What was the dumbest way somebody died that you personally knew?

[u/Positive-Seaweed-180]

[u/shaolin_tech]

Kid in high school I knew got partially paralyzed when ejected from his car driving stupid with no seat belt. Worked on physical therapy and whatnot for a while, dad bought him a new SUV converted for him to drive it while still partially paralyzed. Drove stupid again with no seat belt and ejected again when he crashed, but that time he died.

[u/dixpourcentmerci → u/shaolin_tech]

It absolutely boggles my mind when people skip their seatbelts. I have a step cousin who died this way at such a young age, like 23 maybe. I feel so bad for her mom, what a needless way to go out.

[u/RainbowPickle2009 → u/dixpourcentmerci]

The mom of my first girlfriend believed that they were designed by the government to kill people, and some of her family shared the sentiment. Then her aunt died in a car crash by flying out the windshield, her mom still believed it afterwards. Some people never learn

[u/erossmith → u/RainbowPickle2009]

Some people don't like anything that they feel restricts them and will believe anything that enforces that belief.

[u/N1ghtCr33p → u/dixpourcentmerci]

I feel completely naked if the car is moving and I haven't clicked the belt on yet.

[u/kalei50 → u/shaolin_tech]

If being paralyzed in an accident doesn't convince someone to drive safe and wear a seatbelt, I guess they were meant to die?

[u/Shower_Handel → u/kalei50]

"What are the odds it happens twice?"

[u/Rabid-GNN → u/shaolin_tech]

You are the second guy to write about a guy who got paralyzed and had the same incident happen TWICE

[u/Mr-Safety → u/shaolin_tech]

I highly recommend you have your kids try those crash simulator sleds the police have at community events. You buckle up and slide down a three foot ramp and stop at like 2mph. You get thrown forward with noticeable force. In a crash it is impossible to stay seated without seat belts. Use them EVERY TIME. Be a hard ass about it if giving a lift to friends/coworkers in the back seat. Don’t move until everyone is buckled in. Remember that an unrestrained passenger can kill you if they become a projectile in a crash.

[u/Logical-Recognition3]

A friend from high school was a cave diver and diving instructor. Various cave diving sites have different suggested levels of certification to safely dive. On his last day, he and a friend were in a dive shop discussing the dive they were planning. Someone in the shop who knew him pointed out that neither he nor his friend had reached the level of certification for that cave. His last known words as he left the shop were something like, "There's no such thing as dive police."

Their bodies were recovered a few days later. He left a wife and two small children.

[u/Iforgot_my_other_pw → u/Logical-Recognition3]

The best thing about cave diving is that you don't have to do it

[u/t-licus → u/Logical-Recognition3]

What is it with men with loving families and caves?

[u/neko → u/t-licus]

They don't find the bodies of the people who don't have someone who misses them

[u/DrScienceSpaceCat → u/Logical-Recognition3]

I love diving but I have absolutely zero desire to ever go cave diving, little reward for high risk.

[u/Swartz142 → u/DrScienceSpaceCat]

Diving and exploring giant caves ?

Cool !

Cave diving ?

Fuck no !

[u/RMoby6160]

One of my great uncles (mom's dad's brother) was a bad alcoholic, and was the type to get really angry when he was drunk. One night he got into an argument with his wife over.. the furniture? He went out to the shed to get his chainsaw and just started chopping shit up. In the midst of his blind/drunken rage, the chainsaw bounced against something and went straight into his throat, nearly cut his head clean off

This happened long before I was born but my mom always told me about it as to why alcohol is dangerous and it's always stuck with me

[u/threelizards → u/RMoby6160]

Holy fucking shit.

My mother was an alcoholic and after picking a fight with me one morning before school to try to make me late for the bus, she got mad and downed a bunch of sherry and pills and accidentally overdosed and died. I thought that was stupid. Holy fuck

[u/Havengul_Undying → u/threelizards]

Damn, when youre so toxic you poison yourself...

[u/threelizards → u/Havengul_Undying]

Holy shit, I’ve spent years in therapy trying to understand her and you summarised her in one sentence

[u/Havengul_Undying → u/threelizards]

A pleasure but man, im sorry you had her for a mother and that she put you through that. I assume it mustve been hard to try not blame yourself.

[u/threelizards → u/Havengul_Undying]

Thank you so much. I spent years blaming myself and it wasn’t until I’d been without her for years that I was able to see her, and our relationship, for what it was. But I’m in a really good place now

[u/TimeSink48 → u/RMoby6160]

I would think the chainsaw had a part to play as well. I use chainsaws occasionally, and I'm cautious as shit with them because I know how quickly it can go wrong. I won't even use one if I'm alone, just in case someone needs to call for an ambulance for me.

[u/bigbigdummie → u/TimeSink48]

I had an accident once. I just barely swiped the tip of a chain saw, not running, across my thigh because I’m a moron. It cut through the skin and subcutaneous fat and left me staring at muscle tissue, a gash about 3 inches long, totally painless. I respect chainsaws a lot more now.

[u/The_quest_for_wisdom → u/bigbigdummie]

I had a fork lift injury like that. I walked past a parked and stationary forklift, and just happened to brush my calf against a tiny metal corner that wasn't even supposed to be sharp.

And that tiny corner just unzipped about three inches of skin and muscle like it was a party trick. It didn't bleed, and didn't even hurt at all until the ER doctor started stitching me up before the local anesthetic took hold.

I can't imagine the damage it could have done if that tiny metal corner had been the size of a chainsaw tooth.

[u/Bippityboppitynope2]

My moms cousin was dating the dumbest person we'd ever met.

He is actually in the Darwin awards. He's the guy who smoked inside the firework warehouse he worked at because it was raining outside. Blew up the warehouse and himself.

[u/arand0md00d → u/Bippityboppitynope2]

Was this in like Sacramento area?

Edit: This is the incident, happened July 2025 and unfortunately 8 people died so not the above. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/esparto-fireworks-explosion-one-year-later/

[u/Pokemon488 → u/arand0md00d]

I thought about that recent one too, when I read "fireworks warehouse." Kinda morbidly curious.

[u/DanerysTargaryen → u/arand0md00d]

I doubt it, because it was not raining at all around that time. I believe the incident you’re referencing happened in late April and the last time it had rained this year was like February? It’s super rare if we get rain in the summer months, it’s usually bone ass dry from April/May-November.

[u/pickindim_kmet]

Thought it was a good idea to go swimming in the canals of Amsterdam while drunk, high and in winter.

[u/DocHolidayiN]

Country club golf pro degenerate gambler and raging alcoholic drowned in the water hazard after driving into it.

[u/Brassens71 → u/DocHolidayiN]

I had to quickly check that John Daly is, in fact, still alive.

[u/DigNitty → u/DocHolidayiN]

I hope the paramedics did the right thing and got him out, and placed him close to where he entered the water hazard no closer to the hole.

[u/Sternakseesall]

Doctors son, typical rich kid. He got a brand new high performance car for his 16th birthday. He was a menace. Burning rubber around the school parking lot. Kids that were his friends even refused to ride with him. That was how reckless he was. Wrapped the car around an oak tree driving to school one day. Had the car maybe six months. Thankfully he only killed himself.

[u/DirtandPipes → u/Sternakseesall]

When I managed a security company I got this young dude with very rich parents who were insisting that he had to work a job so I stuck him on mobile patrol, where the cars all had gps and would give me automated calls if a guard was speeding.

So I got about 150 calls the first night and he stopped answering his phone after the first few times I asked him to stop speeding. By morning I got a call from a nice RCMP lady who had pulled him over in the company vehicle going 3 times the speed limit in a residential area who let me take the vehicle back while they took his license away (obviously fired).

I ask him what his big issue was and he said “I physically have to speed when I’m in a car”. So anyways a few months later he killed himself in a car accident and the world got slightly safer.

[u/The_Chimeran_Hybrid → u/DirtandPipes]

Call me callous, but I really don’t have any sympathy there. Hopefully he didn’t take anyone else out with him?

[u/solonit → u/The_Chimeran_Hybrid]

Reminds me of another post that asked about jury duty, and one person who works in emergency said he treated many cases of DUI/reckless driving. And while his duty is to care for people regardless of circumstances, he can’t not bias against those cases after what he experienced. As such he is not picked for jury.

[u/fendaar]

There was a young woman I worked with, who by total coincidence was my next door neighbor a few years later. Her boyfriend died in a freak accident in the mountains of Utah. A few months after his death, she went to those same mountains to spread his ashes. She fell to her death while emptying the urn.

[u/neuro_space_explorer → u/fendaar]

I’m putting my money on suicide with this one.

[u/NervousWorld323 → u/neuro_space_explorer]

Sounds like suicide. I had a neighbor that did something similar. His wife died base jumping in Moab during their wedding. He killed himself in Hawaii about a year later while paragliding.

Very sad. Was such a great guy, but riddled with guilt. RIP CB

[u/OneSalientOversight → u/fendaar]

There was a Monty Pythoneque situation in Australia about 20 or so years ago.

An Asian family (China?) on holidays in Australia went swimming on a beach with a rip and the mother of the family was swept out to sea. Search and Rescue boats and helicopters went looking and couldn't find her.

After a few days, the rest of the family accepted that they had lost their mother, and so had a memorial service on the beach.

Guess what washed up nearby during the service?

[u/hamster-on-popsicle → u/OneSalientOversight]

That's horrifying ! The silver lining is that they could do the funeral rite, but still, seeing a loved family member bloated corpse...

[u/Late_Resource_1653]

I work in cancer care, and the answer is always "I've decided to go an alternate route."

We can't stop them. But that alternative route always ends one of two ways. We receive a notice that they've died, or they come back and instead of stage 1 or 2 (highly treatable for most cancers), they are now stage 4 with metastases with limited options and possibly only palliative or hospice options.

Recently had a patient I liked who disappeared for a couple years because she was "going to try holistic instead." She came back when she was in terrible pain. The previously easy to treat cancer had spread to her bones, causing fractures, and just... everywhere else. All we could offer was palliative. She died a few months later.

[u/catonafilly → u/Late_Resource_1653]

Within two weeks of each other, a HS friend of mine's mom and mine were both diagnosed with Stage 4 Colon Cancer. Her mom did chemotherapy a single round and decided she hated it and would go the holistic route. My mom decided she would do anything it took to be around her babies for as long as possible.
Her mom died 2-3 months later in horrible pain and very ill. My mom beat cancer and is in our living room right now, free of cancer for the last ten years. Their first chemo therapy rounds started the same day. I don't think I'll ever, ever be able to talk to that friend the same way again-- it wasn't her fault, she did everything she could to try and get her mom to undergo treatment. But my mom lived, and hers didn't. And I know that hurts her. Orphaned at 22 with other relatives will hurt no matter what you do.

[u/Jazzlike-Check9040 → u/catonafilly]

This is my mom now. Going for oxygen therapy instead of chemo. She refuses. Stage 4

[u/sjclynn → u/Late_Resource_1653]

I am a cancer survivor. I used to hang out in some support groups associated with my specific type. People promoting alternative approaches were typically not well tolerated. There was one person who, in some degree of frustration posed the question, "Why aren't there any talking about their holistic successes?" The consensus response was... because they're dead.

[u/LegoClaes → u/sjclynn]

Same here. Some odd suggestions in those groups sometimes, mostly religious though.

I remember one guy suggested we start a world of Warcraft guild and raid together, but he hadn’t considered the frequently changing roster we’d have to deal with

[u/GiantFlyingLizardz → u/Late_Resource_1653]

I'm a cancer nurse and that shit breaks my heart. I've also seen some nasty fungating tumors as a result of lack of insurance or other forms of medical care avoidance.

[u/ThunderMite42 → u/GiantFlyingLizardz]

Reason #9002 why rent-seeking middlemen need to be forever exiled from the world of medicine.

[u/Jimc87 → u/Late_Resource_1653]

That is absolutely tragic, grifters who promote that alternative medicine shit should be jailed

[u/HopeAndVaseline → u/Jimc87]

Former friend of mine claimed and advertised she could cure cancer with reiki.

I told her, a) that's not possible, and b) that sort of advertising isn't legal.

We're not friends anymore.

[u/Jules_Noctambule → u/Late_Resource_1653]

I used to work in a hippie café, and we had a woman come in every day for a shot of wheatgrass juice which she assured us was going to cure her cancer. One day, she didn't come in. We never saw her again. I chose to believe someone in her life had finally convinced her to accept actual medical treatment, and it had succeeded, and she was living her best life on vacation with her grandkids, because I didn't like the other option. She was a nice lady.

[u/butdaddy1lovehim → u/Late_Resource_1653]

My SIL nearly fell out with her Aunt because she insisted on medical treatment for her cancer and wouldn’t trust SILs magic $50 herbal tea. My FIL died a few years before from leukemia and she’s completely convinced he would’ve been fine if he hadn’t gone to the hospital and gotten treatment. We don’t talk to her much these days.

[u/ClownfishSoup → u/Late_Resource_1653]

Steve Jobs comes to mind.

"Mr Jobs, you have Pancreatic cancer, but the good news is that at this stage, this form of cancer is highly treatable! When should be schedule your first treatment?"

"You know what? this guru told me that fruit juice cures cancer, so I'll try that. i know positive thinking will work. It's worked my entire life. I've never not succeeded"

"Mr. Jobs, please, let us treat it now while we can"

"Nope, juice. maybe accupuncture. I'll go vegan and think really hard"

"Mr Jobs, you're back. it's been 9 months. Let's see... oh, this is not good"

"Juice doesn't seem to be working, so do your treatment thing"

"Oh, Mr. Jobs, that was 9 months ago. We'll do what we can, but you turned a 95% chance of success into 5%"

RIP Steve Jobs and his magical thinking. Sometimes it's not good when you never feel failure.

[u/SmartAleckComedian → u/ClownfishSoup]

You left out the part where he used his wealth to hop state lines and basically cut in line to get a new liver, that only lasted two and a half years. He basically stole a liver from someone else on the transplant list to buy a few more years, he really was a bastard.

[u/Neuroccountant → u/SmartAleckComedian]

And he needed a new liver because that was where his pancreatic cancer had metastasized! Oncologists would never recommend a liver transplant in these circumstances, because there is essentially a zero percent chance that there is only one distant metastasis, so at best the patient would be buying a little bit of time, much less time than another recipient of the liver would receive. Just incredibly selfish all around.

[u/SteadfastEnd → u/SmartAleckComedian]

On top of that, an organ transplant requires taking immuno-suppressive drugs to prevent organ rejection. This meant Steve Jobs suppressed his own immune system from being able to kill cancer cells, causing his cancer to grow even faster.

At any rate, the whole episode led to a grim joke: "It was the only time PC (pancreatic cancer) defeated Apple."

[u/IAteTonysLoMein → u/ClownfishSoup]

Should have learned a lesson when Atari put him on nightshift because he reeked and no one wanted to be around him. He thought being a fruitarian meant he didn't need to shower

[u/SteadfastEnd → u/ClownfishSoup]

Steve Jobs had always triumphed in business and marketing by defying the experts. His narcissist brain failed to understand you can't defy science that way, though.

[u/vinegar → u/Late_Resource_1653]

I knew a guy who refused to get medical attention for a year for his giant testicle. He had testicular cancer ofc and by the time an ex girlfriend cajoled him into going to the hospital it was too late. He was one of the 7% of people who get that and don’t survive it. At the end ofc he was pretty optimistic about the mushroom tea he was taking, and would tell anyone who would listen that metastasis just meant the cancer was no longer trapped in the original tissue so the immune system would deal with it.

[u/StabbyBoo → u/Late_Resource_1653]

My SIL tried to convince my nephew, who had stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma, to smoke weed instead of chemo. I was never so proud of him when he yelled, "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!"

Anyway, chemo took and he's cancer-free 13 years later.

[u/BlackCaaaaat → u/Late_Resource_1653]

I just posted this as a parent comment but I figured you’d be interested, as it’s similar to the stories you’ve seen.

I knew a woman who was a friend of my cousin, I met her a few times, really nice person. And I’m not posting this to mock her, it’s just really fucking sad.

She got diagnosed with breast cancer, Stage 2 I think. The oncologist was confident that with surgery and chemo it would be treatable. She had two young kids and was about 14 weeks pregnant with the 3rd. They made the difficult decision to end that very wanted pregnancy so that she could have the chemo.

Not long after that, some fucking woo woo peddler told her that he could treat her cancer with herbs, costing thousands of dollars. She decided not to get any proper treatment at all. Her poor husband begged her to see reason, but she refused to listen. Not surprisingly she passed away, leaving a devastated husband behind with two young kids to navigate grief with. But last I heard he remarried, he and the kids are going as well as they can be.

That’s one reason why I hate that woo woo natural and anti-vax bullshit. She should still be here, or at least had a lot more time with her family. What I think is dumb here is that this shit is still going on in 2026 and people are still dying because of it. She died around 2008 I think, I didn’t find out until later. It must really pain her husband to know that nothing much has changed.

[u/chiefoshkosh]

Coworker years ago. Power was shut off due to lack of payment. He bypassed the shut off on the house so electrical company shut the power off at the transformer on the pole. He backed his pickup truck with a picnic table in the box to the pole. Set up a ladder on the table and use the garden rake to attempt to turn the power on. Might have been safer to pay the electric bill.

[u/eljefino → u/chiefoshkosh]

We had a guy here who was too cool to pay his power bill so he set up a generator... in his basement. CO got him and his innocent teenage kid.

[u/chickynuggeee]

My uncle survived throat cancer. He passed away not even a month after being cleared by choking on pizza crust. He had a hard time swallowing after having a trache for so long.

[u/Euphoric_Squash485 → u/chickynuggeee]

I almost died eating tacos home alone as a fully grown man. Please chew fully don’t rush like a competitive eater, I hardly got out of it was scary

[u/big_d_usernametaken → u/Euphoric_Squash485]

As I live alone, thats usually in the back.of my mind, if Im eating meat or something chewy.

I had to give the Heimlich to my son when he was 8 and choking on a piece of steak, and years later my wife as were eating at a restaurant.

[u/Psychological_Song48]

One of my patients thought that if you strained antifreeze thru wonderbread it was safe to drink

[u/LucidRedtone → u/Psychological_Song48]

Come again?.... why.... why did they want to drink it?

[u/Psychological_Song48 → u/LucidRedtone]

Anti freeze gets you drunk
It’s an alcohol

Word to the wise- wonder bread doesn’t work
At all

[u/Adarie-Glitterwings → u/Psychological_Song48]

There was a whole thing with Austrian wine in 1985 where people were getting sick because the vintners, to save money, were putting diethylene glycol - a major ingredient in antifreeze - in their cheaper brands to make them taste sweeter and more full bodied. Part of what uncovered it was one vintner tried to claim a tax write-off for a huge shipment of the chemical...

[u/entomologurl → u/Psychological_Song48]

The interesting thing is that IV ethanol is the treatment for antifreeze poisoning. (There's an actual medication for this now for humans, but for animals ethanol is often still the fix!) The ethylene glycol itself is fine, but it's what our bodies do with it that's the problem. The enzyme that breaks it down (alcohol dehydrogenase, or ADH) converts it to acids that wreak havoc on your everything. But ADH more readily bonds to the ethanol and basically it gets "distracted" which gives the body time to get rid of the ethylene glycol (or time for hemodialysis to get rid of it for you).

Additional fun fact: same thing goes for methanol poisoning!

[u/Aeri73]

19 years old, got a 80CC motorbike and tuned it to go a lot faster, first time out he cut a corner like the racebikes do and couldn't get out of the way of the car coming from the other side...

he slid under the car, folded in half and was crushed/burned to death in the few minutes it took to get hem out.

[u/ohwhatisfreeasaname]

Ran across the train tracks in front of his girlfriend to get a lighter.

[u/BloodyCumbucket]

New private I knew in the military was getting hammered with some morons we told him not to hang out with in Florence, Italy. They decided to climb some scaffold and jump roof to roof between buildings, because why? He missed the jump. 3 stories. The local police told us it had pretty well turned his bottom half into play-dough when it shattered all of the bones in his calves and drove his femurs into his major organs. When I tell you to stick with people you trust, and we don't approve your early passes for a reason, I mean it. 18 year olds are stupid enough to join the military, and that means they are stupid generally.

[u/NeroKingofthePirates → u/BloodyCumbucket]

Sounds like he wanted his Assassins Creed moment

[u/BloodyCumbucket → u/NeroKingofthePirates]

Worst part is just how detached we all were about it. After a historically terrible infantry deployment, we were all cooked. He was new, and we hardly knew him. At his memorial service we all just sat around talking shit about the fact they were going to tell his parents he was a hero and not a dumbass. Me and another guy got bored, dirt-bagged off, and day drank while we joked they should have played Jumper by Third Eye Blind at the service. We aren't okay. I still worry about what that space has done to me. I don't think we're good people.

[u/Eclectophile → u/BloodyCumbucket]

That's real. Life changes all of us, and reveals many things about ourselves and others that we might rather not actually know.

We're human. Hardwired dangerous. We get to choose how to change and grow. With intention, will, courage and behavior, we get to behave in the manner of our own choosing.

Sounds simple, and maybe it is, but it's powerful stuff - and not at all the modern human default behavior.

Seems to me like most folks just drift around like jellyfish in a current, going to and doing what they believe is expected of them, and not rocking the boat unless absolutely necessary.

But we get to decide to act otherwise, if we want it. And every tiny little thing changes us some.

Food for thought. Perspective from an older introspective guy.

[u/Artistic_You_7140]

He didn’t die but he got paralyzed and I’m not kidding twice.

Back in the day a dude in his twenties liked to party a lot. But 1 time he fell of a deck on the 3rd floor when having a cig and ended up in a wheelchair. 

He somehow was able to walk with some rehab and doctors miracles after some time and then did the same shit.

Paralyzed still.

[u/Funny-Check-6408 → u/Artistic_You_7140]

Fuck getting a 2nd chance like that and losing it from the exact some thing is absurd

[u/ChicagFro → u/Funny-Check-6408]

“I said sit down!” -god

[u/Sweet_Tip_6887]

I knew a guy who got hit by a train because he had his headphones on and didn’t hear it coming. Unfortunatelly noise cancellation is really good

[u/PinkThunder138 → u/Sweet_Tip_6887]

Actually, you often can't hear a train coming toward you on the tracks. It's why you really shouldn't walk on tracks for an extended period of time without paying attention.

Something about an air vortex buildup in front of the train stops the normal vibrations that make up sound.

[u/Spiritual-Eggplant59 → u/PinkThunder138]

Back when I was 11, I had a classmate hit by a train. He was crossing the tracks to get to a ball field. He waited for the train to go by…but he didn’t realize there was a second train coming the other way.

He was a really nice kid. What a shame.

[u/Infamous-Mixture-605 → u/Spiritual-Eggplant59]

When I was little a kid from down the street got hit by a train. A bunch of kids from the neighbourhood were playing on and around the train tracks near our subdivision. One of the kids decided to lie down on his stomach right near the tracks to feel it go by (I think this was something a bunch of them were doing), but at some point he decided to stand up and was hit by the edge of something on the side of the train and killed. He was only 7 or 8 years old.

For years and years after that my mom drilled it into our heads to never, ever play near train tracks, and would bring up that kid's death.

[u/SomeCountryFriedBS → u/PinkThunder138]

My grandfather was killed by a train at 40 this way. I was always suspicious whether he was just very drunk, but maybe he really didn't hear it. Also, though, he was a drunk. 

[u/ClownfishSoup → u/Sweet_Tip_6887]

When the Sony Walkman came out in the 1980's this was the biggest scare tactic used against them. Though I'm sure it was actually based on some fatalities.

[u/DoJu318 → u/Sweet_Tip_6887]

I grew up near a railroad yard, even without headphones sometimes trains can be eerily quiet. You feel them before you hear them. Unless they blow their horn.

[u/Critical_Cat_8162]

I don't think it was dumb, but it was definitely a freak accident. Relatively new dad went golfing with his buddies on a Sunday morning. He missed a shot and hit his club against a rock in mock anger. It broke. Broken club flew up and impaled his carotid artery. He was gone by that night.

[u/Noodlebat83 → u/Critical_Cat_8162]

Freak accident doesn’t even being to describe that! What are the bloody odds??

[u/gamercouplelolz → u/Critical_Cat_8162]

This exact thing has happened so many times that’s is mentioned several times throughout the Wikipedia list of unusual deaths. That is a fun read for anyone morbidly curious

[u/Jayn_Newell]

Went kayaking while drunk. Without a life jacket. Dude couldn’t swim.

[u/kittenshart85]

dropped a frozen turkey into a deep fryer in his fucking garage.

[u/Fluid-Set-2674 → u/kittenshart85]

I just read more about why one should never do this. JFC.

[u/IndyGrl2019]

I have two:

First was a guy who loved to decorate elaborately for Christmas. He was hanging decorations in his bathroom and stood on the toilet. Somehow he slipped off, hit his head on the sink and died.

Second was a former client. He was a white collar guy with a vacation home in a rural part of Michigan. He went up there alone to have focused quite time. There was a big storm and a tree fell across his driveway. This was a long driveway surrounded by forest off the main road. He decides he can use a chainsaw and chop up the tree because he was expecting a FedEx delivery later that day and for whatever reason wanted the delivery to make it all the way up to the house.

He had no business trying to use a chainsaw but he fired it up. The rest is speculation because there was no witness. But what we think happened was he was trying to cut up the fallen tree and the chainsaw kicked back and decapitated him. Right there in the driveway. FedEx driver found him a couple hours afterwards. I’ve always thought about that damn FedEx guy coming upon that scene…

[u/Jean_Marie_1989 → u/IndyGrl2019]

I bet FedEx still made him finish his deliveries too

[u/JeannieGo]

A guy in high-school (my best friends boyfriend) He was fixing his car in the garage and my friend went over and found him. His Mom was home, and when my friend went over, his mom let her through the house and said, hes just in the garage, go on through. It was a very cold night and he closed the garage door. He was under the car when she found him. This was 40 yrs ago, we were 17. At that point i had never learned not to close your garage door with the engine on.

[u/SmittenTurtleDryer]

A high school classmate burglarized a house while its owners were at church. He stole some guns and sporting equipment, then tripped on the steps on the way out and stabbed himself in the stomach with an arrow. He pulled out the arrow and made it back to his pickup truck, but bled out a half-mile from the house he'd robbed.

[u/birdonthewire76]

My mum died after rolling her mobility scooter.

In other news, don’t get a three wheel mobility scooter.

[u/w4ffl3s95]

Fent-laced coke. Why dumb? Because she had just celebrated a year clean (supposedly) and wanted a small taste again. Terrible :/

[u/Prior-Tadpole-1860 → u/w4ffl3s95]

That “I’m gonna treat myself for being clean” hit kills a LOT of people, because even if it’s not laced they very quickly want to move back up to their previous dose and their body doesn’t have the tolerance built back up yet

[u/DigNitty → u/Prior-Tadpole-1860]

Reminder that this is the number 1 way people overdose and die. Returning to your “normal” dose after a hiatus.

[u/blackbird24601 → u/Prior-Tadpole-1860]

exactly. thank you. happened to a dear friend- it was her son. out of rehab and took his usual dose

6yo niece found him

we all need free test strips and Narcan

and no stigma taking a person to hospital

[u/SmallSet8838 → u/w4ffl3s95]

I knew a couple that used to coke every so often (like maybe twice a year). Stopped when they had a kid. Well kid turned 6 months without parents. They went out to a birthday party a couple weeks before, bought coke that was laced with fentanyl and died within hours of leaving the house.

[u/Green_Rich4817 → u/SmallSet8838]

Have a friend that did the exact same. He died and his girlfriend lived.

[u/SignificantArtHeist]

Never actually met the guy, but he was my sister in law's ex husband. He went out drinking with his new wife. He was too drunk to drive so she drove them home. He was passed out and too drunk for her to get him out of the car so she left him there and went inside. She fell asleep (I think she was pretty drunk, too). He froze to death.

[u/ExpensiveEcho7312 → u/SignificantArtHeist]

Omg that’s awful

[u/SignificantArtHeist → u/ExpensiveEcho7312]

Awful for her, finding him in the morning and realizing what had happened. Awful for his kids. He never woke up, so it was probably a peaceful way to go.

[u/Albertancummings]

There was a rig that the fellows at work were using to kill dew worms in their lawn. Two wires stuck in the ground a few feet a part. The other end to a 12 volt battery. They decided to make so it hooked in to a 110 plug and supercharge this worm killer. One guy went to move it and forgot to unplug it first. Knocked him to the ground and one of the wire ends landed on his chest and anyhoo he was a goner.

[u/n00bca1e99]

Hit a train at a gate crossing in a sports car. Not the front of the train, the side of the train. In daylight, clear weather, no ice. Guy was a mechanic with his brand new dream car.

[u/Shikzappeal]

My great uncle died of MRSA from picking his nose

[u/Help_SendLatinas → u/Shikzappeal]

I should be long gone by now…

[u/NativeMasshole → u/Shikzappeal]

What? How does that even happen?

[u/SWQuinn89 → u/NativeMasshole]

A lot of people have MRSA as their normal skin flora. 25-50% of all people have S. Aureus, and some of these people have bacteria that is inherently resistant to antibiotics. This particular person most likely had MRSA on their skin, scratched their nose and caused a staph infection that way.

[u/Bobs_Burgers7]

My dad was 3/4 of a yr sober for the first time in my entire life (mid-20s at time), and decided to drink in celebration of the fact he just got a new apt, and also just got his license (and job) back.

When he chose to sober up, he had a massive heart attack and died on the spot. Half an uneaten ham sandwich on the counter.

[u/Lucidlarceny → u/Bobs_Burgers7]

Its crazy what alcohol dependence does to a body. My roomies grandfathers doctor prescribed him 1 carton of beer a day minimum due to his inability to stop drinking, his age, and the fact he would drop dead if he stopped at that point.

[u/Periwinklepanda_]

I had an elderly great-uncle that had a heart attack while in bed with a prostitute. His wife went scorched earth on Facebook and then gleefully spent all his money.

[u/zombiifissh]

Dude went to the hospital for something, don't exactly remember what it was (maybe heart related, maybe early stages OD), docs treated him for like a week in hospital, told him he needed to stop drinking and doing drugs immediately and completely or he would die.

Dude is released from hospital, goes to a party that night, does drugs and drinks, dies that night. 🤷🏼

[u/JumboDakotaSmoke]

Tried to rob a drug dealer with an airsoft gun.

[u/Zanctmao]

Two middle schoolers were building a tunnel. They were a year ahead of me. It collapsed, one of them managed to wriggle out, but he couldn’t dig out his best friend.

Horrible guilt. Don’t dig tunnels unless you went to Colorado school of mines, my friends.

[u/J_A_Slade]

Got drunk, had a handgun, and got into one of those "oh you don't think I will???" arguments with his cousin

[u/DigNitty → u/J_A_Slade]

Had a guy in college who thought it was hilarious how everyone dove out of the way when his drunk ass pulled out a hand gun and swept the room.

Noped the hell out of there and never went back.

[u/Dramatic_Ad7682 → u/DigNitty]

A friend of a friend was “cleaning” his gun and mentioned his trigger was much lighter than his wife’s. The jackass didn’t clear the gun before pointing it out in front of him to demonstrate. He missed a fella sitting on the floor by a couple of inches. His wife started reading him the riot act at a volume I did not know to be humanly possible before the sound stopped echoing through the house.

[u/call-me-the-seeker → u/DigNitty]

I used to work with someone who died this way at a casual hangout ‘party’, she didn’t leave the room, or didn’t get the chance to try, I’m not sure. Idiot drunk and high waving a handgun shot her in the head, she had a toddler and she herself was pretty young.

I still think about her, it’s such a pointless waste.

[u/Disastrous-Pie6408]

About 25 years ago, our friend’s uncle died: choking on a hotdog, alone in his hotel room. Not embarrassing, BUT the dramatic way my friend was sobbing and yelled at us through tears “my uncle was so fucking successful, did so much for this country! But everyone will remember he CHOKED ON A HOTDOG … FOREVER!!”

I’ve told that story so many times - that I guess she’s right 😢

[u/Longjumping_Care989]

Deliberately caught COVID to prove it was harmless; died of COVID

[u/mollygk → u/Longjumping_Care989]

“There is no Covid” -Herman Cain

“There is no Herman Cain” -Covid

[u/sqwrlydoom]

Had a friend a couple decades back who got wasted on a few different substances and then decided to take a nice, speedy drive down the freeway. In a Miata. She flipped it and became a meat crayon.

[u/future_speedbump]

A guy I went to HS with bragged that he refused to approve sick days for his employees to get the Covid vaccine (The “Biden Prick,” as he called it).

He died from Covid in 2022. My sympathies were…limited.

[u/Cthulus_Meds → u/future_speedbump]

Wonder what his thoughts were while staring at the hospital bed ceiling….. probably empty.

[u/burnermcburnerstein → u/Cthulus_Meds]

I worked hospice late in the pandemic phase. Lots of them asked for the shot after it was too late.

[u/caillouuu → u/burnermcburnerstein]

I remember reading accounts of nurses and doctors during the pandemic. It was shocking what our healthcare workers were subjected to. The psychological trauma of knowing the family of a dying loved one is downstairs arguing with staff over wearing a mask in a hospital when the guy just wanted to see his wife and children before he succumbed to covid. Mind you, these dying patients adamantly denied covid as a democratic hoax, and begged for the vaccine with their lasts gasps of air, while (again) their family is raising hell over having to wear a mask.

I don't feel sorry for them. I pity them and their stubbornness, but I don't feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for the children and the healthcare workers.

I think I read most of those stories on r/HermanCainAward

[u/Huttj509 → u/caillouuu]

I had a guy arguing with the staff over wearing a mask when I was in the waiting room.

In an Infectious disease office.

When he told me "don't bend the knee" on the way out of the office I wanted to reply with "dude, you don't know what I GOT!"

I did not say that, I stayed silent, the desk staff handled it wonderfully.

Fortunately what I had was not considered transmissable person to person. Still had a nice rusty stain on my mask after wearing it from the bloody mist I was exhaling with each breath.

[u/Sad-Guess4424 → u/caillouuu]

COVID was the ending of my time as a nurse. I was at the end of my working life anyway, but the insanity of people finished me. I saw out the pandemic and waved goodbye.

[u/SpaceShipRat → u/burnermcburnerstein]

you know their families still refused it for themselves, and wrote "it was God's will" in the memorial fundraiser.

[u/F1NANCE → u/burnermcburnerstein]

I saw a US news video on people who were in hospital with covid after refusing the vaccine.

Many of them were regrettful and asked for the shot after it was too late, with some of them sucuumbing to the virus.

[u/DigNitty → u/Cthulus_Meds]

Working in health care,

These people dying have this existential loop of “but this isn’t supposed to be real!”

[u/Warriorsilk → u/DigNitty]

I knew someone who was very antivaxx active on FB. Also did not believe in covid ('we have an immune system and it's just like the flu!"). He convinced his family not to get vaccinated. His dad died of covid whilst he was in intensive care because of covid and sedated. He ended his life like a year later. I'm not sure why of course, but I would be crippled with guilt if I told my now dead father not to get vaccinated.

[u/Jules_Noctambule → u/Warriorsilk]

Also did not believe in covid ('we have an immune system and it's just like the flu!"). He convinced his family not to get vaccinated.

People like that don't seem to understand influenza also kills people.

[u/ThisIsTheTimeToRem → u/Warriorsilk]

The two antvaxxers I “know” (Facebook) who had relatives die from COVID at firsthand it was so, then later both somehow decided quite forcefully that they were lied to and the relatives died from something else. Neither of them know each other, it’s interesting to see the mental gymnastics.

[u/ghoulthebraineater]

A Russian guy I knew decided to play Russian Roulette with a semi auto.

[u/Hoffi1 → u/ghoulthebraineater]

I remember reading a story like this as a Darwin award. Is it this guy or are there multiple cases?

[u/ClownfishSoup → u/Hoffi1]

There was a stupid young guy who wanted to be like "Jackass" and do crazy things for yt likes and subscriptions so he had his pregnant girlfriend shoot him while he held out a thick book. She didn't want to, but he coerced her (it'll get a lot of likes!) So he held up the book, she fired a .50 AE Desert Eagle at the book, the bullet went clean through the book and killed him, on video.

[u/bethestorm → u/ClownfishSoup]

How you gonna just skip to a 50cal desert eagle what whyyyy

[u/ShaunyP_OKC]

Guy I knew who was really athletic and our HS team running back tried to race our other two friends who were both overweight in a swimming race at a lake. Everyone was shitfaced. The athletic dude actually tired out and drowned. It was so sad and a waste. The two fat guys didn't.

[u/callieboo112 → u/ShaunyP_OKC]

Fat people float a lot better

[u/wuhter → u/callieboo112]

Found that out when I was like 16 and my fat friend challenged me to a treading water contest. That fucker legitimately went all day out on the lake lol with a drink in hand the whole time

[u/Fiendish_Jetsanna → u/wuhter]

Yep. I have achieved neutral buoyancy. I no longer have to tread water.

[u/Ieatfatwomanass → u/ShaunyP_OKC]

Just here to mention that being athlegic doesn’t mean you can swim well.

Source: former super atheltic running back who got outraced in the pool

[u/InevitableAd9683]

I didn't technically know him, but a friend of mine's neighbor came home drunk, passed out in his front yard, and drowned in his kids' kiddie pool. His wife found him the next morning..

[u/Moron-Whisperer]

Friends kid just recently dove from a bridge during a 1000 year flood.  They didn’t find his body for days.  High schooler with his whole life in front of him.  

[u/sgt_taco891 → u/Moron-Whisperer]

I hope you live in indiana. I heard about something similar happening in my area. Hate to think 2 people did the same dumb thing

[u/ProfessionalLeave335]

I had a girl who used to work for me that I eventually had to fire because she was pathologically incapable of not inserting herself into drama. She would continuously insert herself into the middle of any argument or disagreement and fan the flames wildly. She moved 2 states away and was killed in a drive-by by local gang members because of some drama at work she involved herself in.

Edit to add another I just thought of that u/future_speedbump made me think of. A manager at another store in our district told an employee trying to call out with COVID that she had to come to work. She did, the entire management staff got sick. He died in the hospital 3 days after showing symptoms.

[u/LetReasonRing]

She didn't die,  but i had a friend end up with a serious neck injury while taking a shower. She had long hair,  and while trying to flip it from one side to the other it acted like a whip, wrenching her head around, causing a spinal injury. 

[u/justbiteme2k → u/LetReasonRing]

As a paperboy in England in the early 90s, I had the classic, and obviously cool, centre parting & curtains, undercut hairstyle... and style it was!

Anyway, it was raining, around 6am and I'm doing my morning round. The rain was forcing my awesome hair into my eyes and I swooshed my beautiful locks aside with an energetic swish of my head. Very reminiscent of a shampoo advert.

The swish was so awesome, and the aforementioned rain was so rather wet, I lost balance of my bike and crashed to the ground, breaking my arm.

Worst summer holidays ever with a broken arm, but continued my round, like a champ.

[u/Cronenbergnate]

Not me, but one person removed. 

A friend went to highschool with the first person killed by an alligator in the state of Texas in something like 80 years. 

His last words were "Fuck that Gator!"

[u/BusyBunny9]

They went river rafting in a flash flood zone. That ran in the middle of our school.
We found the raft with no one in it a few miles down river.
Bodies were recovered some time after :/ hardly knew the kids but they made it to the 7th grade.

[u/CandySunday]

Slipping and hitting head. Happens alot. Makes you wonder how people like the Jacksss guys are still alive but some rando will slip in a puddle of water and boom gone.

[u/Tumble85 → u/CandySunday]

I know a guy who did a few years in prison because of a bar fight where the other guy fell backward and smacked his head off the ground. 

[u/AnatidaephobiaAnon → u/CandySunday]

One of my first friends I made in elementary school died that way (same as Bob Sager as well). We lost touch for about twenty years before reconnecting on Facebook and within a year he slipped on his bathroom floor, hit his head on something, tried to clean up the blood and put a bandage on it. At some point he lost consciousness and died. His mom found him when he didn't reply back to her morning message about dropping his daughter off at school for him. Absolutely devastating for the family because his older sister had died a few years earlier from a genetic disorder.

[u/phunkyunkle]

Engine antifreeze drinking contest. Yes you read that right. One dead, one pretty messed up.

[u/bluehonolulu76]

My firefighter uncle passed away from a tooth pick getting stuck in his throat after taking a bite of a sandwich

[u/Adarie-Glitterwings → u/bluehonolulu76]

That seems to be how a lot of people in high-risk professions go... can survive so much dangerous stuff then it's something 'domestic' that does it. Like the guy who got famous for going over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and survived - he slipped on an orange peel and died from complications from that. RIP your uncle ❤️

[u/Beauhonk → u/bluehonolulu76]

My go to place for a clubhouse sandwich recently stopped using toothpicks to hold the sandwich together for this exact reason (they now use those bamboo cross thingies which are much easier to see). The patron had severe mouth and soft palate injuries.

[u/CenturyEggsAndRice]

My grandmother was a toxic beast. Just, truly a horrible woman. My therapist uses cult deprogramming methods on me because growing up with her as Matriarch of the family was hella culty.

Well, after my mom died (her doormat, Mom spent her whole life trying to get some kind of love from that wire mother of a woman) she expected me to fall into line as replacement. Unfortunately, I had started realizing I hated the kind of woman she was years before but I was a Good Daughter(tm) and didn't let anything show. I figured I'd drift away, but then she robbed our house during Mom's funeral and I got ugly.

Ended with her demanding everyone in the family choose, her or me. Most chose her.

You'd think that would mean she'd have plenty of family support as she grew older and frail, right?

Nope. She always favored her youngest son (who was a life long fuck up, but was as much a parasite as her so I guess that was what it took to get love from the woman) and managed to push away anyone with a touch of decency.

And then she had a stroke. And her Beloved Son... just kinda let her rot in a back bedroom. Didn't feed her regularly, and I'm told the state of the mattress she spent months motionless on was "unbelievable". I didn't ask for details.

Eventually something got him to put her in a nursing home (not sure the details) where she still was unable to feed herself, but Beloved Son refused to let them give her a feeding tube or even a hydration IV. Apparently the staff didn't care, so she slowly starved to death there. Hopefully somewhat cleaner than she was on the Mattress Beyond Belief? But it was a horrible way to go and she didn't go quickly. Took her six months since some nursing assistants were like, spoon feeding her water and Pedialyte.

The dumb part? If I'd known, I absolutely would have done right by her. Not out of love for her (my emotions towards her are... complicated. I don't know if I "hate" her, I might even have loved her a little. But I couldn't let her go that way if I'd known. I would've had APS on him faster than he could spit dip in my sodas when I was a kid.

The cousins who chose my side in the feud? They would've done something too. Same reasons, not because she was good but because she was human and we aren't monsters who would let a disabled old woman be in that state.

But she'd pushed away everyone who was empathetic or kind. And when she was weak and needed care, the son she did EVERYTHING for, from lying to courts to prevent him from receiving full punishment of his crimes, to blackmailing aquaintances into giving him a job, to finding someone to raise his kids so social services didn't realize how much of a fuck up her was... Just let her rot. Couldn't be bothered to feed her, clean her or do anything at all.

I feel like that's pretty fuckin dumb, yeah?

[u/Lurkesalot → u/CenturyEggsAndRice]

I’d end up in the same situation with my mother. Woman’s a demon and has hurt me and may brothers in every way. But, she’s also a human being. And, like her or not, the reason I’m here. Don’t get me wrong, it would be with her in a muzzle, possibly hog tied, but I couldn’t in good conscience let my mother literally starve and rot if I knew about it.

[u/Used-Gas-6525]

Kid I kinda knew in high school was at the south end of a northbound platform on the subway. He poked his head around the corner to see if the train was coming. It was and pretty much took his head clean off.

[u/Chingapouk]

Drunk driving way too fast on a high way. Had to pass under a bridge. Missed the bridge. The embankment acted as a ramp, sent the car flying. Did not land well.

[u/Woalolol]

School ended, did a burnout at the school parking lot. Sped onto the country road, lost control and drove into a ditch going like 50-60 mph.

[u/bachelorsinlurking]

Went to college with a guy who got sepsis from licking a mystery liquid while doing urban exploration in an old hospital. We weren't friends but he was in one of my classes and it was not surprising that he died of something stupid.

[u/Joyful82]

Went off the marked path in a park and fell off a cliff

[u/PogoPogoTX]

Trying to beat a train across the tracks in his car.

[u/pranshairflip → u/PogoPogoTX]

There was a woman in my college town who did that. Except she was driving the school carpool. Killed herself, her two kids, and two unrelated kids. Infuriating.

[u/MatthewDunn57]

Had an uncle who died arguing with a ladder. He was halfway into the attic telling my aunt it was perfectly fine when the whole thing folded and he went through the hallway ceiling. Broke his neck. She still talks about it like he lost the argument.

[u/Nesogram]

A friend of mine slid down a stair railing, fell off, and died.

[u/SIIHP]

He isn’t dead on the outside yet, but will be soon.  Drinks 2 liters of Wild Turkey and a case of beer a day…  pretty sure he’s been dead on the inside for 20 years.  

[u/LickMyBootyh0le → u/SIIHP]

Jesus. And I thought I had a drinking problem. Poor guy..

[u/DanielCraigsAnus → u/LickMyBootyh0le]

I'm glad I asked my doctor for help a few years ago. He prescribed naltrexone and it saved my life and marriage.

[u/SIIHP → u/LickMyBootyh0le]

He’s got such a problem that he actually justifies his weed habit by saying smoking weed replaces a chemical in your brain that the alcohol destroys. Anything to justify his addiction, no matter how stupid.  We’re not sure how he’s not in complete liver failure yet.   

[u/waysideflower → u/SIIHP]

I had a neighbor who died earlier this year because he had totally fucked his liver from drinking so much. He was only 38. When I had met him a few years earlier, he looked and seemed like a normal guy his age. In the months before he died, he looked and walked around like he was 80. Hardly even recognized him.

[u/KoldPurchase]

Someone in my family was in a wheelchair, an elderly person. A garbage truck backed up on him in an alley. He didn't die from the shock, his wheelchair was only knocked over, the driver stopped in time to avoid the worst. He died of an heart attack before the ambulance could reach him. Literally died of fear.

[u/Macduffer → u/KoldPurchase]

I wouldn't say that's dumb but it's really fucking sad. Sorry that happened.

[u/LividRanger7492]

Carbon poisoning. Classmate working on truck with his dad, shut the garage door due to rain and both suffocated inside

[u/Scriveners_Sun → u/LividRanger7492]

Do you mean carbon monoxide poisoning? 

[u/Positive-Seaweed-180]

I was friends with my neighbors kid and my old neighbor. Years later when he was 13 or 14 he played chicken in the highway with his friends. He got hit by a car and died on the way to the hospital. (it was an extremely busy highway.)

[u/Dependent_Seaweed522]

Never slowed down in his speed boat no matter how choppy the water was. Took the wrong wave at 80+ MPH, was gone by the time the boat stopped rolling

[u/Low_Section2065]

Had an uncle die from stubbing his pinkie toe really bad. He refused to go to a Dr, it turned infected then septic.

[u/the_chin2]

Decided to smoke a joint and go out on his motorcycle. Going too fast approaching an intersection and a car coming the opposite direction made a left turn in front of him and of course he plowed right into the car and he flew about 100 feet down the road.

[u/EcstaticTill9444 → u/the_chin2]

I’ve heard of a case where the helmet got stuck under the guardrail, but the body didn’t.

Edit: The rest of the body, I should say.

[u/Branagain]

Fired a blank pistol round directly against his head thinking it wouldn't hurt, and died of massive brain trauma getting life flighted to the ICU.

[u/Upset-Management-459]

Russian roulette. He was my best friend and I still hate him for it.

[u/Harden_Doneski]

Coworker died tripping on his own dog leash.

[u/Cpritch58]

I knew a guy whose daughter hit a deer with her car and it almost paralyzed her. She had months long recovery, and she just decided she was going to walk again. She trained and trained, eventually working her way up to jogging. After a few days of jogging, she was running along the same stretch of road she hit the deer and an oncoming car hit another deer in the road, flinging it onto the woman and killing her instantly.

[u/sixup604 → u/Cpritch58]

Final Deerstination.

[u/jackinmybigoldickoff]

Shot himself trying to get prescribed pain killers. Said he was attacked by someone. Died in the hospital.

Edit: he also just got out of prison for molesting his little sister so.. good riddance

[u/katrilli]

I knew a guy who died choking on peanut butter

[u/MLiOne → u/katrilli]

I choked when eating peanut butter on toast. Took a bite, chewed, swallowed and then I couldn’t breathe in or out or make a sound. Fortunately my husband was there and he saw my panicked face and me indicating choking. He grabbed me, bent me over and administered 3 short hard slaps to my back and dislodged the food. That first deep breath in was magical. The overload of adrenaline was not.

This happened in front of our then toddler too.

Yay for first aid training!

[u/papier_peint]

An old timer I knew used to hang out at his little coffee klatch group everyday. It was at a volunteer center that had a lot of people in and out all day, and he and a few of the old guys would sit in the kitchen all day and drink coffee. One day he flips his shit that someone was drinking his creamer. This is again, a very popular volunteer center that has many members in and out each day, and the vollunteer center provides coffee and creamer, maybe someone thought it was for anyone, it could have been anyone that used his creamer. He accused one of his coffee buddies and like got in his face, and really went off. 

Anyway. He grabs the rest of his creamer, storms out, goes home, falls down the stairs, breaks his hip, found basically upside down on the stairs, covered in creamer, and is dead in days. 

Really surprised me, he was a man of the cloth and had like baptized a bunch of my cousins and their kids.

Like, man, coffee creamer is pretty cheap. What are you doing????

[u/raptorpuppos → u/papier_peint]

If he was old he might have started experiencing dementia and no one really noticed. Some first noticeable dementia/brain injury symptoms are changes in personality. About 10% risk aged over 80 and jumps to about 40% over age 90! It can also develop faster in people who have untreated hearing loss.

[u/ProfessorLake]

By crawling under a house during a freeze to thaw what he thought was the water line with a blowtorch. It was the gas line.

[u/poormansyachtclub]

Tried to inhale helium off the tank at a 5 year olds birthday party so he could make funny voices. Exploded his lungs in front of twenty 5 year olds and died