re: Most disturbing way someone you know died

I saw a guy who had overdosed and ended up having a seizure in the middle of the street. Apparently he got thrown out of the bar as we were walking up. Medics came and tried reviving him for about 5 min... No success... they put him on a stretcher and walked back to the ambulance.

Eta: didn't know him but still pretty fricked up

My uncle, a volunteer fireman in pineville/libuse, fell into his own yard fire about 8 years ago and died.
He was a good man, and whenever I get together with his daughters or my other cousins, Uncle Mike stories are told.

A former colleague of my fiancé committed suicide last night. Single gunshot to the head while he was sitting on the couch. He was an extremely charismatic and business savvy man in his 60's. He was President and CEO for the company he worked for. He was also the team doctor for the Miami Dolphins for a stretch. Everyone that knew him seems to be in shock as they can't believe a man like him would take his own life after dedicating so much of his own to save others.


Crazy stuff, you never know what is right around the corner.

I was sent to a rig in Utah where the day before a rig hands head was crushed from a stupid driller dropping the blocks on him. He pushed another guy out of the way but couldn't get clear of the blocks himself

A stupid driller crushed my left hand when I was a roughneck in the gulf in 1988. I knew a guy that got cut in half by a load dropped from a crane. He didn't know he was cut in half and was asking people to help him up before he died. I also knew a guy that for some reason got under a load and his head was crushed. The next day the crane operator that had worked with the guy for 15 years was standing around laughing about it. I almost got fired