# BONES question: How did Sweets die?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-question-how-did-sweets-die/760436>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 20, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-question-how-did-sweets-die/760436 "2016-07-20T18:07:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-question-how-did-sweets-die/760436/21 "2016-07-24T17:37:59Z")

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> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#):
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> Is Sweets the guy who when he died the others sang, “He put the lime in the coconut and drank it all up” as they carried his coffin to a hearse?

No, that was Vincent Nigel-Murray, one of the interns. His death indirectly got Bones knocked up and eventually married.

> [@simster](#):
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> But apparently (I quit watching just prior to Sweet’s death and havent watched it since) - they did also sing that for Sweet’s funera as welll - ['Bones' Season 10 Recap: Sweets Death and Funeral — Cast Sings "Coconut" Song](http://tvline.com/2014/10/02/bones-season-10-recap-sweets-death-funeral-song/)

When told that “The Lime & the Coconut” was Vncent’s favorite song, Sweets replied by saying, “Really? Because that’s my jam.” So that’s reasonable.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-question-how-did-sweets-die/760436/22 "2016-07-26T23:24:05Z")

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> [@StGermain](#):
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> I still miss Zack.
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> I actually stopped watching when Hodgins hit the wheelchair.
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> StG

You made it longer than me. I’d stopped before they had the Sleepy Hollow crossover (but had to come back for that since I was still watching SH).

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-question-how-did-sweets-die/760436/23 "2016-07-26T23:49:53Z")

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> [@obfusciatrist](#):
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> Back to in story, they show managed to keep it a secret, not even teasing that someone was going to maybe die, and it was a very sudden turn of events within the episode.

I had stopped watching the new episodes of Bones before Sweets died, I still watch reruns when nothing else is on though, and when I heard he died I went to Netflix to watch the episode and man his death was out of nowhere and very sudden. I knew going in he was going to die but it was still shocking how out of the blue it was.

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-question-how-did-sweets-die/760436/24 "2016-07-27T00:48:20Z")

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> [@TBG](#):
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> You made it longer than me. I’d stopped before they had the Sleepy Hollow crossover (but had to come back for that since I was still watching SH).

My watching has always been erratic and mostly on TNT. But I like it, expecially the non-arc episodes. It’s good, goofy fun, and I kuje it that the cases-of-the-week are just excuses to tell stories about the characters’ personal lives.

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