Medical Examiners, What Is the Weirdest Cause of Death You've Seen? 

Had a cop near me die of shock when he got shot in the hand. the round went thru 2 car doors and he caught the bullet with out breaking or bruising the skin. he just fell over dead cause his heart stopped in fear.

Imagine going to look for your missing loved one, going in their silent house, looking from room to room, calling out for them, no reply. You get to the bedroom and they're just.... standing there... with their back to you. You ask them what the hell they're doing. No reply. You go round to look them in the face and their face is purple and their eyes are milky. The sheer terror and horror of not only finding your loved one dead, but finding them in such an unnatural -seemingly impossible - position, standing up to climb on the bed, would really fuck with your head.

The one with the dead guy in the river is so sad. I hope his family got a massive malpractice settlement from the multiple doctors who ignored his problems.

I had an aunt who died after getting a lung transplant because it had a fungus growing on it that was not noticed before transplant and after getting it she was only out of the hospital one day before she died and the donor had other people get issues from the same fungus on their organs that were transplanted. My aunt had previously had breast cancer and her doctor told her not to worry about it after she had found a lump and her doctor was elderly and should have been charged for malpractice for not having her treated for breast cancer at all when she was his patient. Someone else had to treat it much later.

Not one I saw personally but one a colleague told me about. A car going at ridiculous speeds swerved over a raised median. It was going so fast it actually got some crazy air. Flew into the oncoming lane, shaving the top off an oncoming car. There was a family of 4 inside and it took all their heads off. They all died instantly, probably before they even had time to scream.

"Screamhole" sounds like a really good name for a hardcore band.

The happy tree friends thumbnail is so appropriate for this topic

The one where the drunk driver killed the man who was trying to commit suicide is a win for quite a few sides (Body is still mostly intact, the train driver doesn’t need to experience the trauma of hitting someone, the suicidal man still likely had a quick and painless death, easier to do autopsy)

The one committing suïcide because of the lung infection is terrible sad. If only one doctor thought of an xray it would have been noticed right away

Second-hand story: My stepdad had a collegue who worked under him in the navy as some sort of machinist mate. Well one day old dude is working on the plumbing for some sector of the ship where there was a clog or some sort of problem. He cracks the pipe open and basically dies there on the spot wrench still in hand. The problem was that there was seawater and some kind of plumbing buildup in the pipe which caused the formation of highly concentrated Hydrogen Sulfide (as far as I can tell). Dude never had a chance in hell of surviving it.

Okay, so (obligatory disclaimer) I'm neither a medical professional, nor a dead body... I used to be a fairly prolific Reptile Wrangler... On a job, we were called for a "Big dangerous snake", and the home owners normally get out of the way while we work, but we had this guy who just couldn't stay clear. He was always quick to vollunteer for "showing us where that is" or similar excuses to get more involved. AND of course the snake bit him... In the resulting frenzy, we managed to corner the snake while he scrambled up to the porch... and died before the Ambulance could arrive. "Well, okay, Gnarth. Dude died of a snake-bite. What's weird?" Right??? The snake was a Rock Python. Sure... large and moderately dangerous, but NOT venomous... Dude had himself convinced it was some kind of viper, though... impressed by size more than anything sensible. He died of cardiac arrest... basically the fear of venom and the shear size of the snake pushed his heart-rate and blood pressure past his limit to survive. Most of us present expected it to be nonvenomous, even if we couldn't readily I.D. the thing immediately by memory. It was large enough and muscular enough to just "present" a nonvenomous profile. BUT he scared himself to death over it. Now, while you sit there and process that. I'm NOT here to tell you to be nonchalant about snakes or snake handling. If you don't know, it IS best to leave them alone... just in general. However, there's nothing good to come from being horrifically afraid of them either. Venomous snakes actually do NOT want to hunt you down or invenomate you. You're not a "prey item" so to them, there's no profit in it,. Venom is expensive to them... SO they don't go prowling around on some personal mission to waste the stuff on everything around. They WILL use it in defense if they're stressed enough, but I've even been bitten by venomous snakes and spent the night in a hospital "under observation" without a drop of antivenom because it was a "dry" bite... meaning the snake bit me, but didn't bother throwing venom... More mature snakes are more likely to do that... BUT don't necessarily go betting your life on it as a probability. It's just a chance that you won't necessarily be invenomated just because you got bit... ...AND yes, "Fear" alone CAN kill you. ;o)

Strokes on the toilet are fairly common, apparently one of the symptoms of an approaching stroke is a desire to go to the toilet. Something to think about next time you need a crap!

3:25 is heartbreaking. The way doctors dismiss people instead of doing their due diligence really need to change. (This is coming from me who had to wait 17 years in agony before getting a proper diagnosis. I thank myself everyday for not giving up but not everyone is so lucky)

So this is basically 1000 Ways to Die Reddit Edition.

"Don't stick big things up your butt." Wiser words have never been said.

That chicken story reminds me of this one garfield strip where one farmer goes to another "And then the chicken EXPLODED!" The other responds "Corn'll give 'em gas alright."

Lol that follow up comments for the red wine and blood one were great. Also the phrase scream hole is terrifying. I have a very vivid mental image that I never wanted now.

8:57 Imagine asking those two how they met, and she answers “Well, it all started when he broke both my arms”

First one, I work at a funeral home and we picked up from a very nice house (not a mansion but he paid good money). He was only in his 50s and found out he hadn’t been to the doctor in 22 years. Take care of yourself folks.

I am just amazed at the standing on the bed guy

You may hear these stories of people suffocating and sometimes wonder why they didn't realize anything is wrong. Apparently, the sensor in our bodies that triggers us to experience that 'suffocating' sensation is not tripped by a lack of oxygen. What trips it is an excess of carbon dioxide. Very specifically, and ONLY, carbon dioxide. So if you are suffocating because your oxygen is being displaced by ANYTHING other than carbon dioxide (carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, methane, sulfur hexafloride, whatever) the sensor isn't tripped, you don't get the warning sensation, and you have no idea anything is wrong until you keel over.

Ok, not a very bright idea to watch this while eating... 😂

Words you never want to hear from the coroner: "Hey man, check this out."

The one where he killed himself to stop the pain is so sad - how no one listened to him is crazy

10:16 - I had something similar happen (ulcers not varices) and until I was proper bleeding to death I didnt notice anything other than slight difficulty swallowing and indigestion. A GI bleed is painless, so that one doesnt surprise me. And it can happen fast, like a day or two in build up.

Heard about a lady who hadn’t gotten off the couch in three years. Her skins fused to the couch and she survived a heart attack, but died of infection after being ripped off the couch.

20:50 If that was me, I'd be full on sobbing and having an anxiety attack! The hell kind of bs is going through that woman's mind thinking that it would be okay to show her 14-year-old child that?!

16:55 My late husband found his late mother standing -- and quite dead -- in her bathroom. Yes, I had many, many questions. Yet I simply could not bring myself to ask them. His mother was widowed when he was 6 months old, had no one else, and he was grieving so deeply that I simply couldn't ask, even after years had gone by. I believe she'd begun to feel ill, had shut off the stove top (she was cooking chicken breasts for herself and her beloved rescue husky), made it into the bathroom, and died. Her back was apparently against the bathroom wall but she was otherwise standing with knees slightly bent ... for over two days. We have doctors in the family and I collect weird medical facts, but this is one I won't be solving on this side of eternity.

my grandpas sisters husband died of a heart attack/ choking on food. he stared choking then had a heart attack in fear of death. my grandpa sis and him were watching tv wen it happend

5:02 This one is especially haunting to me because I have the same condition just much less severe- pica with autocanibalism. Infections are a greater concern than any damage I can do before the pain blocking stops, so I just have use as needed prescription topical antibiotic cream. But I can perfectly picture what was going on through her head, and the shame and guilt as she tied

Two of the members of Spinal Tap died of spontaneous combustion (burning to death). Different times and different places too. It was so weird.

Me who has low iron after hearing about the guy who had high iron thanking my body for having low iron for once

The guy with the infected lung was really sad He could have been saved if he was treated

Have to agree about the "Screamhole" part. Definitely NOT sleeping tonight after envisioning that one....

There has been research linking auto cannibalism and injuries as a baby, when pain receptors are not properly formed. It is possible that pain is not processed correctly by the brain, allowing for such extreme cases of autocannibalism.

Alternative Title: “Autopsy stories to NOT read while eating”

Had a friend who worked at the ME. One day a body came that had its throat slit and had multiple gun shot wounds. Turns out he was a gang member and he was shot to death but his throat was slit because the guy had one of those “cut here” tattoo on his neck and we were guessing that the one who shot him did it as an insult or message.

He did her autopsy after she died. One pathologist was a little negligent and forgot some basic checks...but he was honest and put down: cause of death--autopsy. Pooping to death: don't know if it's true, but it's said Ghenkis Khan died this way on his wedding night. Assisting the medical examiner's office at an airliner crash, I spent two days sorting and putting heads, feet, etc. back together to make whole bodies to autopsy.

"Heard from his son that he hadn't been to the doctors in 20 yrrrs."

HOW DO YOU OVERLOOK A DISINTIGRATED LUNG

It's not often that you learn a new word of a language you've known and spoken for decades. Today, it's "screamhole". I like that one. I think I'll enjoy using it.

I didn't know autocannibalism was a thing. I'm fucking horrified now

My coworker said he spoke with a guy once who used to do crime scene clean-up. The scene was at an apartment, neighbors complained of the upstairs neighbor's shower being on for an unusual amount of time, cops came and the tenant, middle aged woman, had died in the shower, maybe a few days before. He shows up as the coroner is there to collect the body and notices they are having trouble removing it. She is stuck to the bottom of the tub, by a plunger she had placed there to ... pleasure herself. She must have slipped, and skewered herself.

If only 1000 Ways to Die was still on TV.

The worst part is, some of these things I worry if they're actually euphemisms or not. Did a guy have an eggplant in his derriere, or is that a euphemism for a toy?

My grandfather told me a story. I think it took place in the 1950’s. He was inside a gas station talking to the guy that ran it when suddenly the power went off. They of course didn’t know why. A few minutes later a car drives up. The driver runs inside the station and asks if they have a phone, the station was in a rural area. He said to call the sheriff because there was a bad car accident down the road. The station owner called and my grandfather drove down the road to see if anyone needed help. He said he came over a hill and saw two cars that looked like they hit head on pretty hard. One of the cars got knocked back into a light pole which caused the power outage. He got out and walked to the first car and could clearly see the driver was definitely dead. He walked to the second car and no one was in there. He looked around in case that driver got ejected but could not find anyone. He walked past that car again and this time something caught his eye. He could see an arm sticking out under the dashboard. Turns out that the were two women in that car TWO!!! And the impact was so forceful that both of their bodies somehow rolled up underneath the dashboard.

Ok the chicken one was the most unexpected scenario here.

So I was watching this as I was laying down on my bed and my cat just came in and stole my pillow Im too tired for this

Not a weird cause of death, but unknown. My dad never liked to talk about when his mom died. He was only 17 and he always only ever said "complications from a car wreck." I found a copy of my grandmother's death certificate on the internet. The doctor who had filled it out had handwriting that made most of the letters all look the same. After some helpful deciphering from my doctor I finally had an answer. Results: She had a stroke after having a heart attack and hypertension. A car wreck had nothing to do with it. Dad just remembered she'd gotten ill around the same time.

Is it weird the chicken is the one I feel the most sorry for?

WARNING TO READERS! These include truly horrible stories of torture, pain and suffering. Don't read if you don't want to be somewhat haunted by awful, painful images....

While on chemo, I fell asleep in a lazy boy at the Fischer house at Brooke Army Medical Center, and everyone thought I was dead. Cause of death: NONE!!!

This is the best ever, but there are two things. 1. Was the girl in the car crash with the two dead boys, and if so, how the hell did she live? 2. I would pay to hear more stories from the coroner's files & specimens from the 20s. This was, by far, the best video I've seen on this subject.

Hearing all the human deaths, I respond with an, “eh.” Hearing about the poor chicken, I responded with an, “oh no! Poor little chicken!!!!”

Sometimes I have to pause, because I'm so shocked by a story that I stop listening to the next story. The scat fetish one was crazy.

I'ma just call situations "Killed by the architects" whenever someone is killed by something built into a building

I Watched Happy tree friends when i was 8 and i still have PTSD from that shit. It scarred me.

Oh Jesus Christ happy tree friends, that show has terrified me

Jaws of life ambulance responding to call traveling high speed. 80 year old man stumbles across a nearby highway. The old man trips on the dark highway, placing him on his hands and knees. The ambulance clips ONLY his head, which is found later with 11 inches of spine, still attached. It was found 100 feet away from his body which was photographed (several times) still on it's hands and knees a few feet from the shoulder. The odds of ALL of this is downright cartoonlike but imagine the horror of the next person to follow that ambulance...

That poor chicken. She must have been in so much pain. I hope to go quietly and neatly, w no 3-day rot etc for some copper to find.

The screamhole was interesting but I feel really bad for that poor chicken in the last story...

im scared for whats comeing up after the first one 0-0

We found my dad 3 days after he passed, he was lying in the bathroom we think he had a diabetic episode and just went into a coma and passed, I miss him every day he passed right as corona was just starting to get real bad back in April 2021

my dad almost died from pooping too. luckily he gave up in time to stumble out to the dinning room all dizzy. mom asked if he was ok and he just slumped over. he had recently come home from a month of inpatient cancer treatment so my mom rushed to call 911. ambulance got him ok again. i was asleep through all of this. when mom told me later about it i said "wait its not normal to feel dizzy when you poop?" ... ive nearly passed out a few times after a bathroom trip and usually take a nap after so i just thought it was normal. me and dad have had our diets changed to make bowel movements easier now...

The lady at 4:07 - 4:57 sounded like a freaking Wendigo.

The "get regular physicals, folks" for the hemochromatosis case is sadly not that helpful. Several family members had to die before the doctors thought to connect the random organ failures with a buildup of too much iron in the blood. Fun facts: * the common treatment for hemochromatosis is quite beautifully medieval--bleeding. * women don't often suffer obvious symptoms until after menopause hits * it presumably increases your odds of being struck by lightning, but this is based on an amusing CSI episode and can be false.

A man that drank 13+ litres of tap water because he thought it would make his hangover go away. He suffered a major electrolyte level derailment and died from the edema in his brain and lungs.

Damn, most of those were pretty damn horrible.

Oh my God that cancer transplant one was straight-up weird LOL. Totally fascinating.

O’Grady, he was eighty, though his bride was just a pup He died upon the honeymoon when she got his Irish up

THE HAPPY TREE FRIENDS THUMBNAIL

18:40 "violet you're turning violet"

Some kid at my school was chocked to death by a his hamster. (while he was sleeping hamster climed into his mouth)

I suddenly dont wanna eat this pizza

Testosterone poisoning lol!

How do you transplant endometrial tissue into a man??

Uhh are we just going to ignore the woman that was eating herself?

10:00 sounds like a nice way to go. number 2 of 14:12 went out like a hero.

Me: Sees title. “I bet it’s mostly due to bowel obstructions of sorts” 3 minutes later Me: Yep, as I suspected. Damn though. How messed upppp..:/

Former FWC marine officer in Stuart Florida. On the inter coastal water way / Okeechobee waterway -- 5 people leaving the dock of a bar headed home to palm beach on a fancy half million dollar go fast boat. 11:00 pm at night, drunk, probably not watching radar or in front of them, going about 70 mph in the channel. Just south of an intersecting channel that goes to Port St. Lucie. They don’t see a black a red 400 foot barge in the channel going under a bridge and the boat drives into the barge at speed. 5 speed boat occupants were hamburger stuck to the side of the barge

Absolutely love medical stories 💓💗👍

I used to work in a nursing home and we also had a patient who died while taking a crap on the toliet. Not a very dignified way to leave this world...😏

The one with the drum in the barn...I can't think of a worse way to go...

Handy there like: I died 5,000,000 times and that's not weird but a guy died ONCE by shoving a lightbulb up his ass and that's the weirdest shit you've ever seen?!

1:25 Now I'm just wondering how the lightbulb didn't break as it was entered into him...

in relation to the first story my dad has a hernia the size of a baseball and has not gotten it checked out in 15 years

2:27 "i will spend it on fava beans" And a nice chiante?

The chicken: Cluck this shit, I’m out of here

Wait ... what ... having a fourteen year old go over death reports? ... and I thought I was a bad parent ...

-emia, meaning presence in blood.

I nearly gagged at the scat one 🤢

This thumbnail makes sense goodd job!

I'm not a medical examiner, but I knew a guy who died in a grain silo accident. It was just so surreal b/c I had known this guy and I also knew his older brother who had died over a decade earlier, and it hit me in the gut b/c this is the second time tragedy had happened like this to this family.

WHY IS THE THUMBNAIL HAPPY TREE FRIENDS HANDY LMFAO 😭 IT FITS THO

6:21 that must’ve been the most shitty way to die

TIL about autocannibalism. I mean it makes sense, I just never thought about it. O_o

Happy Tree Friends is epic

" Interesting splatter pattern of brain matter. " Bars.

Why did they not remove the teeth of the self harming auto-cannibal? I recall seeing another case like it and it was done at a very early age. I think in that instance she had no pain receptors and had chewed off lips, fingers, and toes as well as removing one eye and seriously damaging the other.

That poor, poor chicken. She deserved better.