# What is the most embarrasing way to die. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 26, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785 "2000-11-26T20:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/21 "2000-11-27T03:31:24Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mirage \* > There is the old story of the guy in a building in Toronto that used to throw himself at the windows to show how strong they were… > > …one day he did it and the window gave in…and he fell… > > I’m pretty sure it he was embarassed…but only until he hit the ground. 😃 > (Yes…this is a true story.) \*\* What caused the glass to break was his throwing himself at it while it was still rebounding from his first assault. Sympathetic vibration. He was an associate at Holden Day Wilson who was trying to impress the new articling students at an office party. Seeing as how the primary concern of any articling sudent is to be hired on as an associate after being called to the bar, I’d say this fellow went beyond the call of duty in ensuring that there were openings available. The only problem was that the firm folded shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![cegan523](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/fbc32d/32.png) [@cegan523](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cegan523)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/22 "2000-11-27T03:43:41Z")
The most embarrasing in my family was the death of my great-grandfather. He was old, senile, and depressed, and he attempted to commit suicide. While trying to tie a noose to a rafter in the garage, he fell from the ladder, broke his neck and died. ---
**Author:** ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/23 "2000-11-27T04:03:20Z")
On a dare, seeing if you can break your own neck by twisting your head with your hands, and succeeding. As I wondered whether or not it’s possible, I caught myself reaching for my own head, and was stopped only by the image of myself lying paralyzed on the ground, mumbling “Kill me. Please. Kill me. I don’t want to live as a self-induced quad.” ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/24 "2000-11-27T04:20:03Z")
> [@](#): > > What caused the glass to break was his throwing himself at it while it was still rebounding from his first assault. Sympathetic vibration. I remember seeing something like this in a Ben Stiller movie, where he played a junkie. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/25 "2000-11-27T04:34:59Z")
Oh yeah, the name of the movie is PERMANENT MIDNIGHT. With Ben Stiller and Liz Hurley. Ohh lah lah! ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/26 "2000-11-27T04:44:34Z")
**From the 1999 "Darwin “Natural Selection” Awards** John Pernicky (the late) and his friend, (the late) Sal Hawkins, of the great state of Washington, decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the George Washington Amphitheatre. Having no tickets (but having had 18 beers between them), they thought it would be easy to “hop” over the nine-foot fence and sneak into the show. They pulled their pick-up truck over to the fence and the plan was for Mr. Pernicky, (who was 100-pounds heavier than Mr. Hawkins) to hop the fence and then assist his friend over. Unfortunately for Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot drop on the other side of the fence. Having heaved himself over, he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was bruptly halted (and broken, along with his arm, as it were) by a large branch that snagged him by his shorts. Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and saw some bushes below him. (Possibly) figuring the bushes would break his fall, he removed his pocket-knife and proceeded to cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree. Finally free, Mr. Pernicky crashed 25-feet into holly bushes. The sharp leaves scratched his entire body and now, without the protection of his shorts, a holly branch penetrated his rectum. To make matters worse, on landing, his pocket-knife penetrated his thigh three inches. On seeing his friend in considerable pain and agony, Mr. Hawkins decided to throw him a rope and pull him to safety (now he thinks of the “S” word!) by tying the rope to the pick-up truck and slowly driving away. However, in his drunken haste/state, he put the truck into reverse and crashed through the fence landing on his friend and killing him. Police arrived to find the crashed pick-up with its driver thrown 100 feet from the truck and dead at the scene from massive internal injuries. Upon moving the truck, they found John under it, half-naked, scratches on his body, a holly stick in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his shorts dangling from a tree branch 25-feet in the air. ---
**Author:** ![jamesglewisf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@jamesglewisf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jamesglewisf)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/27 "2000-11-27T05:06:27Z")
I was travelling in DC and had some time on my hands. I decided to go to a movie. I went to one called “Paris is Burning.” I had no idea what it was about, but the title was intriguing. It didn’t take long before I realized it was a documentary about a transvestites’ ball or beauty contest. I also realized that there was only me and one other man in the theater. I started thinking about what it would look like if I had a brain aneurysm and died during the middle of the movie. That’s when I decided to get up and leave. LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/28 "2000-11-27T05:57:34Z")
I think the Senator in The Birdcage had an embarrasing death. He was a Christian Coalition, religious right type who had a heart attack while having sex with an underage black man. not that there is anyting wrong with that of course. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/29 "2000-11-27T10:21:30Z")
Wooley. I believe that the story about the two Metallica fans was discovered to be a UL… good story, tho! ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/30 "2000-11-27T16:33:33Z")
> [@](#): > > What caused the glass to break was his throwing himself at it while it was still rebounding from his first assault. Sympathetic vibration. The glass didn’t actually break. The whole pane popped loose out of its frame. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/31 "2000-11-27T16:41:57Z")
Off to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/32 "2000-11-27T17:16:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > \*\*Off to IMHO. \*\* …for no apparent reason… ---
**Author:** ![sliv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sliv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sliv)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/33 "2000-11-27T20:37:03Z")
I believe the Senator from the Birdcage actually died having sex with an underage black prostitute. I remember the scene of her being interviewed on a TV… “He said, ‘the money’s on the dresser, chocolate’, and then he just died.” What a way to go. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/34 "2000-11-28T01:18:57Z")
OK, I heard this story, maybe we’ve all heard it. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s UL, but it’s entertaining anyway. Guy has one of those bathtubs with the wide flat rims. Guy sticks a plunger to the rim of the tub. Guy greases up the plunger handle, grabs the shower curtain rod, and uh, starts doing chin-ups. Shower curtain rod breaks, guy impales himself on the plunger and dies. True? Maybe not. But if it is, I have to wonder if the EMS crew came over, and pulled the guy off with a loud “SCHMACK” as the plunger popped off. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/35 "2000-11-28T03:15:11Z")
> [@](#): > > **In 1990, a 39-year-old spaniard was quietly nailing a chick amid a pile of boulders on a riverbank in Orense, Spain. He was so quiet about it because the bird of his affections was of the poultry variety. Their passion was so strong that they dislodged an enormous boulder above, which then fell and crushed the plucky pair.** A truly fowl way to die. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/36 "2000-11-28T15:45:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by absoul \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Shiva: Auto-erotic asphixiation. > > Dead, rope around neck, pecker in your hand. Wow. > > \*\* And inevitably involving the corpse clad in women’s underwear. And usually he’s a Member of Parliament. Although I read about a farmer found like that, out in his barn, hanging from some piece of farm equiptment. Apparently it had some bulldozer-like attatchment that raises and loweres when you pull a lever. Unfortuatly the rope he attached to the lever came loose and… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/37 "2000-11-28T16:14:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dire Wolf \* > \*\* > There are some amusing tales here: > [http://www.darwinawards.com/](http://www.darwinawards.com/) > > \*\* …most of which are made up. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/38 "2000-11-28T16:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OrcaChow \* > > > [@](#): > > > > In 1990, a 39-year-old spaniard was quietly nailing a chick amid a pile of boulders on a riverbank in Orense, Spain. He was so quiet about it because the bird of his affections was of the poultry variety. Their passion was so strong that they dislodged an enormous boulder above, which then fell and crushed the plucky pair. > > \*\*A truly fowl way to die. > \*\* You just couldn’t resist, uh? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![hapaXL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@hapaXL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hapaXL)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/39 "2000-11-28T19:14:55Z")
here in the Bay Area a couple of years ago there was a gun enthusiast, who in the middle of his demonstration with friends to prove that guns are safe, shot himself in the head and died. his obituary appeared in my college alumni magazine, so i’m pretty sure it’s true. talk about a self-contradicting statement… ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785/40 "2000-11-29T05:45:48Z")
Mine are morons who do the world a service by doing themselves in by their own stupidity. Like poor Jason Jinks, who decided it would be a good idea to look for his missing hat by opening his car door and going 25 mph in reverse. He hit his head when he hit the brakes and fell out. He died three days later. Robin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-embarrasing-way-to-die/42785.md?page=3)