My mom was a court reporter in the 80's and she told me about a case where two teenaged girls were killed when the tailgate of an asphalt truck malfunctioned. The contents of the truck (tons of asphalt) filled their vehicle, killing them. It was a wrongful death lawsuit and the truck company claimed it was the girl's fault for driving too close to the truck. The girls' families won, of course.

In high school, a 17 year old pole vaulter died hitting his head and breaking in his neck after missing the mat. I was in choir and we sand Bring him home and it’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday at the funeral. It was very sad.

Another student’s dad died on the freeway. Similar to other post, he was killed by metal poles from a semi he was following. They crashed into the drivers window and into his head. Another student athlete also died in rip current drowning.

Anonymous wrote:A coworker slipped while exiting the shower, hit her head and was found dead a few hours later. But…

I always suspected the husband. From day 1 I wondered if he had pushed her, or possibly let her die before calling it in. He had some dark energy and despite the fact that they had been married a decade, he moved on quickly and remarried within a year. He and his dead wife had been adamantly child free by choice; he and the new wife quickly started a family.

People grieve in different ways but he never seemed very upset about the accident.

Similar story also about a coworker but it was a female coworker whose husband who slipped in the bathroom, hit his head, and died. I don't work with her anymore, but I still think about it regularly.

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Anonymous wrote:A girl I ran track with died running in the Grand Canyon. She misjudged her capabilities and died of dehydration. She was a med student, Boston marathoner, elite athlete. For years her picture was a warning to hikers to respect their own limits.

There was that family from SF (mom, dad, baby and dog) who died a year or two ago hiking in Ca. I think it was concluded that they died of dehydration.

The first time I visited DC, it was on a high school field trip in late May. The climate here is dramatically different from where I grew up, and I was hallucinating & had severe migraines from the DC heat by the end of the trip. I was not the only one. Was super super dehydrated.

I had a similar experience the first time visiting New Orleans in the dead of August a few years back. I was there for a track meet for our kids, and I had to go into the restroom and lay on the floor. New Orleans' heat/humidity is the most oppressive I have ever experienced.

Anonymous wrote:A coworker slipped while exiting the shower, hit her head and was found dead a few hours later. But…

I always suspected the husband. From day 1 I wondered if he had pushed her, or possibly let her die before calling it in. He had some dark energy and despite the fact that they had been married a decade, he moved on quickly and remarried within a year. He and his dead wife had been adamantly child free by choice; he and the new wife quickly started a family.

People grieve in different ways but he never seemed very upset about the accident.

Even many devoted husbands will remarry quickly after losing a wife - men benefit a lot from marriage and many are totally lost without a wife to mother them.

I learned as a prosecutor and defense attorney not to expect people to display emotions in a certain way following a trauma and loss, as some people (including some women) are shut down emotionally it terms of outward displays, but still feel things very deeply.

Now all that said, I’d be inclined to suspicion myself because I’ve spent half a century in this misogynistic world and I’ve seen how very casually many men cast aside and/or do away with women once they have changed their minds about them. The longer I live in this world the more chilled I am by this murderous misogyny and it leaves me inclined to never open my life to a man again, it is just the ultimate crapshoot given the rates of known femicide, nevermind all the guys who got away with it.

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Anonymous wrote:“Nice try”? It’s true. Google it.

Google says he was last in Baltimore September 20th, and he did on October 12th in a small plane crash, not a Jet. He also did not perform on the 20th, just came out and waved.

False he performed the 7th inning stretch, which was always Country Boy. I was there. And it’s a bit of Orioles history. You may not know this but back in the day before you got here, DC rooted for the orioles.

Ok - GOT me, it wasn’t jet propulsion. 🙄

Anonymous wrote:“Nice try”? It’s true. Google it.

Google says he was last in Baltimore September 20th, and he did on October 12th in a small plane crash, not a Jet. He also did not perform on the 20th, just came out and waved.

Anonymous wrote:Whoever keeps posting/recycling these questions from AskReddit threads: okay.

To be fair, reddit skews young and it is interesting to read answers here from different perspectives.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, DCUM, fuel my existential anxiety on this fine Friday.

Rip current, took a star football player on afternoon and he drowned. The whole school was a wreck.

I know 2 people who drowned because of the rip current at Ocean City. One is currently in a vegetative state and one is back to normal but spent 2 weeks in the hospital. They were two separate incidents.

If they are still alive, they didn’t drown. I’m confused by this post.

You can drown and be resuscitated. It happened to me. I drowned (I was dead) and I was resuscitated (brought back to life).

A coworker slipped while exiting the shower, hit her head and was found dead a few hours later. But…

I always suspected the husband. From day 1 I wondered if he had pushed her, or possibly let her die before calling it in. He had some dark energy and despite the fact that they had been married a decade, he moved on quickly and remarried within a year. He and his dead wife had been adamantly child free by choice; he and the new wife quickly started a family.

People grieve in different ways but he never seemed very upset about the accident.

Whoever keeps posting/recycling these questions from AskReddit threads: okay.

Anonymous wrote:A girl I ran track with died running in the Grand Canyon. She misjudged her capabilities and died of dehydration. She was a med student, Boston marathoner, elite athlete. For years her picture was a warning to hikers to respect their own limits.

Someone in their 30s died trying to hike it in one day this week.

Anonymous wrote:Person was at a picnic. Drank from a coke can that had a bee in it. Was stung in the throat and died.

Yikes this happened to my mom but she didn’t die…

The uncle of a friend was a sleepwalker. They were renovating their deck. He wandered out during the night, and fell off right where the stairs used to be. They hadn't put up the new railing yet. He broke his neck.

The Dr said that in the Uncle's mind the stairs would have been in the place they had been for years.

I know someone who was killed by a bear while camping.

And a good friend of mine died after falling in the shower. She was only 25.