We all have to die sooner or later. Most of us will probably die at an advanced age from heart failure, cancer, or respiratory diseases.
However, there are an infinite number of ways to die, as these people I would like to introduce in this article have impressively proven.
Given their causes of death, the elephants in the room must have been huge when they were buried.
Kenneth Pinyan
In 2005, the engineer, who worked for Boeing, was involved in the so-called Enumclaw horse sex case together with two other men in which they performed sexual acts with horses and filmed themselves doing so.
One day this went wrong and Pinyan died as a result of intestinal perforation as a result of having anal sex with a stallion.
Hans Steininger
Back in 1567, another incredibly unusual death occurred in Austria. Hans Steininger was the mayor of the village of Braunau and was known for his 4 and a half feet long beard. This was his undoing when a fire broke out in the village, causing panic. Steininger tripped over his beard, fell down a flight of stairs, broke his neck, and died.
Steininger's beard can now be seen in a museum.
Franz Reichelt
On February 4, 1912, the tailor, inventor, and parachute pioneer Franz Reichelt died as a result of his jump from the Eiffel Tower, where he had wanted to test his self-designed parachute.
The Tampon Affair
Mark Gleeson, 26, died in his sleep in 1996 when, together with his girlfriend, he came up with the ingenious idea of combating his enormous insomnia with tampons in his nostrils. He had also taken sleeping pills the night before he died.
Luciano Re Cecconi
The Italian was a famous footballer who made a joke in 1977 that ended fatally for him. He entered a jewelry store with two friends and shouted: "This is a robbery" as a joke. The owner did not recognize him and had already been robbed twice shortly before. He shot Re Cecconi.
Garry Hoy
Hoy was a lawyer from Toronto, where he also died in 1993 when he fell from the 24th floor of the skyscraper where his firm was located. How could this happen?
On Wikipedia, details of the accident are given as follows:
In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the glass windows of the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable, he threw himself against the glass. The glass did not break when he hit it, but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death
Philip Contos
The 55-year-old motorcyclist died in 2011 in New York state in an accident that occurred during a demonstration against mandatory helmets for motorcyclists. The irony of the story: According to experts, a helmet would have saved his life.
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