List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

found this very interesting no were near finished reading it but wow...

64 - 67: St Peter was executed by the Romans. According to many sources, he asked not to be crucified in the normal way, but was instead executed on an inverted cross. He said he was not worthy to be crucified the same way Jesus was. This is the only recorded instance of this type of crucifixion.

• 336: Arius, the heretical priest who precipitated the Council of Nicea, passed wind and evacuated his internal organs. [13]

• 1016: Edmund II of England died by having a sword thrust in his anus by the soldiers of King Canute while using a primitive latrine.[15]

Couldn't help at laughing at that one.

i know... i dunno how its possible i have heard of weight lifters making there intrails come out... due to strain... but from passing gas... makes you wonder what he was doing before lol.

Eating non-heretic babies?

458 BC: Aeschylus, Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. The tortoise survived

81: According to the Babylonian Talmud[8], an insect flew into the Roman emperor Titus's nose and picked at his brain for seven years. He noticed that the sound of a blacksmith hammering caused the ensuing pain to abate, so he paid for blacksmiths to hammer nearby him; however, the effect wore off and the insect resumed its gnawing. When he died, they opened his skull and found the insect had grown to the size of a bird. The Talmud gives this as the cause of his death and interprets it as divine retribution for his wicked actions in destroying the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.[9] Tales of his fate are also found in Christian sources, and the phrase "Titus's flea" has come to refer to any idea that gnaws at one's brain.



2 One Is Really Wierd... Cant Stop Laughing On First One

Ok, I know deaths arent supposed to be funny but this is hilarious. I dont think Aeschylus will mind, for all we know he's laughing on the other side because well, his death story is unbelievable slapstick.