Whatta Way to Go!

Ah, StumbleUpon knows me too well. I ask it to recommend a website, and it spits out Wikipedia's "List of Unusual Deaths." If I were to ever commit murder and/or suicide--I'm not considering either at the moment, though you never say never--this is the first place I'd look for ideas. A few highlights:

"1834: David Douglas, Scottish botanist, fell into a pit trap accompanied by a bull. He was gored and possibly crushed."

If you can't tell whether or not he was crushed...it's a good bet he probably was. PS. What the hell was a botanist doing fooling around with a bull?

"1954: Alan Turing, English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer, was found dead by his cleaner on 8 June; the previous day, he had died of cyanide poisoning, apparently from a cyanide-laced apple he left half-eaten beside his bed. It has been suggested that Turing was reenacting a scene from "Snow White", his favourite fairy tale."

...Or at least, that's what the dwarfs claimed.

"1979: Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant, was the first known man to be killed by a robot"

AND SO IT BEGINS!