Some of the most unfortunate and bizarre deaths that actually happened:

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John Edward Jones lost his life after being trapped inside the Nutty Putty cave for more than 27 hours.

A Canadian lawyer died while trying to prove that the glass in a 24th-floor office window was unbreakable. He was right; it didn't break, but it popped out of its frame, and he plunged to his death.
In 1984, British comedian Tommy Cooper died of a heart attack while performing on stage. The audience continued laughing, thinking it was part of the act.
Eighty-eight-year-old Ilda Maciel died after nurses accidentally injected chicken soup into her veins instead of her feeding tube
On June 7, 2016, Colin Scott and his sister Sable entered a restricted area of Yellowstone National Park to attempt "hot potting" in a thermal pool. Colin slipped into the Norris Geyser Basin, where he was boiled alive and dissolved in the acidic waters, leaving only his shoes and wallet intact.
Hans Staininger, the Mayor of Braunau (a city in Austria, back then Bavaria), died 1567 when he broke his neck by tripping over his own beard. There was a fire at the town hall, where he slept, and while he tried to escape he fell over his own beard. The beard was 1.4m long and was usually rolled up in a leather pouch. This beard is now stored in a local museum.

On Black Friday 2008, 34-year-old Walmart employee Jdimytai Damour was asked by his employer to use his body as a barrier for a crowd of over 2,000 people. He died that day after being trampled by the crowd. The shoppers did not concerned about his death, and even complained of waiting too long.
In 2010, 19-year-old Sam Ballard, a rugby player from Sydney, ate a slug on a dare from friends. The slug was infected with rat lungworm disease, leading Sam to fall into a 420-day coma. When he awoke, he was paralyzed from the waist down and passed away in 2018 due to complications from the disease.
"I can’t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you." Steven Weber drowned after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzania.
Famed dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her long scarf got caught in a car wheel, pulling her out and breaking her neck

Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, became the first human in history to be killed by a robot when he was struck by a robotic arm in 1979.
In 2012, Jose Melena was at work loading pallets of canned tuna into a 35-foot-long pressure cooker when a coworker filled it with 12,000 pounds of tuna and turned it on for 2 hours, unaware that Jose was still inside. He was boiled alive.
In 2015, a Texas couple left their children home alone to get pizza. When they returned, the kids were crying and pointing toward the kitchen, where they found the oven knocked over. When the father stood the oven up, his 1-year-old daughter tumbled out, having been cooked to death.
The owner of the company that makes Segways, who spent years promoting their safety, died after accidentally driving a Segway off a cliff.
Fifty-eight-year-old homeless man Lee Stewart died after falling asleep inside a dumpster and being crushed to death by a garbage truck.
Thirteen-year-old hockey fan Brittanie Cecil was struck in the temple by a deflected puck while watching a game. She died two days before her 14th birthday from a fractured skull.
On July 8, 1974, just nine days after the America Sings attraction opened at Disneyland, 18-year-old cast member Deborah Gail Stone was tragically crushed to death between a stationary and rotating wall. An audience member heard her screams and alerted staff, though many mistook the cries for part of the show.
Texas pastor Kyle Lake died after being electrocuted while performing a baptism in front of 800 people. As he stepped into the baptismal pool, he reached out to adjust the microphone and was electrocuted.
In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite suffering a fatal heart attack mid-race. His body remained in the saddle, crossing the finish line for the win.
Aaron Henderson, a father and landfill worker from Florida, died after a coworker accidentally ran him over with a bulldozer while he was using a porta-potty.