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Weird deaths

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A fascinating listing of weird deaths you can peruse at your leisure:

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

"According to Valerius Maximus, Aeschylus, the eldest of the three great Athenian tragedians, was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, adds that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object."

"Jones, a lawyer in Bangor, Wales, woke up to find that he had his throat slit. Motioning for a paper and a pencil, he wrote: "I dreamt that I had done it. I awoke to find it true," and died 80 minutes later. He had slit his throat himself while unconscious.[126] An inquest at Bangor delivered a verdict of "suicide while temporarily insane."

"Kurt Gödel, an Austrian-American logician and mathematician, died of starvation when his wife was hospitalized. Gödel refused to eat food prepared by anyone else[158] as he was suffering from an obsessive fear of being poisoned."

"Mike Edwards, 62, cellist and a founding member of the band Electric Light Orchestra, died when a large round bale of hay rolled down a hill and collided with the van he was driving."
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"Edmund Ironside, King of England in 1016, was allegedly stabbed whilst on a toilet, by an assassin hiding underneath."

Tyrion Lannister killed his father while the latter sat on a toilet. Given how George R. R. Martin likes to borrow from history, it's tempting to think either he or the showrunner adapters got it from that. But being assassinated on the toilet seems to have been a modestly popular way to go before the 1700s. So probably not, or it's just one of multiple contenders.

List of people who died on the toilet (besides Elvis)
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