If you ever thought you were destined for a death that is baroque and complicated, you’ll fit in with a lot of writers from history. Mental Floss shares the tale of 13 writers whose deaths were stranger than any fictional demise they could have written.
Sherwood Anderson died from peritonitis, caused when his intestine was punctured by a cocktail toothpick he’d accidentally swallowed. Aeschylus was beaned on the head by a tortoise dropped by an eagle. Tennessee Williams purportedly choked to death on a bottle cap but actually died of a Seconal overdose. Elizabethan poet Sir Fulke Greville died after physicians filled his stab wounds with animal fat, which caused his injury to become gangrenous.
Read the rest at the link below. What strange deaths might occur in your next story?
