• 1. Overeating At A Feast Given In Your Honor


    Overeating At A Feast Given In Your Honor

  • Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1751)


  • 2. Being Hit By A Canonball That Was Fired As A Salute To You


    Being Hit By A Canonball That Was Fired As A Salute To You

  • John Kendrick (1794)


  • 3. Drowning In A Flood Of Beer (Or Being Injured In A Beer Flood) (Or Getting Alcohol Poisoning In A Beer Flood)


    Drowning In A Flood Of Beer (Or Being Injured In A Beer Flood) (Or Getting Alcohol Poisoning In A Beer Flood)

  • London Beer Flood (1814)


  • 4. Sticking A Piece Of Whale Bone Through Your Urinary Tract To Clear A Blockage


    Sticking A Piece Of Whale Bone Through Your Urinary Tract To Clear A BlockageGouverneur Morris (1816)


  • 5. Swinging A Baseball Bat So Hard That It Ruptures Your Bladder


    Swinging A Baseball Bat So Hard That It Ruptures Your BladderJim Creighton (1862)


  • 6. Accidentally Shooting Yourself In Court While Demonstrating To A Jury How Your Client’s Alleged Victim Might Have Accidentally Shot Himself


    Accidentally Shooting Yourself In Court While Demonstrating To A Jury How Your Client's Alleged Victim Might Have Accidentally Shot HimselfClement Vallandigham (1871)


  • 7. Being Poisoned, Shot In The Head, Shot Three More Times, Bludgeoned, Castrated, And Then Thrown Into A River Only For The Cause Of Death To Be Drowning


    Being Poisoned, Shot In The Head, Shot Three More Times, Bludgeoned, Castrated, And Then Thrown Into A River Only For The Cause Of Death To Be DrowningGrigori Rasputin (1916)


  • 8. Being Crushed Or Drowned By Molasses


    Being Crushed Or Drowned By MolassesBoston Molasses Disaster (1919)


  • 9. Being Hit By A Pitch


    Being Hit By A PitchRay Chapman (1920)


  • 10. Being Bit By A Monkey


    Being Bit By A Monkey

  • Alexander I Of Greece (1920)


  • 11. Having Your Costume Set Ablaze By An Errant Disposed Match


    Having Your Costume Set Ablaze By An Errant Disposed MatchMartha Mansfield (1923)


  • 12. Having Your Racecar’s Drive Chain Snap And Decapitate You


    Having Your Racecar's Drive Chain Snap And Decapitate YouJ. G. Parry-Thomas (1927)


  • 13. Having Your Long Scarf Get Caught In The Wheel Of The Car You Are Riding In, Thus Breaking Your Neck


    Having Your Long Scarf Get Caught In The Wheel Of The Car You Are Riding In, Thus Breaking Your NeckIsadora Duncan (1927)


  • 14. Committing Suicide In Prison Using A Bomb Made Out Of Playing Cards That Had A Flammable Chemical In Their Red Ink


    Committing Suicide In Prison Using A Bomb Made Out Of Playing Cards That Had A Flammable Chemical In Their Red Ink

  • William Kogut (1930)


  • 15. Falling Down A Chimney Into The Furnace After Mistaking The Chimney For A Balcony


    Falling Down A Chimney Into The Furnace After Mistaking The Chimney For A BalconySirkka Sari (1939)


  • 16. Having A Stroke After Reading A Negative Premature Obituary Of Yourself


    Having A Stroke After Reading A Negative Premature Obituary Of YourselfMarcus Garvey (1940)


  • 17. Accidentally Torpedoing Your Own Ship


    Accidentally Torpedoing Your Own ShipHMS Trinidad (1942) and the USS Tang (1944)


  • 18. Being Crushed By Giant Stacks Of Newspapers, Books, And Other Large Items That You Have Been Hoarding


    Being Crushed By Giant Stacks Of Newspapers, Books, And Other Large Items That You Have Been HoardingLangley Collyer (1947)


  • 19. Crashing Your Racecar When A Bird Flies Into Your Face


    Crashing Your Racecar When A Bird Flies Into Your FaceAlan Stacey (1960)


  • 20. Having A Surfboard On Your Convertible Hit Another Car, Spin Around, And Break Your Neck


    Having A Surfboard On Your Convertible Hit Another Car, Spin Around, And Break Your NeckWorth Bingham (1966)
    (Obviously The Above Is Not The Actual Car)


  • 21. Being Electrocuted Onstage By A Live Microphone


    Being Electrocuted Onstage By A Live MicrophoneLeslie Harvey (1972)


  • 22. Drinking Yourself To Death With Carrot Juice


    Drinking Yourself To Death With Carrot JuiceBasil Brown (1974)


  • 23. Being Crushed To Death Between A Moving Wall And A Stationary Wall In A Disneyland Ride


    Being Crushed To Death Between A Moving Wall And A Stationary Wall In A Disneyland RideDeborah Gail Stone (1974)


  • 24. Laughing Yourself To Death Watching The Goodies


    Laughing Yourself To Death Watching The GoodiesAlex Mitchell (1975)


  • 25. Being Poisoned By A Modified Umbrella


    Being Poisoned By A Modified UmbrellaGeorgi Markov (1978)


  • 26. Being Struck By A Flying Model Lawnmower At A New York Jets Halftime Show


    Being Struck By A Flying Model Lawnmower At A New York Jets Halftime ShowJohn Bowen (1979)


  • 27. Achieving A High Score In The Video Game Berserk


    Achieving A High Score In The Video Game BerserkJeff Dailey (1981)
    Peter Burkowski (1982)
    (Both boys were young and healthy but died of heart attacks after getting high scores. How there isn’t a horror movie about this is shocking.)


  • 28. Choking On An Eye Drop Bottle Cap


    Choking On An Eye Drop Bottle CapTennessee Williams (1983)


  • 29. Getting Hit In The Balls By A Tennis Ball


    Getting Hit In The Balls By A Tennis BallDick Wertheim (1983)
    (After being hit in the balls, Wertheim collapsed and hit his head on the pavement.)


  • 30. Being Crushed By Several 25-Pound Boxes Of Quarters When Braking Suddenly, While Driving A Brinks Truck


    Being Crushed By Several 25-Pound Boxes Of Quarters When Braking Suddenly, While Driving A Brinks TruckHrand Arakelian (1986)


  • 31. Throwing Yourself Through A Window Trying To Illustrate That The Glass Is Unbreakable (In Fairness The Glass Didn’t Break, But Popped Out Of The Window Frame)


    Throwing Yourself Through A Window Trying To Illustrate That The Glass Is Unbreakable (In Fairness The Glass Didn't Break, But Popped Out Of The Window Frame)Gary Hoy (1993)


  • 32. Handcuffing Yourself To A Tree In A Remote Forest And Throwing The Key Out Of Reach


    Handcuffing Yourself To A Tree In A Remote Forest And Throwing The Key Out Of ReachRichard Sumner (2002)


  • 33. Playing Starcraft For Too Long


    Playing Starcraft For Too LongLee Seung Seop (2005)


  • 34. Winning A Bet That You Could Have Continuous Sex With Two Women For 12 Hours Straight


    Winning A Bet That You Could Have Continuous Sex With Two Women For 12 Hours StraightSergey Tuganov (2009)
    (The whole bottle of Viagra was probably a bad idea)


  • 35. Being Crushed In Your Car By A Rolling Bale Of Hay


    Being Crushed In Your Car By A Rolling Bale Of HayMike Edwards (2010)


  • 36. Riding Your Segway Off Of A Cliff


    Riding Your Segway Off Of A CliffJimi Heselden (2010)
    (Owner Of The Segway Motorized Scooter Company)