ITT Pathetic deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dodge_%28baseball%29
Seems John Dodge couldn't Dodge the ball that caused his death.
Christopher McCandless
As pathetic is his death was, the idea of dying alone the way he did, and the way he documented his own end has always spooked me. The journal, the photos, how emaciated he was when they found him in his sleeping bag. It's really fucking haunting, imo.
My mom's death was kind of pathetic, in a way. To me, it's just tragic, but I suppose others might see it as pathetic.
She basically an-heroed in slow motion, and I'll never know why for sure.
She covered up the fact that she had cancer. Maybe she didn't know it was cancer, but she had to know something was wrong. She kept getting sick and lying to us, saying that it was her old back injury flaring up, or a bad cold/case of bronchitis (that never seemed to go away). Maybe she realized it was too late at some point and just decided to ride it out. She was never one to go to the doctor for anything.
She was spending increasing amounts of time in bed. Finally her breathing got so strained that my dad called an ambulance. She was admitted to the hospital the Wednesday before Mother's Day, and died three weeks later. The tumors on her breasts were visible. My dad had noticed that she'd started wearing her bra to bed a few months earlier, but didn't think anything of it at the time. We found a shocking amount of empty aspirin and ibuprofen bottles in her night stand.
She was diagnosed with late stage breast cancer. It had spread to her lungs and she spent a few days on a respirator. They had to insert the needle to hook it up without anesthesia or anything. She went through one round of chemo, but it was hopeless by that time.
Her death was bad. At the end, she was on a constant supply of morphine, just enough to avoid killing her outright. She spasmed with every breath. Before she lost consciousness for good, she was begging her mom to help her.
The whole ordeal at least could have been preventable. I'll never know why she let it go. If she gave up and wanted to die, or if she realized that she was sick and got scared. I guess I'll wonder for the rest of my life.
Would ironic deaths count as pathetic? Y'know like beavers getting crushed by the very trees they gnaw on?
>>27698236
French playwright Moliere died on stage from tubercolosis while playing a hypochondriac. People thought he was playing a character but he straight up died.
>>27698869
>supply of morphine, just enough to avoid killing her outright.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
Timothy Treadwell, self-professed activist and friend of bears.
Eaten by a bear.
>>27698869
RIP
She probably just wanted to avoid and pretend it didn't exist and actually made herself believe that because she didn't want to cause trouble both to herself and her family. In the same way robots make excuses as to why we can't talk to girls.
>>27699142
Yeah. My experience with her death solidified my belief that euthanasia should be legal under some circumstances. With the patient's consent, of course. She spent three days in a coma-life stupor. Whenever she got close enough to being cognizant of the pain she was in, they dosed her up again.
>>27699143
I'd like to hear their screams.
Better to die a pathetic death than to live a pathetic life.
>>27699255
Was euthanisia requested by the mother or someone?
>>27699230
That's what I prefer to think. She just didn't want us to worry and fuss over her.
I think it just ended a lot messier than she thought it would. You think you'll sail off quietly into the night, but it ends up being a big ordeal at the end.
>>27698236
"My father, poor fellow, was killed by the French, never should of happened you see. Chased by lancers before his horse ended up in the bog and the beast gave up. Those lancers had him like a tiger in a corner. Bad luck eh Uxbridge?
"Damn bad luck."
>>27698869
I didn't click on this thread for this
>>27699318
Not that I'm aware of. I wasn't there the last night that she was fully awake. But my grandma said she was just screaming over and over, 'help me, help me, make it stop.' Stuff to that effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandigham
19th century lawyer Clement Laird Vallandigham died during a court case. He tried to defend someone who was accused of murder by showing that the victim might have accidentally shot himself. Vallangdigham showed this by using a real gun andaccidentally shot himself dead with it!
The silver lining: Vallandigham's client was acquitted because the jury was convinced by his defense.
>>27698236
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd0_1296909173
budd dwyers death seemed pretty pathetic to me
>>27699260
can be found on liveleak
>>27699754
or youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9lCkFygaaQ
>>27699402
Maybe you find solace in that most deaths are ugly.
>>27699806
Sounds fake
>>27699806
Is that real? Those screams at the end are fucking brutal
>>27699275
Isn't that the same thing though?
>>27700406
Well... Genghis Khan died from falling off his horse y'see.
Compared to his epic life, Napoleon's death was pretty pathetic. It's always boring when a great legend dies naturally.
Phillip Hughes. That was incredibly pathetic.
>>27698236
Do fictional deaths count, too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-uSL_cfeE
>Dead silence outside
>Couldn't hear a "walker" moving through the grass behind him
Dropped the series after that. Too many bullshit deaths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHKdn0XScg
>Too fat to jump onto the car
