Thanks to the readers around the world, we have reached another milestone. This is page # 200 for Kerrian’s Notebook.  🙂  Hear Hammett barking? And the shovels clanking?   When Kerrian’s Notebook came into being, Charlie and Sheila Kerrian never expected to be around for 200 pages, not counting the additional posts devoted to our famous (or is that infamous?) Visiting Detectives. That’s a ton of cases, a ton of fun, facts, and a few dead bodies.   In honor of that milestone, we have come up with a few more ways to die an unnatural death, bringing the total on our deadly lists to a lethal 200.   Unnatural death is a category used by coroners and Medical Examiners for classifying human deaths that can’t really be described as death by natural causes. It might cover events such as accidents, homicide, clueless behavior, being attacked by wildlife, or even war.   Keep in mind that law enforcement personnel only investigate these deaths if foul play is suspected. Criminal intent is not always apparent, and autopsies are only conducted when suspicious circumstances surround the corpse’s demise.   Many thanks to all of you that contributed to our earlier lists. It wouldn’t have been as much fun without your (sometimes nefarious) methods of offing some unlucky souls.  🙂   Take a look: 100 ways to die an unnatural death   50 more ways to die an unnatural death   30 more ways to die an unnatural death   and now… 20 more ways to die an unnatural death.  

181. Broken neck – pitching over the handlebars of a bicycle without a helmet on

 

182. Broken neck – diving into the shallow end of a pool

 

183. Death by handheld fireworks

 

184. Electrocution while storm chasing in a paraglider

 

185. Death by coyote while hiking

 

186. Death by spotted eagle ray – it leapt out of the water & struck a woman in a boat in the face. She fell and struck her head on the boat. The ray died as well.

 

187. Crushed by a dumpster
     188. Death by a rolling bale of hay
      
     189. Impaled by the horn on a statue of a bull
      
     190. Death by flying manhole cover
      
     191. Death by colliding with fire hydrant and drowning
      
     192. Death on a golf cart – woman fell on the broken glass from the wine glasses she had been holding
      
     193. Death by selfie – maybe that should be: death by standing too close to the edge
      
     194. Death by asphyxiation while hiding in a cupboard
      
     195. Drowning – in a vat of wine
      
     196. Drowning – in a cat’s water bowl
      
     197. Water hammer explosion
      
     198. Death by prop gun on a movie set
      
     199. Smothered by clothing and gifts tossed from balconies onto the person onstage.
      
     200. Death by extreme sports – B.A.S.E. jumping with a parachute from fixed points (Buildings, Antennas, Spans (bridges), the Earth (top of cliff))
         All true, folks, but #194?  Maybe that explains all the Hallmark TV episodes where the good guys are hiding in closets with LOTS of air holes.       The real question: Do you have friends that will help carry the shovels and pitchforks?  😉       If you are a writer and have used any of the ‘200 ways’ in your work, let us know in the comments and you can plug your book here.   🙂     *Photos by Patti Phillips, but nothing dastardly happened while she took them and no bodies were left behind. Promise.   *Kerrian’s Notebook, and all of its content, is intended for entertainment purposes only.    

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