Story Stories of Weird Deaths

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"My mother-in-law 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."

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The man who just wouldn't die

Some people may have 9 lives, The Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin had 27. Rasputin was not a popular man and a group of noble conspirators were sent to end his life. Rasputin refused drink and food laced with poison only to be shot four times, beaten, and flung into a freezing river. An autopsy revealed he died of hypothermia(although the bullet in his forehead didn't hurt either).

 

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"Jack Daniel: The Stubborn Wound"

Jack Daniel, the founder of the famous whiskey distillery, died in 1911 after kicking his safe in frustration. He injured his toe, which led to an infection that he refused to treat properly, resulting in blood poisoning.

 

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SUICIDE BY CHAINSAW



A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw in a carefully thought out suicide because he was "irrationally opposed" to leaving his repossessed home, an inquest heard today.

David Phyall, 50, had consumed a small quantity of alcohol but no drugs, and arranged the chainsaw in such a way as to facilitate his suicide.


His elderly parents John and Jean Phyall raised the alarm when they could not contact their son in his ground floor housing association flat in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, on 5 July this year.

Police were called and they broke in asking the parents to stay outside.

Sergeant Mark Carter said he found Mr Phyall in the lounge with blood spattering the walls, floor and a cabinet.

Central Hampshire deputy coroner Simon Burge said to the officer: "It must have been a huge shock to you."

Sgt Carter replied: "In some ways it was sir."

The hearing heard that the block where Mr Phyall had his flat was to be demolished and despite great efforts from his housing association, he had refused 11 offers of alternative accommodation.


Eventually it had gone to court to repossess the property.

At the time of his death Mr Phyall, who had suffered from mental illness and attempted suicide before, was the only person living in the 1960s block with the rest of the properties boarded up.

Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Burge said First Wessex Housing Group had done all they could to help Mr Phyall but he was "irrationally opposed to moving".

"In the 15 years I have been sitting as a deputy coroner, this is the most bizarre case I can recall," Mr Burge said.

"It is an appalling way to take one's life but that is what happened in this case.

"He thought through how he was going to commit suicide very carefully. He went to a great deal of trouble.

"I think he did it to draw attention to the injustice of his situation."

 

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King Pyrrhus

King Pyrrhus of Epirus was known for his military campaigns against Rome (giving rise to the term "Pyrrhic victory"), but he met an unforeseen demise in 272 BC. During a street battle in Argos, as he engaged in combat, an elderly woman threw a roof tile from a rooftop that smacked Pyrrhus right atop his head. No, he didn't die from being hit by a roof tile — but when he looked up to see where it came from, he was stunned by an enemy soldier who fatally stabbed him. Sounds like, in the game of life, Pyrrhus lost the battle AND the war.

 

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Sherwood Anderson:
"The Toothpick Incident"

Sherwood Anderson, an American writer, died in 1941 after swallowing a toothpick, which caused internal injuries leading to an infection.

 

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The Duke Of Clarence

Born in 1449, George Plantagenet, the duke of Clarence, was the brother of King Edward IV. After the king had refused permission for the duke to marry, George began to plot against him. Edward, wise to his brother's treachery, had the duke arrested and charged with treason.

He was brought before Parliament and accused of preparing for rebellion. Both houses of Parliament passed a bill approving his execution at the Tower of London. There were lots of ways he could have died. Popular execution methods at the time included hanging, drawing, and quartering as well as burning at the stake.

But George Plantagenet was a royal. Perhaps that is why he was allowed to choose the manner of his own death. His choice was somewhat unusual. He is said to have chosen to be drowned in a vat of his favorite wine.

Well, if you've got to go . . .

 

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"WOMAN AWAKES IN COFFIN, PANICS AND DIES OF HEART ATTACK"
Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov—no, I don't know how to pronounce it, either, and probably like you, my eyes just sort of skip over names that complicated—was a Russian woman whom doctors had declared dead in June of 2012. But during an open-casket wake, she awoke screaming in panic. She was rushed to a local hospital, where physicians declared she'd died of a heart attack.

 

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Cops stumbled upon a horrific murder-suicide when they arrived at a Massachusetts home to find a man cutting his own leg with a power saw.

Police in Plymouth, Mass. had been called to the house late Monday by concerned relatives.

When they opened the door, they witnessed Keith Lincoln pick up a circular saw and cut into one of his legs causing "serious injury," said District attorney Timothy Cruz.

As they continued inside, they found a dead woman and two dead dogs, police said.

Lincoln, 49, was rushed to a hospital, where he died from blood loss.

It was not immediately clear how the woman died, but police are investigating it as a murder-suicide.

Authorities said they would have to rely on dental records to confirm the woman's identity because of the condition of her body, The Boston Globe reported.

Officials did not know how the dogs died.

Neighbors said Lincoln lived with his wife, Jettie, and that the couple had moved from Vermont last year.

 

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Robert Liston:
"The Surgery Mishap"

In 1847, Robert Liston, a pioneering surgeon, accidentally amputated his patient's testicles along with his leg during a high-speed amputation. Both the patient and an assisting doctor died from subsequent infections, and a bystander reportedly died of shock.

 

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"Drowning in the desert"
A guy got caught in a box canyon during a flash flood. The water was quickly reabsorbed into the dry desert soil and left a drowned man in the middle of the desert.

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"Arius, The Orthodox Heretic"

During his lifetime, Arius was a religious figure with beliefs so controversial that he was formally denounced as a heretic by the Orthodox Church. His legacy would, unfortunately, be marred by one of the most unusual deaths the ancient world had ever seen.

Arius' last moments came in 336 A.D. when he was struck by sudden bowel cramps during a procession.

Before he made it to a bathroom, Arius vacated his bowels, a great deal of blood, small intestines, portions of his liver and spleen and eventually his life. At the time, some believed Arius was smitten for his heresy, but modern historians believe he was likely poisoned by his enemies.

 

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"Fatal familial insomnia (FFI):
you can't sleep, and you don't sleep until you die, and it runs in the family."

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—
On a similar note, since FFI is a prion disease (as is "mad cow disease"), "Prion diseases. For some random reason, a protein gets folded the wrong way and totally fucks you up. It's not alive; you can't kill it or fight it with drugs or antibiotics. Your immune system is helpless against it. It causes more proteins to become misfolded and spread through your body. Even after you die, your corpse is a hazard because the misfolded proteins are still there, waiting."
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Brian Douglas Wells

Brian Douglas Wells was a pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, who was killed by a bomb that was fastened around his neck. He was apprehended by the police after robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people who had put the bomb around his neck and threatened to kill him if he refused.
The bomb later exploded, killing him. In 2007, police alleged Wells was involved in the robbery plot along with two other conspirators.

 

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"Suicidal Airline Employee Steals Plane, Takes it for A Flight Before Crashing"
By Daniel Politi
Aug 11, 201810:42 AM

A Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 airplane is seen at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on May 14, 2010. Kentaro Iemoto/Wikimedia Commons


A 29-year-old employee for Horizon Air sparked panic Friday night when he—for some unknown reason—decided to take one of the airline's Bombardier Q400 turboprop airplanes from Seattle's airport and go for a ride before crashing it in a sparsely populated island nearby. The ground service agent took the plane from the maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at around 8 p.m. and flew it around for about an hour before he crashed on Ketron Island In Puget Sound. Although initial reports said the man was a mechanic for Alaska Airlines, officials later said he was a ground service agent employed by Horizon Air, which is part of Alaska Air Group.
The man crashed the plane either because he was "doing stunts in air or lack of flying skills," the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter. Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor characterized the incident as "a joyride gone terribly wrong." Law enforcement authorities described the man as "suicidal" and said the incident didn't have anything to do with terrorism. The man who took the plane died when the plane crashed but no other injuries were reported on the 230-acre island that has a population of 20.

Stolen horizon airplane crashed into Ketron island. Preliminary info is that a mechanic from unknown airlines stole plane. Was doing stunts in air or lack of flying skills caused crash into Island
— Pierce Co Sheriff (@PierceSheriff) August 11, 2018

Video posted on social media showed the 76-seat plane doing loops and other types of stunts as a F-15 fighter jet followed it. Two F-15s were scrambled out of Oregon shortly after the incident but were not involved in the crash. "Told F 15s made it within a few minutes of theft of plane. Pilots kept plane out of harms way and people on ground safe," noted a tweet from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.

 

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Death By Trying To Achieve Immortality

Alexander Bogdonov was one of the founders of the Bolshevik party in Russia and a rival of Vladimir Lenin. He also studied a wide variety of subjects beyond politics: Medicine, economics, philosophy… he dabbled in it all. When it came to medicine, though, he was particularly interested in blood transfusions. The ABO blood groups were discovered by Karl Landsteiner in 1901, and by 1924, Bogdonov was all about blood transfusion experimentation — mainly because he was convinced that blood transfusions could rejuvenate humans, extend their lives, and possibly even make them immortal.
He really, really wanted to be immortal.
In fact, he was so intent on achieving that goal that Bogdonov performed a number of transfusions on himself in pursuit of it— but when he was 54 years old, he made a gigantic mistake: He swapped blood with a physics student who had been exposed to both tuberculosis and malaria.
He, uh… didn't survive...
The student ended up fine, though.

 

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Death By Trying To Achieve Immortality

Alexander Bogdonov was one of the founders of the Bolshevik party in Russia and a rival of Vladimir Lenin. He also studied a wide variety of subjects beyond politics: Medicine, economics, philosophy… he dabbled in it all. When it came to medicine, though, he was particularly interested in blood transfusions. The ABO blood groups were discovered by Karl Landsteiner in 1901, and by 1924, Bogdonov was all about blood transfusion experimentation — mainly because he was convinced that blood transfusions could rejuvenate humans, extend their lives, and possibly even make them immortal.
He really, really wanted to be immortal.
In fact, he was so intent on achieving that goal that Bogdonov performed a number of transfusions on himself in pursuit of it— but when he was 54 years old, he made a gigantic mistake: He swapped blood with a physics student who had been exposed to both tuberculosis and malaria.
He, uh… didn't survive...
The student ended up fine, though.

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Stories of Weird Deaths

I work on an ambulance. The first time I ever saw a dead body was in a playground. We were called out for "suspected death" - essentially meaning someone found a body that has probably been dead for a while. It was a weekday morning, probably 5 AM. No kids out yet (thank god), but the city...

sanctioned-suicide.net

 

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Coroner identifies man killed after being struck by his own vehicle in Conewago Township

Harrison Jones
Hanover Evening Sun

A Conewago Township man who was struck by his own vehicle in Adams County Thursday died at York Hospital after being flown there by a helicopter, the York County Coroner's Office confirmed Friday.
The coroner's office confirmed that the 63-year-old Conewago Township man, Irl Therit Jr., of the 3500 block of Centennial Road, died as a result of the incident.
According to a release by the coroner's office, Therit was killed when he parked his manual-transmission rollback flatbed truck on his property, and walked behind the vehicle.
Once Therit was behind his vehicle, the vehicle's brake did not hold, and it struck Therit, the coroner's office said.
No other individuals were involved in the accident, the office confirmed.
Therit was airlifted to Wellspan York Hospital with critical injuries, and succumbed to his injuries around 3:11 p.m. Thursday, the release said.

 

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"Man dies after toothpick gets stuck in throat"
Published May 14, 2013 7:40am EDT Updated October 28, 2015 2:18am EDT

A Swedish man has died after doctors failed to spot a toothpick stuck in his throat.

The man, who was in his 60s, accidentally swallowed a toothpick while eating a sandwich, The Local reports.

The next day, he was taken to the emergency room after having trouble swallowing. However, the doctors who examined him failed to find any problem and sent him home.

Ten days later, he developed a hole in his windpipe and an infection that required emergency surgery. The man hemorrhaged during the operation and died the next day.

 

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"Sigurd the Mighty: The Severed Head"

Sigurd the Mighty, a 9th-century Viking, died from an infection caused by the severed head of a defeated enemy. He tied the head to his horse's saddle, and the teeth grazed his leg, leading to a fatal infection.

 

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"Gareth Jones: The Cheese Wheel Incident"

Gareth Jones, a 2009 participant in the annual Cheese Rolling festival in Gloucestershire, England, died after being struck by a 9-pound wheel of cheese that he had been chasing down a hill.

 

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"California man killed by his own car trying to stop thief from stealing it"
By Natalie O'Neill
Published Sep. 23, 2020, 1:08 p.m. ET

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A California man was struck and killed by his own van while trying to stop a thief from stealing it, according to a disturbing report.
Jose DeJesus Berrelleza, 33, heard a suspicious sound in the driveway of his Anaheim home at around 6:20 a.m. Tuesday, so he went outside to investigate, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He found a crook trying to make off with his work van and confronted the suspect — who hopped into the vehicle, hit the gas and slammed into Berrelleza, according to the paper.
As the suspect fled in the van, Berrelleza died at the scene as a result of his injuries, police said.

 

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"WOMAN DIES DURING 'DYING IN CONSCIOUSNESS' SEMINAR"

In 2011, a 35-year-old Canadian woman named Chantal Lavigne participated in a "detoxification" seminar called "Dying in Consciousness" that involved her being daubed in mud, wrapped up in plastic, swaddled in blankets, and having her head placed in a cardboard box for nine hours. She wound up being "cooked to death" after her body temperature raised to 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

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David Phyall

David Phyall, 58, was the last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
Phyall cut his own head off with a chainsaw to highlight the injustice of being forced to move out.

 

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If you're not familiar with British T.V...

You may not know The Goodies (I didn't). It was a sketch humor-type of show written by three British comedians; it ran in the '70s and early "˜80s. In 1975, a bricklayer named Alex Mitchell was enjoying a skit in which a Scotsman, clad in a kilt and all, was fighting off a deadly black pudding using his bagpipes. It struck him particularly funny and he laughed for 25 minutes straight. His heart finally gave out and he collapsed on the couch, according to his wife. She later wrote The Goodies to thank them for making her husband's final moments so merry.

 

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MAN DIES FROM EEL INSERTED IN HIS BUTT

A man has died after a live eel was inserted into his bottom for a joke, according to recent reports.

The 59-year-old chef from Sichuan in China had apparently passed out after a heavy bout of drinking and friends inserted a 50cm Asian swamp eel into his rectum for a bit of fun.

However, the joke wasn't so funny when the man died after suffering severe abdominal pains. Doctors who performed a post mortem on him found the eel in his rectum where it had reportedly gnawed at his intestines, causing heavy internal bleeding.

Practical Fishkeeping reported a very similar story last year in which a medical journal revealed that surgeons had removed a live eel from a man's rectum.

The man had suffered from rectum, intestine and spleen damage following the insertion of a 50cm swamp eel which he claimed was introduced to "relieve constipation."

The eels are not the only fish to have been removed from patients. In 2008, Practical Fishkeeping exclusively reported that doctors had removed a live fish from a boy's penis after it "slipped" into his urethra while he was holding the fish in his hand, while simultaneously urinating and maintaining his aquarium.

 

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Arius, The Orthodox Heretic

The Council of Nicaea, with Arius depicted beneath the feet of the Emperor Constantine.

During his lifetime, Arius was a religious figure with beliefs so controversial that he was formally denounced as a heretic by the Orthodox Church. His legacy would, unfortunately, be marred by one of the most unusual deaths the ancient world had ever seen.

Arius' last moments came in 336 A.D. when he was struck by sudden bowel cramps during a procession.

Before he made it to a bathroom, Arius vacated his bowels, a great deal of blood, small intestines, portions of his liver and spleen and eventually his life. At the time, some believed Arius was smitten for his heresy, but modern historians believe he was likely poisoned by his enemies.