“On very rare occasions, a corpse can ‘give birth’. If a pregnant person dies, then certain results of decomposition, such as bloating, can force the fetus out of the womb, giving the illusion of Corpse Birth.”
“That doctors admitted to euthanizing patients at Memorial Medical Center hospital in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina because their only other option was to leave them to die. Several were charged but have defended their decisions as the only humane choice in an impossible situation. One patient in particular was not terminal, but due to his size, was unable to be moved.”
“My contender for horrible diving accident is the Paria disaster, where a group of divers were violently sucked into an underwater oil pipe until they came to rest in an air pocket deep in the pipe.
One of the divers managed to crawl his way back out, including through a submerged section where he could not have known that there was air on the other side. The others remained stuck in the pipe until their passing.”
“Carbon dioxide was blamed for the deaths of around 1700 people in Cameroon, west Africa, in 1986 when a massive release of gas occurred from Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake. The clinical findings in 845 survivors seen at or admitted to hospital were compatible with exposure to an asphyxiant gas.
They were just sleeping when the lake released a giant cloud of CO2 and wiped out almost an entire village.”
“Sometimes when an elderly person falls and ends up with a broken hip, it’s actually the hip breaking that causes the fall.”
“For a lot of people the first sign of cardiovascular disease is sudden death.”
“Pinky toes can auto amputate. It’s exactly what it sounds like, and once it starts, you can’t stop it.”
“When Judith Barsi (The voice of Ducky in The Land before Time) was murdered by her father, she was halfway through doing voicework for All Dogs Go Heaven.
Her last recorded voice lines is her goodbye to Charlie played by Burt Reynolds. Reynolds recorded his lines after her death. It took him 63 takes to get through it and you can tell he’s barely keeping it together when doing the scene”
“You can just die completely randomly, I knew a healthy dude in college and he sneezed to death, he sneezed 6 times in quick succession and died of a brain aneurism, I wasn’t there when it happened though, it happened when he was at home.”
“Whales don’t actually die of old age. They die from drowning when they’re too old to resurface.”
“That the leading cause of death for a pregnant woman is murder.”
“Spiders have exoskeletons that they shed. When you see a dead spider, it might not be a dead spider. It could just be it’s old skin, and the spider is now somewhere else, and bigger.”
“Once you begin to show signs of rabies, it’s already too late to do anything about it. You have an inevitable and terrifying death ahead of you. Also, it’s possible to get rabies from even a tiny, unnoticeable scratch, possibly while you’re sleeping. If you’ve been camping in the last couple months, you could have it right now and not even know it.”
“During the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the flight data shows that the astronauts turned on their internal oxygen supplies after the explosion…so it’s likely that some of them were still alive when they hit the water”
“If you ever eat maggots and don’t chew them properly, a thing called myiasis happens where they eat your intestines”
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