"Freeze Died", Way to Die #293, is the first death to be featured in "Hard Lives, Easy Deaths", which aired on May 21, 2008.
Plot[]
A man named Billy DeMayo (aka South Philly Billy), who works for the Mob, has been locked inside a meat freezer at the mob's butcher shop. Some say that meat lockers like these can be slammed shut to prank any butcher like Philly Billy. But when he was locked inside it was no prank. Billy's body temperature starts out at 98.6 but once the CGI graphics are shown after the door slammed shut, it started decreasing. The graphics also show how long he has been in the locker. With nobody able to hear him, he dies of hypothermia, sending him straight to Hell. Right before he dies, he thinks about why he's been locked in, which was for stealing some cuts of meat from work and getting his boss's 17-year-old granddaughter pregnant.
Transcript[]
(Melancholic Dead is playing)
Narrator: Billy DeMayo is a few short breathes away from freezing to death. Many of us think: Not a bad way to go. It's like falling asleep. If poor Billy here could talk, he'd tell you a different story.
(Before he was freezing to death...)
Narrator: South Philly Billy, that's what everybody called him. He got his job in a meat pack industry to a mob connected cousin. It was a sweet deal. And unlike his co-workers, the cold never bothered Billy. The temperature inside the meat locker is capted up bone chilling 10 degrees below 0. Sometimes as a prank, a worker would be locked inside for a minute or 2.
(The co-worker closes the door)
Narrator: But when it happened to Billy,
(Industrial Dead is playing)
Narrator: it was no joke.
Billy: Hey! Guys, the door's jammed! HEY!!
(As Billy knocks the door, the co-worker gets away)
Billy: JAY!!!
Narrator: Billy's body temperature starts out at a normal 98.6 degrees. But when that freezer door slam shot, his death clock started ticking.
(As the time passes, Billy's core temperature is decreasing)
Narrator: Time and temperature were now, his enemies. After 10 minutes, the palms on Billy's hands are down to 60 degrees. Anyone who's ever been out too long in a cold without loves knows one thing: it hurts like hell.
(Body Science is playing, Billy's hand capillary is scanning, constricts to the shoulder)
Narrator: Capillaries in the surfaces of the hands constrict. Causing blood to retreat deeper into the torso to keep vital organs functioning. This responds to severe cold is one of our building defense mechanisms. The human body will sacrifice...
(View of frostbitten toes, turned raspberry color)
Narrator: ...its own toes, fingers, hands and feet to frostbite. In order to ensure survival.
(After 17 minutes in the meat locker...)
Narrator: 17 minutes in the freezer, and Billy's core temperature has dropped to 97 degrees. This triggers a major reaction.
(CGI brain is shown)
Narrator: Deep inside his brain, the hypothalamus has detected the temperature drop. And orders the constriction of the entire web of surface capillaries.
([] is playing)
Narrator: His warming body blood is now in full retreat.
(Billy is still freezing)
Narrator: Hypothermia, which means a lack of heat, begins to set in when the body's core temperature deeps below 95 degrees. It continues to fall about one degree every half hour.
Billy: (Coughs)
Narrator: Billy's core temperature has fallen below 90 degrees, and his eyesight has begun to fail. Such simple things as the numbers on the watch become gibberish. The victim has crossed the border into a medical condition called profound hypothermia.
(Billy's core temperature is now below 90 degrees, [] is playing, CGI blood is shown, the heart beats irregularly)
Narrator: Billy's blood thickens it slows, reducing his ability to burn oxygen. His nerve tissue is getting too cold to transmit electrical impulses. Causing his heart to beat erratically.
(Billy's on the ground, is near to death)
Narrator: Right before Billy's heart stops forever, a pang of consciousness breaks through the ice. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to smuggle sides of beef of the backdoor.
(Melancholic Dead is resuming)
Narrator: And a really bad idea to have gotten a boss's 17-year-old granddaughter pregnant.
Billy: HEY!!
(Billy knocks the door)
Narrator: There's an old Italian proverb that says,
(Billy died freezing)
Narrator: 'Revenge is a dish best served cold.' Rest in Peace, South Philly Billy.
(The segment ends with Cages of Death, after the deathcard, the trivia)
Narrator: When people freeze to death, they are often mistaken as victims of sexual assault. The reason: Right before dying, constricting blood vessels dilate. Producing a sensation of extreme heat, prompting them to strict out. It's a phenomenon called Paradoxical Undressing.
Cast[]
- Michael Villar - Billy DeMayo (Lead: Intended victim)
Trivia[]
- This segment shares its number with "Frost-dead", an alternate title for which is also "Freeze Died" and which also involves the victim dying from cold.
- This is the first death in the series to feature someone freezing to death, the second being "Mile Die Club", the third being "Fansicle", and the fourth and final being "Frost-dead".
- This is one of the longest segments in this show. Others are Apocalypse Harley, Titty Titty Bang Bang and Love Bugged.
- This death is similar to Radioactivate-dead as right before the victims died, their whole mind flashed in front of them.
- The actor who played Billy DeMayo also played Dave in Fat-ality.
- This is the first death without interviewees.
Foreign Names[]
- Zmarznięty na kość (Frozen To The Bone) - Polish voice-over
- Muerte por Congelamiento (Death by Freezing) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Muerte por Congelación (Death by Freezing) - Mexican Spanish dub
- Congelado (Frozen) - European Spanish dub
- Eiskalter Mord (Ice-Cold Murder) - German dub
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