Best Deaths Ever

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"Sic semper tyrannis!" *BANG*


I am a Lincoln supporter fyi.

"Jennifer Lea Strange was a 28-year-old woman who died of water intoxication on January 12, 2007 after taking part in a Sacramento, California, radio station's water-drinking contest. Strange, along with twenty other participants, took part in a contest held by KDND-FM's "Morning Rave" show called "Hold Your Wee for a Wii," where the winner would win a Wii, a popular but at that time difficult-to-obtain Nintendo video game console. The winner was the one who could consume the most water without urinating. Strange came in second place; it was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed, but other contestants speculated that Strange drank up to two gallons (7.56 L) of water .[1]

Her mother found the body in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova, California, after Strange called her supervisor at her job to say she was heading home in terrible pain. Preliminary autopsy findings have ruled the death was due to water intoxication. During the contest, a nurse identified as Eva called the show and gave an on-air warning that drinking too much water is hazardous and potentially deadly. The disc jockeys rebuffed the nurse, saying the contestants had signed waivers. (According to a contestant, the waivers addressed only publicity issues and made no mention of health or safety concerns.)[2] In addition, the DJs ridiculed the contestants, making fun of the severe discomfort of the participants and offering no assistance. According to one contestant, they heckled another contestant on the floor whose teeth were chattering.[3] They also made reference to the 2005 case of Matt Carrington, who died of water intoxication in a fraternity hazing incident at Chico State University, but they also shrugged off any significance to this contest.[3]

On January 15, 2007, the Morning Rave radio show was suspended, and the next day the three hosts of the show and seven other employees were fired.[4] The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office considered criminal charges against the DJs and producers of the show, but on April 2, 2007, the Sacramento County District Attorney said no criminal charges would be filed.[5] On January 25, 2007, Jennifer Strange's immediate family, a husband and three children, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court against KDND's parent company, Entercom, and employees and managers involved with the contest.[6]"

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Strange

I remember reading a true story about someone who was poisoned, but when that didn't seem to affect him he was shot. But that didn't kill him either, and since he knew by now people where trying to kill him he fled outside and jumped into a river to escape. An autopsy later reveled that neither the poison nor bullets killed him, he drowned.

Another Darwin Awards contender here:

Two guys decided to play Russian roulette.

With an automatic pistol

The first guy to try obviously shot himself dead, and the other guy was charged with his murder. Funny, that...

Also, a chap decided to use a hand-grenade as a paper-weight. He didn't really think it through. BOOM!

In Iraq, there are ammunition dumps that certain unscrupulous Iraqis raid for the brass contained therein (which forms the casing for the bullets/shells/etc.). The way they remove this? Hammers and chisels. A particularly stupid bunch of these ammo saboteurs went into an ammo warehouse while enjoying some of their finest tobacco - and, predictably, managed to ignite the sparks caused by their buffoonery. The warehouse exploded, liquefying our heroes in the process, and the fire burned for days on end.

I guess I was wrong about his age, but he did manage to survive his epic run, contrary to legend. He ran more than just the distance of a typical marathon, and was dressed in full armor, an exhausting feat.

When the inventor of Nitroglycerin was found blown to pieces by his assistant, the assistant is surposed to have said: "Wow, I guess it does work."

When Bruno was convicted to be burned on the stake, he said "You pass this sentence with greater fear than I recieve it with." Now that is a pretty cool thing to say after being tortured by the inquisition for 8 years.

From the Rotten nndb page on Robert Atkins

http://www.nndb.com/people/153/000025078/


"Atkins' 1972 diet was revolutionary, and in direct opposition to the conventional wisdom of dieticians: lower carbohydrates, and increase meat and fat. While one would lose weight on such a diet, most of the loss is from water and muscle mass. The former is pointless and the latter can be dangerous. These inconvenient facts did not stop the public from buying 30 million of his books.

He suffered a heart attack in 2002, but one that he claimed was unrelated to diet. Atkins died after he purportedly slipped on a sidewalk in New York City, sustaining a brain injury. At the time of his death, Dr. Atkins weighed 258 pounds, and at his height of six feet, the U.S. government considers him obese.

Atkins' widow, Veronica, became furious at the release of her husband's records."

I believe this came from the Darwin awards or an urban legend. This man decided to rob a shop. He went up to the counter and was promptly shot dead while trying to stick up the place. For one thing, he failed to notice the cop car parked just outside when he entered. Also, it was a gun shop.

In Egyptian legend, Osiris is killed by his rival brother Seth. Seth fooled his brother by leading him into a coffin, then he slammed the door of the coffin and through the coffin into the Nile river.

Eventually, Osiris's body is cut into pieces and then spread into the nile after his son Horus is born. I'm afraid to give graphic reasons on how this happened, I don't want to get kicked off this site. Anyway, Isis, his wife then searched for his body parts in every land and put them back together. He then became God of the Underworld.

Has such a romatic tragedy but also a happy ending. Depends on how we culturally view death.

Are you thinking of the Mad Monk Rasputin??

Oscar Wilde managed to get off one last bon mot as he was dying. He pointed across the room and said "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do" and promptly died.

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

Edit: I didn't notice that one of users had already posted this link.

It is kind of an urban legend, the story is true but it has been changed over time. I remember reading it on the urban legends reference page http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp .
Here is the story in question:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/gunshop.asp

I enjoy researching these urban legends, some of them are quite rediculus

the most physical painless death is probably dieing of old age since the heart Muscles just stop working but by then emotionally devestated (probably) other deaths very painful

Anyone else here own the Darwin Awards series? Four books of the stupidest deaths ever. Playing russian roulette with landmines, using wire cutters on live electrical lines, welding grenades together, ect ect ect. Read some of them here, and if you like them, buy the books like I did.

That was definitely Rasputin. He was advisor to the last Russian czar, so naturally he was marked for death by the Bolsheviks. They invited him to a feast, where his food was poisoned with ecessive amounts of potassium cyanide. When he wasn't affected, the Bolshevik leader shot him in the chest with a pistol. When they went to pick him up, he jumped up and fled. Bolshevik soldiers cornered him by a river and beat him unconsious, then dumped him into the river. Later his body was autopsied and it was known that he died not of the poisoning, gunshot wounds, or the beating he suffered, but from drowning in the river.

I remember getting in trouble when we were reading the chapter in our hsitory books on Russia, because I had skipped ahead to the section where Rasputin was mentioned, read his story, and started laughing aloud at the thought of someone going through so much trouble to kill a guy and still failing epically.

In other words, Rasputin was one tough Russian cookie.