List of people who died on the toilet

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Numerous individuals have died while using a toilet facility or in the process of defecation or urination. This includes confirmed historical figures and more modern recent notable cases of deaths.

Pre-20th century

Date Location Name Age Description Source
c. 12th century BC Moab Eglon, King of Moab Unknown Assassinated by left-handed judge Ehud while on toilet. [1]
Summer of 581 BC Jin, China Duke Jing of Jin (Ju) Unknown Died falling into a toilet pit. [2]
336 AD Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire Arius 80 Died from explosive gastrointestinal problems while in a public toilet [3]
30 November 1016 Oxford or London, England King Edmund Ironside of England 26 Stabbed while defecating in a toilet. [4]
4 November 1035 Lysá nad Labem, Bohemia Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia Unknown Stabbed with a spear from under a toilet seat while defecating. [5]
26 or 27 February 1076 Vlaardingen, Lower Lorraine Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine Unknown Was assassinated while using a toilet. [6]
4 August 1306 Olomouc, Bohemia Wenceslaus III of Bohemia 16 Murdered with a spear while sitting in the garderobe. [7]
19 April 1578 Echigo Province, Japan Uesugi Kenshin 48 Allegedly assassinated while using a toilet. [8]
25 October 1760 Kensington Palace, London, England, Great Britain George II of Great Britain 76 Collapsed shortly after attending to his close stool, possibly died of an aortic aneurysm. [9]

20th century

Date Location Name Age Description Source
22 June 1969 Chelsea, London Judy Garland 47 Overdosed on barbiturates while using a toilet. [10]
24 October 1971 Paris, France George Dyer 38 Overdose of alcohol and amphetamine while using a toilet. Portrayed in The Black Triptychs [11]
16 August 1977 Memphis, Tennessee Elvis Presley 42 Cardiac arrest due to alleged drug overdose while using a toilet. [12]
8 March 1989 Columbia, South Carolina Michael Godwin 28 Initially sentenced to death by electrocution, but later reduced to a life sentence. He was accidentally electrocuted when he bit a pair of earphone wires while sitting on a metal toilet. [13]

21st century

Date Location Name Age Description Source
8 March 2004 Hollywood Hills, California, United States Robert Pastorelli 49 Overdosed on morphine while on a toilet. [14]
25 June 2011 Pilton, Somerset, United Kingdom Christopher Shale 56 Died of a heart attack on a portable toilet while at Glastonbury Festival. [15]
17 May 2013 Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jorge Rafael Videla 87 Died of a heart attack while on a jail toilet after slipping in the shower. [16]

Deaths in fiction

  • South Park: in the 2012 episode "Reverse Cowgirl", Clyde's mom falls into the toilet and suffers disembowelment.[19]
  • Saturday Night Live: produced several fictional advertisements for comedic value for a device called a "Toilet Death Ejector", in which a toilet would "eject" a person off of a toilet if they died on it so they would not be found dead on the toilet.[20]
  • A panicked passenger (played by Leanne Adachi) locks herself in a restroom and gets pulled down the toilet by the Octalus in the 1998 movie Deep Rising.[21]
  • Edward Spratt, a fictional English artist in Return of the Obra Dinn, was strangled by the Kraken as he was using the ship's head at the bow.[22]
  • Amir Asif, the main antagonist of the 2020 action movie Extraction, is shot after entering the toilet.[23]

See also

References

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  5. ↑ Chronica Baemorum. "Kochan poslal svého kata a když onen slepec seděl na záchodě v hodině noční, vyprazdňoval břich, proklál ho ostrým oštěpem zezadu až do útrob břišních."
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  7. ↑ Charles Edmund Maurice, The Story of Bohemia from the Earliest Times to the Fall of National Independence in 1620 (1896), p.117
  8. ↑ Turnbull 2012, p. 32
  9. ↑ Thompson, pp. 289–290; Van der Kiste, p. 213.
  10. ↑ citing United Press International article "Judy Took Too Many Pills" and containing a copy of Garland's death certificate.
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