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Causes of Celebrity Death

  • 15-04-2005 7:31pm
    #1
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/causeofdeath-nf
    just in case you ever wondered about the risks of being famous..


    These People Died on 15th of April aged..
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    Greta Garbo
    Pol Pot


    Number Cause of death
    758 Cancer
    476 Heart attack
    189 Heart failure

    65 Car accident
    58 Drug overdose
    57 Assassination
    52 AIDS
    37 Emphysema
    29 Diabetes
    28 Fall
    27 Alzheimer's disease
    19 Execution
    16 Cardiac arrest
    15 Drowning
    12 ALS
    10 Aneurysm

    8 Alcoholism
    8 Cerebral hemorrhage
    8 Fire
    6 Blood clot
    6 Choking
    6 Euthanasia
    4 Asthma
    4 Gun accident
    3 Abdominal aneurysm
    3 Arteriosclerosis
    3 Avalanche
    3 Boating accident
    3 Carbon monoxide poisoning
    3 Cirrhosis of the liver
    2 Atherosclerosis
    2 Bone marrow disease
    2 Cerebral edema
    2 Colitis
    2 Dehydration
    2 Drug abuse
    2 Electrocution
    2 Exposure
    2 Head injury
    2 Heart inflammation
    1 Alcohol poisoning
    1 Anemia
    1 Anorexia
    1 Balloon crash
    1 Blood infection
    1 Blood poisoning
    1 Blunt force trauma
    1 Brain aneurysm
    1 Chondrodysplasia
    1 Circulatory ailment
    1 Congenital bowel condition
    1 Construction accident
    1 COPD
    1 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    1 Crohn's disease
    1 Dermatomyositis
    1 Epilepsy
    1 Gas leak
    1 Heart arrythmia
    1 Heart embolism


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Only 2 celebrities from drug abuse?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭Norinoco


    Blisterman wrote:
    Only 2 celebrities from drug abuse?


    Ah yes...but 58 died from a drug overdose!

    I feel sorry for the one that died from a balloon crash!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    Norinoco wrote:
    Ah yes...but 58 died from a drug overdose!

    I feel sorry for the one that died from a balloon crash!!
    They must have been fairly fragile. Usually when I crashinto baloons they just bump harmlessly out of the way, or occasionally pop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    no "Vomit" as official cause of death ? :D


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well I'll be, no spontaneous combustion.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭mad m


    Poor auld John Ritter,ouch!!. That must of hurt

    http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/rnames-nf/Ritter+John


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭97i9y3941


    tommy cooper died on tv :S


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Still no spontaneous combustion.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    is_that_so wrote: »
    no "Vomit" as official cause of death ? :D


    Their own vomit or someone elses?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Their own vomit or someone elses?

    Someone else's, no one knows who though. It's not like you can dust vomit for fingerprints...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Someone else's, no one knows who though. It's not like you can dust vomit for fingerprints...

    Spinal Tap FTW

    I notice there are no deaths from a "bizarre gardening accident" either


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Im very disappointed with AIDS, very poor showing


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    snyper wrote: »
    Im very disappointed with AIDS, very poor showing

    You should move to Hollywood. Those numbers will jump 50000000000%


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    snyper wrote: »
    Im very disappointed with AIDS, very poor showing

    Not to mention so called 'Super' Aids.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭SoundWave


    how can someone die at aged Jean-Paul Sartre... :confused:


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    SoundWave wrote: »
    how can someone die at aged Jean-Paul Sartre... :confused:
    Existentialism FTW


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