The World's Stupidest Deaths

Though death is normally a serious and sad business, The World's Stupidesteaths seeks to prove otherwise by revealing many unbelievable examples ofhe world's most unusual (and in some cases, highly ironic) demises, whichre guaranteed to provoke tears of incredulous laughter, including accountsf the unfortunate deaths of such famous individuals as Attila the Hun, theriter and statesman Sir Francis Bacon, the Greek playwright Aeschylus, andr Robert Atkins, creator of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins Diet.ncludes great stories such as that of the Austrian dwarf and circus acrobat,ranz Dasch, who was killed during an exhibition in northern Thailand when heounced from a trampoline and was swallowed by a nearby yawning hippopotamus.octors later concluded that the hippo had a gag reflex that automaticallyaused her to swallow. The 7,000-plus spectators continued to applaud untilhey realized that the panicked crew and paramedics were not part of Dasch'sct.