chapter 1: Pilot
Date: 05-27-1998
Location: Las Vegas: NV
Dating couple Jeff Stewart and Jessica Baron were making their way to Las Vegas to tie the knot. But as they clowned around at a rest stop, their day of fun came to a sudden halt when they heard screaming. They rush over to the scene discovers something that would haunt them forever. A man, Frank Soriani, got run over and cut in half by an 18-wheeler semi-truck, whose driver didn't see him, lying on the ground, while working on his Ford F-350 for a broken muffler. Because of this, he screams in pain and lies back against his truck. His upper body and legs were accidentally sent to two seperate hospitals, and Soriani dies after three and a half hours of being cut in half.
Way To Die #208: Semi-cide
Date: 07-07-2003
Location: Moore, OK
Meet Milos Dudak, a Czechslovakian immigrant, felt like a very lucky man. Brand new to this country with a wife and baby to support, his construction job was his lifeline. Milos was a model employee, if there was ever one.
Tim McNamara, on the other hand, was a model for disaster. More often than not, he would thirsting a major hangover. Today, he took the wheel of his dump truck flat-out drunk. Sometimes, bad things happen to good people. As Tim backed up his truck filled with 3 tons of sand, Milos had no idea that crushing blow fate was about to deal him.
Within seconds, Milos disappeared under 3 tons of sand. His co-workers rushed to his rescue and quickly uncovered his head allowing him to breathe. They thought they had saved him.
Unable to take a breath, Milos was dying of something called crush asphyxia, a medical term to describe the constriction of the lungs by compressing the torso.
Way To Die #422: Constriction Accident
date: 08-12-2000
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Darryl and Bobby Joe are playing with their shotguns. Darryl decides to scare Bobby Joe by firing his gun at him. After a few misses, Bobby Joe falls to the ground and dies. He had the unlucky fortune to fall on a rattlesnake, who bit and killed him. It was very quick, because the snake bit very close to his heart.
Way To Die #92: Fanged Banged
Date: 9-21-1998
Location: Brooklyn, NY
The girl in red is Lori Pathouson. After a string of bad relationships, Lori is ready to square off men altogether. She's decided to satisfy a bisexual curiosity that has consumed her since junior high. If it wasn't for the 4-inch stilettos that had been pinching her feet since the evening began, tonight might been a good enough first for Lori, instead it would be her last.
Before crossing the street, Lori steps into a shallow puddle next to a traffic pole. She doesn't see the exposed wires at the bottom of the pole. She doesn't know that they were feeding 30,000 volts of raw currents into the water.
Lori is about to learn a scientific truth the hard way. Wet skin has 10 times the conductivity of dry. By placing her hand on the metal pole, Lori becomes a human circuit and dies from electrical shock.
Way To Die #832: Lesbocution
Date: 10-21-2008
Location: Paris, France
Meet Mark Vogal, or what's left of him. As paramedics carry his decomposed body out of his suburban Paris home, it's important not to feel pity for his lost soul. This death should be filed under "What In God's Name Was He Thinking?".
Mr. Vogal was a classic recluse, preferring the creepy and the crawly over his fellow man. Mark made a migger living dealing snakes, lizards and insects on a shady black market for exotic pets. These creatures were his consick companions, several were deadly and not to be take lightly.
But it was his fascination for the smallest of his friends that led to his ultimate demise. Mark so loved his black widow spider he gave it a name, Elvira. And he longed to get closer to his tiny femme fatale. Snake handlers are often bit so many times, they built up an immunity. Mark thought he could do the same thing, so one fateful day, he lowered his arm into Elvira's home and took her best shot.
Within an hour of been bit, Mark began experiencing all the symptoms associated with a black widow bite, starting with severe stomach pains. His body was now in a free fall of failing health. Mark foolishly chose to ride out his condition. His reward: a fatal heart attack. In his delirium, he released his gruesome menagerie of pets.
It would be two weeks before his rotting stench brought the French police to his door. In a stroke of irony, Mark ensured the survival of his pets while engineering his own death. The snakes, bugs and lizards were kept alive by feeding on their master's lifeless flesh.
"As soon as he subjected himself to the black widow's deadly toxin, like the hourglass imprinted on it's underbelly, Mark's time began running out, with death the only outcome".
Way To Die #125: Love Bugged
date: 12-21-2009
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Hector Madeira is here to repair an industrial-sized clothes dryer at one of the largest hospitals in the Los Angeles area. Following safety procedures, Hector had his partner, Brent kill the breaker before climbing inside the giant dryer. What he didn't realize was that Brent accidentally cut off the power to the wrong machine. The unit Hector was now inside of was still hot. The door closed tight and Hector was trapped. He knew he had only a few seconds before the dryer would start its cycle. Spinning wildly and hitting temperatures well over 200 degrees, poor Hector was being shaken and baked to death. Six long minutes later, Brent finally returned but it was too late. Hector had died from Hyperthermia and multiple skull and neck fractures.
Way To Die #640: Tumble Die
Death: Death is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
in other words, don't be dumb kids or you will end up in our book