In February 2002, Vincent Liew received a new kidney. This would have been great news except that no one involved knew that the donor had cancer, but because the cancer was in her uterus the doctors thought there was very little chance that Vincent would be in danger. They thought wrong. Liew died later that year and upon examination it was discovered that his death was the result of uterine cancer, despite the fact that he didn’t have a uterus.

One man developed a severe inguinal hernia over a 20-year period which caused his scrotum to swell to the size of a football by the time he died.

A man entered the emergency room with a stab wound, however when that was treated doctors noticed that the man was bleeding from behind. After looking closer they discovered that the attacker had also inserted a light bulb into the victims anus. The man underwent surgery to remove the object, but died later due to septic shock.

Getting drunk via your ass isn’t normally recommended, but that’s what led to the death of a particularly unfortunate man. People have died before while trying to give themselves alcohol via an enema, but this guy did it with style, meaning that he pierced his own colon while using an enema device.

Forrest Gump said “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”. If we now use that analogy and apply it to people with rare diseases, it’s like having an entire box of chocolates that are sh*t flavored. One man had a disease known as hemochromatosis, which is a rare disease causing the body to absorb too much iron from food. This iron overdose didn’t turn this guy into a superhero, it destroyed his liver and caused him to grow varicose veins on his esophagus. When the veins eventually ruptured, he slowly bled to death.

Decapitation is not as rare as you might think with hanging victims. This gruesome phenomenon usually occurs when a long enough drop is involved with a rigid enough rope. One man was decapitated when he hung himself from his apartment balcony, his body ended up on the street below.

For most people, a trip to the toilet won’t mean anything but a bad smell and a mild sense of personal achievement, but for those with heart issues, every seated experience can be deadly. Pushing too hard while trying to expel human waste can cause heart failure and has done on more than a few occasions.

Apparently welding in a bilge filled with urine can cause death, as one man found out when the metal runoff mixed with the urine and became noxious leading to the man’s poisoning and death.

It’s not often that a human being can cause a mass illness by their very presence but that’s exactly what happened when Gloria Ramirez was admitted to hospital. While dying on the operating table, the medical team used a defibrillator to try and revive her which seemed to trigger a strange garlic odor and an oily substance across her body. Not long after this, the medical team fell ill and although it’s not clear what caused the sickness, the culprit may have been dimethyl sulfoxide, which is an industrial solvent also used as a home remedy. When mixed with oxgen it can become a powerful nerve gas.

Dogs are carnivores and humans are meat so it should come as no surprise that dogs and even cats will try and eat their owners after death. An elderly woman wasn’t even dead when her dog began having an all-you-can-eat-buffet. The woman had been incapacitated by a stroke when her pet started literally tearing strips off of her. By the time she was found, the dog had eaten all of her exposed skin.

A man was originally treated for a gunshot wound, but a piece of shrapnel had stayed in his body after the incident. For 30 years he lived a normal life until the shrapnel entered his circulatory system and headed straight for the heart. The man died of a heart attack.

While a chef was preparing a tasty meal of cobra, the snake ended up biting him – but what makes this story strange is that the chef had chopped off the cobra’s head 20 minutes earlier. The chef was unable to get the anti-venom required and later died in hospital.