Strange ways to die

Death is inevitable. How you die can be very random.

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Here's a light hearted look at strange ways to die.

• Falling out of bed;
• Falling off a ladder;
• Falling off a ladder and landing head first in a water butt;
• Having a suicide land on you;
• Hit by a coconut falling off a tree;
• Slipping in the kitchen and falling onto a knife in the dishwasher cuttlery basket;
• Slipping in the bathroom and the toilet brush handle going through your eye socket;
• Crushed by a wardrobe;
• Crushed by a fridge freezer;
• Crushed by your partner;
• Crushed, or run over, by your own vehicle;
• Locked in a cold store room;
• Roasted to death in industrial oven;
• Killed by your clothes - suffocated by garments, strangled by neckties or scarves;
• Trampled to death by farm animals;
• Trampled to death by wild animals;
• Eaten by your herd of pigs;
• Spectator death - hit by golf ball, cricket ball, racing/rally car or motorcycle;
• Speared by a javelin while officiating at an athletics competition;
• Swallowing a balloon;
• Eating too many cockroaches in a cockroach eating competition;
• Stepping backwards off cliff or similar to help photographer get you in frame;
• Fired as a human cannonball and missing safety net;
• Falling off an inflatable artwork;
• Falling into a water butt;
• Drowning in a barrell of mead;
• Falling off a bouncy inflatable structure;
• Drinking too much water;
• Eating too many carrots;
• Swung by your ankles by a clown;
• Falling off a theatre balcony;
• Hit by a piece of falling scaffolding;
• Crushed by giant bale of hay falling on your van;
• Hit by bullets fired in celebration;
• Falling out of a tree;
• Walking through a closed glass door and being cut to death;
• Swallowing fly, spider, bird, cat etc;
• Drowning in the bath;
• Death by DIY - electrocution, power saw, sharp objects;
• Car engine bonnet shutting on your head;
• Heading a medicine ball;
• Stabbed during argument over game of Ludo;
• Stabbed in the leg by a cockfighting bird;
• Kicked by a horse;
• Burned to death while making a barbecue from an oil drum.
• Dropping weights on yourself while doing presses.

There are currently two books on the subject, 101 Crazy Ways to Die; and 1001 Ridiculous Ways to Die.

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