Strange Deaths
 

Attila the Hun:
One of the most notorious villains in history, Attila's army had conquered all of Asia by 450 AD-from Mongolia to the edge of the Russian Empire-by destroying villages and pillaging the countryside.
How he died: He got a nosebleed on his wedding night.
In 453 AD, Attila married a young girl named Ildico. Despite his reputation for ferocity on the battlefield, he tended to eat and drink lightly during large banquets. On his wedding night, however, he really cut loose, gorging himself on food and drink. Sometime during the night he suffered a nosebleed, but was too drunk to notice. He drowned in his own blood and was found dead the next morning.

Tycho Brahe:
An important Danish astronomer of the 16th century. His ground breaking research allowed Sir Isaac Newton to come up with the theory of gravity.
How he died: Didn't get to the bathroom in time.
In the 16th century, it was considered an insult to leave a banquet table before the meal was over. Brahe, known to drink excessively, had a bladder condition-but failed to relieve himself before the banquet started. He made matters worse by drinking too much at dinner, and was too polite to ask to be excused. His bladder finally burst, killing him slowly and painfully over the next 11 days.

Horace Wells:
Pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s
How he died: Used anesthetics to commit suicide.
While experimenting with various gases during his anesthesia research, Wells became addicted to chloroform. In 1848 he was arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid. In a letter he wrote from jail, he blamed chloroform for his problems, claiming that he'd gotten high before the attack. Four days later he was found dead in his cell. He'd anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

Francis Bacon:
One of the most influential minds of the late 16th century. A statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even rumored to have written some of Shakespeare's plays.
How he died: Stuffing snow into a chicken.
One afternoon in 1625, Bacon was watching a snowstorm and was struck by the wondrous notion that maybe snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used. Determined to find out, he purchased a chicken from a nearby village, killed it, and then, standing outside in the snow, attempted to stuff the chicken full of snow to freeze it. The chicken never froze, but Bacon did.

Jerome Irving Rodale:
Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of "Organic Farming and Gardening" magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation.
How he died: On the "Dick Cavett Show", while discussing the benefits of organic foods.
Rodale, who bragged "I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," was only 72 when he appeared on the "Dick Cavett Show" in January 1971. Part way through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair. Cause of death: heart attack. The show was never aired.

Aeschylus:
A Greek playwright back in 500 BC. Many historians consider him the father of Greek tragedies.
How he died: An eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.
According to legend, eagles picked up tortoises and attempt to crack them open by dropping them on rocks. An eagle mistook Aeschylus' head for a rock (he was bald) and dropped it on him instead.

Jim Fixx:
Author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which started the jogging craze of the 1970s.
How he died: A heart attack....while jogging.
Fixx was visiting Greensboro, Vermont when he walked out of his house and began jogging. He'd only gone a short distance when he had a massive coronary. His autopsy revealed that one of his coronary arteries was 99% clogged, another was 80% obstructed, and a third was 70% blocked....and that Fixx had had three other attacks in the weeks prior to his death.

Felix Faure (1890)
This former French president died of a stroke while
receiving oral sex in his office. (from his mistress)

Lee Seung Seop (2005)
28-year-old Korean video game addict collapsed in an Internet
cafe after playing Starcraft & World of Warcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours. About six weeks before his death, he had
been fired from his job for missing work to play computer games.

George Allen (1990)
Hall of Fame football coach died of pneumonia a month after some
of his players gave him a Gatorade Shower following a victory.

Ray Chapman (1920)
Professional baseball player died when he was hit in the head by a pitch from the Yankees Carl Mays. Eyewitnesses recounted that Chapman never moved out of the way of the pitch, presumably unable to see the ball. The sound of the ball crashing into Chapman's skull was so loud that Mays thought it hit his bat, fielded the ball, and threw to first base.
Chapman died twelve hours later in a New York City hospital.

Joseph W. Burrus (1990)
An aspiring magician, died while attempting a "buried alive" stunt.
He was contained inside an acrylic glass clear box,or coffin, of his own construction. Lowered into a hole, his crew began filling the hole with dirt around the sidesof the coffin. Then, they began filling the hole with wet concrete. At some point, the crew realized the concrete had crushed the box, and when they pulled him out, he was dead.

Adolf Frederick (1771)
King of Sweden who died of digestion problems after having consumed a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut,smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla served in a bowl of hot milk. He is thus remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as "the king who ate himself to death."

Alex Mitchell (1975)
A 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn literally died laughing whilst watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure.

Dick Shawn (1987)
A comedian, died on stage of a heart attack. While portraying a politician, he announced, "if elected, I will not lay down on the job," then layed down on stage and never stood back up.

Wan Hu (early 1500s)
According to legend, early in the 16th century, Wan decided to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space. He supposedly had a chair built with forty-seven rockets attached. On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. There was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Wan and the chair were gone, never to be seen again.

Frank Hayes (1923)
A jockey who suffered a heart attack during a horse race.
The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making
Hayes the only deceased jockey to ever win a race.

good morning read!

Wan Hu (early 1500s)
According to legend, early in the 16th century, Wan decided to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space. He supposedly had a chair built with forty-seven rockets attached. On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. There was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Wan and the chair were gone, never to be seen again.



coudlof sworn i seen this chair at science world when i was younger or maybe im tripping??

And you failed me?! Evil. ¬_¬

He has given 420 thanks already, so he won't give any more out. I assume once he hits 420 fails given, he'll stop failing people too.

Haha it would be funny if the mods disallowed him from failing for fail abuse. (btw van you can fail my post to further your endeavor).

Vansterdam's fail/thanks always crack me up, no matter what the subject is hahaha.

could have been. I think Myth Busters tried replicating his fire rocket chair didn't they?

they did, same result.

i could see how i mistook science world for mythbusters :cry: :lol

LOL @ francis bacon and Felix faure

Good read. :D

Reminds me of a guy in India (some high-ranking official I presume) on TV that died in the middle of a press conference. He was talking to reporters, then suddenly stopped and you could see his eyes suddenly roll up as he fell backwards off his chair.

^ You mean this one?
http://images.encyclopediadramatica....HNNNNNNGGG.gif

Shit, this is scary

^ YEAH!!!!! Anyone know the name of the guy?

Why hasn't anyone mentioned budd dwyer?
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^ Just wikied him. I'm guessing the list didn't include suicide.

Holy crap I jumped at the video. Looks nothing like in the movies.

nice history, good to know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._N._Vijayan

That was him. On top of being in politics, he was a well-known writer in India. On that wiki are his last words :"The problem that KSSP had was with the language used by Padham. Firstly...."

...now we can add the ukraine chemistry student to the list

Jerome Irving Rodale:
Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of "Organic Farming and Gardening" magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation.
How he died: On the "Dick Cavett Show", while discussing the benefits of organic foods.
Rodale, who bragged "I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," was only 72 when he appeared on the "Dick Cavett Show" in January 1971. Part way through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair. Cause of death: heart attack. The show was never aired.

smug alert!

http://www.southparkstuff.com/images...i1002img21.jpg

Holy shit, you're right. It was a fucking waterfall of blood coming out of his nose/mouth. :eek:

I might have nightmares tonight...

sheit.. thats crazy, die in the middle of conference

holy shit!