Unusual deaths

[The Monkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

There're some good ones in there.

 

[NeptuneUK]

Pope John XXI was killed in the collapse of his scientific laboratory.

Epic lulz

 

[Cormeh]

458 BC: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone.

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey attempt to eat figs

 

[Xendance]

2007: An Australian woman was killed after her pet camel attempted to have sex with her.

WTF?

 

[CptStern]

* 586 BC: Zedekiah, king of Judea, was punished for his attempt at mutiny by having his whole family brought before him and executed, his eyes then immediately punctured, his palms amputated and his mutilated body sent to rot in the dungeons.


how do you just amputate the palms? ..where would the fingers go?




# 1834: David Douglas, Scottish botanist, fell into a pit trap accompanied by a bull. He was gored and possibly crushed.[14]


? I thought that only happened in cartoons

 

[Krynn72]

48 BC: The Roman general Pompey, fleeing to Egypt after being defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus by his rival Julius Caesar, was stabbed, killed, and decapitated: his head was then preserved in a jar by the young king Ptolemy XIII and presented to Caesar, with whom he intended to ingratiate himself. Caesar was not pleased.

That scene was intense in the HBO Series.

 

[Seppo]

Pope John XXI was killed in the collapse of his scientific laboratory.

Epic lulz

haha

2005: Kenneth Pinyan of Seattle died of acute peritonitis after submitting to anal intercourse with a stallion in the town of Enumclaw, Washington. Pinyan had done this before, and he delayed his visit to the hospital for several hours out of reluctance for official cognizance. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington.

haha

 

[Krynn72]

1671: Fran?ois Vatel, chef to Louis XIV, committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn't stand the shame of a postponed meal.

****ing win!

 

[Seppo]

1671: Fran?ois Vatel, chef to Louis XIV, committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn't stand the shame of a postponed meal.

I'm trying to think of something witty to say but can't come up with anything...that's just woah

 

[The Monkey]

1305: Scottish patriot Sir William Wallace was stripped naked, castrated and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts.

Pity they didn't show that in Braveheart.

 

[Seppo]

Pity they didn't show that in Braveheart.

I like how after all that beheading and hanging stuff they cut him into four pieces, you know, just to make sure he's dead

 

[Laivasse]

With hanging-drawing&quartering I believe they also then sent the 4 parts to different parts of the country. Again - just to be sure.
Also:

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey attempt to eat figs

Superb.

 

[Warbie]

1983: A diver on the Byford Dolphin oil exploration rig was violently dismembered and pulled through a narrowly opened hatch when the decompression chamber was accidentally opened, causing explosive decompression.

That's harsh.

 

[The Monkey]

Must be one of the best ways to die...

According to some traditions, the mythological Greek prophet Calchas died of laughter when the day that was to be his death day arrived and the prediction didn't seem to materialize.

In the third century B.C. the Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after giving his donkey wine, then seeing it attempt to feed on figs.

It is cited that the Burmese king Nandabayin, in 1599 "laughed to death when informed, by a visiting Italian merchant, that Venice was a free state without a king."

In 1660, the Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of Rabelais into English, Thomas Urquhart, is said to have died laughing upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne.

In 1782, a certain Mrs Fitzherbert is reported to have suffered from an attack of hilarity while she attended a performance of The Beggar's Opera. When Charles Bannister appeared on scene as Peachum, she burst into an uncontrollable laugh so loud that she had to be expelled from the theatre. She laughed continuously all night long and the day after, and died early in the morning, the following day.

The phenomenon is also recorded in the book Crazy History where a Celtic soothsayer was able to predict the hour of his demise. As with the death of Calchas, when the time arrived and the soothsayer found himself still alive, he purportedly laughed hysterically, eventually killing himself through either heart attack or asphyxiation.

On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, England, died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies, featuring a Scotsman in a kilt battling a vicious black pudding with his bagpipes. After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.

In 1989 a Danish audiologist, Ole Bentzen, died watching A Fish Called Wanda. His heart was estimated to have beat at between 250 and 500 beats per minute, before he succumbed to cardiac arrest.

In 2003 Damnoen Saen-um, a Thai ice cream salesman, is reported to have died while laughing in his sleep at the age of 52. His wife tried to wake him up but couldn't, and he stopped breathing after two minutes of continuous laughter. It is believed that he died either of heart failure or asphyxiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_hilarity

 

[CptStern]

1983: A diver on the Byford Dolphin oil exploration rig was violently dismembered and pulled through a narrowly opened hatch when the decompression chamber was accidentally opened, causing explosive decompression.

That's harsh.

eeek! ....wasnt that an episode of CSI? ..actually they all sound like episodes of CSI "man dies in giant blender ..David Caruso pulls off his sun glasses, stares at the camera and cocks an eyebrow "stirred not shaken" YAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

 

[Raziaar]

ugh. I read this list once... one night when I was real tired.

I happened across R. Budd Dwyer article... and it had a link to him shooting and killing himself.

I watched it, not sure what I was getting myself into. I was pretty traumatized after seeing it.

 

[CptStern]

I remember seeing it aired on tv that very day ..they showed it all for the first few hours and then cut it to when he put the gun in his mouth ..I too remember being freaked out

 

[Joest]

WTF?

Bow Chika Bow Wow...

1899: French president F?lix Faure died of a stroke while receiving oral sex in his office

At least he died happy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/458_BC

458 BC: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone.

Awesome!

 

[ríomhaire]

458 BC: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone.

I can't believe that happened! Anyone who read Small Gods should be familiar with this

1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, was poisoned while dining with a political enemy, and supposedly he was given enough poison to kill three men his size. When he did not die, the assassin snuck up behind him and shot him in the head, and while checking Grigori's pulse the mystic grabbed him by the neck and strangled him. He proceeded to run away, while the other assassins chased. He was caught up to, lying on the ground having been hit with three shots during the chase. The pursuers bludgeoned him then threw him into a river (in Russia in the winter). When his body washed ashore, an autopsy showed the cause of death to be drowning.

Everyone named Grigori > You.

 

[Jintor]

That scene was intense in the HBO Series.

Was pretty good in the Masters of Rome thingy by Colleen MacCullough, as well.

Also

458 BC: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone.

Small Gods lol.

 

[Kevin]

Wow, he had a different phrase for every episode?

He looks a bit like Agent Smith

 

[Warbie]

1993: Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."


Nothing can break glass, it's the strongest material in the woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorld!!!

 

[Seagull]

Everyone named Grigori > You.

Ironically, both his siblings died from a river too. :|

 

[<RJMC>]

1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.

ouch,but sure that excites you

2006: Ohtaj Humbat ohli Makhmudov a 45 year old Azerbaijani man lowered himself by a rope into a lion enclosure at the Kyiv zoo and shouted to horrified zoo visitors, "God will save me, if he exists!" Moments later a lioness pounced on him, severing his carotid artery, killing him instantly.

total proof for the atheists?

 

[Seppo]

2006: Ohtaj Humbat ohli Makhmudov a 45 year old Azerbaijani man lowered himself by a rope into a lion enclosure at the Kyiv zoo and shouted to horrified zoo visitors, "God will save me, if he exists!" Moments later a lioness pounced on him, severing his carotid artery, killing him instantly.

damn that sucks. Not only did he die painfully, but he also died knowing that he was wrong.

 

[Dinkleberry]

eeek! ....wasnt that an episode of CSI? ..actually they all sound like episodes of CSI "man dies in giant blender ..David Caruso pulls off his sun glasses, stares at the camera and cocks an eyebrow "stirred not shaken" YAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Thank you sooooo much for bringing that video/thread to our attention! YAAAAAAAAA Indeed.

 

[CptStern]

1993: Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."


Nothing can break glass, it's the strongest material in the woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorld!!!

I remember hearing about it when it happened:

In the words of Toronto police Detective Mike Stowell, "At this Friday night party, Mr. Hoy did it again and bounced off the glass the first time. However, he did it a second time and this time crashed right through the middle of the glass."

heh I also remember how the law firm tried to spin it:

His firm tried to spin Hoy's stunt as a quasi-scientific investigation of the tensile strength of the window. This failed when people noticed that he had performed his 'experiment' during an after-hours party at which alcohol was being served to law students. Nobody accused Hoy of being drunk, and it seems likely that he was trying to show off for the interns.

 

[Warbie]

That has to kill the mood at a party.

Things like this make me cringe. There was one darwin award about a kid who, while trying to beat a friend in a spitting distance contest from a high up balcony, took a run up and went straight over the barrier. The thought of the immediate, unexpected realisation that you're going to die followed by a few seconds of insane panic freaks me right out.

 

[8DigitSin]

1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.

THE BEST

 

[Ridge]

eeek! ....wasnt that an episode of CSI? ..actually they all sound like episodes of CSI "man dies in giant blender ..David Caruso pulls off his sun glasses, stares at the camera and cocks an eyebrow "stirred not shaken" YAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Oh god I lawled so hard...

 

[Dog--]

If you think reading this stuff is disturbing, try looking up methods of medieval torture.

I did just that and found:

There was even a torture which used tickling as a method to inflict suffering.

The. F*cking. Horror. D:


I found it here



EDIT: Damn - this one seems DAMN painful

At Orleans, for the ordinary torture the accused was stripped half naked, and his hands were tightly tied behind his back, with a ring fixed between them. Then by means of a rope fastened to this ring, they raised the poor man, who had a weight of one hundred and eighty pounds attached to his feet, a certain height from the ground. For the extraordinary torture, which then took the name of 'estrapade' they raised the victim, with two hundred and fifty pounds attached to his feet, to the ceiling by means of a capstan; he was then allowed to fall several times successively by jerks to the level of the ground, by which means his arms and legs were completely dislocated.

The weak version (180 pounds) wouldn't have been that bad if you were in good shape, you could have got out of that without any dislocations if you were strong enough. But 250 pounds would have wrecked anyone..

 

[soulslicer]

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2007: An Australian woman was killed after her pet camel attempted to have sex with her.


HOLY SON OF A CAMEL OF A..wtf man..

 

[Vegeta897]

The lawyer jumping through the glass to prove it was unbreakable is definitely my favorite.

 

[Kevin]

Red-hot iron straight into the anus sounds really painful...