(171) Tue 2 Dec 97 0:09 By: Starwitch To: All Re: Re: How Not To Die: The St: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @EID:a8ee 23820120 @SPTH: Fidonet#1:268/442 :270/104 @MSGID: 1:268/442 a8802cd3 * Originally By: Mike Holsey * Originally To: All * Originally Re: Re: How Not To Die: The * Original Area: Humor * Forwarded by : Blue Wave v2.12 Forwarded from Fido Humor Echo I am not sure if this stuff is true..but if it is!!!! Hs> How Not To Die: The Dumbest Deaths in Recorded History Hs> ====================================== Hs> Attila the Hun: Hs> One of the most notorious villains in history, Attila's army had Hs> conquered all of Asia by 450 AD--from Mongolia to the edge of the Hs> Russian Empire--by destroying villages and pillaging the countryside. Hs> How he died: He got a nosebleed on his wedding night. In 453 AD, Hs> Attila married a young girl named Ildico. Despite his reputation for Hs> ferocity on the battlefield, he tended to eat and drink lightly during Hs> large Hs> banquets. On his wedding night, however, he really cut loose, gorging Hs> himself on food and drink. Sometime during the night he suffered a Hs> nosebleed, but was too drunk to notice. He drowned in his own blood Hs> and was found dead the next morning. Hs> ------------------------ Hs> Tycho Brahe: Hs> An important Danish astronomer of the 16th century. His ground Hs> breaking research allowed Sir Isaac Newton to come up with the theory Hs> of gravity. Hs> How he died: Didn't get to the bathroom in time. In the 16th Hs> century, it was considered an insult to leave a banquet table before Hs> the meal was over. Brahe, known to drink excessively, had a bladder Hs> condition -- but failed to relieve himself before the banquet started. Hs> He made matters worse by drinking too much at dinner, and was too Hs> polite to ask to be excused. His bladder finally burst, killing him Hs> slowly and painfully over the next 11 days. Hs> ----------------------- Hs> Horace Wells: Hs> Pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s Hs> How he died: Used anesthetics to commit suicide. While Hs> experimenting with various gases during his anesthesia research,Wells Hs> became addicted to chloroform. In 1848 he was arrested for spraying two Hs> women with sulfuric acid. In a letter he wrote from jail, he blamed Hs> chloroform for his problems, claiming that he'd gotten high before the Hs> attack. Four days later he was found dead in his cell. He'd Hs> anesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a Hs> razor. ----------------------- Hs> Francis Bacon: Hs> One of the most influential minds of the late 16th century. A Hs> statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even Hs> rumored to have written some of Shakespeare's plays. Hs> How he died: Stuffing snow into a chicken. One afternoon in 1625, Hs> Bacon was watching a snowstorm and was struck by the wondrous notion Hs> that maybe snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way Hs> that salt was used. Determined to find out, he purchased a chicken Hs> from a nearby village, killed it, and then, standing outside in the Hs> snow, attempted to stuff the chicken full of snow to freeze it. The Hs> chicken never froze, but Bacon did. Hs> ----------------------- Hs> Jerome Irving Rodale: Hs> Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of "Organic Hs> Farming and Gardening" magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major Hs> publishing corporation. Hs> How he died: On the "Dick Cavett Show", while discussing the Hs> benefits of organic foods. Rodale, who bragged "I'm going to live to Hs> be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," was only 72 Hs> when he appeared on the "Dick Cavett Show" in January 1971. Part way Hs> through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair. Cause of death: Hs> heart attack. The show was never aired. Hs> ----------------------- Hs> Aeschylus: Hs> A Greek playwright back in 500 BC. Many historians consider him the Hs> father of Greek tragedies. Hs> How he died: An eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. According to Hs> legend, eagles picked up tortoises and attempt to crack them open by Hs> dropping them on rocks. An eagle mistook Aeschylus' head for a rock Hs> (he was bald) and dropped it on him instead. Hs> ----------------------- Hs> Jim Fixx: Hs> Author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which Hs> started the jogging craze of the 1970s. Hs> How he died: A heart attack....while jogging. Fixx was visiting Hs> Greensboro, Vermont when he walked out of his house and began jogging. Hs> He'd only gone a short distance when he had a massive coronary. Hs> His autopsy revealed that one of his coronary arteries was 99% Hs> clogged, another was 80% obstructed, and a third was 70% blocked....and Hs> that Fixx had had three other attacks in the weeks prior to his death. Hs> - -------------------- Hs> And finally there's Lully, one of our favorite 16th-century Hs> composers, who wrote music for the king of France. Hs> While rehearsing the musicians, he got too serious beating time Hs> with his staff, and drove it right through his foot. He died of Hs> infection. Light, Love and Laughter Starwitch Walk with the Light.... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Phoenix Rising*Wilkes-Barre PA*Starwitch (717)822-2017 (1:268/442) SEEN-BY: 12/12 218/103 890 1001 270/101 353/250 396/1 3615/50 51 3804/180 @PATH: 270/101 396/1 3615/50 218/1001