From being smothered to death by the gifts of your adoring fans to drowning a lifeguards’ party dedicated to celebrating a drowning-free season these are the 25 most bizarre and somewhat ironic ways to die.
Overdosing on carrot juice
Accomplished by Basil Brown in 1974
Getting hit by a flying model lawnmower during a football half time show
Suffered by John Bowen in 1979
Falling out of a window after throwing yourself against the glass trying to prove that it was unbreakable
Accomplished by Gary Goy in 1993
Inventing the Segway and then driving it off a cliff
Performed by Jimi Heselden in 2010
Accidentally launching a missile at yourself
Accomplished by the HMS Trinidad
Reading your own obituary and dying from the shock
Accomplished by Marcus Garvey in 1940
Being bitten by a domestic monkey
Accomplished by Alexander I of Greece in 1920
Shooting yourself while showing the jury how the victim could have shot himself
Performed by Clement Vallandigham in 1871
Getting smashed by a cannonball that was launched in honor of your ability to not die in battle
Accomplished by John Kendrick in 1794
Eating too much at a feast being held in your honor
Accomplished by Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Getting an infection due to being cut by the teeth of your enemy's decapitated head that you hung from your horse
Accomplished by Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney in 892
Being beaten to death by your own wooden leg
Accomplished by Sir Arthur Aston in 1649
Starving due to getting lost in your own house because you hoarded too much stuff and then couldn't find an exit because you didn't consider the fact that your were also blind
Accomplished by Homer Collyer in 1947
Being the first human to be killed by a robot when the arm of a one ton factory robot fell and hit you on the head
Accomplished by Robert Williams in 1979
Having a heart attack during the scene of the play where your actor is supposed to be having a heart attack
Accomplished by Gareth Jones in 1958
Being smothered to death by the gifts of adoring fans
Accomplished by Draco the Athenian lawmaker in 620 BC
Ingesting pills of mercury thinking that they will grant you eternal life
Performed by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in 210 BC
Breaking your neck as a result of tripping over your dangerously long beard
Accomplished by Hans Steininger in 1567
Being stabbed in the leg by the knife you taped to your cockfighting chicken during a match
Accomplished by Jose Luis Ochoa in 2011
Eating too many cockroaches at a cockroach eating contest
Accomplished by Edward Archbold in 2012
Being injected with soup
Accomplished by Ilda Vitor Maciel in 2012
Being crushed by a cow falling through your roof
Suffered by Joao Maria de Souza in 2013
Trying to launch yourself into space on a chair with 47 rockets attached
Performed by Wang Hu, a sixteeth century Chinese official
Using an overcoat as a parachute while jumping of the Eiffel Tower
Performed by Franz Reichelt in 1911
Drowning at a lifeguards' party that is being thrown in celebration of the fact that New Orleans has had its first drowning-free season
Accomplished by Jerome Moody in 1985
