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This of course ignores the fact that the aforementioned artery might not get slashed if the wound is caused by something much smaller than the sign. When a man is put on a unsecured gurney by negligent EMT workers, rolls down a hill, and is impaled on a sign, the doctor notes that stomach wounds actually kill quickly as there is a large artery parallel to the spine. "Frightmare" and "Ichiboned" are two of the most infamous examples.
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These segments can usually be distinguished by changes in video quality, as they use actual footage taken with personal recording devices at a lower resolution than the show. In a lot of these cases, you're not surprised the person died, you're surprised that they lived as long as they did.Īt the end of all first season episodes, for the last item, the show is completely inverted, and instead of showing someone dying, they show someone who miraculously survives an event which, under normal circumstances, they should not have lived through. Many of the people die because of stupid mistakes, some die as a result of their own misconduct, and some 3rd party innocent victims die because someone else did something so stupid that the poor victim's death probably kept the other stupid person from killing themselves through pure incompetence in being alive. Names were changed to avoid lawsuits, but the stories are based on actual events - mostly. 1000 Ways to Die is Spike's often hilarious 30-minute anthology of people dying in spectacular, gruesome and often stupid ways.