You know it is your time when...

[LChoy]

["How you like to Die?"], "I don't know, in a threesome when I'm a hundred?"
- Roman, GTA 4

[4X4]

Death by snoo snoo!

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands

My wife and I, along with our extended families, had a pretty rough year a few years back, where we had to mourn 7 separate deaths. Most of them were close family and friends, and one of them a suicide. It got to the point where laughing at death was one of the only coping mechanisms that worked anymore. I am sure some onlookers would have thought we were morbid, classless folks, but really it was just our way of dealing.

I agree with the poster noting there is a difference between laughing at the fact someone dies, and laughing at the circumstances of someones death. If there wasn't, then anyone laughing at the Darwin Awards is damned, even if the deaths are self induced. Chuckling to yourself, and identifying the odds around the enormously bad luck surrounding an unfortunate and tragic death is not a ticket to hell IMO.

Agreed. For all of the deaths I've had in my family over the years, black humour is a common thing. The circumstances of these people's deaths is horrible, and chuckling at the unusual circumstances of the pedestrian's death isn't the same as belittling his death.

There's a reason why Darwin Awards are so popular...

[Gozer]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

There's a reason why Darwin awards are so popular...

This death has nothing in common with a Darwin award.

[Resolute 14]

Common in that unusual ways of dying do pique the interest of many people. Obviously this was not self induced.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Gozer

This death has nothing in common with a Darwin award.

Sure it does. A rare and unfortunate event that lead to someones untimely demise. The only thing that it doesn't have in common is the subject in question had no control over the situation.

[Boblobla]

dammit, too slow.

[Gozer]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

A rare and unfortunate event that lead to someones untimely demise.

On Monday, at age 19, Renaud collapsed at his home in nearby Tecumseh and was transported to Windsor Regional Hospital with no vital signs. Resuscitation attempts failed and he was pronounced dead around noon.

*snicker*

Originally Posted by Boblobla

The only thing that it doesn't have in common is the subject in question had no control over the situation.

That is the sole requisite of a Darwin award.

Sorry buddy, I don't see it.

[MolsonInBothHands]

Originally Posted by Gozer

On Monday, at age 19, Renaud collapsed at his home in nearby Tecumseh and was transported to Windsor Regional Hospital with no vital signs. Resuscitation attempts failed and he was pronounced dead around noon.

*snicker*





That is the sole requisite of a Darwin award.

Sorry buddy, I don't see it.

Your example of Renaud doesn't quite match the helicopter case, IMO. I couldn't say with absolute certainty, but the chances of an undetected heart defect are far greater than the chances of a pedestrian getting run over by a helicopter. Again, I don't interpret what the OP is talking about as "HA HA stupid pedestrian, you should have been walking with your head up!". I interpret it as him seeing an incredible, surreal set of circumstances and more or less chuckling to himself, "You have got to be %$#@tin' me. That poor SOB!" There is no malice, or disrespect towards the deceased, just a different emotional response to the circumstances around it. It is hardly worth the level of condemnation it is receiving.

[Gozer]

I see where he's coming from, I don't think this is evidence Bob is a sociopath or some of the other vitriol directed at him, but I don't find this funny at all.


Darwin awards on the other hand...

[LChoy]

There was a great one about a drunken Russian army unit that started playing Hot Grenade (potato). When the person eventually lost, so did everyone else...........(they were heavily intoxicated at the time)

[CaptainCrunch]

I don't know guys, if I go, I'd love to have it create 4 pages of debate on CP.

That'd be my legacy.

Jeeze he was going 100 miles an hour, backwards, upside down and onfire when he hit the pillow factory.

Yeah and the fact that he survived that but fell into a vat of chicken feathers and died is something.

[Calgaryborn]

I found the names:

• Helicopter pilot Edward William Kyle Heeb, 57
• BC Hydro employee Dirk Bentley Rozenboom, 45
• BC Hydro employee Robert William Lehmann, 37