Hard Lives, Easy Deaths is the second episode of Season 1 of 1000 Ways To Die. It features six segments, the last of which being an Escaped Death segment. It originally aired on May 21, 2008.
It's the last episode to be narrated by series creator, Thom Beers.
Deaths[]
Way to Die #293: Freeze Died[]
Billy DeMayo
A man working at a mafia-owned South Philadelphia meat packing company is deliberately locked in a walk-in freezer out of revenge for stealing cuts of meat and getting his employer's 17-year-old granddaughter pregnant, and dies of hypothermia.
"When people freeze to death, they are often mistaken as victims of sexual assault. The reason? Right before dying, constricted blood vessels dilate, producing a sensation of extreme heat, prompting them to strip down. It's a phenomenon called paradoxical undressing."
Way to Die #713: Dive Bombed[]
Richard Paxon and his two pals
A group of friends fly themselves home from Cabo San Lucas in a private plane shortly after going scuba diving. At 12,000 ft, they all suffer from decompression sickness and crash, causing the plane to explode and killing everyone aboard.
"1870, New York City. During construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, workers came down with a mysterious malady known as caissons disease. The workers would come back to the surface and double over in severe pain, leaving many crippled and some dead. They were suffering from a newly-diagnosed illness: The bends."
Way to Die #91: De-Coffinated[]
James
A land dispute between two brothers in Haiti ends with one brother asking a witch doctor to poison the other with tetrodotoxin, causing paralysis. Believed to be dead, the poisoned brother is buried alive, and his corpse is later found by grave robbers, having succumbed to suffocation. Shortly before the brother's death, he tried to claw his way out with his fingers, wearing them down to the bone.
Way to Die #606: Wet Dream[]
Dalph Smith
A man who wants to live like a fish constructs a fish suit out of waterbed material and attempts to use it. The suit is so constricting, however, that he cannot get into the water fast enough, and he dies from heat exhaustion.
Way to Die #112: Fur Burger[]
In the 2nd century, one method of execution was wrapping the victim in freshly killed animal skins, tying him to a tree, and leaving him to be eaten alive by whatever carnivores happened to be in the area (a flock of vultures in this case).
Escaped Death #2: Shayna Richardson[]
See the chart about Escaped Deaths.
"Death. We avoid it at all costs. We defy it and we deny it, but it's as much a part of our lives as life itself. Whether we're whistling in the graveyard or planning our own funeral, every beginning has an end, just like this show."
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to not feature the death of a female.
- Freeze-Died and De-Coffinated were both featured on the Top 100 Deaths special as Numbers 4 and 3 respectively.
- It is the only episode in the entire series with only 5 deaths.
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