The Shrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Somehow, I ended up reading this list, but it turns out to be morbidly fascinating. I knew about Budd Dwyer, but I didn't know that there was actually another lady who committed suicide on live TV as well.

It's almost like watching those beginning clips from Six Feet Under. Then again, it's sorta important life lessons of "How Not to be Killed".

Some crazy shit. My favorite is this guy:

1993: Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."

Now THERE is darwinism for you

Tessian wrote:Some crazy shit. My favorite is this guy:

1993: Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."

Now THERE is darwinism for you

My bud actually works for TD and in that building. I remember him tell me that story and I laughed my ass off :-)

Well, you have a few wilderness deaths that were interesting:

1981: Carl McCunn, in March 1981, paid a bush pilot to drop him at a remote lake near the Coleen River in Alaska to photograph wildlife, but had not arranged for the pilot to pick him up again in August. Rather than starve, McCunn shot himself in the head. His body was found in February 1982.

1992: Christopher McCandless died of starvation near Denali National Park after a few months trying to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness.

2003: Timothy Treadwell, an American environmentalist who had lived in the wilderness among bears for thirteen summers in a remote region in Alaska, was killed and partially consumed by a bear, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. The incident is described in Werner Herzog's documentary film Grizzly Man.

Grizzly Man was a great doc

Zeus wrote:Grizzly Man was a great doc

"...Then when I saw the ending, I fucking laughed my ass off. Laughed for fifteen minutes straight! AHAHAHAHAHA! He got eaten by a bear!"

Ron White, yes? That guy is pretty funny :-)