This post is just for fun. If your as sensitive as a freaking makahiya plant, don’t read these. If you know what a makahiya plant is, good for you.

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When people asked me how I want to die? Or in what way. I want to die in old age. I want to live my life for as long as I can live with it. I know that death is a really sensitive, pointless and stupid topic. But hey! I don’t know of anything as controversial as death, except that Britney shaved all of her hair. Now that is social death for an ordinary, dizzy person like me.

 So anyway, talking about death is fun and entertaining. Really. When someone you know died, even if your not really close or anything, you want to know how he/she died, when and where, and every little details. For instance, your dog died of poisoning. You want to know who did it and how. Your going to dig the details until you know who the suspect is. Right? Even if it just a dog, you want to know the reason behind his death, whether a cat poisoned him or your next door neighbor, which ever is the closest. So my point is, death is really controversial, except that Britney shaved all of her hair.

 But what could be more weirder than death, and what could be weirder than a weird death? And what could be weirder in a weirder death than a weirder after death???

 Sorry if all these weirdness is all weird. So to make it more clear but still weird…. oh! Just read these. OK? OK? Ok?! Ok!

Italian mathematician Geronimo Cardano published the laws of chance governing card & dice games. But he became most famous for his accurate horoscope predictions. He even predicted his own death in 1576 – even down to the exact hour. When the time came he was still healthy, so he killed himself rather than being proved wrong! ——> WEIRD BRAIN TO START WITH, right? So nonetheless, still a weird death.

When Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, Halley’s Comet was visible in the sky over Florida, Missouri. It did not pass very near to the earth that year, but its presence was enough to create a legend. Aware throughout his life that he was born when Halley’s Comet was visible, Mark Twain predicted in 1909 that he would die when it returned: “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it…. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’” He was right. When Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910, Halley’s Comet was once again visible in the sky. ——–> Not weird… But FREAKY! Disqualified as weird death.

 King Mithridates VI ruled in Asia Minor in the first century BC. He was so afraid of assassination by poisoning, he came up with a novel idea. He gave himself small doses of poison each day in the hope that he would naturally build up a resistance to poisons. It was so successful that when the Romans invaded in 63 BC, instead of being captured he tried to commit suicide, but the poison he took had no effect on him. Eventually the King ordered a slave to kill him with his sword! ——> C’mon! Give the King a break. His just mentally tired from all that poison. He needs a new hobby.

After being killed during the celebrated Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Horatio Nelson was put into a large barrel of brandy to preserve his body during the voyage back to England. When the ship arrived back home Lord Nelson was removed from the barrel and the crew celebrated his achievements by drinking the remaining brandy!  ——–> Disgusting after death. Yuck! Well, could it get any worst?

In July 1981, a tortoise was sentenced to death for murder. Tribal leaders in an eastern Kenyan village formally condemned the tortoise because they suspected it of causing the deaths of six people by magic. However, because none of the villagers was prepared to face the tortoise’s wrath by carrying out the execution, it was chained to a tree instead. The tortoise was later freed after the government promised an inquiry into the six deaths.  ——> It was all a misunderstanding! Cruel people.

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England and scourge of the monarchists died peacefully on 3rd Spetember 1658. 18 months later the monarchy had been restored and the royalists wanted revenge for the regicide of King Charles I. Cromwell’s corpse was exhumed from his tomb in Westminster Abbey and dragged through the streets of London to Tyburn. He was then given a symbollic hanging. 6 hours later his corpse was taken down from the gallows and beheaded by an executioner. His head was then paraded through the streets before being stuck on an iron spike and displayed atop Westminster Hall. ——>  …………………… I don’t want to be in his shoes. But look on the bright side, he didn’t feel anything!

In 1994 Los Angeles police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper – complete with scythe – and standing outside the windows of old people’s homes, staring in.  ———> errm… it wasn’t me! Honest! Gulp!

So my point is…. what exactly is my point again?

Oh yeah! There are such thing as weird after deaths! And it started way way way long ago….

The END.

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