BuzzFeed – Medical experts on Reddit shared the “weirdest cause of death [they] have been able to diagnose,” and we’re gonna go through some.
1. “As an undergrad, I worked for a forensic anthropologist. This case was from the 1920s. My boss inherited a coroner’s collection of interesting bones he collected during his tenure in a major city.
Several of the pieces in the collection are designated what she calls ‘death by testosterone poisoning.’
They did not literally die of testosterone poisoning, but they all died because of risky, stupid actions. The weirdest one was a man in his 40s who died from sepsis from multiple arm fractures that he got in an arm wrestling contest.
Why multiple fractures? Because even after cracking his humerus (upper arm bone) a bit, he couldn’t bear losing, so he just wrapped it up with a splint, had a guy hold the fracture, and went for best 2 out of 3.
One of the lower arm bones protruded through the skin, and the infection entered his bloodstream. He died of septicemia a few weeks later.” –rbaltimore
2. “Back in med school, during internship at the coroner’s, I saw a case when a man in his late 50s was found dead at home.
His body was found standing in the bedroom, with one leg raised and resting on the bed, as if he wanted to climb on the bed but suddenly died.
Further examination led to a heart attack as the most likely cause of death; however, no evidence of someone moving the body could be found.
The conclusion was that either someone found him quite early and basically hold the corpse for hours until it became stiff, or his death was so sudden that it happened just in the right moment so that his body would be perfectly balanced.” –jaZoo …
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