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

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Human mortality has caused us anguish as far back as we have written history. After all, the Epic of Gilgamesh is largely about dealing with the passing of Gilgamesh’s best buddy. But that doesn’t mean that humans treat danger as seriously as they should.
Someone asked the internet to share the dumbest stories of how someone passed and netizens did just that. Be warned, dumb can be funny, but a few of these tales are also pretty morbid. Otherwise, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own experiences below.

#61

Stole a motorbike and immediately crashed it in to a tree.
8points

#62

Not me, but one person removed. 

A friend went to highschool with the first person k****d by an alligator in the state of Texas in something like 80 years. 

His last words were "F**k that Gator!"
8points

#63

Complained of feeling really bad for several days but drank four pitchers of margaritas one night and was found d**d in his big rig fifty miles away the next day by the DPS (highway patrol).
8points

#64

Country club golf pro degenerate gambler and raging alcoholic drowned in the water hazard after driving into it.
6points

#65

Friends kid just recently dove from a bridge during a 1000 year flood.  They didn’t find his body for days.  High schooler with his whole life in front of him.
6points

#66

Carbon p*******g. Classmate working on truck with his dad, shut the garage door due to rain and both suffocated inside.
6points

#67

Huffing canned air in the parking lot of the store they stole/bought it from. I say stole/bought because she had a tendency to steal it and I don’t remember if she bought or stole this one.
6points

#68

Kid I kinda knew in high school was at the south end of a northbound platform on the subway. He poked his head around the corner to see if the train was coming. It was and pretty much took his head clean off.
6points

#69

At a high school party this kid saw one of his friends leaving and thought he'd be funny to jump out in front of the vehicle to scare the driver. He got hit and d**d.
5points

#70

Choked on a mini muffin.
3points
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