Cure for the Common Death, Part I[]
"If you only had a half an hour left to live, how should you spend it? By watching this episode of 1000 Ways to Die? Duh. We've got a good old boy who doesn't use his head; he loses it, a couple of Chinese headbangers, two Ozzy fans with a nose for stupidity, and a deep sea diver who came up for air... way too fast. Death -- it's a disease, and we have the cure: 1000 Ways to Die." (US Version)
"If you only had a half an hour left to live, how should you spend it? By watching this episode of 1000 Ways to Die, of course! We've got a good old boy who doesn't use his head; he loses it, a couple of Chinese headbangers, two Ozzy fans with a nose for stupidity, and a deep sea diver who came up for air way too fast. Death is a disease, and we have the cure: 1000 Ways to Die." (UK Version)
"1000 Ways to Die" Episode 10.
Originally aired March 22, 2009.
Title reference: Play-on words to the saying "Cure for the Common Cold".
-- This is the Original Episode --
Red, White and Blew[]
Way to Die #77
Bernie
On July 4, 1983, at Happy's Trailer Park, in Lawrence, KS. A group of rednecks attempt to celebrate the Fourth of July by launching a homemade firework from a homemade launcher. When it fails to work, one of them looks down the barrel of the launcher, and the firework explodes in his face, shattering his skull into his brain.
Note: This clip features a Wilhelm scream
Trivia: This segment has also been used for "Top 100 Deaths".
Bank Ruptured[]
Way to Die #756
Pierre
On December 21, 1978, at Chateau Cousteau, in Bordeaux, France. A man with the eating disorderpica manages to fill his stomach with metal objects, which eventually cut the surrounding veins and arteries, filling his stomach with blood. His stomach soon bursts and spills blood into his abdomen.
Trivia: This segment has also been used for "Top 100 Deaths".
"Next up: Two Chinese metalheads go off the deep end. And... Historical babes light up the night."
Guitar Zeros[]
Way to Die #66
Li and Feng
On July 23, 2005, in Beijing, China. Two Chinese heavy metal music lovers spend their nights doing air guitar and listening to loud music while jumping back and forth on their beds. On this particular occasion, one of the men slips off the bed next to the window and falls 6 stories to his death. His friend follows suit and jumps out after him, killing him as well and the two corpses are shown as pools of blood surround their dead bodies on the floor.
Note: This is the first intentional suicide in the series (Feng).
Radium Girls[]
Way to Die #196
Wendy
On January 5, 1920, at U.S. Radium Corp., in Orange, NJ. In the 1920s, a group of women who work at a factory that uses paint containing radium to create fluorescent watch faces notice that the paint also glows when applied to their skin. They eventually expose themselves to huge amounts of radiation after repeated applications (mostly using the radioactive paint as glow-in-the-dark body paint for their lovers during sex). While most of them died from bone cancer, the survivors filed one of the first successful workers' rights lawsuits against the company and won, leading to increased safety standards in American workplaces.
Trivia: This segment has also been used for "Top 100 Deaths".
"Coming up: A sexy scuba diver can't take the pressure. And... Snorting fire ants? That's gotta hurt."
Oz Holed[]
Way to Die #638
Taylor and Conrad
On August 19, 2001, at Bonelli Park, in San Dimas, CA. Two teenagers obsessed with rock legend Ozzy Osbourne snort fire ants in celebration of Ozzfest, believing an urban legend that Osbourne had supposedly done the same with fellow rocker Nikki Sixx. The ants immediately latch onto their nasal passages and trachea and proceed to bite and sting them repeatedly, causing swelling and eventual suffocation.
Alt names - Oz Gone Wild
Note: This features the first, and so far only, time one of the interviewees actually makes an appearance in the segment itself, with animal trainer Jules Sylvester coming out and chastising the two dead teenagers about what led to their death.
Tanked Girl[]
Way to Die #710
Sandy
On December 21, 1978, at the Decompression Chamber, in St. Augustine, FL. A female scuba diver waits in a decompression chamber after making an emergency swim back to the surface. A maintenance worker, not knowing the diver is in the room, releases the pressure of the room, causing her body to instantly explode into a shower of gore as a result from the high pressure.
Trivia: This segment has also been used for "Top 100 Deaths".
Law and OrDead[]
Way to Die #909
On April 5, 1999, at the County Courthouse, Jackson, KY. A lawyer tried to convince the judge and jury that his client didn't fatality shot a man, so he came up with a theory that the victim accidentally shot himself while pulling a gun out of his pants. To prove his theory, he used an empty pistol to reenact how it could have played out but he ended up making a fatal error: even though he emptied the gun's magazine, he didn't look in the chamber to see if it still had a bullet in it. When he pulled the gun out of his pants, he ended up shooting himself in the stomach and he died from massive hemorrhaging. Ironically, the court found the lawyer's client not guilty and set him free.
Alt names - Case Closed
(This death is absent from the US version)
"Up next: An unlucky skydiver takes a really bad fall."
Escape Death Segment 10[]
See the chart about Escaped Deaths.
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