BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – An ice-cream truck driver in Thailand died while laughing in his sleep, a newspaper reported Thursday. Damnoen Saen-um, 52, laughed for about two minutes on Wednesday and then stopped breathing, The Nation said, quoting officials. The newspaper said Damnoen’s wife tried to wake him up but he kept laughing. An autopsy suggested that he might have had a heart attack, The Nation quoted a doctor as saying. “I have never seen a case like this. But it is possible that a person could have heart seizure while laughing or crying too hard in their sleep,” said Dr. Somchai Chakrabhand, deputy director-general of the Mental Health Department, according to The Nation.
Gee, I saw “ice cream” and I figured someone must have gotten trapped in an ice cream freezer and had to eat his way out. Certainly preferable to me over laughing myself to death in my sleep. But then, I do like ice cream!
Reminds me of an old joke: A woman had a husband who worked at a brewery. One day, a coworker of her husband’s came to her house and said that he had bad news, that her husband had drowned in one of the large fermentation vats. After choking back sobs, she asked if it was at least a quick death. The worker replied, “Well ma’am, he seemed to be doing fine the first two times he came up for air, but after he dove back in the third time, he just never resurfaced.”
My mom says she wants to die laughing - or at least have the word “massive” appear on her death certificate – massive coronary, massive stroke, massive elephant that sat on her, you know.
nope, like Woody Allen’s A midsummer’s night dream, I think the best way to go is just when you’re reaching your sexual climax.
hell of a turn off for whomever you’re with, but still.
What a way to go, eh?
A lot better death than, say, the guy I just read about who was operating the roller coaster at an amusement park, his hair got caught in some mechanism and the roller coaster dragged him up the course really high until his hair let loose - he was scalped - and fell a long ways and landed on a fence. I hate it when that happens.
