7 Shocking Scenarios When People Laughed To Their Deaths

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As they say, “laughter is the best medicine.” Well, not necessarily. A fit of laughter can sometimes cause cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, leading to the death of a person. You don’t believe?

Take a look at these people from history who were so happy before they laughed to their own deaths.

1. Zeuxis

He was a greek painter during 5th century BC. At one of the occasions, he was making a painting of goddess Aphrodite. He kept on laughing at the way he painted the goddess, resulting in his death. In fact, the old woman who commissioned it insisted on modelling for the portrait.

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2. Chrysippus

He was a greek stoic philosopher. There are two accounts of his death. It was during an Olympiad, he saw a donkey eating figs, Asian species of flowering plants, and said, “now give the donkey a drink of pure wine.” Those supposedly were his last words as he died in a fit of laughter.

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3. King Martin of Aragon

There are reports that he died of indigestion and uncontrollable laughter. As his jester, the entertainer, entered King’s bedroom on that fateful night he reportedly asked where the jester had been, and the jester replied, “Out of the next vineyard, where I saw a young deer hanging by his tail from a tree, as if someone had so punished him for stealing figs.” This joke caused the king to die from laughter.

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4. Pietro Arentino

He was an Italian author and a poet. It is believed that Pietro died due to suffocation from ‘laughing too much’.

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5. Farmer Wesley Parsons

During one night with his friends, Wesley started laughing at a joke. He went on laughing  for about an hour. Suddenly, he started getting hiccups and died of exhaustion two hours later.

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6. Damnoen Saen-Um

On 21 August 2003, this ice cream truck driver started laughing in his sleep. His wife tried to wake him up but she wasn’t aware of the fact that Damnoen would never wake up. Later, an autopsy suggested that it could have been a heart attack.

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7. Ole Bentzen

He laughed to his death while watching a heist comedy series A Fish Called Wanda. His heart was estimated to have beaten at between 250 and 500 beats per minute before he died of cardiac arrest.

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