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Top 10 unusual deaths

Death is considered as a part of every person’s life, we are not aware that death has its cold hands on every living creature irrespective of cast, creed, financial background or any other criteria based on which humans distinguish them.

Death has always remained uncertain to its coming; no one can escape from its clutch. There may be various factors for death to happen such as aging, malnutrition, diseases or murder. At times there may be unusual deaths that anyone could have ever imagined.

Our article lists the top most unusual deaths and is as follows:

1)  Man was not able to get to the toilet in time

To a matter of fact, the well known astronomer and an alchemist, named Brahe who pioneered the observations of planetary motion that helped for developing the theory of gravity by Newton was known to have died of burst bladder or known to have hyponatremia or may have mercury poisoning. Known to have a weak bladder but still Brahe neglected to relieve the pressure before dinner. Being addicted to excessive drink had certainly made his bladder to get stained, leading to a slow death.

2) Person who died of over eating of food

Its a bit unusual to die of over eating. But over eating signifies that person may face problem of digestion which may lead to suffocation. As per past history during the year 1771 a king of Sweden named as Adolf Fredrick was found to have died because of digestion problem, as per the reason of his death signifies that he was not able to digest his meal that contained caviar, sauerkraut, lobster, champagne and smoked herring which was served in a bowl containing hot milk. The Swedish school children named the king as the king who ate himself to death.

3) Roller Coaster Operator, caught by hair and gets killed

Its unusual to have an accidental death by a roller coaster car. The incident took place at an amusement park in America with the person named Doug McKay aged 40, when Doug was spraying lubricant on the tracks of the Super Loop 2 on the Whidbey Island located northwest of Seattle accidentally his long hair was caught on a car. The hair was dragged at such strength that it scalp him off in result he fell down and landed on the fence.

4) Man dies after bee attack at his wife’s funeral

Everyone on earth is aware of how the sting of the bees is harmful to the life of human. To the matter a fact an incident took place in a village of Madhya Pradesh, when a 50 year old man named Jaam Singh Girdhan Barela died after he was attacked by swarm of honeybees at the funeral of her wife. The mishap happened when the bees were disturbed to the flames from the funeral pyre got surrounded the nest of the bees in the Naya Bilwa village. People present in the funeral ran away except Barela was fused to the attack of the bees as he was performing the ritual and ultimately died after hit by multiple stings.

5) The woman who died after accidentally being injected with soup

It has been suspected that the person died because soup is being injected into the body. To the matter of fact a women of Rio de Janeiro named Ilda Vitor Maciel died in the year 2012 at an age of 88. The event took place when a nurse injected soup to the woman’s right arm instead of injecting it into the feeding tube. After being injected Maciel’s daughter confronted that her mother showed some awkward behavior and started to move with a wriggling motion and had her tongue stick to the upper part of the mouth. To the condition Maciel died in the hospital after time duration of 12 hours of the injected soup. The hospital director never accepted their mistake and till date the cause of death is still under investigation.

6) Murdered with an umbrella

Anything pointed being penetrated to the human body brings a significant pain. Prior to the incident that took place a long time back on 7th September 1978. A person named Georgi Ivanov Markov known as the Bulgarian writer was hit with a tip of umbrella. The murder was set by the Bulgarian government to kill Markov as he narrated something ill in his books. The incident happened when Markov was waiting for a bus at bus stop person from the opposite direction crossed him with an umbrella. Markov was hit by the tip of the umbrella unnoticed but he encounter a high temperature of the body and was admitted in the hospital. After three days later he was declared dead and cause of death being the poisoning from a ricin-filled pellet.

7) A person died due to swallowing of toothpick

Well its surprising to die of just by gulping a toothpick, as per record in the year 1941 Sherwood Anderson an American novelist also a short story writer was found dead because of swallowing a toothpick at a party event. The incident took place at Santa Lucia where Anderson experienced a severe abdominal pain. He was referred to a hospital located at Colon, Panama and was declared dead on March 8th 1941. Later on the autopsy report revealed that the cause of death is due to the accidental swallowing of toothpick.

8) A person who hoped to get his own death by a bolt of lightning.

Lightning the most dangerous calamity that affects human at an instant it was recorded that famous American revolutionary named James Otis predicted to die from a bolt of lightning. The event took place on May 23rd 1783 when he was standing at the doorstep of his friend’s house all of a sudden a bolt of lightning struck the chimney of a friend’s house struck him letting him died at that particular instance. As from the evidence he died at the age of 58.

9) A Man was shot with a bullet in his forehead and died after 67 days.

It’s a bit affirmative that the bullet stuck in the head of the human for a long period without resulting in an instant death. The incident took place in the year 1877 when a person named David Lunt was shot in the saloon fight. At the incident David was struck in his forehead however not much problem was encountered on part of David so he continued to carry out his usual routine but later after 67 days he felt a terrible headache and died. On medical examination it was found that he died of the bullet shot in his head.

10) Man who died from spontaneous combustion

A mysterious death that even noticed in the history of death. The mishap took place inside a house where an old man named Danny Vanzandt’s of 65 was found to have encountered a spontaneous combustion in his body. The combustion was such that it didn’t affect the house as per the witness of the incident says that the old man would have drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes resulting to spontaneous combustion. After medical examination nothing was reveled about the cause of the death.

Death has no name nor has an address after reading out some of the peculiar deaths will make you feel uncertain to the coming of death towards one’s life. Be safe and enjoy at will.

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