Celebs
Tragic Ways Celebs Died
Pretty much everyone has the closest family and friends mourn their death after it unfortunately comes, but it’s a bit different when you’re a celebrity: there’s an additional million or two of mourners you’ve never even met, there’s media coverage, and there’s certainly no peace amongst the wild speculations… Read about the celebs who died in unconventional ways.
David Carradine
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The actor, fortunately, didn’t die early, having been encountered dead in Bangkok, in 2009, being 72 years of age. As a cord was found around the Carradine’s neck, the first guess was of course that he’d committed suicide. After some time, though, the officials found out that Carradine wasn’t trying to kill himself – well, he did want to experience the little death. Temporary suffocation was meant to increase the pleasure during a sexual adventure, but it didn’t work out.
Natalie Wood
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Natalie Wood died tragically in 1981 due to drowning. She was having a good time onboard the yacht Splendour when she suddenly fell off the ship and into the water. Although at the onset, the doctors categorized her passing as having been caused just by the drowning, it was changed to “drowning and other factors” in 2012. According to The National Enquirer, “Cops have taken a new look at Natalie Wood’s autopsy report and concluded specific urine levels in her bladder indicate that she may have already been unconscious when she hit the water. It means her death involved foul play.” Sounds pretty ugly, and considering that her husband and another actor with whom he might have had beef were also present onboard, there might be more to this case.
Marvin Gaye
Via: telegraph.co.uk
It’s hard to believe whenever a case like this one surfaces, but Marvin Gaye was actually killed by his own father. The star decided to live with his parents after his addiction got the best of him; in 1984, he started an argument with his father that ended tragically. Gaye Senior shot at his son three times, hitting him on the chest. Although he later tried to claim that the killing happened in self-defense, the court knew better and charged him with manslaughter.
Brittany Murphy
Via: telegraph.co.uk
Pneumonia, anemia, and the very medicines she was using to get better were the causes of Brittany Murphy’s death. It would have been a tragic enough event on its own, but unfortunately, the star’s husband, Simon Monjack, also passed away after a few months and the causes were strikingly alike. The two were both young at the time, the woman being 32, and there was a theory that mold present in their house could have caused their demise, but the investigation didn’t discover anything of significance.
Elvis Presley
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No one can know exactly what was the case of Elvis’ death – his father made sure of it by sealing the official report until 50 years after Presley Junior’s passing. They found the Kind in the bathroom of his house in Graceland. Some believe he was only unconscious, some that he had already died. Officially, cardiac arrhythmia was responsible for his death, but what was responsible for the arrhythmia? According to some, it might have been a dangerous mixture of drugs, although in 2015 a new study proved that Elvis did indeed have a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which might have made him prone to heart disease.
Owen Hart
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It’s even direr than usually when a death is witnessed by other people – in this case, of thousands of people who watched a WWE Over the Edge event on live television. Jim Ross, the commentator of the even, stayed cold-blooded as the tragedy occurred and kept speaking to the audience: “Owen Hart was going to make a very spectacular, superhero-like entrance from the rafters and something went terribly wrong here…Hart is being attended to by the EMTs. This is not a part of the entertainment here tonight. This is as real as real can be here.” Hart was wearing his Blue Blazer suit and was meant to be lowered with a harness, but he fell from 78 feet height. Nothing could save him afterwards, as the injuries were too serious.
Jon-Erik Hexum
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Every suicide is tragic; this one even more so, as it was… accidental. Jon-Erik Hexum got quite annoyed when he found out that delays were expected in the filming of Cover Up. He had a pistol on him that belonged to his character and was loaded with blanks, so the actor recklessly put the gun to his head and… according to Entertainment Weekly, “The impact from the blast fractured his skull, driving a bone fragment the size of a quarter into his brain and causing massive hemorrhaging.” Even a five-hour surgical procedure wasn’t enough to save Hexum.
Steve Irwin
Via: telegraph.co.uk
Everyone loves Irwin and associates him with crocodiles – well, at least he must have known that his job wasn’t safe. Irwin was involved in another production somewhere near the Australian coast when he got attacked by a stingray. Pierced right through the heart, he was immediately fatally poisoned.
Jeff Buckley
Via: biography.com
A swimming aficionado, Jeff Buckley was unfortunately taken away by his biggest passion. He was trying to relax after some tense recording sessions in 1997 and he went for a swim in Wolf River Harbor near Memphis, Tennessee; sadly, his last swim ever. Fully clothed he jumped in while Keith Foti, a friend from his band, waited for him on the ground. Jeff was out of Keith’s side only for a few seconds as he was moving some equipment further from the water, but when Foti got back, there was no sign of Buckley. His body was found after five days.
Sal Mineo
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This death is also painfully accidental: the Oscar nominee was killed by Lionel Ray Williams in a haphazard mugging, stabbed to his death with a knife. The murdered would rather say that he had no idea who his victim was or that his name was so widely known. Willaims was found by the police when he murdered another fame, Christa Helm, in the very same district after a year, so he might not have been too truthful in that statement.