Ridiculous Ways Of Dying
Once there was a man. There’s laughing so much it hurts – but this was a much more serious matter! Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old from King’s Lynn, guffawed so hard at anepisode of hit BBC comedy show The Goodies in 1975 that he died of a heart failure. The sketch that led to his untimely death involved Tim Brooke-Taylor dressed as a Scotsman using a set of bagpipes anddeploying the Scottish martial art of ‘Hoots-Toots-ochaye’ in a fight. His widow wrote to the stars of the show to thank them for making her husband’s last minutes of life so happy. There are sometragic ways to die. There are painful ways to die. Some people might agree that there are easy and quick ways to die, probably what most of us would hope will be the case when our time comes. But asidefrom all these, there are some really ridiculous ways one's life can end.
There are many ridiculous but entertaining ways of dying. Though some of them can be unimaginable. For example, an articlecalled “where eagles dare”, and it says that beware clumsy eagles if you ever go to Iran. Two car passengers died there when an eagle soaring overhead accidentally dropped a cobra into their vehicle. Itbit them straightaway, killing them both. Fangs a lot!. Another one says that a man named Willie Murphy was more than a bit shell-shocked when an avalanche of peanuts buried him at a processing plantin Georgia, USA, in 1993. He never made it out alive. But also there’s one that says that French undertaker, Marc Bourjade, suffered a crushing blow when a pile of coffins at his workshop fell on topof him in 1982. Fittingly, he was buried in one of the coffins that killed him.
In spite of the fact that the entertaining ridiculous ways of dying, are accidental, which I am going to mention, thatalso are accidents, could have been avoided if people were more careful and more conscious of what they do. Some of these are: Experienced skydiver Ivan McGuire went plane crazy one day in 1988 when...
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