I can tell you a true story about a stupid way that someone that I know died.
First, a little background. The story is about my niece's son, whom I will refer to as Jason. My niece is a year older than me, so she would be 51 right now. Anyway, when she was 16, she had a one night stand with this guy that was leaving for a long stent in the military and she ended up getting pregnant. She ended up in a home for unwed mothers, so that she could go to school while she was pregnant and not get harassed by people, and that's where she gave birth to Jason.
She later met and married a man who I'll call TL. TL ended up adopting Jason and then my niece and TL ended up having two other sons and a daughter, so they had four kids total with Jason being the oldest one.
By the early 90s, my niece developed breast cancer and she was on a really harsh chemo regime. Therefore, she really couldn't work because of how sick the chemo made her. Meanwhile, TL was working as a long haul truck driver. He had become ill with what he thought was the flu, so he just ignored it thinking it would go away eventually, However, he continued to get sicker and sicker. He eventually got so sick that he ended up in the hospital and they found out he had a virus that had invaded his heart. In his early 30s, he ended up having to get a pacemaker put in and he had to go on disability because he was too weak and sick to work.
Jason had graduated high school and due to the fact that both of his parents were ill and couldn't work, he was working 3 different jobs to help his parents out and to take care of his younger siblings. He had a rare day off from all 3 of his jobs and he should've been spending the day resting.
Instead, the leader of the Boy Scout troop that he had been in when he was younger had called and asked him to help them out. His former scout troop was going on a hike somewhere out in the middle of nowhere and they needed an extra person to help out. Jason should've said no. He should've stayed home and rested, but he was one of these people who was so kind- hearted that he couldn't turn anybody down. He was just the sweetest, most generous kid and he was one of these people that would give you the shirt off of his back, even if it meant that he froze to death. I really believe the scoutmaster knew that, and he knew the situation Jason was in working all these jobs to try to take care of his parents. However, he apparently didn't care about any of that.
So, obviously, Jason was very tired when they were going on this hike. And they were out in the middle of nowhere and they had stopped for a minute to rest and Jason had sat down on a rock that was right on the edge of this very steep ravine with a 300 foot fall straight down into a bunch of jagged rocks. Of course he was so tired that the minute he sat down, he fell asleep. The scoutmaster said one minute he was there and the next minute he was just gone. He had fallen over the side and down into this ravine.
They called down to him and he kept calling up and saying he was okay, which obviously couldn't have been true. They called a life flight helicopter, but because they were out in the middle of nowhere and this ravine was very steep and awkward to get to, it took them about an hour and a half or longer to get the helicopter out there. Meanwhile, they tried to find some way to walk down to him, but there was just no way to walk down this ravine. It was too steep. They couldn't do anything but keep calling down to him. At first, they would call down and he would call back up that he was still okay. They kept trying to talk to him and tell him everything was going to be okay & the life flight was on its way. But eventually, they called down to him and they didn't get a response from him anymore. So by the time the life flight helicopter got there and they were able to lower somebody down to where he was, it was too late. He had laid there alone on all those jagged rocks and bled to death.
This is one of the saddest and most stupid and unnecessary deaths I've ever experienced in my life. This kid didn't have to die. The scoutmaster, in my opinion, took advantage of him knowing his kind and generous nature. And he also would've known the situation he was in and that he was working 3 jobs to take care of his ill parents and his siblings. Yet none of that meant anything to him. I still blame him for this poor kid's death. And, of course, my niece was devastated to find out that her 19 year old son had passed away and here she is trying to fight cancer.
The whole situation is just tragic and stupid in my opinion. It infuriates me every time I think about it because Jason didn't have to die. But to me that's one of the stupidest ways to die that I can think of: volunteering to help a scout troop go on a hike, sitting on a rock, falling over a 300 foot ravine onto some jagged rocks, and then laying there bleeding to death while they try to get a life flight helicopter to you. Jason was just too kind for this world. He put everyone else ahead of himself and look what it got him. The only good part is that he's no longer suffering.