Number 10 Tamra Maiochi
In June of 2018, a Brazilian football supporter died in a freak fall while celebrating her
national team’s victory in the knock-out stages of the World Cup. 30-year-old Tamra Maiochi had been
watching the match with her friends at a house in Itatiba, in the southeastern state of Sao Paolo.
As the referee blew the final whistle, Maiochi got up from a sofa with her cellphone in one hand
and a crystal wine glass in the other. She wanted to join the rest of her group in the celebration
but suddenly tripped. The woman reached out to a coffee table, in an attempt to stop herself from
falling, but slipped and impaled her neck on the wine glass. It shattered and a shard cut deep into
Maiochi’s neck, severing her jugular vein. Blood started pouring profusely from the open wound
and her panic-stricken friends struggled to stop the bleeding by wrapping towels around
her neck and applying pressure. Unfortunately, by the time emergency services arrived at the scene,
Maiochi had already passed away. An inquiry was planned but, as stated by local authorities,
there were no signs of foul play. Number 9 Irena Milosevic
Irena Milosevic passed away, in December of 2019, following an accident that occurred
at her parents’ home, in Serbia. 30-year-old Milosevic had told her family that she was going
to take a shower. The woman’s parents, Vesela and Nebosja, got worried as she’d been in the bathroom
for over an hour. They knocked on the door and, upon receiving no reply, entered the bathroom
to find their daughter unconscious on the floor. They called the emergency services and paramedics
arrived at the residence but, unfortunately, could do nothing more aside from confirming that
Milosevic was dead. Local police investigated the matter and concluded that a large amount of steam
had caused the bathroom tiles to become slippery. Milosevic lost her balance as she stepped on the
surface, fell and broke her neck. Number 8 Yulia Sharkom
In August of 2019, a young mother from Belarus was killed under circumstances
directly involving her infant daughter, on the day that she was celebrating her 21st birthday. Yulia
Sharkom and her family were at a friend’s house, in the village of Staroe Selo, on August the 31st.
She was placing her two-year-old in a BMW E34 through a half-open front seat window. The child
then pressed the automatic switch closing the window on her mother’s neck thereby effectively
garroting her. Sharkom’s husband found her unconscious with her head still trapped inside
the vehicle. He broke the jammed window and released her. An ambulance travelled to the
location and transported Sharkom to a hospital. Due to pressure applied by the window on her neck,
the woman’s brain was critically deprived of oxygen. Sharkom suffered irreversible brain damage
and died eight days after the tragic accident. Number 7 Joao Maria de Souza
A Brazilian man died following an accident involving a falling cow, in July of 2013,
in Caratinga, a town of the Minas Gerais region, which is traditionally known for raising cattle.
Joao Maria de Souza, aged 45, was lying in bed while a cow was grazing on a hill behind his
house. The animal, tipping the scale at about a ton and half, then stepped on the asbestos roof
of de Souza’s home. It collapsed under its weight and the cow fell on de Souza, inflicting severe
internal injuries. According to his relatives, the man had appeared to be in good condition but it
took too long for him to be examined by a doctor. The day after the incident, he passed away due to
internal bleeding. While unusual, it had been the third such incident to take place in the region in
recent years. The other two cases, however, yielded no casualties only one close call.
As a cow had fallen through the roof of a home it landed right next to the spot where a
baby and a small child were sleeping, with many hence describing their survival as miraculous.
Number 6 Jennifer Riordan On April the 17th of 2018, Albuquerque bank
executive Jennifer Riordan became the first person to die in an accident on a US airline in nearly a
decade. 43-year-old Riordan was sitting, with her seat belt fastened, as Southwest Flight 1380 was
at a cruising altitude of an estimated 32,000 feet. Suddenly, a fan blade broke off inside
the left engine of the Boeing 737 and shrapnel was hurled against the side of the aircraft.
The fast-moving flow of debris shattered Riordan’s window resulting in her being sucked halfway out
of the plane. Over the course of the next 17 minutes, other passengers scrambled to pull the
woman back inside while the pilots initiated an emergency landing. The passengers managed
to retrieve Riordan but she’d already suffered critical injuries and ultimately passed away
from blunt force trauma. She was survived by her high-school sweetheart husband and two children.
Number 5 Dead from Laughter While extremely rare, dying from laughter
has stricken several unlucky people throughout history, dating back to ancient times. Their
demise was typically a consequence of asphyxiation or cardiac arrest. Greek Stoic philosopher
Chrysippus is among the earliest reports of such an occurrence and he’s commonly known as
the man who died laughing at his own joke. In the early 200s BC, at the time of the 143rd Olympiad,
he saw a donkey eating his figs and then jokingly told a servant to give the animal some wine to
wash them down. 73-year-old Chrysippus then died in a fit of laughter. On October the 14th of 1920,
dog trainer Arthur Cobcroft was at his home in Leichhardt, Australia, and reading a newspaper
from five years earlier. Amused at the difference in price for some commodities, the 56-year-old
made a remark to his wife and then erupted in laughter. He suddenly collapsed during the fit and
died with the doctor that examined him concluding that he’d succumbed to heart failure brought about
by excessive laughter. In the late 1980s, Danish audiologist Ole Bentzen, aged 56,
was watching the initial run of “A Fish Called Wanda”. He reportedly found a scene so humorous
that he laughed himself to death. Number 4 Sakhan Dosova
In the spring of 2009, a woman from Kazakhstan, reported as being the world’s oldest person,
passed away following an accident in a new apartment that the local government
had gifted her. A census in the city of Karaganda revealed that one of its citizens,
Sakhan Dosova, was 130 years old. According to official documents and her identity card,
Dosova had been born in 1879. To put her extraordinary longevity into perspective,
the woman was born at the same time that Thomas Edison introduced the light bulb to the world.
She was 47 when Joseph Stalin first conducted a census in the region
and already retirement-aged at the dawn of World War II. When interviewed by local media outlets,
Dosova stated that she didn’t have a secret for her staggering senectitude but did mention
that she’d never taken pills or eaten sweets. Some sources have claimed that her record-breaking age
might’ve been exaggerated and the result of poor record keeping. The doubts were never dispelled,
even though local demographers maintained the documentary evidence was genuine. Nevertheless,
it was clear that Dosova belonged to an exclusive group of supercentenarians,
people who live to be 110 or beyond. As more media outlets became interested in Dosova’s story,
Kazakhstan’s officials wanted to avoid negative publicity as she was living in impoverished,
overcrowded conditions with a number of family members. She was personally congratulated by the
mayor of Karaganda and given an apartment. In April of 2009, Dosova slipped in the bathroom
of her new place and suffered a broken hip. Her condition gradually got worse and she ultimately
passed away in early May. Number 3 Sergio Millan
In January of 2020, a massive explosion occurred at a petrochemical plant in the
Spanish city of Tarragona, about 50 miles south of Barcelona. It’s believed that the blast originated
in a reactor used to produce ethylene oxide, which is part of the composition of varied products,
including detergents. Firefighters found the lifeless body of an IQOXE plant worker among
the debris. Eight other employees were hurt, two of whom suffered life-threatening burns.
Another tragic demise associated with the explosion occurred roughly two miles away,
on the outskirts of the city. The extraordinary force of the blast launched a metal fragment,
weighing about a ton, across that entire distance. It struck the side of a building
and landed on the floor of an apartment above the one inhabited by 59-year-old shopkeeper
Sergio Millan. His ceiling collapsed on top of him as the weight and momentum of the fragment above
had resulted in a complete structural failure. The unfortunate circumstances of his death were
corroborated by Tarragona Mayor Pau Ricoma, who also expressed his condolences to Millan’s family.
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Number 2 Elizabeth Isherwood
In September of 2017, Elizabeth Isherwood, from Wolverhampton, England, was renting a villa
near Machynlleth, western Wales. The 60-year-old former police officer was alone at the property.
On September the 24th, as she was returning from the bathroom at night, Isherwood entered an airing
cupboard. The door handle then broke behind her as the round part of the knob had come off the
internal mechanism. Isherwood was trapped in the cupboard, naked, cold and in complete darkness.
She removed some shelves and then began clawing her way through a wall. She reached the copper
piping and ripped a piece off which she used to continue her digging. Unfortunately, in doing so
she burst a pipe causing cold water to pour on her body which only accelerated the hypothermia
to which she ultimately succumbed. Isherwood was inches from freedom as she’d managed to pierce
through to the other side of the wall but had failed to realize it because a picture covered
the exit hole. Her lifeless body was discovered in late September by caretakers investigating a
leak at the property. It’s unclear why Isherwood had entered the cupboard in the first place.
A coroner recorded a verdict of misadventure, attributing her death to the “the sheer bad luck”
of the knob disintegrating while she was inside. Number 1 Vladimir Likhonos
In December of 2009, Vladimir Likhonos, aged 25, was at his parents’ home in the city of Konotop,
northern Ukraine. Relatives then heard what was described as “a loud pop” coming from Likhonos’
room. His brother, Rostislav, went to check on him and found a gruesome sight as Likhonos,
still reclined in his chair, was covered in blood. Half of his face was horrifically disfigured and
his lower jaw was missing. Paramedics were called to the scene but Likhonos succumbed
to his extensive injuries. The preliminary stages of the investigation seemed to indicate that the
young man had taken his own life but there were no firearms found on the premises. It
later emerged that his death had occurred due to a combination of bad luck and his love of
chemistry. He’d studied the discipline for several years at Kiev Tech University and was known as a
prodigious student. On his computer table the authorities found a saucer with powdered citric
acid as well as another bag with a white powder. The latter was collected by forensic experts
who determined it had explosive properties and was likely used by Likhonos in various experiments. He
also had a habit of chewing gum and dipping it in citric acid. It’s believed that, at some point, he
got too distracted and accidentally dipped his gum in the explosive powder instead. Likhonos’ saliva
activated it triggering the blast that destroyed half his face. As stated by police spokeswoman
Elvira Biganova, the two powders were so similar that “anybody could have mixed them up”.
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