"Hot Molten Asphalt": 44 Of The Most Unbelievable Deaths That Actually Happened

I’ve been thinking about this guy from my high school lately…. He was put on a 72 hour hold for s******l ideations. The hospital staff let him go after those 72 hours because he promised not to hurt himself. He IMMEDIATELY went to the top of the hospital’s parking garage and jumped off.

When I was in my late teens, one of my friends crashed into a mountain while hang gliding.

Acheloma:

One of my brother's classmate's dads was a pilot. The whole family died when the dad crashed their plane into the side of a mountain. He flew them all that route to go to vacation pretty often, not sure what went wrong that day.

Our friend was doing some tree trimming by himself on his rural property when he was crushed beneath a mammoth tree that fell the wrong way. I guess he was trapped for quite some time, so it was not a quick death. He was only 45.

To further compound this tragedy, his 14 year old son was the one who found him. That had to be traumatic.

A auto parts salesman I knew gave up drag racing because his wife thought it was too dangerous. He took up flying remote control airplanes, and flew one into himself killing him 2 months before retirement.

I wasn’t officially allowed to date (I was about 15) but I was seeing a guy from a really strict church which wouldn’t let him date anyone outside of it. He sold shoes and I bought an unusual number of shoes from him because it was the only time we could spend together. His father owned a few vending machines and he’d help his dad out. One day his dad didn’t strap a vending machine to the forklift, it fell off and onto my boyfriend and killed him. I couldn’t even go to the funeral.

My great uncle got shot by his dog going out hunting. He left the rifle resting on a stump and the dog stepped on it.

Least... that's how the story goes from my great aunt.

Sometime in the 80's an ex girlfriend of mine her husband got drunk in the winter time driving home. He pulled over to p**e,  fell out of his car and passed out. He was found face frozen to the ground. He had choked on his vomit.  Not a pleasant way to go. He was 28.

Grandma's former neighbour had a seizure and was taken to the hospital. In the hospital she at some point stood up from the bed, looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘Lord, may I come home?’ At that point she had another seizure and died.

redravenkitty:

I have epilepsy. Guessing she felt severe impending doom (common before seizures) and didn’t know how to interpret that in her confused state. I’m very frequently totally positive I’m dying just as my seizure starts. :( poor lady.

I have no tales of actual deaths that aren't just straight up traumatic, but, I almost died by slipping on a banana peel with a butter knife in my hand when I was ≈9. I turned my head just in time for it to slice up my ear instead of plunge straight into my eye, which is where it would have gone had I not done that. Had to get my ear stitched because despite being dull af (as butter knives are) it tore through the cartilage and split my ear in half.

Would have been one hell of a story for my family to talk about if it had actually killed me.

The weirdest for me is not unheard of among epileptic patients. A student had a seizure in the shower, hit her head and knocked herself out, fell on the drain, then drowned.

This was within a week of her graduating. It was heartbreaking for the students.

Water skiing at night. Skier got tangled in “brush”, let go and sank in the middle of what wasn’t brush but a water moccasin o**y. Died by snakebite.

He finished a long distance run, ran down a boat ramp into a river, jumped in and was dead instantly from the thermal shock on his system.

My former manager at a funeral home took his own life by drinking embalming fluid in the funeral home’s prep room.

A relative was driving on the opposite side of the highway when a log rolled off a lumber truck and smashed into his windshield.

Jim Fixx. He wrote 2 books about running and died of a massive heart attack while……running.

They got swallowed by a sinkhole.

A friend of mine was driving home from work one day, stuck in traffic, when a garbage truck lost control on the overpass above him and fell on his car. Still can’t believe it happened. It was very sad….

A friend of a friend's dad got struck by lightning whilst mowing the lawn.

A coworker died running a marathon a few months before his wedding. He was in his early 30s.

I've got a friend who was driving down the highway minding his business. As he drove under an overpass there was an accident on said overpass. A car fell from it and crushed his car.  Everyone survived except for him. 


I've got another friend who went on a hike with her dog. She did the same hike multiple times a month and one of her favourite places was right by this waterfall. So this time she went out by the waterfall, but she slipped.  She fell over the falls, hit her head on the rocks at the bottom, and that was that.  Her body was found by some children hiking with their parents. The dog was fine. .