Pin ItemailprintThere are few stories out there that will tug at your heartstrings quite like this one. Ben Breedlove – an 18-year-old from Austin, Texas – died on Christmas Day of a heart attack, but posted his story in a pair of videos on YouTube a week earlier. In the two videos, as an instrumental [...]
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Tragedy at the Philadelphia marathon yesterday as two runners died after collapsing. Organizers confirmed that one runner, a 21-year-old Asian male, collapsed at the finish line. Another 40-year-old male collapsed about a quarter-mile from the finish line. Both runners were immediately taken to Hahnemann University Hospital where they were pronounced dead after suffering heart attacks. [...]
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A heated high school football rivalry took a tragic turn on Friday night when Angela Gettis, a 16-year-old cheerleader, collapsed along the sideline and was taken to a hospital, where she later died. Gettis was pronounced dead about three hours after she was taken to the hospital. The tragedy occurred during the annual football game [...]
Another child of a political figure has died at the age of 51. Kara Kennedy, daughter of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, died of a heart attack yesterday. Kennedy had the attack after her normal daily workout, according to a statement. She was the only daughter of Senator Kennedy, who himself died in 2009. That [...]
This one goes way beyond WTF. A Russian woman died of a heart attack after being shocked from waking up at her own funeral. Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, was erroneously declared dead by doctors, but she later woke up in a coffin surrounded by crying friends and family members. She started screaming once she realized she [...]
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The one and only “Macho Man” Randy Savage, a pro wrestling icon in the 1980s, died today in a car accident in Florida. Randy’s brother and former pro wrestler, “Leaping” Lanny Poffo, says Savage, 58, suffered a heart attack while he was driving at around 9:25 a.m. EDT and lost control of his vehicle. He [...]
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What’s the most dangerous thing you’ll do today? Is it speeding on the freeway? Is it smoking? Is it having a few drinks with dinner? Is it skipping dinner because you’re too busy? No, chances are, you’re doing the most dangerous thing you’ll do all day right now, if you’re sitting down as you read [...]
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Mike DeStefano, one of 5 finalists last season on Last Comic Standing, died last night after suffering a heart attack. DeStefano was scheduled to perform his one-man show “A Cherry Tree in the Bronx” on Wednesday at the Barrow Street Theater in New York City. He had just completed a series of sold-out shows, as [...]
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It seems like every day a study finds that something else could kill you, and today is no exception. According to a new study presented at Wednesday’s American Stroke Association International Stroke Conference in L.A., there now appears to be a definite link between the intake of diet soda and an increased risk of heart [...]
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Carolin Berger, a German porn star who used the stage name “Cora” in her films, went into a coma and died after undergoing her sixth breast enlargement. Berger, 23, was put in a medically-induced coma for nine days before her death on Thursday following complications from surgery that increased her chest size from 34F to [...]
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John Dye, the actor who portrayed the angel of death “Andrew” on Touched By an Angel, has died. He was just 47 years old. Dye died on Monday after suffering a heart attack in San Francisco, according to his brother, Jerre Dye. John Dye was born in Mississippi. He majored in theater at the University [...]
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Nestor Kirchner, the former President of Argentina, died suddenly on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack. Kirchner, 60, died after he was rushed to the Formenti de Calafate hospital while having a massive heart attack, the presidency said. “It was a sudden death,” says his personal doctor, Luis Buonomo, adding that an official medical report [...]
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