I didn’t write this, I “borrowed” it from this site: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/36-weird-ways-to-die
I know its peculiar, as am I, but I’ve often said, usually after doing something just stupid, “WOW…….imagine dying like ____________” (fill in blank with stupid action I’d just done!). Well here are some of those sorts of deaths!! Hope you ENJOY!!!
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1. Overeating At A Feast Given In Your Honor
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1751) -
2. Being Hit By A Canonball That Was Fired As A Salute To You
John Kendrick (1794) -
3. Drowning In A Flood Of Beer (Or Being Injured In A Beer Floor) (Or Getting Alcohol Poisoning In A Beer Flood)
London Beer Flood (1814) -
4. Sticking A Piece Of Whale Bone Through Your Urinary Tract To Clear A Blockage
Gouverneur Morris (1816) -
5. Swinging A Baseball Bat So Hard That It Ruptures Your Bladder
Jim Creighton (1862) -
6. Accidentally Shooting Yourself In Court While Demonstrating To A Jury How Your Client’s Alleged Victim Might Have Accidentally Shot Himself
Clement Vallandigham (1871) -
7. Being Poisoned, Shot In The Head, Shot Three More Times, Bludgeoned, Castrated, And Then Thrown Into A River Only For The Cause Of Death To Be Drowning
Grigori Rasputin (1916) -
8. Being Crushed Or Drowned By Molasses
Boston Molasses Disaster (1919) -
9. Being Hit By A Pitch
Ray Chapman (1920) (and this according to Jeanna Pelton: Ray Chapman the guy that got hit by a pitch and died… he was the reason you can’t spit on the ball anymore (pitch was known as the spitball)… and if you bring your hand to your mouth and directly to the ball… the batter gets to go to first… and you have to change the balls out!!) -
10. Being Bit By A Monkey
Alexander I Of Greece (1920) -
11. Having Your Costume Set Ablaze By An Errant Disposed Match
Martha Mansfield (1923) -
12. Having Your Racecar’s Drive Chain Snap And Decapitate You
J. G. Parry-Thomas (1927) -
13. Having Your Long Scarf Get Caught In The Wheel Of The Car You Are Riding In, Thus Breaking Your Neck
Isadora Duncan (1927) -
14. Committing Suicide In Prison Using A Bomb Made Out Of Playing Cards That Had A Flammable Chemical In Their Red Ink
William Kogut (1930) -
15. Falling Down A Chimney Into The Furnace After Mistaking The Chimney For A Balcony
Sirkka Sari (1939) -
16. Having A Stroke After Reading A Negative Premature Obituary Of Yourself
Marcus Garvey (1940) -
17. Accidentally Torpedoing Your Own Ship
HMS Trinidad (1942) and the USS Tang (1944) -
18. Being Crushed By Giant Stacks Of Newspapers, Books, And Other Large Items That You Have Been Hoarding
Langley Collyer (1947) -
19. Crashing Your Racecar When A Bird Flies Into Your Face
Alan Stacey (1960) -
20. Having A Surfboard On Your Convertible Hit Another Car, Spin Around, And Break Your Neck
Worth Bingham (1966)
(Obviously The Above Is Not The Actual Car) -
21. Being Electrocuted Onstage By A Live Microphone
Leslie Harvey (1972) -
22. Drinking Yourself To Death With Carrot Juice
Basil Brown (1974) -
23. Being Crushed To Death Between A Moving Wall And A Stationary Wall In A Disneyland Ride
Deborah Gail Stone (1974) -
24. Laughing Yourself To Death Watching The Goodies
Alex Mitchell (1975) -
25. Being Poisoned By A Modified Umbrella
Georgi Markov (1978) -
26. Being Struck By A Flying Model Lawnmower At A New York Jets Halftime Show
John Bowen (1979) -
27. Achieving A High Score In The Video Game Berserk
Jeff Dailey (1981)
Peter Burkowski (1982)
(Both boys were young and healthy but died of heart attacks after getting high scores. How there isn’t a horror movie about this is shocking.) -
28. Choking On An Eye Drop Bottle Cap
Tennessee Williams (1983) -
29. Getting Hit In The Balls By A Tennis Ball
Dick Wertheim (1983)
(After being hit in the balls, Wertheim collapsed and hit his head on the pavement.) -
30. Being Crushed By Several 25-Pound Boxes Of Quarters When Braking Suddenly While Driving A Brinks Truck
Hrand Arakelian (1986) -
31. Throwing Yourself Through A Window Trying To Illustrate That The Glass Is Unbreakable (In Fairness The Glass Didn’t Break, But Popped Out Of The Window Frame)
Gary Hoy (1993) -
32. Handcuffing Yourself To A Tree In A Remote Forest And Throwing The Key Out Of Reach
Richard Sumner (2002) -
33. Playing Starcraft For Too Long
Lee Seung Seop (2005) -
34. Winning A Bet That You Could Have Continuous Sex With Two Women For 12 Hours Straight
Sergey Tuganov (2009)
(The whole bottle of Viagra was probably a bad idea) -
35. Being Crushed In Your Car By A Rolling Bale Of Hay
Mike Edwards (2010) -
36. Riding Your Segway Off Of A Cliff
Jimi Heselden (2010)
(Owner Of The Segway Motorized Scooter Company)
