Extraordinary Exits,

[Khandro]

Alex Salmond died ‘while opening bottle of ketchup’. 

Edmund Josef von Horváth was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who was hit by a falling branch from a tree and killed during a thunderstorm on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.  

My own father dropped dead mid-sentence talking to his invalided next door neighbour whilst doing a small d.i.y. job for him.

I once knew a man who expired laughing among friends at the bar in a pub.

Does anyone know of any other strange departures? 

 

[Old_Geezer]

No, but I think I'll aim for the laughing pub one for myself.

[Peter Pedant]

aeschylus had a tortoise dropprd on him

( sorry, time bar on " who aeschylus den? " etc.)

[jourdain2]

My mum was reading a letter  from a lifelong friend (in Canada) aloud to my dad (who was reading the paper).  He looked up when she stopped speaking. 

One heck of a shock - I was teaching a class when I had a message to gohome. 

[sandyRoe]

Evelyn Waugh strained a mite too hard while sitting on the toilet, as did Elvis.

[Peter Pedant]

Waugh - yes Pulmonary embolus

but paraldehyde was his tipple as well which complicated things

[Buenchico]

There's a Wikipedia page for just about everything! 🚽

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_died_while_on_the_toilet

[Buenchico]

Two English kings both had their deaths attributed to 'a surfeit of lampreys':
https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/whats-new/nine-eyed-lompers-

[Buenchico]

Lots of gruesome tales here!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

[douglas9401]

Strangest departure for me was the 14:32 from Haymarket to Birmingham New Street.

Went straight up in the air.

[Ken4155]

A friend of mine and his qwife were watching tv. He asked if she wanted a cup of tea, she said yes. He told me that when he brought her cup of tea, she had died. She was in her 40s.

Another friend was having a go at a stock-car time trial. The starter asked if he was ready, and he put both thumbs up to signify that he was. The starter dropped his flag and turned to see my friend slumped over the steering wheel having suffered a massive heart-attack. Again, he was in his 40s.

[Hopkirk]

An ex work colleague in his seventies worried his friends by his lack of contact.

 

When his flat was broken into, they found him on the sofa with the TV on. His legs were crossed at the ankles, with a glass of whisky beside him.

 

That's the way to go.

[Hopkirk]

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[jno]

no mention of Erasmus of Predjama in the toilet list, I see

https://www.postojnska-jama.eu/en/predjama-castle/

The toilet's still there, called The Unlucky Spot.

[jno]

check your underwear in a storm

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/28/linusgregoriadis

[Smowball]

Well I  never heard of being killed by your bra before!

[jno]

some  underwear is attractive in all the wrong ways.

[Smowball]

lol

[Old_Geezer]

Oh I don't know. My woman has often said, "My bra is killing me."

[Khandro]

Hopkirk; //His legs were crossed at the ankles, with a glass of whisky beside him.//

Is there any significance to the fact that his legs were crossed at the ankles ? 

[Hopkirk]

It was an indication that he was totally relaxed and comfortable, Khandro. 

If he had died in pain or trauma his posture wouldn't have been like that.