Activity – Manner, Cause, and Mechanism of Death

1. Activity – Manner, Cause, and Mechanism of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGtJn-L5xEs 1st 45 sec

2. What would an Autopsy reveal about Mufasa? Accident Accident Homicide • Manner of Death – • Cause of Death – • Mechanism of Death - Blunt force trauma Crushed or trampled

3. Directions: Below are 12 unusual (and actual) deathsIdentify the cause of death, mechanism of death, and manner of death.

4. Anton Yelchin “The actor who played Ensign Pavel Chekov in the recent J.J. Abrams “Star Trek” movie reboot was crushed to death Sunday by his own car (sic). Anton Yelchin, 27, was pinned between the vehicle and the brick support pillar to a security fence after he briefly got out in the steep driveway of his Los Angeles home, officials said.” http://pagesix.com/2016/06/19/star-trek-actor-anton-yelchin-dies-at-27/

5. Sigurd the Mighty “Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier. He'd tied the man's head to his horse's saddle, but while riding home one of its protruding teeth grazed his leg. He died from the infection.”

6. Killer dessert spoon After taking a mobile phone from someone, Timothy Magee was hit in the back of the head with a dessert spoon. The spoon ruptured an artery between the skull and brain.

7. Frank Hayes “ In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.”

8. Jesse William Lazear “In 1900, American physician Jesse William Lazear tried to prove that Yellow Fever was transmitted by mosquitoes by letting infected mosquitoes bite him. He then died of the disease. Proving himself right.”

9. Dumbbell “Castillo said he hit 30-year-old William Vasconello several times in the head with a 25-pound metal dumbbell on Oct. 18, 2013, during a heated argument at Castillo's apartment on Martin Street. Authorities said the men were friends, but have not disclosed what they were arguing about.”

10. Cochrane “Being scared to death by a rattlesnake. No one has died due to snakebite in the canyon, though several visitors have been bitten. But in 1933, one guy, a 43-year-old prospector named Cochrane from California, was hiking down Snake Gulch (for real). He was terrified of snakes. A rattlesnake coiled up and rattled at him and made a partial strike, a feint. Cochrane leaped backward and died of heart failure, confirmed by a physician.”

11. Molasses “Twenty-one people died in the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919, when a massive tank of molasses burst on a warm day, sending a 25ft high wave of sweetener through the city at 35mph.”

12. Monkey attack The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys. SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm

13. Death by Cockroach “Autopsy reveals Florida man who died after winning cockroach-eating contest choked to death and didn't have an allergic reaction” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238835/Autopsy-reveals-Florida-man-died-winning-cockroach-eating-contest-choked-death-didnt-allergic-reaction.html

14. Bob Crane Bob Crane, the 1960’s Hogan's Heroes star, was whacked to death with a murder weapon. It was speculated that a camera tripod found at the crime scene may have been the murder weapon.

15. Death by bread…. “In 1988, an man with the most English name ever, Reginald Helmsley-Doddingdale, was found dead with a massive lump on the back of his head. The weapon was believed to be a piece of pumpernickel bread that was lying near the body.”