waivers so we're OK."
Megan 1 year ago
I bet that comment was a huge part in the big settlement they had to pay her family
Load More Replies...
James Peek 1 year ago
Sacramento California. Lots of people got fired. NO ONE went to jail! Big lawsuit.
#4
Stingray tail in the heart.
Lord_Teutonic:
Man i miss him steve. he died as he lived; with animals in his heart.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
It's nice to see I'm not the only one.
Load More Replies...
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
It's a freak thing, but it has happened to many people. The stingray whips its barbed tail in defense when it feels distressed. The barb manages to hit between the ribs and goes into the heart or lungs of the victim.
Load More Replies...
Meaghan Stewart 1 year ago
That thing looks GIGANTIC (I’m also a thalassophobe so I guess that tells ya).
Rosie Red 1 year ago
I just learned a new word and yes, I too must be a thalassophobe.
Load More Replies...
Abbas Fahmy 1 year ago (edited)
The sea was murky after a storm, and I stepped over a stingray. It lashed and stabbed me in my achille's heel ! The pain (and shock) made me do a somersault (my friend told me it was cinematic, LOL!) ... I rushed to an emergency. An antihistamine shot did the trick.
I began by asking O'Connor why death? “Obviously, the money,” he joked. Before continuing, “No seriously, it was more of a calling for me. I felt like I wanted to be as ready as possible should I be needed one day. Plus a long shadow of mortality in my family growing up, and the violent society we live in.”
He said he used to host Death Cafes regularly. One thing led to another. Before he knew it, he was doing courses, and then joining a community of soul carers. But what exactly do soul carers, death doulas, and death coaches do?
“I've just spent an hour reading to someone who is paralyzed from a stroke,” he told me. “With others, we might imagine what happens after we close our eyes for the last time. And prepare for that, emotionally. We might use some visualization. I often have to reassure people that it's ok for them to let go, that they have had a good life and done well and that their children will be ok without them, that their work is done. I hesitate to 'tell' people anything though, except reassert what they have told me.”
#5
Two girls I met in my eating disorder support group died in ways people never believed were true. One died of a heart attack while purging due to the electrolyte imbalances caused by binging and purging, and the other died choking on her own vomit while purging. Bulimia (and eating disorders in general) are really disgusting, f****d up illnesses and not enough people realize that.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
My mom got food poisoning and her heart stopped because she did not drink or eat, she was low in potassium and sodium salts, and dehydrated. Everytime they tried to rehydrate her, her heart would stop. Took days to stabilize her. Eat fruit, potatoes or bananas, or drink orange/tomato juice or Pedialyte if you are throwing up or diarrhea sick.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
When I was in the ER for one of my pancreatitis flares, I my potassium was dangerously low. It's gotten somewhat low sometimes and they give me the choice of IV or pills. This time they almost had to admit me. I was having heart palpitations and they were cramming me up with potassium ib both iv and pills. Luckily they got it up, but it's something I have had to watch closely since.
Load More Replies...
Denise Melek 1 year ago
I had severe bulimia 15 years ago and thought it wouldn't be that harmful, since I wasn't as underweight as the anorexic girls. Good it could be stopped... :O
Piwakawaka 1 year ago (edited)
Parent of child who formerly had anorexia (nownfully recovered). I believe it. Eating disorders are common too, and at epidemic levels. Higher than type 2 diabetes. Most deadly mental illness. People don't understand how awful these illnesses are. I am glad the writer has aupport and hope your recovery is goung well.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I went to HS with a girl who had bulimia. I was always shocked at how much she could put away at lunch. One day I realized she was using the staff bathroom (the girls was ALWAYS full) and I heard her throwing up, so I followed her a few times. Same thing every time. I did (anonymously) report her to the school counselor and the school nurse. I moved in my senior year, so I have no idea if she ever got the help she really needed.
Debra Newell 1 year ago
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve seen it first hand tooo many times to mention.
#6
In 1988 a dog fell from a building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, landed in a woman's head, [unaliving] her and the dog instantaneously, then another lady completely confused watching the event unfolding from the middle of a road, was ran over by a bus; then shortly after that an old man died from a heart attack out of the commotion of seeing both deaths, this happen under a couple of minutes. [Source](https://nicolehenley.medium.com/how-a-dogs-unfortunate-fall-led-to-death-of-3-da6c6b57982).
The Announcer 1 year ago
The angel of death tripped and tried grabbing a few people to keep its balance
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
"unalive" is the most lazy word ever. Even "making her and the dog pass away" would be better
Load More Replies...
BossyHossy1 1 year ago
We had an unfortunate young man in our SICU who recieved a traumatic brain injury at work that he died of 3 days later. The day after his admission, his aunt had a massive heart attack and died in our waiting room. Inbetween their deaths, five cousins traveling to San Antonio from Mexico to see him one last time were killed by a drunk driver. By Day 3, we did rock, paper, scissors to see who would care for him that day due to all of the unfortunate circumstances.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Interesting. "Death" and "died" are ok, but "killing" gets the "[unaliving]" treatment. Maybe posters have to be like Bluebottle in the Goon Show and say things like "You have deaded me!"
#7
Guy’s beard was so long that when he tried to flee a house fire, he tripped over it and broke his neck falling down the stairs. Dude was a mayor too. Hans Steininger, mayor of Braunau in Austria.
Jan Castle 1 year ago
You're right! How to forget Franz Gruber the composer of Silent Night!
Load More Replies...
HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 1 year ago
There was a Horrible Histories stupid deaths skit about this guy!
Patricia Smith 1 year ago
Aren't beards pretty grungy when they get this long? How could you keep them from becoming street sweepers?
Since you’re scrolling through a list of completely rare - and sudden - ways to die, it’s only natural you might want to know whether it’s at all possible to prepare for an unexpected death. I asked. On behalf of a friend…
“Well, yes, you can definitely prepare for a sudden death by always wearing your best knickers in case you have to take an unexpected ambulance ride - it's not as if you were planning to, after all. One day will be your last. Is it today? Tomorrow? None of us know. The Grim Reaper's receptionist isn't calling to let you know you can be squeezed in next Tuesday at 10am. So be prepared!” quipped O’Connor.
“But for those left behind, we can get rid of our old sex toys and bad poetry, our diaries and journals and broken furniture, chuck away all the things we don't need - tidy up, which makes the impact of our death less onerous for others, and the grieving process easier. After all, we won't be here, what do we care - but we can do this for our loved ones.”
#8
Greek philosopher Aeschylus was [unalived] when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head, mistaking his bald pate for a rock.
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Right? What brainiac came up with the idea of running an article about crazy deaths that won't let you say died, killed, suicide, murdered, etc? (For those wondering - I use a non-width joiner, which is basically an invisible space. The bot sees "kil led" but the reader sees "killed.")
Load More Replies...
My O My 1 year ago
So, you missed the interview with the eagle in the "Greece Today"?
Load More Replies... Carl Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
Aeschylus wasn't a philosopher, he was a playwright. I've read most of his works. Here's a bit of trivia, his "Oresteia" is the only surviving complete Greek tragedy, however, "Proteus",a satyr play that accompanied the Oresteia, has been lost, except for a single line of text.
B Hobbs 1 year ago
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Small Gods story, has this near the end.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
I scrolled through the comments just to find a comment talking about this book, thank you :) GNU Terry Pratchett !
Load More Replies...
#9
Drowning in the desert.
Guy got caught in a box canyon during a flash flood. The water was quickly reabsorbed into the dry desert soil and left a drown man in the middle of the desert.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Yes, in the original series. A guy tried to make his girlfriend lose some kind of climbing bet and she was caught in a flash flood. They caught the guy because she was wearing his jacket and he'd claimed not to know anything about it.
Load More Replies... 
Charlotte A. 1 year ago
I think the main reason drowning isn't a very uncommon death in deserts is that people walk or set up camp in dry riverbeds and then when it rains - perhaps so far away they're not even aware, those floods suddenly fill up real fast. If I remember correctly those types of rivers are called wadis? Or maybe wadi just means "flash flood"...?
Jess Smith 1 year ago
Fun fact: there's a fish that lives in one aquifer in Death Valley, it's called the Devils Hole Pupfish and is unsurprisingly endangered.
Patricia Smith 1 year ago
Arroyos are really dangerous. You can't climb the sides easily at all.
#10
Innocent people have gone to jail for murder because the real explanation for why someone died was so rare and infrequent that courts didn’t believe those explanations as plausible
Two cases off the top of my head: Lindy Chamberlain (a dingo actually did eat her baby) and Kathleen Folbigg (had four children die from a rare genetic mutation).
Beatles264@aol.com 1 year ago
Debbie Loveless and John Miller were accused of killing their 4 year old daughter, April, in some sort of satanic ritual. They said she was attacked by dogs. Authorities tried and convicted them for life based on the medical examiner's report claiming that the deadly wound on the child's thigh was caused by a knife and curling iron ( what? ) because the wound had clean edges. Two years later, during an appeal, the defense finds pictures of the wounds taken in the OR where April was brought, showing a ragged wound and bite marks. The clean edges that the Medical Examiner saw during autopsy were because of the surgery to try to save April's life. The surgeon had excised the edges to clean them up for repair. Such incompetence.
Clown fish 1 year ago
WHAT!?? They are that stupid they didn't look at the pictures taken by the hospital?!
Load More Replies...
Bec 1 year ago
Texas man was put to death after not being able to save his children from a house fire. Accused of being a satanist because he once had some rock posters. Despite strong evidence to refute the original arson findings Governor Rick Perry gleefully and willfully refused to consider a pardon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Perry also had the gall to claim that he was sure that Texas never executed anyone who was innocent.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
What's really sad about the Azaria Chamberlain case is that there had been attacks by dingoes on other children and they weren't publicized because there would have been an effect on tourism.
Kelly Jones 1 year ago
It’s not an oopsie, it’s institutionalized misogyny in the courts & society, centuries of bias in psychology study samples. Question bias in deceptive legal dramas, too. Vestiges of the Byzantine to Victorian era. Women are routinely falsely accused, and there is no place this is more true than our court system.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
While dealing with the trauma and grief of losing a child in such a horrific way, the system now decided to add a lengthy jail term to their pain. I hope there were adequate reparations for this gaffe.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Don't forget that even prisoners hate people who have harmed children. Someone falsely accused of murdering their own child? That's going to be VERY hard time.
Load More Replies...
Declan Fleming 1 year ago
Stop it with this “satanic ritual” bullcrap. Satanists do not believe or do that stuff, it’s like saying they were doing a Jewish ritual. It’s offensive and rude that people make satanists the bad guys all the time
This Person 1 year ago (edited)
Never understood why some Americans find the death of Lindsy Chamberlain's daughter funny.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
So sad, and a false accusation and prison sentence are the ultimate insult to injury.
On the topic of ditching things, O’Connor said it’s important to remember we live in a digital era. “Have a place where you store your passwords - your digital death can be very messy otherwise. It gives people access to funds to buy the spirits you'll have served at your wake, if you're Irish,” he said, only half-joking this time.
#11
It doesn't happen often (in fact, I think it's really freaking rare), but there have been grown adults who have been killed by chickens.
With roosters specifically, a lot of them have a big spur on each leg. This is like, a pretty damn big-a*s horn with a sharp tip. And some of those roosters can get pretty aggressive. Like, they might just decide to jump up at you and try to stab you in the face.
I think as recently as last year, there was a guy who got killed by a rooster. It kicked him in the thigh, but it severed his femoral artery and he bled out in a matter of minutes.
mark gowen 1 year ago
One of the most recent (maybe one mentioned) people who fight chickens attach steel spurs to them. Killed his owner. Karma.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Slightly elated (saw the typo, but decided I should leave it): some a*****e in the US southwest was shooting saguaro cacti with a shotgun. One fell on him and [stopped him from ever doing anything stupid or obnoxious ever again].
Load More Replies... CD Mills 1 year ago
I was attacked by a Red Producer rooster once, he tore my hand up. I was simply walking toward the chicken coop with food and water and he hit me before I knew he was there. He managed to twang a nerve because my middle finger was locked down and I couldn't open my hand. My daughter had to pry my hand off the bucket handle. All of the Red Producer roosters got aggressive as they matured so we got rid of them and just went with Game roosters after that. Chicken's feet look very similar to their ancestor's dinosaur anatomy and they will attack for whatever chicken-brained reasons and they can tear holes in you easy as pie.
zububonsai 1 year ago (edited)
In medieval times some woman openly carried rooster thighs (yes, cleaned up) with them as self defense weapons (fastened on a thread on their girdles, so they could be at hand fast). In case of assault they hit the assaulters with those spurs... (Source: I'm a history teacher loving nerdy "everyday culture stories" , F and training self defense)
ThatNatureNerd 1 year ago
Its amazing how fragile people are when it comes to arteries people have died to small freshwater pufferfish that bit them behind the knee.
Lucky Hemlock 1 year ago
We had a rooster like that when I was growing up. He attacked a cop on my dad's property once, and tore his leg up enough that he had to go for a tetanus shot
Thanos'Fingers 1 year ago
PSA: tetanus is not caused by rust, but by bacteria in soil. Puncture wounds are just highest risk as the bacteria enters past the protective layer of skin, and puncture wounds are most often caused by rusty metals like nails or fences.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Yeah, roosters can be mean af. I heard one crowing once when I was at the Animal Rescue League. I opened one of the cage doors a little to peek inside and saw one with a bald head and giving me the stinkeye. Needless to say, I slowly closed the door looking like 😳
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
"a pretty damn big-a*s horn with a sharp tip"... talon, the word you're looking for is talon
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
We had bin strikes here in 2022. I did support them because they deserved to have a pay rise that matched the rest of the UK. I'd put my bin bag into our big bins as best as I could, put my recycling in and then looked up face to face with a seagull and if you've never seen one up close? They are incredibly aggressive! Their beaks! Then as if that wasn't enough a huge black rat ran down the pavement!.... I was - "Okay, enough is enough... As much as I support the bin strikes? I'd like to be able to get to my various appointments and do shopping without being having to fight off random wildlife!" 😄
#12
The guy who ate a slug on a dare and got rat lungworm disease.
Roxanne D'souza 1 year ago
Although he didn't die immediately from it, he was first rendered comatose and then was paralysed for years if I remember correctly. He eventually died from complications related to it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
He didn't die right away either. He was severely ill and paralyzed for years before that.
Karina 1 year ago (edited)
I have eaten a number of earth worms in my childhood. In combination with dirt and verious seeds. I blame swedish childrens shows, they were good shows.
My O My 1 year ago
Aaa, I really got in trouble for wanting to give shoe polish a try
Load More Replies...
Seadog 1 year ago
1000 Ways To Die. One story was about a guy that served snails to himself and his date, trying to be impressive. Only thing is, he didn't cook them. When they both ended up in the hospital with bad headaches and doctors finally learned of this, they were both informed they would die a slow painful death as the rat lungworms slowly consumed their brains.
#13
My MIL used to be a surgeon. She told me about a patient they had back in the 90s. He died because of holding in a sneeze. Turns out he had an aneurysm in his brain that popped at that moment.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
A long time ago I read a book called "Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Sex", which was a bit of a parody of a best seller called "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex". One of the things I remember about it is a section about sneezing sometimes being pleasant and a reference to "noserbators".
Load More Replies...
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I've heard of someone who held a sneeze and ripped their gullet. Let them out, people!
As you might have noticed, this death expert likes to joke. But as I expected, he admitted his work is not always easy. “When people experience existential dread and are afraid to close their eyes for the last time in case they never open them again... it's hard. As I said earlier - I come with no answers, just a gentle listening presence.”
“I try to remember that we were designed to die. It's natural,” he added. “The over medicalisation of death however has hidden it from us.”
#14
That one guy who died after getting stuck face first in an extremely claustrophobic cave. They could get to him, but couldn’t get him out. Just left his body in the cave and cemented the thing shut. Nutty Putty Cave.
Castles 1 year ago
Have a little respect. His name was John Jones. Heart breaking movie about it is called ‘The Last Descent’.
BrookeBT 1 year ago
They weren't being disrespectful, they just forgot the name. Don't judge so quickly.
Load More Replies...
Elvira394 1 year ago
Terrifying. In the mid 90's, at Provo Canyon School (same one Paris Hilton protests about), they took us to Nutty Putty for an outing. No guides, no training, only 2 staff with flashlights and like 13 teen girls, just playing around down there. I still remember jumping across a moderate size crevasse (maybe 2 feet wide), and a staff saying "careful, no idea how deep that hole is". And squeezing between massive rocks to the point of inching forward spread eagle not even army style, because there were only a matter of inches of space between them, for many feet. Can't believe only one girl died there in my time, on a different outing though (dehydration hiking through summer desert without water). Thanks Paris for speaking about this place!!!!
Piwakawaka 1 year ago
I've seen this before and it horrified me every time. How terrifying it would have been for him.
Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
I can’t believe there are people willing to crawl through unknown spaces! 😰🫨😵
Lesley Relph 1 year ago (edited)
Not long ago, a middle aged man got stuck in an indoor caving experience in northern England (Keswick if you want to look it up). Multiple emergency services attended and they dismantled sections to free him. Eventually specialist cave rescuers got him out, but he died later as a result of his injuries.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I heard that one on Mr. Ballen's channel. Horrible!
Load More Replies...
Linda Roy 1 year ago
Imagine the guilt of the person who suggested that the family go splunking.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
It was probably John himself. He had been there before and loved it.
Load More Replies... 
OpheliaPoe 1 year ago
He was trying to crawl through what he thought was a specific narrow passage called "Th Birth Canal" but he was mistaken and got stuck head first in a dead end narrow passage. They were unable to retrieve his body or unable to retrieve it whole/without significant damage and risk to those recovering his body so instead the cave was sealed off to prevent anyone else from making any kind of similar mistake. I believe also to preserve the cave as his gravesite, people do all kinds of weird things once a bizarre story makes the news 😬
Load More Replies...
#15
Dying of a broken heart.
The_Town_of_Canada:
Lost my Dad to this.
My Mom died Mother’s Day 2020.
My dad, who never had health issues, was dead within a year. Just completely lost his will to live.
Laura Lawson 1 year ago
There is something called Broken Heart Syndrome & it's a legitimate medical condition. It can mimic heart attacks & other ailments, and you can die from it.
zenharmony 1 year ago
I knew when Carrie Fisher died that her mother, Debbie Reynolds, wouldn't last long without her. I was still shocked when she died the day after her daughter.
Load More Replies...
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Had this happen to a pet. His brother died, and after that he just gave up on life. Wouldn't eat, wouldn't interact with anyone, just sat there staring at the wall. And then one day, despite appearing outwardly healthy, he just lay down and died.
Paul Brown 1 year ago
I believe it. After my uncle died, my aunt just gave up and soon after died
JLo 1 year ago
Same here in reverse: wife died and then her husband of 50 some years (my second cousin) died a couple of weeks later. Their poor son....
Load More Replies...
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
A family friend was told that his Dad had died suddenly at home. In the couple of hours it took him to get there, his Mum died too, both recorded as natural causes. He fully believes that Mum died of a broken heart. They had a double funeral.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
My cousin hung himself. His mother found him and died of a heart attack. :(
BossyHossy1 1 year ago
We called/stopped a code on a 80+ lady and went to tell 90+ husband and he just clutched his chest and died. His last words were "I can't go...." We all assumed he was saying that he couldn't go on without her. It was really sad, but also romantic in a way.
Mystery Kitteh 1 year ago
My aunt passed away from this after my mom died. They were very close. 🤎🤎
Shark Lady 1 year ago
My family have always thought that this would happen to my dad if my mum dies first. Obviously no one has mentioned this to either of my parents, it's more for us younger generations so we are prepared for it.
#16
I think people turning to stone/bone is utterly horrifying. Like you get hurt and instead of healing you turn to bone, till eventually you're imprisoned by your own body.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Worked with a chap who had it. His body became fixed upright with his knees slightly bent. Can confirm it’s horrific. I still think about him even though that was 30 years ago.
Load More Replies...
Legendbird 1 year ago
I'd just ask for IV morphene as assisted suicide if I was diagnosed with that.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
At one point you have to decide if you want to be stuck sitting or standing, because that's how you're going to be for the rest of your life. I saw a story about a guy who chose standing so that he could be wheeled around upright. It's an absolutely horrifying disease.
Eva Sawyer 1 year ago
Systemic scleroderma is just as bad - all your internal organs calcify essentially until your heart and lungs literally cannot function
Sharon Hahn 1 year ago
Is that anything like scleroderma that affects your skin? Are there different kinds of scleroderma?
Load More Replies... 
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Yeah, the first time I read about that disorder I couldn't believe it. The pictures of the victims are saddening and horrifying at the same time. So sad.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
No, she has “stiff person syndrome.” Something to do with muscle spasms.
Load More Replies...
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Stone Man or Munchmeyer Disease. Now I can see what being like petrified wood feels like -_-"
While it’s highly unlikely you’ll meet your maker in any of the ways discussed here, the fact of the matter is that we are all going to die.
And on that note, O’Connor had these parting words: “No-one has been beyond the veil to tell us what happens on the other side. All we can do is approach that moment with love and awe, even curiosity. Maybe even gratitude. For it would be awful, and awfully boring, if we lived forever.”
#17
The show, 1000 Ways To Die, covered a lot of the weirdest ones. The one that I remember being like wtf on was a guy who tied a sausage to his thigh, to make it look like he had huge junk. He cut off circulation throughout the night of dancing and died from cardiac arrest in the club bathroom.
She who must not be named 1 year ago
The one I always remember is the woman who used a carrot as a dildo. IIRC she ruptured a vein sending an air bubble through her body that ended her life when it reached her heart 😬😫
Cat Chat 1 year ago
Number one rule people should use for anything is "do I want my kids to find me like this if I die". (Or parents if you have no kids...or whoever you would be embarrassed by).
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
My favourites were the woman hit by a meteorite through her chest as she stood watching shooting stars; and the "chubby chaser" having fun with her on top, she had a heart attack and collapsed on him, and was so heavy that he couldn't shift her off, and suffocated. Oh, and the woman who was practising her belly dancing under a moving ceiling fan and strangled herself when she threw her headscarf too high.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
There have been no confirmed deaths from meteorites. There is only one confirmed case of someone who was hit by one. It was in 1954 and she only had minor injuries. There are many unconfirmed cases, the most recent a man in 1888.
Load More Replies...
Littlemiss 1 year ago
Or the woman who's fetish was being puked on. She terrorized the guy she hooked up with, he fell ill and she was really happy. He puked on her, she choked to death on his vomit. Really fascinating program.
Saeyoul Akiyune 11 months ago
I loved this show! My favorite was when a coach was showing a few students jow to properly throw a pole into the ground; he goes running towards it, but is looking at the students over his shirt - as soon as the coach faces forward, the pole goes straight through his eye.
#18
This woman was getting a drink and she had a metal straw in her cup. She slipped and the metal straw punctured her eye and went through her brain. Crazy way to go out.
She who must not be named 1 year ago
I've heard the story about this one. It was a mason jar type glass that had a hole in the lid that the straw went through so it was held in place making it unable to move when she tripped. I threw my lid out after hearing this. I know the chances of it happening are super slim but if there was no lid the straw would have moved to the side of the glass, been less rigid and she may still be alive. Such a tragic accident from something you wouldn't even consider usually 😔
Ace 1 year ago
Seems odd to make such an effort rather than just, you know, not using the metal straw.
Load More Replies... Carl Roberts 1 year ago
I know it really happened, but is like something straight out of Final Destination.
Seadog 1 year ago
I saw a child come within millimeters of being killed by a peg hook in a store. He was playing with a toy on the floor in a shoe store and went face first into the hook. He recoiled, grabbed his face, then started crying. At that moment I knew exactly what had happened. As his mother reached for him I started scanning the peg hooks for blood. The hook in question was a safety peg hook (has a ball end instead of just being chopped off), it hit just off center of his nose and was stopped by the bone around the eye socket. A few millimeters to the left and he would've taken the entire peg hook through the eye into his brain.
WindySwede 1 year ago (edited)
Or just maybe not judge others by their coffee drinking habits? 🤷♂️ edit, spelling
Load More Replies...
#19
The strangest I've seen in 20 years of medicine here was when someone's aorta got punctured by a sliver of wire from a grill brush they had accidentally ingested and ultimately died. The proximity to the esophagus is not all that far. Still would have been hard to believe until I saw the imaging. I immediately threw mine away and have used plastic bristle ever since. Not long after, someone tried to off themself by sticking a crossbow to their chin. There was an x-ray I wish I still had of the broadhead lodged in the top of her skull. Made a full recovery. Some of the stuff on TV pale's in comparison to what actually goes on out there.
Jay Scales 1 year ago
I saw an episode of 'Monsters inside me' where a guy did the same thing with a metal grill brush wire, and was critically ill, but survived thanks to a solid diagnosis & good surgeon.
Karina 1 year ago
It is so common it was in our newspaper to only use new ones or alternatives. Summernews, but still
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 year ago
After the story about the danger of metal grill brushes came out my dad immediately threw all of his away. He was terrified of that happening to the grandkids. There are other tools that work just as well.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago (edited)
My neighbor's kids (boys 8 & 10) got an archery set for Christmas. In typical fashion, their Mother was paying no attention, whatsoever. I heard the "thwack" and then the scream. I was over the fence faster than anyone who knows me would ever believe possible. The Mom comes screaming out of the house and wants to pull the arrow out of her younger son's chest. Ya'll, I had to sit on this woman to prevent her from "unplugging" the hole until the EMTs showed up. They told her point blank that a) his lung probably would have collapsed and b) he may very well have bled out before they arrived. The kids were so sweet, but she was a twitcher. Pretty sure the State got involved after that. Sad.
Renee Kamphuys 1 year ago
By puncturing the wall of the oesophagus. It was a metal wire
Load More Replies...
#20
The uncle of a high school friend hit a deer with his car. Got out to move the deer off the road. It was stunned but still alive. Kicked him the forehead and instantly killed him before it jumped up and ran into the woods.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I have heard deer are as deadly as kangaroos when hit by cars. My mum's cousin and their son were killed when their car hit a roo.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
True. I live in an area with an overpopulation of deer. People often die when their car hits one. There are road signs everywhere warning about it. You have to drive defensively and keep an eye on the sides of the road - especially at night. I hit a huge buck once, but luckily I was in an SUV and it didn't come through the window. But it made such an impact that there were damages to my engine. I felt so bad though. :(
Load More Replies... Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Deers and cars are deadly. So much so that here in Wisconsin it's common to remind people to look out for deer on their way home. Alot of people think deer are these scared harmless creatures but they aren't. They will fight back if they feel threatened and their hooves can kill you. Even if you are in a car you can get badly hurt or killed if you hit one. Oh and if you've never heard a deer hiss it's enough to make you p**s your pants. The first time I got close enough to a deer that it hissed I almost had a heart attack. It was dusk and I didn't see it in my yard behind a large shrub. I backed away slowly then when I was far enough I took off running to the safety of my home. I really thought that deer was going to attack me. It was scary.
timhood 1 year ago
The deer could have been dead. There is a thing called aftershock where it can get up and run for a hundred yards or more. Hunters know this, as even after shooting a deer clean through the head or heart, it will run off.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
There is no way a dead deer is running a hundred yards
Load More Replies... #21
People in my family keep getting struck by lightning. There was a bit on unsolved mysteries about it. Guess someone pissed off Thor or something. I was narrowly missed and my dad was missed. Grandpa was hit and tossed off a ladder and lived.
Jeremy James 1 year ago
I've heard that people who have been struck by lightning once have a better-than-average chance of being struck again. Probably because they engage in risk behaviors like being up on a ladder during a storm instead of taking shelter.
Marnie 1 year ago
My ex-husband's ex-fiance's sister was struck by lightning twice (in Australia). I don't know if she was taking risky behavior.
Load More Replies...
Hey! 1 year ago
One of my aunts lost two husbands who both got struck by lightning, in the same park.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Um.. are they sure it was lightning? 😳 (j/k)
Load More Replies...
Binky Melnik 1 year ago (edited)
It’s quite easy to get hit by lightning so long as you’re the tallest object in a space. Cucumber farmers are (or were) often hit by lightning. I know this as I had an uncle who was one and was hit by lightning more than once. It’s for this reason you never try to “hide” from lightning under a tree.
Thanos'Fingers 1 year ago
People in my family keep getting struck by lightning. My great grandpa was struck once and lived. Other people in my family have seen lightning nearby.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Oh my gosh... Yet another reason why being agoraphobic can sometimes be a good thing! 😯
#22
Fatal Familial Insomnia: you can't sleep, and you don't sleep, until you die, and it runs in the family.
Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
This was here yesterday I think. It’s been on here a million times.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Insomnia is no joke. I once had to ask my doctors for sleeping tablets. I was given 4 and monitored btw. I'd been awake for around 4days by that point. Occasionally just falling asleep for maybe 10-15 minutes. You can start to have hallucinations. Wonder if you are going crazy. So definitely ask for advice/help if you are going through that.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Because the faulty gene doesn't start immediately producing prions. Onset of this prion disease is between the ages of 13 and 60, most typically between 45 and 50. The mutation has been found genetically in 70 families, but can occur spontaneously (37 diagnosed spontaneous cases worldwide).
Load More Replies...
Lisa Wright 1 year ago
Insomnia sucks. I have it. My 35 yo son has it. Being awake for days is not fun. Finally got a Dr. to help me. I take Ambien CR every night.
Jessie 9 months ago (edited)
Regular insomnia is not the same thing as this disease
Load More Replies... #23
Look, I don't know if it's extremely rare but in this day and age it's pretty unheard of because of the access to healthcare the 1st world country has. My friend died of an ear infection last year. For context, we are in Australia, so we dont pay for emergency hospital visits- cost of treatment was not an issue. She went to the hospital 3 times and was turned away twice. The third time the doctors basically told her the infection was so bad they could not treat it. The next day she was in an induced coma and 2 days later she was gone.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Happened to a friend's child in the 1980s. He lived in KZN where it's very rural. Got an ear infection which spread and killed him. He was only 6 years old. We remember you, Melusi.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Here in the US people die of a tooth infection because they can't afford to see a dentist.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
And if you go to the hospital and they send you home with pain killers and a bill for $1,000 then I can’t imagine you’d be keen to go back for a second opinion and another expensive bill even if you feel worse. I’m always glad for free healthcare in the UK
Load More Replies...
Xiao Mao 1 year ago (edited)
Because in the medical field, hardly anyone listens to women.
Load More Replies...
tameson 1 year ago
Still happens fairly regularly. Not just ear infections but tooth infections too. Any infection in the skull can quickly kill you.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
I had a tooth infection two weeks ago after I tripped and landed on my face. I was in absolute agony for the week until the antibiotics kicked in. I can’t imagine not being able to afford the dentist and having to live with that amount of pain for any longer. It feels like you’ve been stabbed in the face.
Load More Replies...
Roxie Carter 1 year ago
I'm not the litigious type, but if that were my family member, I would sue the everlasting c**p out of that hospital.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Look at all the Catholic hospitals that won't treat women who are miscarrying until they expel the fetus themselves. The hospitals won't treat the women in the beginning because the woman usually needs a D&C and to a Catholic hospital, that's an abortion and they refuse to do it.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
That's horrible....even as someone who had a lot of ear infections as a kid, I can't even begin to fathom how horrible this is must've gotten to the point of it killing someone. That is a horrible way to go
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
One member of our well-known country band died from unmaintained ached tooth and blood poisoning in covid curfew panic.
#24
I heard that a sinkhole formed under some man's bedroom & took him with it. It was so deep that they couldn't find him. Definitely a unique death situation.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
I live in Florida and this gave me nightmares when it happened.
Load More Replies...
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
It gets worse. They could hear him down there screaming for help, but getting to him was impossible.
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
Probably going to happen again. Florida is nade of limestone caves full of water. Draining the water due to increased population. Building too many homes on basically empty bubbles of soft stone. Lots of sinkholes.
featherytoad 1 year ago
One of my fears of living in FL, and I don't have sinkhole insurance.
Load More Replies...
Brandy Gray 1 year ago
That happened right by me.. the sinkhole hasn't gone anywhere either. It keeps reopening every few years.
My O My 1 year ago
Can't you fill these things up? Or, I don't know, cover them with something? Clueless german asking
Load More Replies...
Birma Gustafsson 1 year ago
I remember that. It wasn't even his bedroom, it was his nieces, and he used it while sleeping over. He saved his nieces life.
#25
Prion diseases. For some random reason a protein gets folded the wrong way and totally f***s you up. It’s not alive, you can’t kill it or fight it with d***s or antibiotics. Your own immune system is helpless against it. It causes more proteins to become misfolded and spreads through your body. Even after you die your corpse is a hazard because the misfolded proteins are *still there, waiting*.
Kai 1 year ago
does this just happen randomly or do you have to "catch" the disease somewhere/from something?
MondoLogo 1 year ago
I like how BP redacts d . r . u . g . s. even in a therapeutic context. I guess they really are bad, m'kay?
Verena 1 year ago
I had a lovely friend, really great person. Out of the blue symptoms appeared, 5 months later she was dead. Kreutzfeld-Jakob aka BMS aka mad cow disease. Diagnosed by very clear symptoms, her brain messed up almost on an hourly rate, step by step. And she was aware of it, sadly. Hospital said no way to do an autopsy, because every instrument used, and everything else would be needed to be thrown out as bio-hazard, and the theatre to be closed a special deep cleaned.
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
Had an OR patient with C-J. Made up a surgical set of Pakistani instruments which were sterilized and then disposed of after the case. Anything loose in the room went too. Housekeeping spent hours terminating the room. Patient died several weeks later.
Load More Replies... Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
The main prion disease I know of is "mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) which was a problem in the UK in the 80s. Infected cattle got into the food chain and some people contracted the human form, Krutzfelt-Jacobs Disease, generally fatal. Even now, Ireland imposes a ban on blood donations from anyone who lived in the UK during the 80s, because the prion cannot be detected until post-mortem.
Agamemnon O'Neill 1 year ago
Canada just lifted their blood donation ban this year!
Load More Replies... Carl Roberts 1 year ago
"Even after you die your corpse is a hazard because the misfolded proteins are *still there, waiting".....No. Just, no.
#26
Every year a small handful of people still have polio on their death certificates. Post-polio syndrome can develop decades after a person is first exposed to polio, and it’s occasionally severe enough to kill someone.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
And there are millions of morons trying to have it make a comeback so it can cripple of kill even more people.
Marina Falkener 1 year ago
Many people now are unaware of the fact that children can die and in the past often did. I have too many times heard someone argue that ‘it MUST be something supernatural; kids don’t die’ when seeing old graveyards with row upon row of young children’s graves. It is a bit scary.
Load More Replies... Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Vaccines save lives. Antivaxxers are responsible for many deaths because of their stupid unfounded beliefs not backed by any kind of science.
Helen Rohrlach 1 year ago
Medieval diseases are still here and people still die from them even in the most developed countries.
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
There's increasing concern about ancient diseases reappearing as the glaciers and permafrost melt. We don't know what's out there much less how to treat it.
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Antivaxxers are like drunk drivers. They kill other people but never kill themselves, unfortunately.
Dave Platt 1 year ago
Sometimes they do kill themselves. I saw several cases reported during 2021 of prominent "I will never accept the COVID vaccine" activists passing away from COVID. At least one of them publicly admitted having made a mistake before passing, some others refused to the last instant to admit that COVID even "was a thing" or that they had it.
Load More Replies... 
Elaine Reed 1 year ago
Spanish flu is an H1N1 flu. So is Swine flu. It comes around every 30 years or so..this year's flu shot includes that variety.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Not sure what you meant by your comment but all death certificates have something listed as the cause of death, whether that be an illness, old age or even unknown. Polio was a common cause of death before the vaccine was created and hopefully people can educate themselves, so it doesn't become more common, again.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I love the meme with a Doctor saying, "Remember that time you got polio? Of course you don't, because your parents got you f*cking vaccinated". My stepdaughter & I had a great relationship until she told me she wasn't getting her newborn son vaccinated and I flipped the f*ck out. She's married to a Trumpster and the hubs and I pretty much knew it was just a matter of time, but damn.
Melinda Flick 1 year ago
My father, born in 1928, had polio as a kid. His arm re-atrophied later in life. He couldn't even hold a coffee mug, and had to get an electronic package on his car back when they were as universal as they are these days, because he couldn't work the window crank.
#27
Dancing plague of 1518.
By August, the dancing epidemic had claimed as many as 400 victims.
The Strasbourg dancing plague might sound like the stuff of legend, but it’s well documented in 16th-century historical records. It’s also not the only known incident of its kind. Similar manias took place in Switzerland, Germany and Holland, though few were as large—or deadly—as the one triggered in 1518.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
"I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu!" Sorry, couldn't help myself.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
"Once More With Feeling," the most legendary episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ever.
Load More Replies...
Simeon Nevel 1 year ago
I seem to remember that the dancing fits were brought on by ergotism (a toxin produce by fungal growth in wheat).
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I can second that, I remember it's something called Mehltau in German, which grows on crops making them poisonous
Load More Replies... 
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
You know why Baptists don't allow sex while standing? It might lead to dancing.
Load More Replies... 
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Can you imagine being that good a DJ, and then there's nobody left alive to pay you?
#28
A 60-year-old fisherman trying to snap a photo of a beaver on a roadside in Belarus is dead after the rodent attacked. The beaver bit an artery in the man's leg, which caused him to bleed to death. “The character of the wound was totally shocking.”
She who must not be named 1 year ago
Never before have I been so impressed with a one word reply 😅
Load More Replies...
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
It managed to bit his femoral artery. Beavers kill and injure a fairly large number of people. They usually look calm and graceful when swimming but they can move very quickly on land. And they routinely bite through trees.
#29
Trying to impress your dad by riding in a submersible that never got fully certified to dive to the depth required to get to the titanic.
Raphapablap 1 year ago
From what I understand the 19 year old didn't want to go but was pressured by his dad into doing so which would mean this is wrong.
The Goo King 1 year ago
"Pressured by his dad". I see what you did there.
Load More Replies...
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
In his defense, he didn't want to go, but got forced into it.
timhood 1 year ago
This should read: going in a submersible operated by a guy who completely flaunted all rules and suggestions of safety because his ego made him think he was smarter than the experts. Said guy lied to his customers to make them think it was safe when it was a ticking time bomb.
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
You guys are breathtaking in your ignorance. Among other things, that boy did NOT want to be on that sub, his dad pushed him
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Yea no, this one is mean. He didn't want to go but his dad made him. He is the only one I feel sorry for that was on that sub.
#30
When I was an emergency call taker we had an accident where the guy carrying his plate back to the kitchen, slipped, fell and cut his own throat with broken plate shard. He bled out before services were able to get there.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago (edited)
I have several metal straws that can (well, duh) be reused over and over. Somebody told me they heard a story about somebody tripping while drinking with one, putting it through their throat or up into their brain, and dying. Edit: saw that story farther down the page a couple of minutes after posting.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Saw an episode of one of those real life paramedic shows from the UK where a young guy slipped and fell in to a tanning bed. It shattered and severed an artery which led to him bleeding out. No idea why they had a tanning bed in their house....
Piglet 1 year ago
A lot of people use to hire or buy tanning beds for home use. I once hired one (back in the 90s) for 2 weeks. Wouldn't do it now, as I have a bit more common sense these days.
Load More Replies... Annie_is_okay1987 3 months ago
Bro was supposed to die in the plane explosion. He followed Alex and Death came for him last. "You can't escape death."
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Why I use plastic plates, bowls, and cups..... I am clumsy as hell.
#31
Being hit in the sternum at just the right moment to interfere with the heart's beating. It can't be predicted or avoided with any consistency, and leaves no clinical evidence - if it happens and someone with CPR skills isn't around, the person just dies, without a mark on them.
halloweeninstepford:
That happened to a lacrosse player in my high school in 2000. Dropped dead right on the field. It ended up changing and creating laws in New York.
Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
Hockey helmets were invented after an ice skate hit someone’s artery. The guy lived
Keller Worthen 1 year ago
He only lived because one of the officials on the team was former military, and reached into the wound and pinched off the artery
Load More Replies...
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Had a girl on my daughter's softball team hit a pitch into the pitchers' chest, dead center. No one spoke for a minute, thankfully, pitcher was ok.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Almost happened to Sylvester Stallone while filming Rocky 4. He asked Dolph Lundgren to punch him for real in the chest, Lundgren hit him so hard that Stallone's heart failed for a moment and he had to be hospitalized.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
I didn't drop dead, but I dropped when a normally quiescent and cooperative man with Alzheimer's in the nursing home where I worked as a nurse aide suddenly reared up and got under my guard right in my solar plexus. I went down, I couldn't breathe. I thought I was dying, and I was panicking, which just made it worse. The RN went by and saw me on the floor, and got me calmed somehow, and suddenly I was breathing again. She made me sit at the nurses' station with her for the rest of my shift, and she and the other nurse aide took care of my list of residents.
Babs Ishkabibble 1 year ago
A boy died from being hit in the chest with a snowball in my hometown back in the '70s.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Either the kid who threw the snowball is a professional level pitcher or the snowball was more like an ice ball, with some snow around it. Maybe a combination of both, but I definitely believe it. I've been hit with ice/snow balls and it's extremely painful.
Load More Replies... Steve Hall 1 year ago
Almost every kung fu movie of the 1970s used this to fight off the bad guys.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
This happened to several pro athletes, most recently that I know of was NFL football star Hamlin. Was made a little extra famous because so many sports stars had been dropping dead of myocarditis, thought by many to be related to coronavirus, and the press made a big point of making sure the correct diagnosis was known. Hamlin recovered.
#32
Some rich lady in the early days of automobiles was known for always wearing long scarfs and one day it got caught in her wheels and snaped her neck.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Her name was Isadora Duncan and she was glorious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHiFMYUzkw
Moë 1 year ago
I really like that name Isadora, think I could name a cat that?
Load More Replies... Binny Tutera 1 year ago (edited)
Isadora Duncan was not just "some rich lady"! She was a highly acclaimed dancer and choreographer from the U.S. who performed all over the United states, Western Europe and Russia at the turn of the century, and helped to introduce modern dance. While it is an unusual way to die, let's not just dismiss her accomplishments, please.
Awkward lady 1 year ago (edited)
Can't you be bothered to get the facts right?! "Some rich lady"! It was Isadora Duncan, as others said. And it's a scarf, not scarfs...and snapped, not snapped...
Andrea Careless 1 year ago
This is the most ignorant and sloppy. “Some rich lady”? Who does your research?
Orogogus 1 year ago
Random Redditors. These are all just Reddit (or sometimes X) posts. I don't think is a secret, the links are right there.
Load More Replies...
#33
Drowning in an elevator.
A couple in Tel Aviv lived in a building which had an elevator going down to the parking garage. Due to very heavy rainfall, the elevator flooded while they were in it.
Cori 1 year ago
Alright. I'm already phobic of elevators (tight spaces and all). This just puts it at a whole new level.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
Then you won’t wanna read about the doctor in Texas who died in one. I did, and now I’m scared of the elevator in my building. (SPOILER ALERT, so STOP READING!: His head got caught between the elevator and the shaft. I seem to remember him hanging by his jaw.)
Load More Replies... Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Well this just put me off elevators for life. I'm already skittish about them.
#34
Wasn’t there a Japanese boy pretending to be a snake, his parents thought he was possessed and they killed him? It may be on the weird list of deaths on wiki I remember.
Liuniam:
Yeah but he was a grown man not a little boy and his father was deeply religious so he head butted him to death
️ ReversedTarot 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but *headbutted* him to death? That is some crazy parenting style..
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266002/Man-23-bitten-death-father-thought-possessed-SNAKE.html
Load More Replies... 
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago (edited)
I don't want to sound like I'm victim blaming, but why was a grown man pretending to be a snake?
Gilda Farrell 1 year ago
He wasn;t pretending to be a snake. The father believed he had a snake in him, that was haunting the father, and he killed his son. Deranged obviously.
Load More Replies... #35
I had a co-worker whose daughter died during a tonsillectomy. The co-worker hadn't even taken the day off, because a tonsillectomy is so mundane, so when she got the phone call.....rough stuff.
JK 1 year ago
My cousin died at age five from a tonsillectomy, but it was five days later. The hospital who performed it still used stitches. The stitches let go. He bled out while still holding his ice cream cone in the living room while his family was helpless to save him. Sometimes it's not the anesthesia that gets you.
Load More Replies...
Dreaming Spirit 1 year ago (edited)
When I was a kid there was a big case of medical malpractice lawsuit - during routine tonsilectomy apparently the doctor dropped it, it blocked the airway and the child ended up with severe brain damage from lack of oxygen. I remember being scared af, as my doctors were pushing for the same procedure.
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Non-American here - in our TV is known proclamation: "About side effect , you must read by packen flyer or ask your Apoteker." Sorry for my bad translation, I am sure you have st like this too.
Load More Replies...
Catherine Spencer-Mills 1 year ago
I was 27 when I had my tonsillectomy. It's hard on you at any age.
Kiss Army 1 year ago
My brother ended up dying from a routine gallbladder removal surgery. He had every complication imaginable and his organs shut down one by one, until he was in a medically induced coma, intubated and on 24/7 dialysis. We lost him one day, one hour and one minute before the 10th anniversary of losing our dad.
#36
I read once of a world class mountain climber who fell down his stairs at home and died.
Justme 1 year ago (edited)
Charlotte Fox. Mountaineer and survivor of the 1996 Everest disaster.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
The fact that there are any humans other than Sherpas on Everest is the disaster.
Load More Replies... #37
I used to work with a man who had an elderly relative come to the hospital with symptoms suggesting a stroke, and he died later that evening. I don't remember all the details, but everyone thought the family might be sitting on a big fat lawsuit, until the labs all came back. The relative had a type of leukemia that is diagnosed about 10 times a year in the U.S., and they've never come up with a chemotherapy protocol for it because nobody has ever lived long enough for them to do so.
#38
The 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, the Suda, chronicles a folkloric story of lawgiver Draco's death in the Aeginetan theatre: in a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters "threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that same theatre".
Spittnimage 1 year ago
Sorry, rude or not I'd be throwing that stuff off of me; not dying from politeness.
#39
If you jump into a fresh water lake without holding your nose, and if water gets up your nose, that’s how some people have (rarely) gotten a brain-eating amoeba that will kill you within 2 weeks. Naegleria fowleri is “typically found in bodies of warm freshwater, such as ponds, lakes, rivers, hot springs, warm water discharge from industrial or power plants, geothermal well water, poorly maintained or minimally chlorinated (under 0.5 mg/m^3 residual) swimming pools, water heaters, soil, and pipes connected to tap water” and “can be pathogenic, causing an extremely rare, sudden, severe and usually fatal brain infection called naegleriasis or primary amoebic meningoencephalitis” which has a 98.5% fatality rate within 1 to 2 weeks after getting infected water up your nose.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
That won't necessarily help if you're still going to swim in warm fetid water.
Load More Replies...
Doodles1983 1 year ago
Thank you for your post. I plan to send an article to my sister. My nephew went fishing abroad with his dad in 2016. Came home. And got all the symptoms in the article I read off of the back of this post. He was treated by two "normal" hospitals (which likely killed the bug) but it was too late to stop it wreaking havoc with his brain. He had part of his brain removed to firebreak the spread. He's essentially lost motor skills, and some verbal skills. Left epileptic and in a mess. The UK sent samples of his tissue to so many neurological specialists and the CDC in the US. And no one has ever been able to ID the cause. My instinct now is that this is a possible candidate. That the inexpert hospitals killed the bug so the specialist couldn't identify the cause. It won't help him. But it could help others. Especially as the weather gets hotter and open water swimming becomes more common. Thank you.
JennyH 1 year ago
Same with tampons. The string absorbs the fetid water and toxic shock sets in. Terrifying stuff
Mark Boelte 1 year ago
The number of times I swam in creeks, lakes, rivers, and private lakes in my youth, on top of drinking water from hoses and streams and lakes, I must have just been lucky.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
It happened to a girl at the US National Whitewater Center in Charlotte NC a few years ago.
#40
Driving down a quiet country road when a giant hay bale dislodges from the hill you’re driving past, crashes into your car just at the wrong moment as you’re passing and kills you. Vale Mike Edwards.
Pyla 1 year ago
It’s not uncommon in the horse world for ppl to get crushed or die from these bales. We have three at my barn right now. Huge.
Melinda Flick 1 year ago
It's happened with the smaller bales too. I knew of a dairy goat breeder in California who was missing for two days, with her goats all yelling and unhappy. Nobody could find her anywhere until somebody started moving all the tumbled hay bales in the barn. She was found under a pile of them.
Load More Replies... Spittnimage 1 year ago
Last week saw a semi pulled over by state troopers on a highway with a load of unsecured bales of hay on it headed for a very steep hill. Uphill or downhill doesn't matter, would've been a horrible mess either direction.
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
Was driving on a freeway last week and came upon a good number of hay bales that were strewn across the lanes. A man was actually out, attempting to clear the freeway. Dangerous all around.
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Jebus. I never even thought of something so innocuous being so dangerous. But yeah when I think about it those things must weigh a ton.
RabidChild 1 year ago
People think he shouted, "Hey!" but it was actually, "Hay!""
Load More Replies... Annie_is_okay1987 3 months ago
better than watching a cop car behind a log truck and a log falling off and crushing his head (for those who know)
Annie_is_okay1987 3 months ago
crushing the cops head. the cop reminds me of g-eazy lol.
Load More Replies...
Joanne Hicks 1 year ago
A rounded bale of hay in a truck driving south struck "my car" on a Wednesday at 6pm. My hubby was alone coming home from work. Job site was nueclear power plant underconstrution. My '72 Chevy Nova was totaled. What's even spookier to me is this accident was the 2nd time he totaled "my car". Hubby was driving home on a Wednesday at 6pm from a nuclear power plant underconstruction. This accident totaled my '68 Mustang. Luckily he survived both crashes. He never again drove my car at 6pm on a Wednesday. Too suspicious or just a coindence?
#41
Molar sepsis… a man died where I live from an infected molar… kinda crazy right? It's not super rare I know but I had never heard of someone passing away from that personally….
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
A woman in prison with me died like that. After her death, the number of dentist appointments was doubled.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Infection in teeth can travel to the heart causing endocarditis and can be fatal. Always go to the dentist (assuming you can afford one, there’s a massive lack of NHS dentists here)
Upstaged75 1 year ago
My brother has had 2 open heart surgeries as a result of endocarditis that he got FROM a dental appointment. Certain people need to take antibiotics before seeing the dentist and he forgot. During a cleaning the bacteria can go down your throat and eventually get in to your bloodstream, which is what happened to him. Since he already had a heart murmur it allowed the stuff to get in to his heart.
Load More Replies...
NatalieC 1 year ago
I didn't have dental insurance and at the time couldn't afford the $3000 cost to remove an infected tooth. It was dental surgery and not just an extraction because apparently the root was "hooked" at the bottom. I went for 3 years rinsing with antiseptic mouthwash which kept the infection at bay. Finally, I saved the $3k and was then told that it would be a $300 simple extraction because the infection ate away the hook. Irony.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
Lost a friend a few weeks ago to this. The only person I know to have passed away from this.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I knew a guy whose feet went numb from a tooth infection. Dentistry should absolutely be covered by health insurance
#42
Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis. For some people, eating a certain food and then exercising just after eating that food can send them into anaphylactic shock. I had a friend who nearly died from eating celery before a run. The only reason he lived is that two weeks before that, he learned his next-door neighbors were EMTs after they responded to the scene of him crashing his road bike (pedal, not motor) going 45mph down a hill and hitting gravel.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Even going 30 mph down the grade near our house makes me excited/nervous. One little twitch.....I went a*s over teakettle once at 10 mph and don't care to repeat that, much less at 30 mph.
eMp Tee 1 year ago (edited)
TIL a new descriptor: a**e over teakettle = upvote
Load More Replies... 
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Am I right in thinking that if you've just eaten something that you're allergic to and then straight away do exercise where it makes your heart pump faster? That's going to speed up the reaction time in your body to a severe allergy attack/Anaphylaxis?
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
It isn't a food you're normally allergic to. The anaphylaxis is induced by the combination of the food & the exercise.
Load More Replies...
#43
Shallow water blackout is crazy given how often people swim underwater in pools - you’re just holding your breath swimming under the water and you are over-oxygenated so you don’t get the brain signal that you need to breathe. Feels like you could keep swimming for ages. Then you pass out and drown. I don’t think I’ve ever been with a group of guys in a pool who haven’t seen who can swim the furthest without coming up for air. But I know someone who died of it.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
I cannot for the life of me work this one out, but I suspect I’m not the problem here. How is one “over-oxygenated” in this scenario? And if you’re in fact “over-oxygenated,” why would you need to breathe? Can someone who knows what this guy’s talking about explain like I’m twelve, please? Thanks! 💋
Deborah B 1 year ago
The need to breathe is triggered by increased carbon dioxide in the blood, not lack of oxygen. Hyperventilating causes lower than normal carbon dioxide levels, which depresses the breathing reflex - you feel like you don't need to breathe yet. Oxygen is still being depleated, and you black out due to low oxygen, inhale water, and drown.
Load More Replies...
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
It’s my biggest fear as a free diver / mermaid entertainer. It’s always in my mind when I train or perform or have fun
#44
Internal decapitation.Head still attached but spinal cord severed below brain stem.
Marnie 1 year ago
Spinal cord being severed and a broken neck are not one and the same, though it seems likely that if spinal cord was severed, the neck is also broken, but I don't know for sure.
Load More Replies...
Happy Onion 1 year ago
See also: Dr. Death podcast. The guy basically decapitated his friend surgically and left him quadriplegic.
#45
Decapitation by an elevator.
orphan_blud:
Every time I enter or exit an elevator I imagine it falling and cutting me in half.
Kabuki Kitsune 1 year ago
There's a famous grave stone (I forget where) where the epitaph reads "Looked up the shaft to see if an elevator was on its way down. It was."
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I have a phobia of glass floors, especially now with my crutches because I worry I'm going to break them and fall through. People are allowed to have their own fears, it's not weird or strange, it's just that it's a phobia as in worrying about your own safety.
️ ReversedTarot 1 year ago (edited)
I have a friend who knew a medical professional who came across a behẹaded lumberjack. (Basically sometimes they tie themselves to the trees with rope and dangle there, and the man had tied his chainsaw to a separate rope. It slipped and swung back, striking his neck)
Zephyr 1 year ago
How do you get decapitated by an elevator is when it falls and your head is sticking out?
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
No. It's when the elevator falls and your head is sticking in.
Load More Replies...
B Jones 1 year ago
More and more I don't like elevators. Just saw one video where a guy got on an elevator, shortly after doors close a lithium battery he's carrying ignites and fills the elevator up with smoke and fire real fas. I think it was a computer backup battery or for e-bike pretty big not phone, but I'm sure your phone could do some damage too.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
A friend of mine lost all of his toes from an elevator malfuntion.
#46
I once read about a guy who got impaled by dry spaghetti in a kitchen explosion.
Becky Scherer 1 year ago
Or would it be like straw in a tornado impaling a light pole?
Load More Replies...
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
The actual story is even weirder than that, as this happened during a heavy storm/hurricane and he refused to leave the kitchen.
PandaGoPanda 1 year ago (edited)
I think he's possibly referring to Mexico city chef Juan Ruiz - it wasn't an explosion, but he was in his kitchen when a 150mph hurricane drove the spaghetti into him.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
At number 45? I'm starting to want to play this song - https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw?si=QrEB7-_YxywkFVZM
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Wow. Laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair.
Load More Replies... #47
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the tip of a skyscraper broken down and fell to a car on the road. It smashed the car so deep in the ground, that they were never able to recover the car and the driver who died there. It's been 10 years and he is buried underground in his car.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
It did happen in Malaysia, but it was not in Kuala Lumpur. It happened in another city, ie, Penang, during a massive thunderstorm. People did not even know there was a car underneath that fallen piece of the building. After two days, a contractor who was repairing a nearby CCTV (damaged as the result that thunderstorm) reviewed the footage and saw the incident. A recovery operation began and soon halted. Soil engineers deemed the ground was too unstable to be dug. It could cause further damage to the nearby buildings. A decision was made to leave the car and the victim to remain buried there. They erected a small memorial nearby in his honor instead.
Load More Replies... #48
SCA (sudden cardiac arrest) my best friend was literally laughing across the kitchen table from me and the next few seconds she dropped dead her heart stopped due to SCA .. I did manage to keep her body flowing with blood and oxygen with strenuous cpr they said she literally was a miracle and I was a angel personally it's something that makes me both fear time and value it considerably. But they said she was deceased before she hit the floor.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Somebody is really bad at telling a story, but "dead" and "deceased" have fairly specific meanings in relation to heart attacks. Also, the page title says "Stupid And Disturbing Ways People Have Actually Died".
Load More Replies...
Elvira394 1 year ago
SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy). Healthy happy people on meds with seizures controlled, suddenly drop dead in the shower. Some reason, a lot in the shower. Haven't caught many on EEG, but no evidence it's from a seizure. The brain just flatlines all of a sudden.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Maybe they meant that the person who died was a miracle for surviving that long with a possibly undiagnosed condition? Yes, the poster is an angel for performing CPR... In that situation? You don't know how you'd react unless you're in it, going through it. At least they tried everything and the being told that they are an angel is to help the person... "You did everything you could, do not blame yourself."
Ann Turner-Drevalas 1 year ago
That's how my dad died at 44. They said he was dead before he hit the floor.
Kayleigh haigh 1 year ago
My mother in law died of that got the phone call at 3am from police after father in law rang them they came and collected us to take us to them only a 10 min drive away we didn't drive at the time couldn't believe it she was the fittest and healthiest person I knew still struggle to believe It now 10 yr later
María Hermida 1 year ago (edited)
Whaaat? Please. Separate your sentences so that we can understand what you are telling about. Is it that difficult?
Load More Replies... 
#49
That one person who accidentally swallowed molten metal because of a fire, his doctor didnt believe him so he died and when doing the autopsy it was revealed that he did swallow some. That autopsy report sounded so fake that some doctors thought that he had lied in the report.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure that if anyone were to swallow molten metal, they would not be able to tell anyone what happened.
Mordecai Glicksman 1 year ago
Didn't this happen in the nineteenth century, with molten lead, in a lighthouse fire?
Mystery Kitteh 1 year ago
Lips, mouth, tongue, esophagus and other internals would have been damaged. If it's hot enough to melt metal, imagine what it would do to skin and mucosal linings
My O My 1 year ago
Not every metal needs high tempretures to melt. See mercury, it's liquid at room temperature
Load More Replies... #50
Sachi Hidaka and his wife Tomio died from heart attacks during their first attempt to make love. The chance of suffering from a heart attack during sex is incredibly rare. But in the case of Schi Hidaka and his wife, Tomio. The Japanese couple were married for fourteen years but were too shy to have sex. Later one night they both got drunk while having plum wine and they decided to finally make love.
David 1 year ago
While this was featured on the show 1000 ways to D i e, they said it is an unconfirmed urban legend, and no reputable sites or new agencies have ever publish the story, its mostly clickbait sites and blogs. Urban Legend, not a factual story
timhood 1 year ago
Yeah, they lost me at the part where they'd been married 14 years and hadn't even tres to have sex.
Load More Replies...
Nicole 1 year ago
This one sounds very made up. How would people know that they had died right as they were having sex? And that they had never done it before? And then even if it did happen how does a story like that circulate ? I’m calling 🐮 💩
two-sided llama 1 year ago
The first question is a very easy answer, they would of been found dead, naked, in their rooms, which would of made it very easy for someone to assume that they were having sex. They could of been in a sexual position or maybe they cummed while it was happening. The last question is easy as well through obituaries, news stories, and virality on social media ( I want to say Reddit, but not sure). It would of said they died while having sex, but could of said something like "they died by a heart attack induced by pleasure". The middle one is less easy as they could of been lying, but they could of told friends or family ( probably former) about this. It could of also been assumed as maybe the pleasure induced heart attack was only found in virgins first time having sex or is more common there.
Load More Replies...
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
I dunno, but stuff like this seems to happen: https://newatlas.com/sexual-activity-sudden-cardiovascular-arrest/52167/
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
He came and went at the same time! Like Richard Pryor said, if I have a choice between dying in some Pussy or getting hit by a bus.. I'd be in that LONG line!
AnnaRachelle 1 year ago
My ex husband had a heart attack an hour or so after we had sex. He needed 2 stents and survived
#51
I used to have a job where I came across death certificates sometimes and I used to collect the weird ones. Erotic asphyxiation, drowning in the bathtub, one guy who was electrocuted when he reached out to adjust a space heater while taking a shower. But the weirdest was an old man who died from an embolism as a result of crushing his own penis in a vise.
Jan Castle 1 year ago
I ask the same! Why put a space heater on a shower?! I don't understand humanity :(
Load More Replies... 
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
Back when I was doing industrial construction "don't put your hands where you wouldn't put your d**k" signs were common. They wpulda been lost on that old dude.
#52
It isn't rare but every year, many people die by putting a pressure washer/gerni nozzle in their a*s or vagina, and shredding their internal organs. Choice.
Immortal Jellyfish 1 year ago
A while ago someone 'pranked' their friend, it was maybe even on a stag doo, with a fire extinguisher and killed them.
Brenda 1 year ago
OK, EWWW! And, why on earth would you do that? And who the he!! even thinks of something like that, let alone does it?
Thanos'Fingers 1 year ago (edited)
Ever accidentally scraped a toe while using one of those things? Whichever fine specimens of humanity died in this manner were doing us all a favor.
Seadog 1 year ago
Year ago I read about a kid ( apparently a group of them got their jollies by inserting a bicycle pump hose in their bum to produce farts), well, this one kid decided more air, more fun and went to the petrol station and as people watched stuck the hose in his butt, pushed the button and blew his guts out. By the time anyone realized what he was doing, it was too late to stop him. He was on his bicycle so at first everyone thought he was just going to pump up his tire so they didn't pay attention to him.
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
So not the point - but I can't help but wonder if @FingaPuppet5 is a Kiwi🤷🏻♀️Choice bro😜
#53
Death caused by an infection, and that infection was caused by another piece of human lodging inside of you from someone closer to the bomb blast.
#54
The guy who climbed head first into a paper mache dinosaur after dropping his phone inside it.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Probably the only person to ever die because they basically couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
Thanos'Fingers 1 year ago
Also the first guy in a millennia to be eaten by a dinosaur.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 year ago
They only found him because the body started to smell. Some poor kid and their father were the ones who alerted authorities after they noticed.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Yup, it happened (I do wonder about some of these): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/missing-man-found-dead-inside-spanish-dinosaur-statue
two-sided llama 1 year ago
I remember hearing a Darwin award about a guy who dropped his phone on a roller coaster and jumped on said roller coaster tracks after the end of the ride to go retrieve it. He got hit by the roller coaster and died
#55
Kendrick Johnson who died because he got stuck upside down in a rolled up gym mat. His family insist it was a murder. It was so stupid.
Beatles264@aol.com 1 year ago
Friends said he would store his shoes in the hole of the stored upright rolled mat. He was probably retrieving them and fell in. He wasn't wearing shoes when found.
Load More Replies...
Binky Melnik 1 year ago (edited)
I did, and have NO idea how you arrived at this conclusion because of your silly “Do your own research” without any specificity at all. 🙄 If the investigators, who pored over hundreds of hours of security camera footage, can’t find evidence of murder, how’d you find it?
Load More Replies... #56
Drowning in a puddle. Almost happened to Tetsushi Yanagida. He broke his neck on a live morning broadcast on Japanese TV diving head first into a rice paddock, and his colleagues didn't realise the seriousness of the situation. Broke his neck, survived that, almost drowned in a puddle (the video is a bit harrowing to watch as well).
Zoe's Mom 1 year ago
I worked with a gal that lost her partner after his car flipped over on the freeway. He drowned in 3 inches of water.
Bec 1 year ago
I know of a similar situation of people 'mudding' driving their jeep out in a muddy field, this was at dusk/night, they flipped into water and were unable to escape
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 year ago
We had a big ad campaign in Australia in the 2000's with the tagline as little as 3cms of water could kill you'
#57
A guy died when he spit off a balcony on his birthday. He was having a spitting contest and accidentally launched himself over the railing. .
Bec 1 year ago
Garry Hoy liked to show off that the windows in his high rise office were unbreakable by running up and jumping against them - while hard to break, they weren't made to be slammed into repeatedly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy
Mark 1 year ago
The window didn’t even break, just popped out of its housing
Load More Replies... #58
Stepfather dead per a coconuts falling on his head !
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Pretty common I hear, mostly by non natives, tourists. The natives know to not walk under coconut trees.
Saint_Zipcodus 1 year ago
Almost happened to me. And it was not a short palm tree. Coconut impacted mere 20 cm next to me after falling circa 10 m. The beach where it happened was quite remote, too. For me, it would probably not have been a lasting problem, but what would my friends have done dealing with my demise, half way around the world?
#59
In my family: Great Aunt Hattie Pavlicek. She was older and VERY bony. Literally got stuck in a revolving door and died. Actually made me frightened of revolving doors as a kid because I've always been like a string bean!
#60
Oxygen poisoning is a thing: getting too much O2 into your cells can kill you. Good news is that you can't get toxic levels of oxygen by just breathing too hard.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Sure you can. You just can't do it at pressures of less than 1.4 atmospheres or so.
#61
Rabies. Heard that there's about 1 or 2 deaths in the US from rabies each year.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
If treated after being bitten you will fine, untreated you are too late by the time symptoms show up.
Load More Replies... Phred 1 year ago
I remember attending a seminar where the physician presented a case where the patient died of rabies--from a transplanted organ.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Mostly anti vaxxers. They don't vaccinate their pets and their pet has a run in with an infected wild animal.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
One of my dogs caught distemper as a puppy because the owner of the farm he was born on lied about vaccinating the litter. At least one of the puppies died; probably more of them did, as distemper has an 80-90% fatality rate in puppies. All because the farm owner didn't vaccinate the litter. I took my puppy home before he showed signs of distemper, so I had no idea until his muscles started to twitch. There's no cure or treatment, but we did a lot of supportive care. Fortunately my dog survived, though he has permanent disabilities and permanent full-body muscle twitching. All because he didn't get his first vaccinations.
Load More Replies... #62
Death by constipation.
Sky Render 1 year ago
This one genuinely scares me. I was born with two anuses, and they work in tandem even now (though the upper one was disconnected and covered with a skin graft). So straining on the toilet is twice as painful for me, and twice as likely to cause problems!
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Bowel obstructions can present as constipation and can be fatal if not treated
#63
When I first learned the full extent of what radiation could do to the human body I didn't eat a banana for two weeks. The fact there's rocks that can just break our genes is something out of an Eldritch horror novel.
Analyn Lahr 1 year ago
I'm gonna need this one explained more fully. What do bananas have to do with radiation and where do the rocks come in?
Kai 1 year ago
someone please correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure bananas contain a very small amount of radiation and eating enough can cause problems. however, you would have to eat so many bananas for it to affect you that you'd have other problems before the radiation would do anything
Load More Replies...
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Certain geology in the UK produces high levels of radon (radioactive) gas. In these areas buildings are fitted with radon meters. Dartmoor Prison was closed a few days ago due the high levels of radon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c880xly40yvo
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Seriously, we have proofreading mechanisms that heal this DNA damage, you need a high dose so the enzymes can't keep up, and then there are some treatments. Airline pilots get more in one year than most people do in their lifetime.
Thanos'Fingers 1 year ago (edited)
Unless you keep a block of purified radium metal next to your bed like the Curies. Though if you do, the FBI has some questions for you.
Load More Replies...
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago (edited)
My dad used to work at a nuclear research center, near my school. On a class trip there we got a tour of the facilities. At the end of the tour we all had to step onto a geigercounter (this thing was like oldfashioned scales you step on and the display is at chest height). Just as I stepped on a colleague of my dad's put a rock on the geigercounter and the needle went all the way into the red. I can tell you my heart skipped a beat or two. The rock was radio active. The same man, Harry, taught me how to swim when I was four or five years old after he saved me from drowning in shallow water.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Brazil nuts are too, but one has to eat shed loads before it's a problem.
#64
Someone once told me they knew a guy who died from taking a misstep on a curb and falling backwards into traffic. He was just standing on a sidewalk talking to some people and boom. Dead on site because he moved his heel a little bit backwards.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
A friend of mine was pushed, he stumbled, fell backwards and hit his head on the kerb. He was in a coma for a while, but died atter thefamily decided to pull the plug. Still thinking of you, Dirk.
#65
Someone I know was cleaning leaves out of his gutters and some rare mold got into his lungs and he died pretty quickly after from it, there’s no cure currently. He was perfectly healthy up until that point.
#66
Food poisoning. He had an ulcer in stomach which led to the salmonella from improperly handled chicken eventually getting into his bloodstream leading to sepsis. We had to fight with the insurance company as that didn't want to classify it as an accidental death and thus not have to pay. He got the salmonella from the hole in the wall type breakfast restaurant he gone to for 40+ years.
kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago
Roosters get you while they are alive, chickens get you when they’re dead.
#67
Being hit in the head by a stray bullet that was fired from MILES away.
Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
The little girl who was hit from a bullet shot into the air on New Year’s Eve. Didn’t kill her though.
Anonymouse 1 year ago
couldn't find the link, but I had read in Reader Digest about a highway driver killed by a bullet to his head. Turned out to be from a fisherman shooting at sharks miles away, bullet skipped off the water. The caliber of the bullet made the gun easy to identify, and the detective was able to find it.
Mark 1 year ago
Can someone explain? Afaik, the longest confirmed kill by sniper is 2km, no chance a non specialist weapon could travel that far
BoredWolfe 1 year ago
Idiots shoot guns into the air, not realising that what goes up must come down.
Load More Replies...
#68
For pregnant women: amniotic fluid embolism.
zububonsai 1 year ago (edited)
Paula Modersohn-Becker, a German painter, died of it. 🥹 (The first female painter in the world who painted herself nude and the first painter in the world who painted herself pregnant).
#69
A dream family vacation to Alaska, a whole family goes as a big group with both the parents, their adult children, spouses and partners are all included. The group is on a guided tour of a glacial cave where everything is all good and many people throughout the day toured through the ice cave with nothing amiss. But when this family is touring through the cave, a chunk of ice falls loose killing their 32 year old daughter. TLDR: Death from a piece of ice falling from the ceiling of a tourist trap Alaskan ice cave.
#70
Death by a soy sauce overdose.
Clown fish 1 year ago
Both soy beans are poisonous but it was most probably the salt that was the real kicker.
Load More Replies...
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Nice to know that some people can't let go of the racist things they learned years ago and still think are "funny".
Load More Replies... #71
3 people have died in space so out of the 117 billion people that has ever lived I would say that's pretty rare but at the same time it's hard to believe it's not more.
#72
There was a conductor who accidentally stabbed himself with his little stick thingy. The wound got infected and he died of sepsis.
Kathi Coyle 1 year ago
It was a staff to keep beat. Jean-Baptiste Lully hit his foot and later died from gangrene
ynyrhydref56 1 year ago (edited)
No, a big staff. They used to bang it on the ground to keep time.
Load More Replies... ynyrhydref56 1 year ago
A staff, they used to bang it on the ground to keep time.
Load More Replies... Irish Lassie 1 year ago
HAHAHA! I saw conductor and immediately thought “train” and for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what the “little stick thingy” could be 🛤️🚂
Upstaged75 1 year ago
When I was a kid my mother told me that my grandpa was an engineer when I asked what he did for work. I was super disappointed when I found out that he didn't actually drive a train. :)
Load More Replies...
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Jean-Baptiste Lully. https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/baroque/jean-baptiste-lully-died-gangrene-conducting-staff/
#73
In 2013 there was a boy killed in an airport when one of the overhead signs fell off the ceiling.
#74
I believe there is only a handful of recorded deaths ever from being hit by a meteorite.
PattyK 1 year ago
I don’t think that’s true. There is only one recorded case of anyone ever being hit by a meteorite, and she survived.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
“Recently reviewed Ottoman records reported that one man was killed when a rock fell in modern-day Iraq in 1888. And in China, records say the sky “rained iron” in 1341, claiming many victims. An even bigger rain of meteorites was recorded in China in 1490. Several sources say the shower killed at least 10,000 people.“
Load More Replies...
#75
Double heartbeat deaths, can cause many different types of deaths, but unless you have been formally diagnosed before hand with an EKG to see the echo heartbeat. You'd be unable to ever prove it's the cause.
#76
True story: someone left a note and jumped. Meanwhile, a few appartements down a home invasion goes wrong and shots are fired. The jumper died from a stray bullet.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
It's a law puzzle that never really happened. I think Snopes (the urban legend site) has an article about it.
Seadog 1 year ago
Along the same lines, there's a ticking time bomb just waiting to happen. Self driving cars. Someone will be killed by one. Who will be charged with their murder? The car owner who wasn't driving? The company that built it? The programmer who wrote the software? The company who made the sensors? The politicians/government agencies who allowed them on the highway in the first place? In the end you know what will happen, absolutely nothing. How long will it take for a hacker to use those cars and go on a killing spree?
Load More Replies... Caroline Nagel 1 year ago (edited)
A home invasion in an appartment block?! Were they buzzed in?
What do you think ?
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
As some know, I lost my hubby last year. He choked on a bite of pizza. Not "crazy" and certainly not a rare way to go, but it only happened because he fought (and won! 5 years cancer-free when he passed) Stage 4 throat cancer with chemo and 33 shots of radiation in his neck. He had to have a trach for a while so he could breathe. Over 10 years, his throat went through a lot. For weeks, I'd had to give him a little thump on the back now and then when he was eating to get something that was stuck moving. His poor ragged throat just couldn't take much food. So, one fateful evening when we weren't sitting next to each other, a stupid bite of pizza took him out. He was only 60. Crazy, huh?
Jan Castle 1 year ago
I'm truly sorry, we can see this kind of stories with a morbid humour and make jokes about "weird" ways to die, but if we see the details behind as you share with us, i think it make us see we are so fragile. And at the same time, despite all the bitter and all the bad...we are a constant miracle happening every second, i'm really sorry for your loss and i hope you can find strong and relieve in the good memories and the nice thing of the present.
Load More Replies...
nana theater 1 year ago (edited)
This "unalive"-nonsense is so incredibly stupid. Those people have been killed. Killed. Killed.Killed. Dead People. Dead.
BoredHouseKitty 1 year ago
Yeah, pretty ironic when the stories are more gruesome than certain words they censor
Load More Replies... Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
Refeeding syndrome happens when a person starts eating after a period of malnutrition. You often see it in people that have been in active addiction and then get clean and sober because they haven't eaten a substantial meal sometimes in years. The same for people with eating disorders. Malnourished people should have a gradual increase in calorie intake because if food is reintroduced too quickly it can cause shifts in electrolytes and in some cases it can be fatal.
Awkward lady 1 year ago
This happened to concentration camp victims, who were fed a normal diet after liberation and unfortunately their bodies couldn't cope with that.
Load More Replies... CD King 1 year ago
Man man who was out of town for a few days came home to find out his mom had died. He was very upset and drank some moonshine he had brewed. He died the same way his mom did by drinking dodgy moonshine.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Bored Panda Staff: "Let's repost this list every month. It's easier than finding new content.
Mark Fuller 1 year ago
So we literally have a post about death and dying... but cannot use the word killed. FFS Bored Panda - sort it out!!
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Best historical case I know: Robert Liston, a British surgeon of the XIX century, holds the record from the only surgery with a 300% mortality rate: he was amputating someone's leg (this was before anesthesia) and did it so fast that he accidentally cut off two of his assistant's fingers. The patient and the assistant died of infection, and one elderly gentleman, who was splashed with blood, thought he had been wounded and died of a heart attack.
Lara Verne 1 year ago (edited)
My grand-uncle was beheaded. He was driving his car uphill, and the truck in front of his car was carrying some metal sheets. It wasn't secured properly. One metal sheet fell off the truck on grand-uncle's car and sharp edge went through his car and cut off his head.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
As some know, I lost my hubby last year. He choked on a bite of pizza. Not "crazy" and certainly not a rare way to go, but it only happened because he fought (and won! 5 years cancer-free when he passed) Stage 4 throat cancer with chemo and 33 shots of radiation in his neck. He had to have a trach for a while so he could breathe. Over 10 years, his throat went through a lot. For weeks, I'd had to give him a little thump on the back now and then when he was eating to get something that was stuck moving. His poor ragged throat just couldn't take much food. So, one fateful evening when we weren't sitting next to each other, a stupid bite of pizza took him out. He was only 60. Crazy, huh?
Jan Castle 1 year ago
I'm truly sorry, we can see this kind of stories with a morbid humour and make jokes about "weird" ways to die, but if we see the details behind as you share with us, i think it make us see we are so fragile. And at the same time, despite all the bitter and all the bad...we are a constant miracle happening every second, i'm really sorry for your loss and i hope you can find strong and relieve in the good memories and the nice thing of the present.
Load More Replies... nana theater 1 year ago (edited)
This "unalive"-nonsense is so incredibly stupid. Those people have been killed. Killed. Killed.Killed. Dead People. Dead.
BoredHouseKitty 1 year ago
Yeah, pretty ironic when the stories are more gruesome than certain words they censor
Load More Replies... Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
Refeeding syndrome happens when a person starts eating after a period of malnutrition. You often see it in people that have been in active addiction and then get clean and sober because they haven't eaten a substantial meal sometimes in years. The same for people with eating disorders. Malnourished people should have a gradual increase in calorie intake because if food is reintroduced too quickly it can cause shifts in electrolytes and in some cases it can be fatal.
Awkward lady 1 year ago
This happened to concentration camp victims, who were fed a normal diet after liberation and unfortunately their bodies couldn't cope with that.
Load More Replies... CD King 1 year ago
Man man who was out of town for a few days came home to find out his mom had died. He was very upset and drank some moonshine he had brewed. He died the same way his mom did by drinking dodgy moonshine.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Bored Panda Staff: "Let's repost this list every month. It's easier than finding new content.
Mark Fuller 1 year ago
So we literally have a post about death and dying... but cannot use the word killed. FFS Bored Panda - sort it out!!
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Best historical case I know: Robert Liston, a British surgeon of the XIX century, holds the record from the only surgery with a 300% mortality rate: he was amputating someone's leg (this was before anesthesia) and did it so fast that he accidentally cut off two of his assistant's fingers. The patient and the assistant died of infection, and one elderly gentleman, who was splashed with blood, thought he had been wounded and died of a heart attack.
Lara Verne 1 year ago (edited)
My grand-uncle was beheaded. He was driving his car uphill, and the truck in front of his car was carrying some metal sheets. It wasn't secured properly. One metal sheet fell off the truck on grand-uncle's car and sharp edge went through his car and cut off his head.
You May Like 49 Fascinating Photos Revealing What The World’s Capitals Looked Like Way Before Modern Times 199 Anxiety Quotes And Messages To Help A Struggling Friend “I Really Wish I Was Making This Up”: 44 Unbelievable Moments That Made People Question Reality
Viktorija Strelciunaite
Larysa Perih
Indrė Lukošiūtė
Related on Bored Panda
