People who died in the most sordid or embarrassing ways

Chris Burrous

David Carradine

(^,^)

Ramon Novarro

Nelson Rocks Off Before I Sleep

Lupe Velez and Elvis Presley both died on the toilet

That chick impaled by the umbrella at the beach.

Elvis

-on the shitter

Isadora Duncan

Edward II, if legends can be believed...

I'm sure Donald Trump will also die on the shitter. The toilet will be gold plated and it will also be clogged and contain shredded government documents.

Wasn't Jayne Mansfield decapitated in a car accident?

Johnny Boz

Elton John. Please God...

Stephen Milligan - English politician who died of autoerotic asphyxiation with an orange in his mouth. He was found wearing stockings and garters.

Michael Hutchence (INXS), Jimi Hendrix, Jack Cassidy, William Holden, Bobby Driscoll

[quote] I'm sure Donald Trump will also die on the shitter. The toilet will be gold plated and it will also be clogged and contain shredded government documents.

Covered in 40 lbs. of semi-digested hamberders and KFC.

Wonder which stars will die in sordid or embarrassing ways in the future

Who will be the next "Killed by hustlers" death?

Coco from the Golden Girls

Mussolini

R6 Judy. Judy died on the toilet, too.

Don’t forget Judy

Bob Crane from Hogan's Heroes.

Nelson Rockefeller -- died while fucking his mistress

Natasha Richardson -- died after falling while learning to ski on the bunny slopes

Vachel Lindsey (famous American poet) -- killed himself by drinking Drano

Mr Hands

Diana, Queen of Tarts, rushed to hospital with Dodi's semen still sloshing around in her knickers.

Carol Wayne drowned in Mexico.

Ramon Novarro

Sonny Bono and Clint Walker --- didn't they die on the slopes? One was impaled on his ski pole and the other slammed into a tree?

Black Dahlia.

R28 - Clint Walker didn't die from that accident, but lived for decades afterwards.

Kevin Spacey in about 15 years

Phillip Seymour Hoffman... sitting on the toilet with a needle still in his arm.

Apparently we have a toilet theme here....

Michael Kennedy, one of RFK's sons, died playing ski-football with his siblings on the ski slopes of Aspen in 1997. They had been specifically admonished not to do so just before by the ski patrol. He slammed into a tree without a helmet or other safety equipment.

As always, Kennedys believe rules are for other people.

Whitney Houston drowned in her bathtub while high on coke. The coroner also found Xanax, cannabis, Flexeril, and Benadryl in her system at the post-mortem.

And then of course her daughter Bobbi Christina was discovered three years later also face down in a bathtub,. She was in a coma for months before she perished (of pneumonia contracted from the coma). The medical examiner found alcohol, marijuana, cocaine by-products, benzodiazepine, and morphine in her system after she was found.

[quote] Carol Wayne drowned in Mexico.

I don't think that's very embarrassing, especially since many have postulated she was murdered.

Bing Davidson, the young escort who plunged to his death from the 8th floor of the Sir Francis Drake hotel during a drunken romp with Paul Lynde.

[quote] Nelson Rockefeller -- died while fucking his mistress

He came as he went.

Bob Saget

Anne He he.

R37 classic cum and go!

Herman Cain

That stupid fuck who brought a gun to an FBI building.....all because of Trump

Zookeeper Steve Irwin, Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, and Baby Carried off by a Dingo.

Did Mama Cass really die by eating a ham sandwich?

Mama Cass died of a heart attack.

[quote]Lupe Velez and Elvis Presley both died on the toilet

Lupe did not die on the toilet. That is a Kenneth Anger fabrication.

Kobe Bryant

Kenneth Anger, found on Lupe Velez’s toilet with Rudolph Valentino’s dildo shoved up his ass and Tennessee William’s prescription pill bottle jammed down his throat in the year 2024.

Sal Mineo. Poor guy.

That supposed bear expert who went with his girlfriend to romp with the bears right before the hibernation period when bears are trying to eat as much food as possible to tide them through the winter. When a bear started to tear the guy apart like he was a chicken breast from KFC the girlfriend tried to bop the bear on the head with a skillet. They had no guns because a bear would never hurt them. A dimwitted Darwin award winning duo if there ever was one.

Angela Lansbury died in a pretty humiliating way for someone that old and wealthy. How did they let her be found that way?

Rachel Roberts

Elizabeth Hartman

Brenda Benet

It was pretty embarrassing for Anthony Bourdain to kill himself over a crazy, drug addicted, child molesting mess of a woman.

Luther Vandross

Mama Judd blew her whole head off with a shotgun, while her husband and daughter Ashley were downstairs.

It's more tragic than embarrassing. She scribbled a little note first - talking about her endless despair.

Sonja Davis, a stunt woman who died performing a backwards fall on the set of Vampire In Brooklyn. It's embarrassing and sad that a woman gave her life for that piece of shit movie to be made.

Eldon Hoke AKA El Duce

Paul Walker

The youtuber whose videos show him doing pull ups at the edge of the roof of a skyscraper. Then doing one pull up too many.

Peg Entwistle

Joan Rivers, Olivia Goldsmith ("First Wives Club" author) and Kanye West's mother all died from vanity.

Ivana Trump, "fell down" the stairs. But being buried in a pine box at Trump's golf course was more embarrassing.

R12, I think Jayne Mansfield’s decapitation has long been discounted. It was fostered by a tabloid photo of her blonde wig at the accident scene.

R46 pity, as the toilet she didn’t die in sounds pretty glam for 1944: it was an Egyptian Chartreuse Onyx Hush-Flush Deluxe.

Betty knows all about death on the commode

[quote]Mama Judd blew her whole head off with a shotgun, while her husband and daughter Ashley were downstairs.

The story gets more and more gruesome as the weeks go on, and all based on nothing but peoples' active imaginations.

Jayne Mansfield's head is still on her body in the photo at the crash site, but the top of her head is mangled somewhat. There's brush on the side of the road obscuring the view, so it's hard to tell. There used to be a photo where you could see her more clearly, but I can't find it, and I won't link to the one out there since no one comes to DL to see dead bodies.

George, Duke of Clarence. Forcibly drowned in a vat of his favorite malmsey wine.

Forgetful bitches.

"Embarrassing?" I doled out to Steve Irwin one for the ages.

R53, you don't know why he killed himself

R70 Occam's Razor, my friend.

When you hear hoof beats, don't go looking for zebras.

R71, you are just making assumptions because you don't like her

Remember when Rose slept with Mrs Beatty’s husband and he dies while they were making love??

Warren Harding. His wife refused to allow an autopsy to be done.

[quote]Joan Rivers, Olivia Goldsmith ("First Wives Club" author) and Kanye West's mother all died from vanity.

I thought Joan Rivers died from complications due to an exploratory throat endoscopy to check for acid reflux or whatever was giving her a hoarse voice, unless that was just a cover story for her billionth plastic surgery procedure.

Kanye's mom, Donda. Died of a plastic surgery misadventure.

R32 - Hoffman did not die on the toilet but he was in the bathroom and fell to the floor after injecting bad drugs,.

Anthony Bourdain

Poor L'Wren Scott - hung herself with a silk scarf after finding out about Jagger's affair with the ballerina.

Gram Parsons, found dead in a motel room at age 26 of an overdose of morphine and tequila. That’s not the sordid part though. The sordid part is what happened to his body afterwards. Gram’s wish was to be cremated at Cap Rock in Joshua Tree National Park, but his family made arrangements to fly his corpse back to Louisiana for burial. Like something out of a movie, his road manager and a roadie buddy borrowed a hearse and intercepted Gram’s casket at LAX by improbably convincing airport staff that Gram’s family had changed their mind about shipping him back. They drove to Joshua Tree and poured gasoline on the casket in a botched cremation attempt, leaving a charred mess under Cap Rock. Those crazy kids! The family eventually retrieved Gram’s scorched remains and gave him a proper burial in New Orleans.

Standing at 5'1", Lady Gaga is an inch shorter than Madonna. I thought she was taller.

^^ oops. Wrong thread

Jessica Savitch drowning in that car that slid into a canal.

Johnny Stompanato homicide.

Dying on the toilet seems like it is quite embarrassing, but if you take into consideration that people shit themselves right after they die, maybe it isn't so bad--no mess to clean up.

WEBMASTER! STEALTH SCAT THREAD ALERT!

Bruce Lee was with his mistress and not his wife when he died. he really got around.

German silent film director F.W. Murnau. He was performing fellatio on his 14 year old Filipino "friend" when the driver crashed.

Teddy Pendergrass was getting fellatio from a male prostitute while driving. he crashed.

R87 It was also kind of embarrassing that Bruce, a powerful demigod of martial arts, died from an allergic reaction from a single painkiller pill.

Was the Teddy Pendergrass prostitute trans or am I thinking of someone else?

A lot of people die on the toilet apparently. That scares me.

Susan Cabot

JonBenét Ramsey

[quote]Teddy Pendergrass was getting fellatio from a male prostitute while driving. he crashed.

He didn't die in the crash though, unless you consider his death 28 years later as a slow, painful one. And Pendergrass and "friend"s story was that the brakes just suddenly went out for no reason, but yeah.

Teddy Pendergrass had a horrific car crash. But he lived for decades after. And he was paralyzed. He was also a non stop pussy hound until the day he died. The GREAT Teddy Pendergrass is one of the greatest R&B Soul singers of all time. SEXY ass MAN. He died of colon cancer. RIP.

Michael Hutchence of INXS

Teddy was just a good Samaritan, giving rides to t-girl hookers like Eddie Murphy

Nobody said that Teddy was a good samaritan. He was a coke head superstar doing some dangerous dirty business. He liked good head from a lil freak. But he wasn't a fag. Neither is Eddie Murphy.

R2 How embarrassing. If I die in a sex accident, I at least want to be choking on a dick.

"Jackass" dudebro Ryan Dunn, whose grown, 34-year-old ass decided to get rip-roaring plastered and take a Porsche on a 125 MPH joyride.

Even more embarrassing was fellow jackass Bam Margera, who went on a blubbering rant against Roger Ebert for simply telling the blunt truth: that Dunn was stupid.

R98, they like sucking t-girl dick. But I guess that means they're not "fags"

Barbara Payton collapsed on the floor while using the toilet and died shortly afterwards.

Director Alan J. Pakula - On November 19, 1998, Pakula was driving on the Long Island Expressway in Melville, New York, when a driver in front of him struck a metal pipe, causing it to crash through Pakula's windshield, striking him in the head. His car swerved off the road and into a fence. He was taken to North Shore University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

McBongo's father died while fucking his mother. McBongo's mother, not McBongo's father's mother.

Yukio Mishima (Japanese author). This is what his Wiki said about his botched death:

"Mishima (after his failed coup attempt) then committed seppuku, a form of ritual suicide by disembowelment associated with the samurai. Morita had been assigned to serve as Mishima's second (kaishakunin), cutting off his head with a sword at the end of the ritual to spare him unnecessary pain. However, Morita proved unable to complete his task, and after three failed attempts to sever Mishima's head, Koga had to step in and complete the task."

From what I gather, he was still alive after he disemboweled himself, then perhaps alive when the first attempts (3 times!) to cut off his head failed.

Morita, apparently, was Mishima's lover.

British royalty used to die very crazy deaths, even beyond the usual decapitations.

William the Conqueror seems to have been killed by the pommel of his saddle, wnhich he ahd trouble maveuvering onto because he was so fat. When he died , no one bothered to take his body home and his corpse festered for days until someone finally had it (improperly) embalmed and brought it back to his home city of Caen. When they finally tried to lower his body into its grave, it was too small and would not fit, and then the corpse exploded because of all the gasses that had been gathering in it.

Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary") thought she was finally pregnant from a rare visit by her husband Philip of Spain, but it turned out to be a false pregnancy. In fact, her abdominal swelling resulted from either ovarian cysts or uterine cancer, and she died from whichever one it was.

Elizabeth I refused to sit or lie down during her long final illness and spent days standing, convinced if she sat down or laid down she would die.

William III died from pneumonia contracted from a broken collarbone when his horse stumbled over a molehill and he fell to the ground.

Dixie Carter died. And no one knows why.

I think Lennie Bruce also died on a toilet.

Kwai Chang Caine, grasshoppa.

Jeff Conaway (Taxi) also died right after taking a huge bomb in the bathroom. 🚽💩🧻Shit happens!

When people feel real bad physically they think if they shit it may relief discomfort.

Don’t die on a toilet. Enemas, people, enemas!

A lot of people die on the toilet because an oncoming heart attack can feel like you need to go to the bathroom. It's one the most common places of death. Beware!

Also, straining on the shitter can cause a stroke.

If Judy could afford a flush toilet, she wouldn't have drowned in bloody shit!

Isadora Duncan. Duh!

[quote] Also, straining on the shitter can cause a stroke.

Add this to the thread, “What's An Adult Problem Nobody Prepared You For?”

R109 no he didn't, he died in his foyer I think, there's pictures of it online.

Nevermind R109, I stand corrected, my apologies.

Wiki said he was in his bathroom on the floor.

Yeah R121, I was maybe thinking of Chris Farley being in the foyer. I was wrong.

Yeah, people die on the toilet all the time. I also think people who already have heart problems and then get constipated like Elvis did and cause a heart attack. Also, people have aneurysms or from being constipated. I had a patient once, ( I was in the medical field) who was told to always use stool softeners and laxatives because she had a weak vein in her abdomen and she ended up dying of that.

Budd Dwyer

[quote]Isadora Duncan.

R117 I wonder why some designer didn't start a line of ID scarves.

Jean Harlow's husband Paul Bern, who supposedly committed suicide because he was so.inadequate in the penis department that he had to fuck Jean with a dildo.. Others make a good case that he was actually murdered.

Sam Cooke was shot by the manager of a fleabag motel as he was trying to commit rape. He was nude from the waist down.

Marvin Gaye was shot by his father with the pistol Marvin had bought him.

Jimi Hendrix choked on his own vomit following an overdose.

[quote]German silent film director F.W. Murnau. He was performing fellatio on his 14 year old Filipino "friend" when the driver crashed.

Wasn't there an irony to his death? I think the reason he was traveling to that destination by car was due to the fact that he didn't want to fly there because he was afraid he'd die on a plane crash.

Jack Cassidy, burned to a crisp.

Pier Paolo Pasolini murdered whilst procuring sex from an under aged boy.

Hasn't that Pasolini story been discounted by a subsequent evidence that has shown several people were seen leaving the scene of the crime. (I think one theory is that the murder might have been Mafia-related.)

Marilyn Monroe found in the nude from an accidental overdose.

Lived like a whore. Died like a whore.

Jon-Erik Hexum

R132 Regardless of who murdered him (doubt it was the young teenager who was no doubt used as bait) it is pretty sordid to get done in when courting sex from an underage teenage.

more embarrassing than sordid was the death of Anton Yelchin who was run down .by his own car.

R134 How did Jon-Erik Hexum die again? I should remember this.

On October 12, 1984, the cast and crew of Cover Up were filming the seventh episode of the series, "Golden Opportunity", on Stage 18 of the 20th Century Fox lot. One of the scenes filmed that day called for Hexum's character to load cartridges into a .44 Magnum handgun, so he was provided with a functional gun and blanks. When the scene did not play as the director wanted it to in the master shot, there was a delay in filming. Hexum became restless and impatient during the delay and began playing around to lighten the mood. He had unloaded all but one (blank) round, spun it, and—simulating Russian roulette—he put the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger, unaware of the danger.[8]

Some blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gunpowder into the cartridge. This wadding is propelled from the barrel of the gun with enough explosive force to cause death or serious injury if the weapon is fired within a few feet of the body, particularly at a vulnerable spot such as the temple or the eye. The paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull. However, the explosive effect of the muzzle blast caused enough blunt force trauma to fracture a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel this into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging.[3][9]

This one is actually really sad, as the man seemed a true philanthropist. But it was a stupid way to go…

Aeschylus was killed when a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell.

[quote]Bruce Lee was with his mistress and not his wife when he died.

I think almost all of the "mystery" around his death comes from the fact that several people were trying to cover up the fact that he was with his side piece when he died.

Also, even though it was ruled "death by misadventure" because of his reaction to the Equagesic, he'd had seizures in the months before he died as well as a cerebral edema, which was reported to have occurred again recently just before he died, per autopsy findings. Equagesic had serious side effects and Lee was in exceptional health otherwise, so the painkiller was blamed, but I'd bet he had another serious condition that was the real cause of death.

Renée Jeanne Falconetti died of over-eating after having been on a diet.

R15, I’m a mental health nurse, and I used to work in a day hospital for older people. Every week we had a newspaper group, and people would choose stories they wanted to talk about. They LOVED the Stephen Milligan story, and kept coming back to it for weeks, revelling in the sordid details.

R133 most people sleep in the nude. Fuck you, square.

R133 but was her body used like a whore after death by many people as I heard twenty years ago? That shit is the most sordid part.

Danny Lockin

Virginia Rappe rape-raped to death by FatAss Arbuckle.

David Carradine.

Nobody is sure about Virginia Rappe. Like Paul Bern it will be talked about forever. Both stories have remarkable staying no matter how old they are.

Joan of Arc.

And hopefully, some day, Joan Van Ark.

R146, poor Danny Lockin...

Actor Charles Levin fell down a hill and was eaten by turkey vultures.

See r19 you whore!

R145 Who? Peter Lawford doing the clean-up for the Kennedys? Or in the morgue?

I did read about her fucked up weekend in Tahoe earlier that year (or maybe 61) when she was at Cal-Neva with Sinatra and a bunch of mob guys who got her fucked up and fucked her all weekend, or something like that. She was used like a whore in life, anyway.

Andrew Getty. Paramedics found him naked from the waist down at his Hollywood Hills mansion with a traumatic injury to the rectum. He litteraly dilded himself into the casket while tweaked out of his mind and then the press reported it as he was sort of a celebrity.

Anna Nicole Smith

Farrah Fawcett. RIP.

The people around her embarrassed her and took advantage of her long illness to make themselves look good and for $$$.

Farrah was one of the producers of Farrah's Story which documented her battle with cancer. Of course everyone assumed it would be a story of triumph but Farrah was not above exploiting herself for the publicity.

Evelyn McHale, became famous after her suicide as a photography student just happened to be walking by right when she jumped.

Miss Dana Plato died of a lethal combo of Lortab and Soma, inside her Winnebago. It was a 37' Winnebago Chieftain, so she did not exactly die in squalor, but it certainly wasn't a classy demise.

Marvin Gaye

Why couldn’t they have just referred to it as COLON cancer?

Al Beatty from Boca Raton

Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

Migawd that Henry was a CUNT.

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence) had a worse death than Anne or Kat. She was chased around the Tower Green and hacked to death.

As mentioned above, George was drowned in a vat of his favorite malmsey wine, after committing treason.

Henry was a monster.

[quote]Jean Harlow's husband Paul Bern, who supposedly committed suicide because he was so.inadequate in the penis department that he had to fuck Jean with a dildo.

How sad. Jean might have really enjoyed the effort. A dildo can be great fun and much more reliable than a penis.

Anyone who has died as a result of erotic auto-asphyxiation. There was a British politician who was found wearing a lace corset and with a tangerine stuffed in his mouth, a victim of this practise.

Kristin on Dallas.

R167 meet R15

Vic Morrow

R170 what about us?

What about that guy that we had a thread about not too long ago. You know who I'm talking about. He disappeared from his job and nobody could figure out where he went not even policemen with dogs. And then it turns out he fell into some very nasty looking recycling machine(or was he pushed?) and his body was pretty much turned into mist. They eventually found some drops of blood.

Oh right, R172. I remember the case but can't remember the name. Oh and how about the twink with good hair who fell (or was pushed) out of a plane.

Tanya Roberts.

Dead. Not Dead. Then actually dead.

[quote]R144 most people sleep in the nude. Fuck you, square.

I believe Monroe usually slept in a bra, as she was wary of her breasts beginning to sag (?)

Didn’t some gay English king die from having a red hot poker shoved up him?

American composer John Barnes Chance, electrocuted when he peed on his electric fence.

[quote]Vic Morrow

How was his death sordid or embarrassing, r170?

Marvin Gaye was shot by his father with the pistol Marvin had bought him.

Marvin's last hit was the floor

Some drunk actress was eaten by her dogs after she died.

Not Gail Russell, another one.

R176 - see R10

Robert Walker. Merry-go-round.

Eva Braun. On her honeymoon.

Jeffery Epstein

R180, You're thinking of Marie Prevost, who, contrary to what Kenneth Anger reported in Hollywood Babylon, was not eaten by her dog. She was dead for two days upon discovery and had little bite marks on her legs and fingers. Her dachshund, Maxie, tried to stir her awake those two days cooped up in her bedroom.

Fucking Kenneth Anger! Has everyone thinking all these people drowned in toilets, got eaten by dogs, got decapitated, etc. I can't wait to see how old Ken bites it.

Cheryl's gynecologist.

[quote]Fucking Kenneth Anger! Has everyone thinking all these people drowned in toilets, got eaten by dogs, got decapitated, etc. I can't wait to see how old Ken bites it.

Say what you will, but I’d gladly fund a Kickstarter for a Kenneth Anger version of Clue. You’ll never guess where they found the candlestick!

Not sordid but grisly- this guy fell into a boiling hot mudpit in Yellowstone NP and … boiled to death.

Gorbachev

Madge, in a black bathroom. She was sucking off a toilet. With heavy ass implants but no leg muscles to help her up - she died. Again.

This guy was killed by a swan. Those motherfuckers are mean.

Lupe Valez

Victor Buono

Donald Trump - I know it hasn't happened yet but when it does I bet it will be sordid.

R195 I agree it will be sordid - probably shitting himself during a heart attack on the golf course - but we'll never know the real story.

R196 "It was a perfect heart attack!"

Chuckles the Clown.

I think Trump will stroke out while banging a Russian call girl

I think this may take the biscuit for just the stupidest way to go.

I'll just leave this here.

You assholes, don't just list names, tell how the person died.

Lazy whores.

R200 This is pretty horrible, actually. He fell in head first and was trapped.

[quote] A father and son first spotted something amiss on Saturday in the Barcelona suburb of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, the Guardian reported. According to the BBC, the pair noticed a smell coming from the stegosaurus statue. After the father and son raised the alarm, police responded and found a 39-year-old man dead inside the leg of the statue, a spokeswoman for regional police force Mossos d'Esquadra told the Guardian.

[quote] “It's an accidental death; there was no violence. This person got inside the statue's leg and got trapped," the spokeswoman said. "It looks like he entered the statue head first and couldn't get out." She told the outlet that police called firefighters in for help removing the man, whose family had previously reported him missing, according to the BBC.

[quote] As autopsy results are still pending, it remains unclear just how long the man was trapped in the statue, though the police spokeswoman told the Guardian it was likely at least several days.

I hope he doesn't go out like Bing Crosby, on the links. But that's still the most likely way I'm afraid.

and covered in hooker piss, r204.

R203, you are right, it’s horrible, but stupid too. I don’t actually mean the victim was stupid, but the whole situation was just senseless. The poor man died in the middle of a huge city, with thousands of people walking past him, and he died because he got trapped in a dinosaur leg.

None of us know whether our death will be dignified or daft. Life is a lottery.

But the victim WAS stupid. A terrible way to die if you're not in a mine cave or in an earthquake. What a fucking fool.

[quote] This is pretty horrible, actually. He fell in head first and was trapped.

I don’t understand. It was papier-mâché - which is confusing to begin with - so he tore a hole in it to get his phone? How did the phone get in there? Is it open along the top already and he climbed up and went in?

i don’t get how one “falls into” a statue. It’s not a fountain.

Falco 😥

I don’t think Vic Morrow and Asian kids death was sordid or embarrassing, just tragic and devastating.

Barry Cowsill, of the family band, died in Hurricane Katrina. His body was found months later in the harbor. Where had he been living at the time? Was he on the streets? What a horrible way to go.

James Whale drowned himself in a pool in 1957,, left a suicide note, and his partner didn't reveal the note until the early 80's. Thus for over 25 years, gossips speculated on who killed him, was he drowned during a.wild pool party at his house, similar to Bryan Singer's parties, did a beach boy whose portrait Whale was painting do it, etc. If his boyfriend David Lewis would have revealed the note at the time it was written, he would have spared Whale's tattered reputation that was destroyed from all of the hints of perversion that cropped up ever since his death.

R211 Barry Cowsill had been an alcoholic for years. He supposedly had a plane ticket to go to a rehab facility- the day after Katrina hit.

Speaking of alcoholics, teen idol David Cassidy drank himself to death. That’s about as sordid as it gets.

R212 It sounds more like his idiot boyfriend was the one who suffered speculations. Don't worry, James didn't even know, it was everyone else who looked bad.

Well, though her eventual death was undramatic, Frances Farmer was certainly amongst the most sordid and embarrassing [italic]arrestees.

Wow, that's a stretch R215. Where do you keep your compassion?

I bet you wish your occupation was cocksucker. Too bad that you're so afraid and always alone. Frances Farmer was troubled and mentally ill. She lost agency over herself in a time when that could mean lifelong disaster for a woman. She was not compliant. And then it was no joke.

Don't joke about it.

If your mom didn't pay the rent, cook for you and let you harass men and boys over the internet 24 hours a day from THE basement - you too might be dragged into a cop station and placed in an asylum, R215. You're mentally unwell and who knows what's on your computer? Could happen any day.

They're looking into you.

I am fascinated by some of these stories. I wasn’t quite sure who some of these people were and had to look them up. But now I’m kind of depressed.

Robert Worley, whose body was found (bullet in head) in a trunk in Dorian Corey's apartment after DC died. Dorian Corey was one of the stars of Paris Is Burning. Worley had served time for rape. The body had been in the apartment for 15-25 years.

I'm already annoyed with your link R218. it's dude right? a drag queen? so of course they call him "she"

R32 I hate it when they dress up rich junkies’ deaths like Hoffman, Heath Ledger, Robin Williams, Amy Whitehouse, Taylor Hawkins, Mac Miller, Tom Petty, Cory Monteith as either “tragedies” or “accidental” overdoses. How is getting a needle in your arm or a bag of blow up your nose involuntary?

The grip of addiction, R220. It’s an illness.

Besides, Robin Williams hung himself and Heath Ledger died of an accidental prescription drug overdose: no needles, no blow.

R220 For the record, "bags of blow up your nose" don't kill you. Some powder (fentanyl) up your nose can, but "blow", no.

Precision, kids, let's not be sloppy!

R221 the coroner said it was “the abuse of prescription drugs”. That’s not accidental.

R233, abuse of drugs can mean that he was using them in a manner other than as prescribed (elg taking them with other medication). He could easily have taken the drugs incorrectly/abusively without the intent to harm himself.

Few can rival my death- except of course Sharon.

Just stop R225, I'm already dead!

No

I don't know why you are doing this...I'm already dead.

Jesus christ, that's fucking horrible R227. The best part of waking up, is Manson's still locked up. Or was. People underestimate the Folgers family, none of those fuckers will ever be out. They better not.

R50 Timothy Treadwell, the grizzly man turned his video camera on at the start of his final fatal encounter with the bear. The audiotape starts with his gf saying “Is it still out there?” and goes on to record both of them screaming for 6 minutes, as Timothy is dragged away and the bear then returns to kill the gf (Aimie.)

[quote]r223 the coroner said it was “the abuse of prescription drugs”. That’s not accidental.

Somewhat OT, I recently rewatched “”Nurse Jackie.” Such a good show about addiction.

Most people can’t kick it. It’s the minority of serious addicts/alcoholics who get sober and create new lives for themselves.

CONTAINS SPOILERS:

Spider Sabich

[quote] ”Nurse Jackie.” Such a good show about addiction.

I like Edie Falco and did watch Nurse Jackie, but IMO, not realistic. The character somehow never did anything wrong to her children. American TV shows, incl. the Sopranos, have a fear of depicting what *real* parent-child relationships are like. Except for stuff like Intervention.

R229 I really want to hear the tape.

Yvette Vickers, 50s Playboy Playmate and B-Movie bombshell best remembered for her supporting role in "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" was found in her home decomposed beyond all recognition by a concerned neighbor. She had all her bills set up on automatic payment, so no one knows how long she was there. At least a year.

I'd say Jean Harlow's death was pretty sordid. Whatever problem with her liver that ultimately killed her made her retain water. I think it was William Powell who said her breath smelled like urine toward the end. Photos taken of her during the last few months of her life are pretty jarring. She was only 26.

Carrie and Debbie, sadly

Sylvia Plath, head in the oven with her two small children on the other side of the door.

R235 - she looks bloated in Saratoga, the film she was making when she died.

Toto Koopman: biracial 30s model turned art dealer survived years in a concentration camp during WWII only to be denied medical attention and held hostage in a stifling bedroom by her lesbian lover until she finally croaked

My ghost would be so embarrassed if I had died falling from fat ass Paul Lynde’s hotel room and was forever known as his whore.

Zelda FItzgerald was tied to a table when the sanatarium she was committed to caught fire and and burned to death while everyone else got the fuck outta there

Julius Caesar

30s movie star Thelma Todd, died of carbon monoxide poisoning at 29 when, locked out of her house after a night at the Trocadero, she turned on her car in her garage to keep warm overnight. Oops!

the mysteries and scandals episode on her gave an alternative theory that Todd was murdered.

Beanie died on stage, every time she performed in Funny Girl.

Susan Cabot from from 1959's The Wasp Woman was bludgeoned to death in bed by her mentally disturbed codependent adult son.

Thelma Todd was dating a small time gangster and apparently they had an altercation at the Trocadero the night before her death, there's no way to prove exactly what happened or why.

R235: uremia, a kidney disease, killed her.

That and a Christian Science mother.

George Reeves

R246 a MIDGET son, don't forget that. She was doing all kinds of treatment on him to help him grow. She seemed like a wacko too.

"Toddler Dies After Accidentally Shooting Himself in the Head'

No it was suicide.

I think the damned midget also had some kind of lobster-hand deformity.

(Not judging, of course.)

Birthday girl Sunny Von Bulow

The midget from Fantasy Island blew his head off. He was tired of living in chronic pain from his organs being over sized for his little body

Oh but I think he shot himself in the stomach R254, and survived a few hours recording an audio of it. Poor Tattoo.

What about me, bitches? I traumatized 40 florida kids who were home sick watching shitty tv.

R. Budd Dwyer

I already said it R257! Also, I thought for years he was innocent. In fact, he was not. What a fucking creep.

William Colby, Director of the CIA in the 70's. He was an avid sailor his whole life, yet he died after taking his boat out alone. His body was found weeks later IIRC.

Isabella Blow, muse to Philip Treacy and mentor to Alexander McQueen, committed suicide by drinking weed killer. She died in the hospital a day later.

What a miserable way to die.

Isabella had made several suicide attempts before that too, R260. Do not drink weed killer, Drano or eat rat poison people. Never shoot yourself in the stomach either. Prolonged and painful ways to die.

[quote] In 2006, Blow attempted suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. Later that year, Blow again attempted suicide by jumping from the Hammersmith Flyover, which resulted in her breaking both ankles. Blow made several more suicide attempts in 2007, by driving her car into the rear of a lorry, attempting to obtain horse tranquilizers, trying to drown herself in a lake and by overdosing while on a beach in India.

It sounds a bit funny. sorry

Geez, poor Isabella Blow

Vanity Fair was on the story, of course. Quite the Title.

Poor Inger Stevens. Before her actual suicide she swallowed bleach to end her life. I believe after that she should have been put in a lock down institution for several years for intense therapy because she really wasn't ambivalent about it. Instead i think they did nothing.

Harold Holt, PM of Australia, December, 1967. How can a serious country just lose their Prime Minister at the beach?

He went for a swim at Point Nepean, Victoria and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Just vanished into thin air or wet water. His body was never found.

Proving that Australians have a sense of humor about these things, they built a swimming pool named for him as a memorial.

Wendy O. Williams, lead singer of the Plasmatics, went into the woods by her house, put a bag over her head to spare her boyfriend a ghastly sight, and shot herself in the head.

Years prior, she attempted suicide by hammering a knife through her chest, which lodged into her sternum, before changing her mind and calling her boyfriend to take her to the hospital.

[quote] Harold Holt, PM of Australia, December, 1967. How can a serious country just lose their Prime Minister at the beach?

He's fine! He sends his love!

Inger Stevens' secretary does not agree with the suicide theory. There is another theory that she was murdered. See Mysteries & Scandals.

The Harold Holt case was also seen as a possible drowning and accidental death since the beach where he swam had dangerous surf and currents.

[quote] The midget from Fantasy Island blew his head off. He was tired of living in chronic pain from his organs being over sized for his little body

I think he did it because he got tired of making the donuts.

its hard to beat R257. That Dwyer shooting was horrible.

Wasn't there a local news anchor who killed herself on the air?

Yes R271. Christine Chubbuck, also mentioned upthread. We haven't seen that, it's the holy grail. We've all seen idiot Budd though.

[quote]R206 Wendy O. Williams, lead singer of the Plasmatics, went into the woods by her house, put a bag over her head to spare her boyfriend a ghastly sight, and shot herself in the head.

I thought her goodbye to him was immensely touching. I read an interview where he (I believe) quoted her last words to him being, “I think I have to go now.”

He knew what she meant, and how deeply unhappy she’d been.

I have always heard that she was a beautiful person R273. I think she was also vegetarian and just the exact opposite of her stage persona. She definitely went through some shit and I hope she found some peace.

R274 The cunt should be in prison for war crimes.

R53, R70, I think Anthony Bourdain was murdered.

R276 NO, no,no,no,no,no!

Care to elaborate R275? I don't know what you mean, I guess I'm missing something.

'Las Vegas Man Killed in Plane Crash While Reportedly Scattering Father's Ashes in Minnesota'

I would say that's kind of embarrassing.

Or… MURDER.

Siblings ? ? ?

Jennifer and Sarah Hart and their kids

Anthony Bourdain wasn't murdered. Neither were Kurt Cobain and Jeffrey Epstein

Thank you R282, Courtney Love is a fucking great musician and possibly a bad person, but she didn't kill Kurt, neither did El Duce or whatever that guy's name is.

R282- I agree with two of those, but not Epstein.

About ten years or so ago, I read of the death of a young Englishman who (if I remember correctly) worked in a rather sensitive government post. He was found dead stuffed in a suitcase. It wasn't foul play. He got off on stuffing himself in incredibly tight or confines luggage. He suffocated because he could not unzip/unlock the bag from inside.

R285 That would be Gareth Williams. A very weird death and the coroner said that he was 'probably' unlawfully killed. He worked for MI6 in IT.

Oh, and Gareth Williams isn't an Englishman; he was Welsh.

Creepy case. Poor guy was likely murdered by spooks

3 men die in manure pit: Here's why it's a 'death trap.'

Kenneth Pinyan, who sustained internal injuries after being anally penetrated by a horse. How do you explain that to your family?

R290- Mr. Hands. Extremely disturbing.

Oh, man, I never should have clicked on r290's link. I'm having nightmares tonight

[quote]Kenneth Pinyan, who sustained internal injuries after being anally penetrated by a horse.

"He was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen ... "

Ex-doctor tried in amputation-fetish death.

Oh that was a good one R294, he was a big trans doc too, with gross catalogs about "Dr. Brown's beautiful pussies" of course he sucked at that too and lots of his clients were shitting out of their franken gashes cause he nicked stuff whilst operating.

R295- He was a fucking sadist.

Yeah he really was ,and that poor old man who died of gas gangrene, the scream on his face in death was awful.

R297- His murderpedia profile.

Thanks R298, there's a doc too with the DA from San Diego who prosecuted the case. I wonder if it's still on youtube now. Oh here's one but the old one was better. That weird older guy with the amputee fetish was cute too. Too bad he was clearly crazy.

R299- You are most welcome. I didn't realize that Inside Edition was filming him performing a surgery and the patient woke up screaming in pain in the middle of the operation!! Omg!

As I remember, he had a substantial clientele of wealthy housewives he was friendly with, and were perfectly happy with his services.

Weird!

Jolene McCracken died from an infection from a clothespin stuck in her hoohah.

Few have died as horribly as Rachel Roberts.

[quote] As mentioned above, George was drowned in a vat of his favorite malmsey wine, after committing treason.

[quote] Henry was a monster.

Henry VIII had nothing to do with the death of George Plantagenet, the Duke of Clarence. He wasn't even born yet when George was killed. George's execution was ordered by George's brother, King Edward VI.

And although a rumor at the time (which Shakespeare repeated in "Richard III") had it that George was executed by being drowned in a butt of malmsey, there is no proof that that's how he was actually killed.

^ SCAT^

Monica Myers, Mayor of Betterton, MD, was inspecting the town's sewage facility when she slipped and fell into a tank, drowning in 15 ft of human waste.

Filmmaker Donald Cammel After he shot himself, he lived for 45 minutes and asked his wife for a mirror so he could observe his own death.

Drowning in human excrement takes the cake. What a way to go.

R308 Yeah, that shit takes the cake.

I agree R308

Melanie Raucher

Nobody mentioned the baby that got fucked to death by a pitbull?

Being drowned by shit sounds like a heavenly way to die.

R304 Of course Henry VIII had nothing to do with the death of George, Duke of Clarence. I never said he did. Different era, of course - everyone knows that!

Henry DID try to eradicate all remaining Plantagenets, as they had better claims to the throne of England than the Tudor interlopers.

The rumors that George was drowned in wine began to circulate immediately after his death - long before Shakespeare was born.

Linda Darnell, once too beautiful for words, died after a house fire near Chicago with burns over 90% of her body. She was only 41 years old.

R311 Jfc, if I had to describe a paint huffer to a sketch artist I'd probably dream her up. I'm shocked she lived in Prescott, they aren't usually weird hippies there.

Chronic snorer Mark Gleeson tried to cure his problem by shoving two tampons up his nostrils before going to bed. But labourer Mark, 26, from Hampshire, suffocated as he slept in 1996.

William Holden

I watched a video on YouTube about a year ago and I wish I could remember the name. It was about a man who was repairing something on a ship or tanker. He was lifted up into the air to do his work. An employee below was suppose to monitor him and watch for him to signal to go either up or down. Well the man wasn't paying attention and the electric lift just kept lifting him until it squeezed the poor man through a very small opening to the upper section . He died a hideously painful death. This happened in another country and their equivalent of OSHA investigated and found the company responsible.

Six Feet Under openings had some horrible and embarrassing deaths. I remember the man cleaning a big mixing bowl in a bakery who got diced. .

Bob Crane (Hogans Heroes)

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, dies of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital. Twelve days before, Houdini had been talking to a group of students after a lecture in Montreal when he commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows. Suddenly, one of the students punched Houdini twice in the stomach. The magician hadn’t had time to prepare, and the blows ruptured his appendix. He fell ill on the train to Detroit, and, after performing one last time, was hospitalized. Doctors operated on him, but to no avail. The burst appendix poisoned his system, and on October 31 he died.

Nicole.

She didn't get a chance to confess.

R311 Speaking of huffing compressed air, I’m amazed this girl from Intervention in 2010 is still alive, much loss sober. Allison “I’m walking on sunshine, baby!”

Why don't these people huff nitrous like normal people? Does computer duster give a different high?

R325 It’s like sniffing paint fumes. Different than nitrous I guess. Horribly toxic though, I still can’t believe this girl survived.

call the super!!! WTF!

selfies kill

Now you reminded me of this, which we had a thread on when it happened. Someone said she was a "naan" swimmer. I told my Indian boyfriend about it and he laughed his ass off at that.

R327 Crushed by a trash compactor?! Yikes.

[R51] Uh... Dame Angela Lansbury is still alive. I think.

Beautiful Archie did a stupid TikTok challenge....

R319 That was one of Mr Balen's youtube podcasts. He has plenty of horrific and terrifying stories to tell and he's a terrific storyteller. I've stopped for a while. He had me terrified of going to bed at night. Maybe the worst was the man whose body was paralyzed for an operation but they forgot to give him the anesthesia. Therefore he was going through the terrible pain of the operation fully awake but incapable of letting anyone know. Well into the operation a nurse noticed something about his eyes and they realized what was happening. And that was only the beginning of his nightmare. From there incredibly things got far worse and his life became an unimaginable hell. I think he ended up killing himself.

That's a whole syndrome R333, there's even a group of people who have gone through it. I want to say the group is called AWAKE or some acronym, I just am too lazy to look it up. And yes, it sounds fucking horrifying. That shitty doctor Ronald Brown that we mentioned upthread who did awful sex change surgeries, also did shit like brow lifts and one of his patients came awake or something during one and was moaning the whole time.

Oh dear!

Dawn Brancheau. in 2010 the Orlando SeaWorld whale trainer was drowned when a whale grabbed her long ponytail and held her underwater.

Steve Irwin whilst annoying the shit out of a sting-ray. What the fuck did he expect?

I was buried in a piano case.

R34 Whitney Houston also had emphysema.

The Man in the Latex Suit

The killing in Geneva of Edouard Stern, one of Europe's richest men, stunned the global financial elite. Once the heir apparent to Michel David-Weill, his father-in-law, at the investment bank Lazard Frères, Stern was known as much for his brutal arrogance as for his dashing style. With exclusive access to the financier's inner circle, including the friend who found his latex-clad, bullet-riddled body, BRYAN BURROUGH reveals the fears and enemies that plagued Stern's last days as well as the erotic entanglement that came undone just before his death.

Bump

[quote]Dawn Brancheau. in 2010 the Orlando SeaWorld whale trainer was drowned when a whale grabbed her long ponytail and held her underwater.

Actually the very unhappy orca, Tilikum, ripped her scalp off her head and also ripped one of her arms off. SeaWorld tried to cover the brutality of Dawn's death to protect its financial interests.

Tilikum was involved in the deaths of two others, one a Sea World trainer and the other had trespassed into his tank.

What about me? My death was even the subject of crappy shows.

Forgot the link

R342- The trespasser was found lying on Tilikum's back with his penis bitten off. It took several people to force Tilikum to release Dawn's arm.

Dolphins are rapey and best avoided.

Oct 1889– John Feeks was a lineman working on Chambers Street (lower Manhattan) at the top of a pole when he accidentally touched a wire that he didn’t know was live. He was electrocuted in front of a horrified lunchtime crowd. He was basically burning to death in front of their eyes.

His death supposedly was one of the reasons they started putting lines underground instead of overhead.

A co-owner of a wool mill who was suffocated after he mistakenly fell onto a machine and was wrapped in about 800 yards of yarn, police said. Paul G. Thomas, 47, was operating a pin-wheel dresser machine, which winds woolen yarn from a large spool onto a smaller one, when he fell onto the small spool Tuesday afternoon, state police dispatcher Robert Reichel said. Thomas was wrapped in hundreds of yards of yarn before employees at the George Thomas & Sons Textile Co. discovered the accident, Reichel said. “You couldn’t even see the guy at all” inside the yarn, Reichel said. “That’s how fast” the accident happened.

Twenty-one people drowned in a tsunami of molasses.

I’m R347 and I realize I was off topic; Feeks’ death wasn’t sordid or embarrassing. Just freaky and shocking (literally)

Sorry, Charlie ...

At least it wasn't Chicken of the Sea

Two lumber workers were working a machine that pulled the bark off redwood logs in Northern California. The machine was like a huge tunnel with hundreds of claws pointing inward. They were inserting the huge logs inside it and the machine would rotate around, yanking off the bark. Apparenty the thing got jammed and the two went inside it *without turning it off first*. Well, they got it unjammed. And it restarted with them inside and they were killed, horribly I imagine.

This thread is turning grotesque. People trying to outdo one another by coldly reporting other's gruesome misfortunes. Must be Datalounge.

Do you see sordid in the title? And do you want us weeping? We acknowledge how horrendous it was. Like when people are on vacation and they meet their deaths(which seems to have happened a lot this summer)and you are shocked by the tragedy and irony.

Speaking of manure incidents, the Erfurt latrine disaster claimed the lives of about 60 noblemen assembled to settle an ongoing suit between the Landgrave of Thuringia and the Archbishop of Mainz called on by Emperor Henry VI, who survived unharmed thanks to his location in the room.

Franz Reichelt testing a wearable parachute of his own design.

Here’s a curious one I just came across. TV director James Yarborough (spelled Yarbrough on imdb) died on Aug 31, 1962. He was found beaten and unconscious at the home he shared with actor Robert Richards and died en route to the hospital. Preliminary autopsy gave cause of death as “strangulation on his own blood” as a result of the beating. Richards was arrested for murder and later released when another autopsy concluded Yarborough died of a barbiturate overdose. Richards claimed the “beating” was him slapping Yarborough trying to rouse him from the overdose. Hmmm. Did Richards get away with murder or was he telling the truth?

The republican who died in Carrie Fisher's house. I always liked her after that.

Erfurt Latrine Disaster sounds like the name of a punk band