Unusual deaths
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For all those pedants out there! (I can be pedantic myself - must ease up a bit...)
270 BC: Philitas of Cos, Greek intellectual, is said by Athenaeus of Naucratis to have studied arguments and erroneous word-usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death. Alan Cameron speculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry.
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She was the daughter of the last of the "librarians" of Alexandria's Great Library.415: Hypatia of Alexandria, Greek mathematician and philosopher, was murdered by a mob by having her skin ripped off with sharp sea-shells; what remained of her was burned. (Various types of shells have been named: clams, oysters, abalones, etc. Other sources claim tiles or pottery-shards were used.)
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I was given a book several years back called Death's Book Of Days listing the days of every day of the year and who died on it. There are a lot of strange deaths in there, and I saw a few of my favorites on this page. Though from running a search, I didn't find the one that on the death certificate, the reason of death was listed as "masturbation."
In that book was also listed one of my friends' friend, who died from a soda machine falling on him. He was a day away from graduating from college. When my friend told me about it, I started to smirk until I realized he was serious. This was the first I had heard about this type of thing at the time, but since have seen all the warnings.
In that book was also listed one of my friends' friend, who died from a soda machine falling on him. He was a day away from graduating from college. When my friend told me about it, I started to smirk until I realized he was serious. This was the first I had heard about this type of thing at the time, but since have seen all the warnings.
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
1410: Martin I of Aragon died from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing.[21]
1478: George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was executed by drowning in a barrel of Malmsey wine[22] at his own request.
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1649: Sir Arthur Aston ... was beaten to death with his own wooden leg
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