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There’s no doubt, there are cool ways and naff ways of injuring yourself.  A black eye is a cool black eye if it’s gained helping an old lady from being mugged.  A black eye is a naff black eye if you got it because you walked into a door.  They are the facts in the good versus naff injury science.

There are also cool ways to die and poor ways to die - that’s why this page on wikipedia has kept me from doing my job for most of the morning (here’s the page of unusual deaths) 

Granted it’s a long list, but there are some belters on there … here’s a taster:

Rock and roll
415: The Greek mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was murdered by a mob by having her skin ripped off with sharp oyster-shells and what remained of her being burned.

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1899: French president Félix Faure died of a stroke while receiving oral sex in his office.

Passion
1943: Critic Alexander Woollcott suffered a fatal heart attack during an on-air discussion about Adolf Hitler.

Doh
1912: Tailor Franz Reichelt fell to his death off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute. It was his first ever attempt with the parachute and he’d told the authorities in advance he would test it first with a dummy.

1928: Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian physician, died following one of his experiments, in which the blood of a student suffering from malaria and tuberculosis, L. I. Koldomasov, was given to him in a transfusion

2006: Mariesa Weber, a 5′3″ Florida woman, fell behind a 6′ tall bookcase in her family’s home and suffocated. She was not discovered for 11 days; her family thought she had been kidnapped

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