Unpleasant Deaths

[Seoras]

Was no cause put on the death certificates Erin.

[jan57]

 My 3xGreat grandfather  was a Railway  Engine  driver ,  and  got killed  in an accident  in 1852, he  was the  only  fatality ,  although  a  number  of  people   had broken  limbs,   cuts , concussion  .The  local  paper   gave  a very  detailed  account  of the accident ,  and the  inquest   also  , '    an  excerpt  reads ,  ''The  body of the driver  of the  express train  was  found   in  a  shockingly   mangled state,   a  severed hand,     head almost  cleft  in twain ,  and  body  almost  severed  in  half''' 
  The  inquest    found   that   the  accident happened   as   a result of  my  ancestor   not  heeding  a red flag   and going too  fast  !     His   son   was also  a railway  worker   and died 34 years after  his father,   after'  slipping  on a hillock of ice  , and  fell between 2 wagons,   crushing  his   chest '                                             

[Billyblue]

Ok.... Its just that my grandmother and great grandmother died that way too.

My grandmother said she felt ill and needed a coffee and when they came out of the kitchen she was dead.

Great grandmother just talking and boom.... Fell over dead.

As no autopsy was done, its been a bit of a family mystery.

This is usually heart attack or stroke.  Or a burst aneurysm.

Here are a few I know of.
A set of twins in our family, one died.  The second one went the next day to look at his brother in the coffin and dropped down dead.

My uncle (Mum's brother) died one Christmas Day. Had a shower, getting ready to go out, and dropped down dead as he stepped out of the shower.

In 1960s I was nursing at Brisbane repat hospital. One evening we heard a crash and ran into the ward to find a patient on the floor, dead.  I asked the (visibly shook up) patient in next bed what happened and he said the other guy, who was to go home the next day, came over and shook his hand and said "Goodbye. It was nice knowing you.  I'm going now."   

Dawn M

[rayard]

Many years ago a friend was killed by a bus when he slipped on ice in the gutter, his head was smashed. He was drunk at the time...I hope he didn't feel too much! At least he died happy!!!
rayard.

[Billyblue]

A friend of a friend was decapitated when she drove her car under a big truck.
Jayne Mansfield died in much the same way, from memory.

And about 60 years ago, when there were still trams in Sydney, some guy jumped off the tram while it was still going, lost his footing, rolled under the tram and was decapitated!

Dawn M

[Erin2012]

Rather gruesome thread!

[Skoosh]

I read of an accident in a glass cone at Stourbridge, an operator crawled along the narrow brick channel under one of the glass furnaces to investigate a hot spot when the floor of the furnace gave way and the guy was trapped under a deluge of molten glass.

Skoosh.

[Erin2012]

Oh yikes. Sound like something out of a movie.

[groom]

Rather gruesome thread!

   Each tale is worse that the one before!