63 Times People’s Lives Ended In Deeply Disturbing Ways

My buddy at work showed me a video of a guy in China getting his sleeve caught in some machine that was spinning. It spun his body around the machine until it just all came apart. That was pretty horrific, and I was kinda pissed he didn’t warn me first.

In the town next to mine an employee at the No Frills supermarket got stuck behind a refrigerator and nobody had a clue. He was listed as a missing person and all that, when the store eventually closed a decade later or whatever and they were removing all the large appliances his decomposed body or skeleton or whatever was left of him was found. To this day I don't understand how nobody heard him or smelled him but it's true. Plenty of articles about it if you google it.

Those Trinidadian divers that got sucked into that pipe they were working on. One of them was able to escape and go for help, but the company or government stalled the efforts and the other two ended up suffocating a few days later...in that dark cold pipe underwater...

Debra Stevens. The woman who in her car while on the phone with 911 and she ended up drowning. The 911 operator told her to shut up. The 911 is awful to hear.

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And there were basically no consequences for the 911 operator, Donna Reneau, who was so cruel to this woman as she listened to her die, because while she was an absolute shitbag to Debra on the line, she had rather than dismissing Debra outright, appropriately escalated the priority of the call so that rescue resources would be allocated.

Still, seems wrong that there's just no consequence at all for that level of cruelty to someone who was depending on her in their final moments.

Working in intensive care, I've seen my share of horrible deaths... But one that comes to mind was a patient suffering from pulmonary TB, he also had HIV.

Guy was a convict, currently serving 10 or so years for fraud and extortion, was referred to the hospital for difficulty breathing and persistent, high fever. Had to intubate him less than 24 hours into his ICU admission, had to insert a central venous line and put him on pressors. His body slowly grinded to a halt, his kidneys failed, next his liver, he started bloating horribly and bleeding from any known orifice. At the end of his 20 days of stay, he was a... Blob, he barely looked human anymore, his was a very dehumanizing death, and he died alone, no relative ever checked up on him, only the guys from the penitentiary came to pick his body up when he passed away.

The image of what used to be that man will forever be etched in my mind.

Being burnt alive inside of a metal cow. Yes that was real.

That poor kid who got decapitated going down the water slide. The two other people on the raft with him also got injured, but I can’t even imagine seeing that happen in front of you.

Camera Assisstant Sarah Jones was working on a biopic about Southern rock musician Gregg Allman entitled “Midnight Rider” when she was struck and killed by a freight train. The cast and crew were filming a dream sequence on an old railroad trestle bridge near Doctortown, Georgia, on an active line, when a freight train unexpectedly showed up giving them only seconds to scramble to safety. Crew members were forced to abandon the bed they were trying to move, leaving it partially on the tracks where it was struck by the train, shattering it into shrapnel-like pieces. One of those pieces struck Sarah, knocking her into the train, killing her instantly. Six others were also injured by the debris from the bed and had to be hospitalized. Sarah was age 27 when she died.

The autopsy report was released and it’s more horrifying than the above description. Never should’ve happened.

At the time, I was working as a community specialist, basically an insurance representative, who would get a list of people who would belong to Medicaid and would seek them out to finalize their applications.

I was assigned a certain house in Little Village (Mexican/Hispanic nieghborhood in Chicago) in which there were like 5 kids and if I remember right their mother who had to be added on the insurance they were assigned by Medicaid. I went to the home but there was no answer. We were advised to try at least three times on different days and alsways leave a note and a calling card.

I was to go back for my thrid and final time but the three was blocked and I could not get through, police and fire trucks and ambulances were all over the street from what I could see.

Later that day, when I got home, I saw the news and 10 kids were burned alive in the same apartment I had gone to. This happened in 2018.

Isadora Duncan.

She died when her scarf became entangled in the wheel and axle of the car in which she was travelling in Nice, France.

My mother drowned when her car was swept into floodwaters. She was seatbelted in and due to infirmities would not have been able to get herself out. I imagine her last moments were terrifying. And it took almost three days to recover her body.

14 yr old fighting cancer, died in horrible pain, hemorrhaging through every single hole of his body, … beating his mom because he could not stand the pains he was going through.

Probably anything along the lines of lewy body dementia, a brain prion disease of some sort or rabies. All those sound pretty terrible.

There was an accident where a truck ran over someone that was laying on the road and it crushed his middle body area pretty flat and the guy apparently was alive for way longer than one would expect.

To me "horrifying" is that kind of thing.

Knowing instantly that you should not be alive, but you are, but you also know that the damage you are looking at is ALREADY past the point of anyone being able to do anything about it, you are probably in a lot of pain, but your body isn't doing the thing where it just lets go, so now you are just stuck there wondering how long this will go on for.

Another one:

There is a plant in Australia, that puts needles in you that contain what is basically a toxin that just causes burning pain, and this can last years, or even NEVER go away. There is stories of people commuting suicide after actually falling into a bush of these.

"The plant has a sting that feels like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time, and often drives people in agony to kill themselves."

so I'd offer this as one of the worse deaths as well, since you KNOW now that the level of pain you are feeling is NOT going away for YEARS.

Back in 6th grade, a classmate drowned in a cow tank (man-made pond). His feet got tangled up in debris and he couldn't get loose. I grew up swimming in cow tanks and couldn't stop thinking about it.

Eleven years old, inches/feet away from the surface, probably close enough to see light, maybe even see his friends, in a place he had been swimming in most of his life, a place that always represented fun and safety...

I saw a show years ago in which a guy driving a cab was just recording the stories his fares told him. He gave a ride to a cop who had just come off-shift after working the scene of an accident where someone had gotten crushed by a train. The guy was still alive and lucid, but he was wedged between the platform and the train and below the waist he was just pulp and there was no way to save him. They called his wife out so they could say their goodbyes, but ultimately they had to move the train and as soon as they did he was definitely going to die, no way around it. It was a pretty awful story, cause while the death itself isn't gruesome, knowing that you have to do something that is definitely and immediately going to result in the death of another person is just horrific.

Edit: that show was apparently Taxicab Confessions. Although apparently a similar story was the plot of an episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets. Both shows were airing at the same time so I couldn't tell you who did it first or whether or not it's legit, but the idea is no less horrific.

My friend's dad was caught in One of those agriculture machines that make bales.


A cousin of mine was a mechanic in a car parts factory and got caught inside the mold and was smashed by it.

This girl bungee-jumping to her death in Spain (?) because she misheard "No jump!" as "Now jump!".

Maybe not the most horrifying, but absolutely terrible and tragic.

A friend from HS was pulled into a wood chipper by his hand.

My great grandfather was an early diver doing underwater construction and ship repairs in the navy. He told me a story of a colleague that lost air pressure in his suit and the external pressure basically squeezed his body up into the helmet.