“This Is Actually A Horrendously Common”: 80 People Whose Lives Ended In Weird And Disturbing Ways

My mom died of an UTI. She was in the hospital being treated for a bad UTI. She was on antibiotics and was improving. She died in her sleep and was found in the morning when the nurse went to check vitals. The autopsy indicated she passed from sepsis caused by the infection. The worst day of my life!

Ate before a simple surgery. He didn’t listen the pre-op instructions. He got a tube put in and was told to say his goodbyes. It was 100% preventable.

Someone I used to know's daughter hit a deer with her car and was in the hospital for a long time. Had to learn to walk again and everything, very severe injury. She was a strong woman, she worked her way back, and took up jogging because she wanted to own her body and her recovery. On like her third long jog, a car hit a deer on the road and threw it on her and she died on the scene.

Brain eating ameoba from swimming in warm, stagnant water.

Nice gal I knew was hit by a car traveling at racing speeds while sitting in a porta potty. Just as awful as it sounds.

My fiance's uncle went final destination style with the log truck.

Where I grew up, there was a local Mennonite family that lived on a farm. The drainage for their septic pond had clogged and they didn’t know it, which created a massive methane bubble. Dad walked into it, passed out, fell into the pool of feces and drowned. One by one, family members ran to rescue him and each other, and they all died in the same way.

Taking a shower, had a seizure, collapsed in shower, leg plugged up the drain and drowned.

Sepsis from curling iron burn.

My mother had surgery back in the 80s. After she came out, she was having a real rough time with pain control. On the second day, the surgeon switched the IV meds from demerol to dilaudid. He wrote the change in the paper chart. He wrote to give her 1mg. There was a new nurse. She misread it as 7mg.

My grandmother was staying in the hospital room with my mother, and when my mother said she felt MUCH better immediately after the shot, my grandmother shoo'd the nurses out and turned off the lights so my mother could get some sleep. My mother quickly fell asleep and began snoring. Which my grandmother thought that was a great sign she was getting some great rest, not knowing my mother never snored.

My grandmother was knitting a throw blanket. It took her a while before she realized my mother was no longer snoring, but when she did, she thought she was in a really deep sleep now, and getting healing rest. It took her a while to realize she wasn't breathing. She called nurses, who called the Harvey Team. They got her heart restarted and ventilated to force her to breathe. She was in the ICU for a week. The hypoxia caused her brain to swell. By the fifth day, she was brain dead. We had to get a court order to be able to turn the machines off. We turned them off the day after she turned 42.

A friend of a friend died from a wasp sting. Didn't know he was allergic and died before he got treatment. I didn't even know that was possible.

A guy I went to high school with died in what has to be one of the most bizarre chains of bad luck I've ever heard.

He was really into photography and decided to hike up to an old abandoned fire lookout before sunrise to get pictures of the fog. He'd done that trail dozens of times.

On the way back down, he realized he'd left one of his camera lenses at the top. Instead of just writing it off, he hiked back up to grab it.

When he got there, a sudden thunderstorm rolled in out of nowhere. He took shelter under a large dead tree, thinking it would keep him dry for a few minutes. A strong gust snapped one of the rotten branches, and it hit him in the head.

The saddest part is that another group of hikers found him less than ten minutes later and called emergency services immediately, but the injuries were too severe.

What always stuck with me was how every single step depended on the previous one. If he'd forgotten literally anything else, if he'd decided the lens wasn't worth it, if the weather had changed five minutes later, or if he'd stopped under a different tree, he'd probably still be here.

It's been years, and I still think about how unbelievably random life can be sometimes.

My mom's young husband lost the gas cap from his motorcycle, so he stuffed a rag in and went to buy a new cap at a place close by. A car knocked him down causing a spark that ignited the gas tank and he died. A few years later, my mom married my dad. It's weird to think that if not for that tragedy, I wouldn't exist.

My business partner’s twin brother stepped on a bee whilst walking in his yard, barefoot.

It became infected and he became septic and ended up passing away. He also had diabetes so it was a whole thing. The crazy part is, my partner knew when his brother died. He said he felt it like it we a pain in his heart. So sad.

Not someone I knew but a pt broke their own neck (complete dislocation cervical spine) shimmying under a car to fix the engine. He died within a few days. Also had a patient come in straight from the chiropractor’s - broke his neck while getting adjusted (?) - he must have had some prior history of cervical myelopathy - he also didn’t survive.

I got invited to a small town in Australia for Christmas. That's a whole other story. But while I was there I met this nice lady from the local swimming club. Very kind, seemed to take an interest in me as I was very out of place.

4 months later I was sat in a bar in Vietnam and they had CNN world on. The name of the town I was staying in was scrolling across the bottom and her picture popped up with "Fatal shark attack".

Not crazy. But an old highschool buddy of mine died because he pushed a person out of the way at a railroad crossing. Saved their life, but died. Barry? Love you.

Had a cop friend who survived 27 years on the department - back when most of the time you were on your own when you responded to calls. He retired, two months later he stepped on a nail fixing his roof, got gangrene and died shortly thereafter due to blood poisoning and complications from infection.

I had an elderly uncle die of mad cow disease. The doctors were actually completely baffled and couldn't figure out what else it could possibly be.

He took excellent care of himself. He was elderly but ran six miles every morning, ate clean, etc.

When he got sick he went from being super active to no longer verbal and not enough motor control to swallow in the space of a week.

It was a massive shock to everyone close to him.

A guy I went to school with died a couple of years after we left school when he into a diabetic coma living alone and died because his room was messy and he couldnt find his insulin pen. His mom found it under a pile of clothes cleaning up after he died.