30 Strangest Deaths In History

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:54 pm

See it to believe it.

kidhuman · Post by **kidhuman** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:43 pm

Thats fuckin odd

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:05 pm

Nice to see the old Crocodile Hunter right there in the top 30th!

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:19 am

Wow. I actually remember one of my high school teachers telling us about the scientist that died from holding in his pee.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:32 am

1) They should've pointed out that Steve Irwin only died after tearing the spine out of his heart. That's even kookier.

2) President William Henry Harrison had a pretty crazy death, I think crazier than some of the ones here. He gave the longest inaugural address at about two hours... on an extremely cold day in 1841. As a result, he contracted pneumonia and died 30 days later, making him a multiple record-holder: first president to die while in office, president to hold the office for the shortest amount of time, president to deliver the longest inaugural, and the only president to die as a result of being too long-winded.

Post by **vynsane** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:22 pm

Rogue II wrote:Wow. I actually remember one of my high school teachers telling us about the scientist that died from holding in his pee.

and the guy's name was tycho... that's weird.

kidhuman · Post by **kidhuman** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:20 am

vynsane wrote:
Rogue II wrote:Wow. I actually remember one of my high school teachers telling us about the scientist that died from holding in his pee.
and the guy's name was tycho... that's weird.

You'd of figured he died from eating hot pockets w/ tile flavoring

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:04 am

My favorite was the lady who killed herself during a live newscast. Hello Ratings!!

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:30 am

The sick bastard within me wonders if there is video of that on youtube. But I don't think I could bring myself watch it if there is.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:08 pm

Regarding Rasputin, they neglected to mention his corpse was dug up by revolutionaries a few years later and burned because they thought he was satanic.

Apparently, the rest of it isn't legendary, strangely enough. We can guess that the bullets miraculously missed every major organ (like with Isaac Hayes' character in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka), but I have no clue how someone could eat several cakes and drink a few glasses of wine, each of which was laced with enough cynanide to kill a man. Mystic or not, though, he seems to have been pretty smart and crafty, so, knowing how common poisonings were in the royal court, he could've built up an immunity over several years.