21 Things You Won’t Believe You Can Die From

Beaver bites?!?!?!
21 Things You Won’t Believe You Can Die From

Statistically speaking, there’s a laughably small number of things that will probably kill you. Of the three million people who die in the U.S. every year, about half of them die from heart disease or cancer. Every other category is minuscule in comparison. Flip a coin: Is it gonna be butter or forgetting to wear sunscreen? It’s almost certainly going to be one or the other.

Of course, “almost” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Not to alarm you, but there’s an infinite number of bizarre things that could end your life at any time — from sneezing too hard to using the wrong straw to drinking too much water. That’s why user Mairon3791 asked r/AskReddit, “What’s an actual cause of death so extremely rare that it’s hard to believe it’s possible?”

southpolefiesta 9mo ago Drinking too much water
Pristine_Frame_2066 9mo ago Beaver bites. I always think about that guy in Belarus.
Starsuponstars 9mo ago Being hit in the head by a stray bullet that was fired from MILES away.
Vvv1112 9mo ago I believe there is only a handful of recorded deaths ever from being hit by a meteorite.
ScrwFlandrs 9mo ago Fatal Familial Insomnia: you can't sleep, and you don't sleep, until you die, and it runs in the family
 9mo ago Internal decapitation.Head still attached but spinal cord severed below brain stem.
rickraker 9mo ago 3 people have died in space so out of the 117 billion people that has ever lived I would say that's pretty rare but at the same time it's hard to believe it's not more.
lorgskyegon 9mo ago Greek philosopher Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head, mistaking his bald pate for a rock.
cartoonsarcasm 9mo ago Edited 9mo ago I heard that a sinkhole formed under some man's bedroom & took him with it. It was so deep that they couldn't find him. Definitely a unique death situation.
24benson 9mo ago Oxygen poisoning is a thing: getting too much 02 into your cells can kill you. Good news is that you can't get toxic levels of oxygen by just breathing too hard.
J120101 9mo ago This woman was getting a drink and she had a metal straw in her cup. She slipped and the metal straw punctured her eye and went through her brain. Crazy way to go out.
 9mo ago Guy's beard was so long that when he tried to flee a house fire, he tripped over it and broke his neck falling down the stairs. Dude was a mayor too. Hans something or other.
lanGecko 9mo ago the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, the Suda, chronicles a folkloric story of lawgiver Draco's death in the Aeginetan theatre: in a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that same theatre.
Melenduwir 9mo ago Being hit in the sternum at just the right moment to interfere with the heart's beating. It can't be predicted or avoided with any consistency, and leaves no clinical evidence - if it happens and someone with CPR skills isn't around, the person just dies, without a mark on them.
Eponarose 9mo ago Drowning in the desert. Guy got caught in a box canyon during a flash flood. The water was quickly reabsorbed into the dry desert soil and left a drown man in the middle of the desert.
soFATZfilm9000 9mo ago It doesn't happen often (in fact, I think it's really freaking rare), but there have been grown adults who have been killed by chickens. With roosters specifically, a lot of them have a big spur on each leg. This is like, a pretty damn big-ass horn with a sharp tip. And some of those roosters can get pretty aggressive. Like, they might just decide to jump up at you and try to stab you in the face. I think as recently as last year, there was a guy who got killed by a rooster. It kicked him
MissCarterCameWithUs 9mo ago Shallow water blackout is crazy given how often people swim underwater in pools - you're just holding your breath swimming under the water and you are over-oxygenated so you don't get the brain signal that you need to breathe. Feels like you could keep swimming for ages. Then you pass out and drown. I don't think I've ever been with a group of guys in a pool who haven't seen who can swim the furthest without coming up for air. But I know someone who died of it.
wilderlowerwolves 9mo ago I used to work with a man who had an elderly relative come to the hospital with symptoms suggesting a stroke, and he died later that evening. I don't remember all the details, but everyone thought the family might be sitting on a big fat lawsuit, until the labs all came back. The relative had a type of leukemia that is diagnosed about 10 times a year in the U.S., and they've never come up with a chemotherapy protocol for it because nobody has ever lived long enough for them to do so.
Ochib 9mo ago Laughing to death. Fifty-year-old Alex Mitchell could not stop laughing for a continuous 25-minute period- almost the entire length a tv show called Kung Fu Kapers and suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the strain placed on his heart. Alex's widow later sent the Goodies, who were staring in that show, a letter thanking them for making his final moments so pleasant
EducationalJelly6121 9mo ago My MIL used to be a surgeon. She told me about a patient they had back in the 90s. Не died because of holding in a sneeze. Turns out he had an aneurysm in his brain that popped at that moment.
 9mo ago Being shot through a door by an Olympic legless runner. Pretty rare, only one known case.

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