People Share The Dumbest Ways People They Knew Passed Away, Here Are The 70 Most Interesting Stories

Kid in h**h school I knew got partially paralyzed when ejected from his car driving stupid with no seat belt. Worked on physical therapy and whatnot for a while, dad bought him a new SUV converted for him to drive it while still partially paralyzed. Drove stupid again with no seat belt and ejected again when he crashed, but that time he d**d.

Doctors son, typical rich kid. He got a brand new high performance car for his 16th birthday. He was a menace. Burning rubber around the school parking lot. Kids that were his friends even refused to ride with him. That was how reckless he was. Wrapped the car around an oak tree driving to school one day. Had the car maybe six months. Thankfully only he was gone.

My uncle survived throat cancer. He passed away not even a month after being cleared by choking on pizza crust. He had a hard time swallowing after having a trache for so long.

I have two:

First was a guy who loved to decorate elaborately for Christmas. He was hanging decorations in his bathroom and stood on the toilet. Somehow he slipped off, hit his head on the sink and d**d.

Second was a former client. He was a white collar guy with a vacation home in a rural part of Michigan. He went up there alone to have focused quite time. There was a big storm and a tree fell across his driveway. This was a long driveway surrounded by forest off the main road. He decides he can use a chainsaw and chop up the tree because he was expecting a FedEx delivery later that day and for whatever reason wanted the delivery to make it all the way up to the house.

He had no business trying to use a chainsaw but he fired it up. The rest is speculation because there was no witness. But what we think happened was he was trying to cut up the fallen tree and the chainsaw kicked back and decapitated him. Right there in the driveway. FedEx driver found him a couple hours afterwards. I’ve always thought about that d**n FedEx guy coming upon that scene…

Two middle schoolers were building a tunnel. They were a year ahead of me. It collapsed, one of them managed to wriggle out, but he couldn’t dig out his best friend.

Horrible guilt. Don’t dig tunnels unless you went to Colorado school of mines, my friends.

About 25 years ago, our friend’s uncle d**d: choking on a hotdog, alone in his hotel room. Not embarrassing, BUT the dramatic way my friend was sobbing and yelled at us through tears “my uncle was so f*****g successful, did so much for this country! But everyone will remember he CHOKED ON A HOTDOG … FOREVER!!”

I’ve told that story so many times - that I guess she’s right.

Went off the marked path in a park and fell off a cliff.

Drinking on a balcony with mates. Had more beers in the apartment next door. Balconies were not right next to eachother, but linked by a metal bar between the railings. He went next door to get more beers, and in order to save himself a few seconds then tried to balance across the metal bar carrying a case of beers. He didn't make it and fell 5 stories to his d***h.

A high school classmate burglarized a house while its owners were at church. He stole some guns and sporting equipment, then tripped on the steps on the way out and s*****d himself in the stomach with an arrow. He pulled out the arrow and made it back to his pickup truck, but bled out a half-mile from the house he'd robbed.

There was a young woman I worked with, who by total coincidence was my next door neighbor a few years later. Her boyfriend d**d in a freak accident in the mountains of Utah. A few months after his d***h, she went to those same mountains to spread his ashes. She fell to her d***h while emptying the urn.

Thought it was a good idea to go swimming in the canals of Amsterdam while drunk, and in winter.

Had a friend a couple decades back who got wasted on a few different substances and then decided to take a nice, speedy drive down the freeway. In a Miata. She flipped it and became a meat crayon.

One of my great uncles (mom's dad's brother) was a bad alcoholic, and was the type to get really angry when he was drunk. One night he got into an argument with his wife over.. the furniture? He went out to the shed to get his chainsaw and just started chopping s**t up. In the midst of his blind/drunken rage, the chainsaw bounced against something and went straight into his throat, nearly cut his head clean off

This happened long before I was born but my mom always told me about it as to why alcohol is dangerous and it's always stuck with me.

Guy I knew who was really athletic and our HS team running back tried to race our other two friends who were both overweight in a swimming race at a lake. Everyone was s***faced. The athletic dude actually tired out and drowned. It was so sad and a waste. The two fat guys didn't.

Someone in my family was in a wheelchair, an elderly person. A garbage truck backed up on him in an alley. He didn't d*e from the shock, his wheelchair was only knocked over, the driver stopped in time to avoid the worst. He d**d of an heart attack before the ambulance could reach him. Literally d**d of fear.

Dude went to the hospital for something, don't exactly remember what it was (maybe heart related, maybe early stages OD), docs treated him for like a week in hospital, told him he needed to stop drinking and doing d***s immediately and completely or he would d*e.

Dude is released from hospital, goes to a party that night, does d***s and drinks, d**s that night.

I had an elderly great-uncle that had a heart attack while in bed with an adult worker. His wife went scorched earth on Facebook and then gleefully spent all his money.

A guy in h**h-school (my best friends boyfriend)
He was fixing his car in the garage and my friend went over and found him. His Mom was home, and when my friend went over, his mom let her through the house and said, hes just in the garage, go on through. It was a very cold night and he closed the garage door. He was under the car when she found him.
This was 40 yrs ago, we were 17. At that point i had never learned not to close your garage door with the engine on.

My mum d**d after rolling her mobility scooter.

In other news, don’t get a three wheel mobility scooter.

I didn't technically know him, but a friend of mine's neighbor came home drunk, passed out in his front yard, and drowned in his kids' kiddie pool. His wife found him the next morning..