This is the story of Mark, Mark Gleeson.
He will forever be remembered for dieing in the dumbest way possible. Or at least he will be in the pantheon for the category of dumbest ways to die.
Mark Gleeson was a 26 year old fella from Hampshire that suffered from a really bad case of snoring. Reportedly, doctors had told him his case was incurable.
But Mark said fuck doctors and came with an ingenious plan. He took some of his girlfriend's tampons and stuffed them up his nose before going to bed. His girlfriend apparently also liked the idea:
"It just happened. The conversation just came up about the snoring and we both agreed that was what he would do."
And thus Mark went to bed. And slept. And died from suffocation 😅
His girlfriend found him the next day dead with the tampons up his nose and a pathologist later confirmed the death due to asphyxiation, possibly aided by the sleeping tablets he was taking regularly.
Some die by old age. Some die during heroic actions. And some die with a couple of tampons up their nose. What a way to go!
This story happened almost 30 years ago back in 1996. I guess it's no longer "too soon" to blog about this in a humorous way.
Here's the original article where I first stumbled upon this story if you'd like to read more on it.
Ok, I guess this is it for today. Hopefully you had a laugh or two with the misery of poor Mark. You are a bad, bad person!