Have you heard the name - Isadora Duncan? The “Mother of Dance”
14 September, 1927 somewhere on the French Riviera (coastline), Isadora met a young man sitting in an open-air Bugatti sports car.
Being a forthright person, Isadora asked him to take her for a spin.
Miss Duncan was wearing an immense iridescent silk scarf wrapped about her neck and streaming in long folds, part of which was swathed about her body with part trailing behind.
Neither she nor the driver noticed that one of the loose ends fell over the side of the car and was caught in the rear wheel.
The automobile was going at full speed when the scarf of strong silk suddenly began winding around the wheel and with terrific force dragged Miss Duncan, around whom it was securely wrapped, bodily over the side of the car.
Isadora’s neck was broken and she died instantly.
There was a film about her life starring Vanessa Redgrave (from memory) I forget the name of the film but doubtless a quick google will reveal it
Being a wet Wednesday I looked it up , it was called Isadora and was made in 1968
Bret, I think you are confusing a sad death with an early death, but, it you live by the “Arty” sword, there is a good chance you will die by it.
Oh my gosh… I remember that. I had totally forgotten though, until you posted that!
Is there an incredibly happy way to die?
a couple of ways comes to mind
Behave Mac…
I never knew that before … it’s a fluke if I ever heard of one but not a bad way to go. Quick.
Here’s one way you could pass your time…
Les Stewart from Australia typed all the numbers from one to one million, in words, not numbers, on a manual typewriter. It took him 16 years 7 months and he used 1,000 ink ribbons and wrote 19,890 pages.
I wonder who checked that he’d not missed a number out, nor made a spelling mistake. 
Another bad luck famous one was Brandon Lee ,shot by a prop gun.
Norris McWhirter?
My Mum told me the cautionary tale of Isadora Duncan when I was a teenager.
My older brother had built himself an open top sports car and he took me for a drive in it sometimes - my Mum was insistent that I shouldn’t wear any scarves or loose flowing clothes!
I have always been cautious and careful when travelling in sports open top cars ever since! ! 
Isadora Duncan did avoid the possibility of a sad death twelve years earlier - she had planned to leave the United States in 1915 aboard the ship “Lusitania” (that was its final voyage which ended with it sinking) but it is thought she couldn’t afford the ticket price, so chose a slower and cheaper crossing on another vessel.
Isadora’s Father also had an untimely end, when Isadora was about 21 - her Father and his third wife and child all died aboard the British passenger steamer Mohegan when it ran aground off the coast of Cornwall in 1898.
One never knows when one’s number is up, so best enjoy life while one can! 
Horrible Histories. Stupid Deaths
This thread reminded me of a recurring sketch in the childrens TV show, Horrible Histories. Stupid Deaths.
Guns in movies are real guns loaded with blanks (Like the gun on “Rust”). As with the “Rust” gun, the gun in the Brandon Lee movie had a live round in it.
There was a light plane crash near me at Shellharbour Airport. (used to be called Wollongong Airport)
The local mayor commented about a sad loss to the community etc. Which always gets me thinking that communities these days are too large for most to know these people.
It turned out that I do know them, they are the daughter and SiL of an acquaintance of mine in the seniors’ club. Sadly both his children have now pre-deceased him.
How tragic …
Aeschylus
- Year of Death: 458 BC
- Occupation: Playwright & soldier
- Method of Death: Killed by a tortoise, that an eagle dropped on his head.
And even sadder …
Sigurd the Mighty
- Year of Death: 892 AD
- Occupation: Earl of Orkney
- Method of Death: Died of wound infection when his leg was bitten by the teeth of a severed head.
I’m baffled … someone explain … how could the jaws bite.
Try as I may, I too am struggling to see how this may have happened. Unless the soon-to-be-beheaded chap happened to have his mouth open and nibbling on the leg, when all of a sudden someone chopped his bonce off and a spasm caused the teeth to clench.
But, I’m fishing here!!!
It’s not often you struggle Dex … I don’t feel so thick now.
I can think of an even more questionable place he might have been bitten, which would make obscene precisely what he was doing at the time. 