Stay away from metal straws, beavers, and plates.

Note: This post contains sometimes graphic descriptions of deaths.

I was led down a-many rabbit holes of real deaths I cannot even fathom.

A fluffy dog with curly white fur looks out of a window with its front paws resting on the windowsill

Here’s everything people shared:

1.

This happened in under a couple of minutes."

“I heard that a sinkhole formed under some man’s bedroom and took him with it.

A group of people, including police officers and firefighters, stand in front of a house cordoned off with caution tape. An American flag is hung outside the house

It was so deep that they couldn’t find him.

Definitely a unique death situation.”

“My mother-in-law used to be a surgeon.

A man with glasses and a beard blows his nose with a tissue

She told me about a patient they had back in the ’90s.

He died because of holding in a sneeze.

Turns out he had an aneurysm in his brain that popped at that moment.”

Lindy Chamberlain with a photo of her baby daughter, Azaria Chamberlain at her hotel following the first coronial inquest which found that a dingo took her baby on February 21, 1981 in Alice Springs, Australia

“Laughing to death.

“Drowning in the desert.

A guy got caught in a box canyon during a flash flood.

British comic trio The Goodies filling their glasses with Tate & Lyle sugar,  one holding a book titled "The Goodies File."

Dude was a mayor, too.

Hans something or other.”

“That one guy who died after getting stuck face-first in an extremely claustrophobic cave.

A serene desert landscape with a winding river, sparse trees, and distant hills, captured during sunset with dramatic clouds in the sky

They could get to him but couldn’t get him out.

Just left his body in the cave and cemented the thing shut.

Nutty Putty Cave.”

A man with a long beard and mustache, wearing a black hat and black shirt, stands with his hands in his pockets, smiling

I always think about that guy in Belarus.”

She drank nearlytwo gallons of waterand ended up dying.

The radio station’s parent companypaid over $16Mto her family in damages."

A person lies in bed with a pillow over their face, appearing to be distressed or unable to sleep

He bled out before services were able to get there."

And lastly:

17.

“This woman was getting a drink and had a metal straw in her cup.

An ancient artwork depicting a seated man holding a bowl, with two birds overhead

She slipped, and the metal strawpunctured her eyeand went through her brain.

Crazy way to go out.”

Human ancestor foot imprint fossil preserved in rock, dates back to millions of years ago

A beaver is gnawing on a fallen tree trunk in a watery, forested area. The surrounding trees and water create a natural habitat scene

A person wearing a white cap and sunglasses drives a red convertible with the top down, their red scarf flowing in the wind against a clear blue sky

A person in a yellow sweater drinks from a large plastic water bottle. Their face is partially obscured by the bottle

A hand holds a vial of Cutter Laboratories polio vaccine. Three other vaccine vials and a Cutter Laboratories vaccine box are also shown

A broken plate lies on a wooden floor in a kitchen, with several large and small pieces scattered around

Close-up of a glass with a metal straw against a blurred green background