Draco, An Athenian lawmaker around 620 B.C., was a popular guy. So popular in fact that he suffocated to death under a pile of gifts given to him by the locals one night at the theatre.

Lawrence of Rome was roasted alive in 258 A.D on top of a grill. Apparently, he yelled out to his torturers “Turn me over, I’m done on this side!”. He is now the patron saint of cooking. No joke.

Edward II of England was murdered by his wife Isabella and her mistress Roger Mortimer in 1327. They roasted his internal organs by sticking a hot metal rod up his butt. The level of wrong involved in this death is staggering.

Adolf Frederick is known to Swedish children as “the king who ate himself to death.” The ruler died eating a meal that consisted of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne. But it was the desert that sent him over – all 14 servings of it.

Phillip McClean, a 16-year-old Australian boy, was killed by a cassowary. He and a friend though it would be funny to beat one with a hammer, but it promptly responded by knocking the boy down and cutting a major blood vessel in his neck. Karma strikes swiftly sometimes.

A Scottish writer known as Thomas Urquhart died from a serious laughing fit in 1660. Apparently, he found it hilarious that Charles II had become king.

British actor Gareth Jones died while performing a televised version of Underground in 1958. Jones suffered a heart attack backstage, which wouldn’t be odd if it weren’t for the fact that the character he was playing died the same way.

In 1974, a health food advocate named Basil Brown died after consuming 10 gallons of carrot juice in 10 days. Too much of anything is a bad thing, and that definitely includes vitamin A.

Mike Edwards, a cello player for the Electric Light Orchestra, was killed in 2010 when a bale of hay rolled down a hill and crushed him.

In 2014, an unlucky Belarusian man attempted to take a selfie with a beaver. The beaver didn’t seem very pleased with this and chomped down on an artery in the man’s leg. The man bled out moments later.