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Ep.237 Deaths of the Month - November

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The grim reaper’s been busy — and The Days Grimm Podcast is back to break down the strangest, most ironic, and downright hilarious ways people have met their end. In this new “Deaths of the Month” episode, hosts Brian Day and Thomas Grimm count down five bizarre deaths from history and around the world, mixing dark humor, historical oddities, and pure chaos in only the way The Days Grimm can.

🪦 In This Episode:

  • A British duke who chose to be drowned in a barrel of wine 
  • A composer who literally got a staff infection… from his staff 
  • A tragic (and slightly awkward) “death by wardrobe” 
  • A politician killed by monkeys in India 
  • And a funeral gone wrong when the coffin strikes back 

With a mix of history, irony, and unfiltered comedy, Brian and Thomas remind us that death doesn’t always have to be grim — sometimes it’s just absurd. Whether you’re here for the laughs, the lore, or the “did-that-really-happen?” moments, this monthly death roundup is the funniest way to face the inevitable.

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Back again Jadies back Tell a friend Guess who's back guess who back is who back Guess who's back guess who's back as we back Guess who back is who bag is back I've created a monster nobody wants to see monsters.

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Hello Hello Hello Hello everyone and welcome to another thrilling episode of the days, Grimm. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Grim. What's up, dude? Not much. I thought you were strucking out there. Just tapping out. Just letting the good lord take me. Right. I was having a flashback to like an episode we did like two years ago where I did. You're about to say to Afghanistan. No. Do you remember that? There was an episode we did like a couple years ago where I was like, my name is and I like went away from my microphone and like came all the way back. Yeah. Yeah. I was kind of doing one of those, dude. You know, flashback to that. Uh yeah, welcome to another thrilling episode of the Day's Grim. Deaths of the Month. Deaths of the Month at of the month, as you can tell by the title, shit's gonna get pretty dark. Um we've only done one of these so far, but we've been getting a lot of feedback about people missing them in the regular episodes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we're doing these now in place of doing them in the episodes, correct? That's that's like the consensus moving forward. And we're gonna try to do one every month. Yeah. Yeah, that's the goal. So if we're slacking, hit us in the DMs and let us know. Also, Without Me by Eminem, Motown.

SPEAKER_03:

Holy shit. I was showing an Ohead at work. He's like, I was playing some new rap music on the speakers, and he was like, You gotta play some like music from my day, like rap music that I can get down on. And I was like, Oh yeah, I was like, let me show you this AI Motown. He was like, He's like, dude, do they have any 3-6? And I was like, let's search it up. And he's like, Do they have any Cypress Hill? And he's like, What about Wu Tang? And dude, every one of them I had like an AI version. Just fired up, ready to go. I love this. I was like, I expect a full playlist Monday, and he's like, I got you.

SPEAKER_02:

Dude, I'll tell you what, man, uh, people are sleeping on the AI Motowns, dude. They are sleeping on because Logan just referenced it in uh this episode with Schultz. Nice that's how they started it.

SPEAKER_03:

No one's talking about it. I know, but it's so fucking fire, dude. So good. Um so we got five deaths today for you guys.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and before we just Tom, before we get too wild, I do want to give credit where credit is due. We do have a producer today. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh who's producing this podcast? My fiance, Lexi.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So Lexi, thank you very much. You're an angel. Uh, and she's she's gonna crush it. So, yeah, Tom, you were saying, sorry.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, uh, our first death here, I forget what I even titled this one.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh no, you don't have titles, dude?

SPEAKER_03:

I do, they're in the notes. Oh.

SPEAKER_02:

Um Let's pull up the notes. I we can't do this without titles. Can we? Lexi, can you find those notes, please? Yeah, let's do that. Here we go. Uh you're gonna do all the rankings because it's hard for me to so.

SPEAKER_03:

So coming in number five is death by drowning in wine. I like that. And then we'll read the article.

SPEAKER_02:

I like that. I like that a lot. Here we go. Um okay, so why an English king's here we go. And our source here is uh Smithsonian Mag.com. Um, why an English king's traitorous brother was allegedly drowned in a barrel of wine. Uh moving forward here. So we got um, let's see, yeah, I'll put just a little, there we go. Uh George, I'm gonna do my best. Plantagene, uh Duke of Clarence, spent his life engaged in a power struggle that pitted cousins and siblings against each other. He was executed for treason on this day in 1478. That's February 18th. Yeah, oh, uh yeah, thank you for catching that topic.

SPEAKER_03:

Um okay, so George again we're the the same line right there, followed of uh basically treason of his brother Edward the Fourth of England. Yeah. George, who never held the throne, could have just become a footnote in history books, but his colorful personality, aka Man Hornets, and the alleged manner of his death have captivated the public imagination for centuries. According to popular lore, George was executed by drowning in a barrel of wine.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, and I honestly, I'm gonna tell you right now, Tom, I didn't see where you left off, but I'm gonna go on to read uh the Duke of York's attempts to seize the throne. Nope, no close enough, uh, were unsuccessful, and he ultimately killed he was ultimately killed in battle in 1460.

SPEAKER_03:

But you're missing the his dad was the Duke of York and claiming to be the English throne next in line, basically. George was born in nineteen or in fourteen forty-nine, and by fourteen fifty-nine, violence had escalated between his father's supporters and those of the reigning King Henry the Sixth. The two camps were factions of the same family engaged in a civil war known as the War of Roses. One side, the House of York, led by George's father, the other side was the House of Lancaster, hashtag shout out to uh whatever that movie or series was, led by uh Henry the Sixth at stake on the side of the family had the rightful claim to rule England.

SPEAKER_02:

Nice, dude. And then uh you can turn us down in the headphones too, Lexi, whenever you get a moment uh on the MacBook, please. And then um now do I go to the Duke of York's? Okay, so the Duke of York's attempts to seize the throne were unsuccessful, and he was ultimately killed in battle in 1460. But George's luck began to turn when his older brother assumed the throne as Edward I. V. I don't even know what that is. The fourth, okay, I'm bad at rumoring numerals, uh, in 1461. So uh with the House of York in power, George was given his uh Dukedom of Clarence and Lutenacy uh over Ireland. Uh it's so funny. I just I do want to take a quick pause here. How like those how the world worked back then, how they were just like this country, and then they would pick leaders to run different properties, like different pieces of landscape started with the Roman Empire and like certain other empires as they took over places like uh Genghis Khan would take over and he'd be like, if they like bent the knee, he would leave the rulers in place, they would just pay him tax. Oh, that's so sick.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

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Dude, shout out to the Romans. Uh any peace, um, yeah. So any piece in the family was brief. Uh George and his allies took offense when Edward married Elizabeth Woodville. Shut uh just kidding. Um, a Lancastrian widow. This began a multi-decade attempt by George to usurp power. I don't know what that word means. Usurp power.

SPEAKER_03:

Slowly take power, try to gain it where you could. The Lancastrian, they said it was like a battle of the same family, so this is like inbreeding Loki.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh yeah, so usurp power from Edward and take the throne for himself. It sowed paranoia in Edward and made for challenging family dynamics. For his part, Edward disapproved of George's marriage to Isabel Neville, the daughter of powerful cousin who'd once supported Edward but now opposed him. Now let's get a good look at this cutie here, dude. Look at this. Hold on, don't scroll too far. Uh I'll tell you what, do me a little zoom on that, too. Can you just zoom in on her precious face? Yeah, look at her, dude. That's uh holy cow.

SPEAKER_03:

I think that's where the Chinese got painting their faces white. Bro. That looks like Voldemort.

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She's at 10 in the 1400s, bro. Maybe. I'm glad I'm not allowed to. Dude, and look at his dope ass armor. Okay. All right, that's all I need. Okay, we scroll back down. What do we got here? You know what's funny is he was probably like five foot.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Maybe less. Dude, Kings were, man. Kings were. Yeah, we went, I went to a museum that had like real like body armor, and I was like, fuck, these dudes were short. Tiny, bro.

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Now we're on that juiced up milk nowadays.

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The following years brought chaos to England and to the family as Edward and George fueled and reconciled, and their supporters repeatedly swapped slides in the feud. For a brief period in 1470 and 1471, Henry VI restored was restored to power, but by April Excuse me. How dare you but by April 1471, Edward had regained the throne. Eventually, the back and forth with the George brothers began anew.

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Ah. And then George's final chapter began in 1477 when a member of his household was charged with, quote, imagining the king's death by necromancy. That's hot. End quote. Love some good necromancy. Uh after George protested this verdict at the Westminster Palace. Yeah, Westminster Palace, he was arrested for contempt of the law. Just a few months later, his brother charged him with treason. The punishment for his crimes was death. Now we're getting to the meat and potatoes. On February 18, 1478, George was put to death in the Tower of London. As the story goes, his manner of execution was immersion in a vat of Malmsy wine. Malmsey wine, a fortified sweet wine with Portuguese grapes. Because his execution was private, this remains a rumor. Historians' best guess as to what happened that day.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and then the the War of Roses continued on after his death, because you know, family inviting never stops. But yeah, I thought that was crazy to like basically like get married to your cousin, and then your brother is like, nah.

SPEAKER_02:

Bruh. Then drowns you in a bucket of wine over this power struggle. Yeah, he just fucking waterboards you with some fucking momsey. Right. Dude, okay, first off, momsey.

SPEAKER_03:

Weird fuck is that? Well, it said a fortified sweet wine made with peach.

SPEAKER_02:

I know, but when I'm reading for the show, I'm not comprehending. Yeah. Do you ever uh anyways? I don't want to sidetrack too much with the ADD, but like yeah, so it's a sweet it's a sweet wine. Is that what's happening? Yeah, from my understanding. Now, why was it wine?

SPEAKER_03:

Why didn't they just cut his head off like they normally did back then? I bet it he got to pick his death since he was like royalty. They were like, how do you want to die?

SPEAKER_02:

You know, before we had a fucking sociopath chooses drowned.

SPEAKER_03:

What kind of person, you know, is like, what's your last meal before they electrocute you? You know what I mean? It's like, what how do you want to go? How would you go? I mean, that way seems better than other ways. Get a couple good gulps in before you just like conk out. Yeah. I mean, compared to the other forms that they had back then, it's probably the way to go. Just drowning in Jesus' blood. Yeah. Hell yeah. All right, next note. Um, coming in at number four.

SPEAKER_02:

Alright, can what's the can we pull the notes up again? We're just gonna have to flop back and forth, Lex, because I don't want to miss these titles, please. So where are the notes at? Let's pull those puppies up. Um and then we're gonna go to.

SPEAKER_03:

Is uh Death by Conducting Staff.

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Okay, I like that. I like that. Okay, so let's pull this puppy up.

SPEAKER_03:

Um source for this. Next time we went too long on the other one, so we'll go to this one.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. So source for this one is Britonica.com. Um Jean Baptiste Lully uh was a French composer. Yeah, was a French composer born November 29th, uh, 1632. Um he was an Italian-born French court and operatic composer who from 1662 completely controlled French court music and whose style of composition was imitated throughout Europe. Transetter.

SPEAKER_03:

He was the Kanye West of Paris, France in 1687. Yeah, dude, he was like He was Dr. Dre of France. He was like Diddy before the charges. I don't think Diddy made any beats.

SPEAKER_02:

Onward. Here we go. Moving into this. Uh born of Italian parents, Loli galicized these words today. Uh galicized his name when he became a naturalized Frenchman. His early sorry, that's funny for me. Who wants to be French? You know what I mean? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03:

But a lot of this is like kind of BS. Like he joined the court violin ensemble of Louis the 17th in 1652 or 1653. They don't know. Yeah. Um soon became a composer of dance music for the kings and leaders around that time. Um, let's see, composed music for court ballet.

SPEAKER_02:

Insatiable and bit go down to here, yeah. Start here.

SPEAKER_03:

Um from his rise of a violinist, he held royalty appointments such as a music composer for the king, uh, music master to the royal family, and then was uh part of no opera performed in France without his permission. He received some fancy French slogan I can't pronounce, a lot of French there. Um let's see. But basically, I mean he was the fucking man, right? Nobody like they had to, you know, like when you go to an area and you gotta check in with like the gang leaders of that area sometimes if like you're big and stuff. So, like, yeah, like he was that guy.

SPEAKER_02:

He was the guy, like, you gotta come pay a tax to be on his turf. Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_03:

If we can keep scrolling for a second here, but let's scroll down a little bit. But um basically he like made beat keeping. So before they had the stick that they would use to keep, you know, the one, two, three, four and how they move it, he had a staff and he would beat the staff on the floor to keep the keep the for a metronome. Yeah. Nice, dude. Sick. And uh so he played it all various instruments and everything like that.

SPEAKER_02:

Did he always do that? Did I oh he always did that? That was like his thing.

SPEAKER_03:

So then I guess one of these times he's conducting and he like stabs his foot with the thing. But then like the show must go on, you know, like everything's gonna be a good thing. Oh, yeah, dude, for sure.

SPEAKER_02:

You're not just you ain't no bitch, dude. If you're bringing that kind of thunder, you ain't no bitch.

SPEAKER_03:

You power through it. Well, the funny thing about it is he later can get contracts uh staff infection from that wound.

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He got he got staff from a staff.

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Yeah, and then that's how he died.

SPEAKER_02:

The irony that you get a staff infection from your staff. From your music staff. Kind of wild. Such a good pick, Tom. You're so good at this. Um and look at the wig on this.

SPEAKER_03:

Well that that's Louis 16th or actually 14th, maybe. Um I'm not good with Roman numerals. Um yeah, there's an engraving of him there. Uh oh, he had a wig too, brother.

SPEAKER_02:

And look at those tights, boy. You couldn't get a fucking nickel in there.

SPEAKER_03:

What's he doing with his hand? Yeah. Okay. That was before it had to be below the knee. Yeah. Coming in at death number three is a death by dresser.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, death by dresser. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They call they didn't call it a dresser, they called it a uh a wardrobe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They called it a wardrobe. Uh cupboard. And then we also have uh James Betts. Is that the individual's name? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so in 1667, James Betts, uh yeah, James Betts died from asphyxiation after being sealed in a cupboard by Elizabeth Spencer at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge in an attempt to hide from her father, John Spencer. In a fit of grief, Elizabeth threw herself from the roof of the of the old court. Their ghosts are said to walk the halls on Christmas. Eve.

SPEAKER_03:

I think the next article here uh on the next tab is like another uh so basically oh never mind. I lied, it's somewhere in there, but we're not gonna Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_02:

Trapped in closet. Yeah, go down to number two. Go down to number two here.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh wow, tell tell her to kick rocks, dude. So basically, um so she was worried that her dad would discover that she had a man in the room, and so her like I guess she heard her dad coming up, and so she puts him in her cupboard and like closes it, and it was such a nice build that he fucking ran out of air. Were they fucking? Had to have been.

SPEAKER_02:

Also, how much funnier is this story? That she killed herself afterwards? No, how much funnier is this story if he's Native American?

SPEAKER_03:

Do you get that joke? I don't think he would have been Native American.

SPEAKER_02:

Do you get that joke? No, not Indian in the cupboard. Tighten the fuck up, dude. Come on, dude. That is low-hanging fruit, brother.

SPEAKER_03:

I didn't when we were looking this up, I didn't realize that she committed suicide out of guilt and heartbreak. Oh, yeah, I think I got a bleep suicide.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh, that sucks, dude. And she jumped off the roof, bold strat, for a uh a jumper, you don't come by those very often.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, I don't know if they came at all.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, you don't know, honestly. We doubt I got some more questions for we should go visit these ghosts that roam the halls on Christmas in the in the court of uh Corpus Christi uh Cambridge. Yeah, so if you guys are looking for a fun family trip to plan, Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. Uh on Christmas Eve. Yeah, they got ghosts. See the ghost of Christmas past. I'm a big ghost guy, man. So the big takeaways here are Oh, there she is falling out the window in the background. She's flying. Uh no, she's she's dying. It's like that scene from Batman. Oh my god. Or the other guys where he the side guy jumps off the building. Oh, he's flying. Um no, dude, yeah. So the two takeaways for me like I really want to know, were they fucking or was it just like or was it something just like not even like a like a sex thing? Like were they just like vibing? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Were they just like chilling? Yeah, like just like listening to Mozart or something, or and then dad came home and she's like, oh fuck.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm in the I'm in the room with my door closed with a guy.

SPEAKER_02:

He's gonna think we're fucking, but we're not fucking you know what I mean? Like, so I wonder what I just so that's my number one takeaway, and number two takeaway is I pray that this man was a Native American. Like, I no bigger part of me has ever wished for anything harder than for him to be Native American. Well, that's harsh. I want it to be Indian in the cupboard so bad.

SPEAKER_03:

Coming in at number two is uh Death by Monkey. And this comes out of the Times of India. You have to scroll back up so I can read the title on this one. Monkey Menace, Delhi debut major SS Boha dies. Baja, age 52, uh had sustained severe head injuries on Saturday off of falling off the terraf terrace, which is like the patio or awning of his home following an attack by the monkeys.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh the band? Anyways, going on. Uh so we got uh Delhi's deputy mayor S. S. Bahawa died on Sunday, TOI photo above, uh real handsome looking fella, hell of a mustache. Um died in New Delhi on Sunday of head injuries, as you just read. The 52-year-old uh corporator, don't know what that means, uh 52-year-old corporator from Anand Vihar Ward was admitted the in was admitted to the intensive care unit of Apollo Hospital on Saturday with multiple injuries, and his condition deteriorated, later leading to his death on Sunday morning per BJP Delhi President Harsh Vardhan. Um do you think Fugitive Mayhole No, I'm just joking. I'm just joking.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh was a businessman and vice president, was walking on the terrace of the first floor of his house when the monkeys attacked him, after which he lost balance and fell off the terrace around 8 a.m. on Saturday. Um not the first case of monkey attacks in the city, and the high court had pulled up the municipal corporation of the Dolly uh several times in the past to curb the monkey menace in the Capitol.

SPEAKER_02:

What kind of town? I'm sorry, I'm like literally I'm crying because I was laughing so hard. What kind of fucking town is it just okay to have monkey menaces?

SPEAKER_03:

They have like monkey temples and stuff there where like people feed monkeys. Oh my god, I was crying, bro. But that did like do you see where it said he it was on his one story? Like, how far is that fall?

SPEAKER_02:

Enough to fuck well, and I bet the monkeys chewed him up pretty good, too. Yeah, you're probably right. And they they made it sound like it was like a like a like a like a hit, like a planned. Multiple, multiple head injuries. I think it was coordinated. I think these monkeys are I think they're Yeah, they said this is our home now.

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We're squatting here.

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This was a targeted.

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There's another tab, too.

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And yeah, let's open up the second tab, because I think here is where we're gonna find out that it was a targeted uh it was a hit.

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Uh we quote, we have neither the expertise nor the infrastructure to deal with the situation. They have opposable thumbs. If the animals are caught, we are under pressure to release them due to the pressure from the animal activists and from uh people due to religious beliefs. See, they had the monkey temple there. Uh the monkeys as a living link to the deity uh who what Hanuman, the monkey god who symbolizes strength.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, strong enough to kill a man, dude. Right. Jesus. And then also, like, another thing they're not talking about here is like monkeys are smart.

SPEAKER_03:

Well they're d they're hitting the prime ministers. The dangerous posed that an estimated 10,000 monkeys that roam the city were brought home sharply on Sunday. What? That's what it says right there. The dangerous uh the danger posed by the estimated 10,000 monkeys that roam the city was brought home sharply.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, like brought home, like brought to the front. The seriousness of the issue. Yeah, yeah, was brought home sharply on Sunday when the when homeboy died at age 52. I wonder if Um Yeah, we have neither expertise or okay. You said that animals routinely invade parliament. Jesus Christ, they're just in the court? They're everywhere.

SPEAKER_03:

They're fucking saying under pressure to release them due to religious reasons. And like activists upon the city.

SPEAKER_02:

Dude, monkeys in Delhi are like cockroaches in New York City. Right. Jesus, they're just fucking murky and people. Several city residential districts petitioned local courts in 2001 to initiate steps to make New Delhi, quote, monkey free.

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Quote. I first first approached by authorities in 1987 when I drew up a plan to relocate the monkeys, but all the authorities have done is listen. End quote. Did they have a wildlife SOS program?

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Bruh.

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Due to the constant erosion of the animal's natural habitat.

SPEAKER_02:

Yo, that is wild to me. That could you just imagine that being like a real fear that you have to have every day that, oh, I might be attacked by a gang of monkeys today. Jesus, Pete. Uh, that's uh yeah, so death by monkeys uh slash I'm pretty sure this was an inside hit job um coming in at number two.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and coming in at number one, I have titled as Death at a Funeral. That was my drum roll attempt.

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Uh the London Dead.

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Yeah, that's the the source.

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Oh, that's the source? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

Um this was published Monday, March 31st of 2014.

SPEAKER_02:

So Henry Taylor, Paul Henry Taylor, Paul Bearer, killed by a coffin in 1872 at the Kinsall Green Cemetery. Um for the unfortunate Henry Taylor. Oh, this one's fucked. I remember this one. Oh, this one's so fucked. For the unfortunate Henry Taylor fate dotted the eye of irony when he was killed on pallbearing duties in Kinsal Green by the coffin he was carrying. Tom, I'm gonna let you read this because I'm gonna cry because it's so fucked. It is so funny, dude.

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Uh Saturday evening at the University College Hospital of London on the Body, Henry Taylor died at age sixty. Um, undertaking foreman and others showed in the 19th District, or industry deceased, with others engaged at the funeral of uh cemetery, the church service having been finished, the coffin and mourners proceeded in the coaches towards the place of burial, the day being damp, and the foreman directed the coaches with the mourners to proceed to the grave by the footway, and the horse across the grass towards the grave digger who was motioning the nearest way. The coffin was moved from the hearst and being carried down a path three feet six wide by six bears. When orders were given a turn so that the coffin, which was known in the trade as a four-pound leaded one, should be head first. While the men were charging, it's supposed that the deceased caught his foot on the sidestone and stumbled. The other bears to save themselves let the coffin go, and it fell with great force on the deceased, fracturing his jaw and ribs. The greatest confusion was created amongst the mourners who witnessed the accident, and the widow of the person about to be buried nearly went hysteric. Further assisting being in the burial process was proceeded while the deceased was conveyed to a surgery um where he was basically pronounced dead.

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Uh, where he expired on the 24th Instra something. Um, hit the s because what's we didn't really drive home the most fucked up part of this death. Um, so there's a nice uh image of what it likely looked like. Could you imagine being the fucked up sick piece of shit that had to draw this fucking thing? Jesus Christ. Uh Death by Coffin. Uh this source is uh burialandbeyond.com. Um and let me see, keep going down a little bit. Here we go, here we go. Um in 1872, London's Victorian cemeteries were at their grand peak. The memorials of the great and good were enormous and crammed with symbolism. Burial grounds were sculpted like elaborate gardens, and funerals were uh as ostentatious as ever, having all the trappings of the morning culture of the day.

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As you can see in the picture, they're pretty elaborate.

SPEAKER_02:

They're not just like honest to God, they're beautiful.

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Um, so you can keep going down. There's uh there's a news article that is like a fucking comedy strip of what happened.

SPEAKER_02:

Jesus Murphy, there was a fight, there's a lady on fight, someone's getting shot with a muzzle loader, dude's face gets crammed in. There's a dude popping out of a well. I don't know what the fuck is going on. Dudes are just fighting at a in a fucking burial. Um, so let's keep going down. Okay, so however, uh for all Kindles just on the paper.

SPEAKER_03:

Taylor died from crush injuries resulting in the full weight of a coffin with a body landing on his jaw and chest. The picture is right below it.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, let's keep scrolling. Uh, for the well-to-do of the 19th century, coffins became multi-layered objects, further opportunity to show one's class and wealth on wooden and anthropoidal structure and stamped with metal coffin furniture, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_03:

Where is the part? Basically, it's saying in the Victorian cemetery, which everybody knows Victorians are like big and overdrawn and just like it's over the top.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it's over the top every time.

SPEAKER_03:

Right. Um, basically, they said um it was possible for many of these coffins to weigh up to a quarter of a ton.

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Shh.

SPEAKER_03:

Um, the straps were not widened by the pall bears the tight cemetery path and wet grass is what took, you know, caused them to slip with the rock. Like I said, it's crazy. Um, when we were looking it up originally, it said that it was his wife, but the first article that we read did not say that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, now I'm I thought I was so excited because I thought it was his wife.

SPEAKER_03:

That's what when we read it originally when we found the link, but I guess maybe not.

SPEAKER_02:

Can we scroll back up to the comic strip? Up to the top with the right here. Yeah, this guy popping out of the well, maybe that's her husband.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, no, it says narrowing escape from a drowning at a client's. So that's probably like a well digger or somebody like that that just fell in a hole.

SPEAKER_02:

What were we doing, dude? Back then, like killed by a coffin. What were we doing?

SPEAKER_03:

A jealous woman's revenge, so like a lady. Caught a dude, but it doesn't even look like I mean in the image, it looks like he's just a tailor making a dress for somebody. The frightful aristocrats in the South Seas. Like uh just wild.

SPEAKER_02:

Dude, I'll tell you what, they were doing it big back then, and uh they were doing it Victorian back then. Yeah, and I appreciate that about them. Um I don't know. My main takeaway from this is uh I'm a I'm a heavy gentleman. Dude, almost all of these, none of these came from America. Yeah, we can't we gotta find some more American good deaths.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, these were good. Well, we had well uh going so we'll start from number one and go back. Yeah, we can just pull up the notes. So um yeah, we'll we'll just run down real quick from there. So we had uh was it death by bucket of wine?

SPEAKER_02:

Oh yeah, homeboy uh chose to be um drowned in a box in a bucket of wine. Right.

SPEAKER_03:

And then we had um that's the same the the war over the chick, which is the same. And then we had the staff uh Jean Baptiste Loli. Yeah, we had the conductor with the staff giving himself staff, and then we had Death in a Wardrobe. Yeah, which uh Indian in the cover. Well, that was like a twofer.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Honestly, good pick on that one. Yeah, solid pick. And then we had the monkey menaces, the you know, gang violence by monkeys. Yep. And then uh wrapping it up, yeah, death at a funeral.

SPEAKER_02:

Bringing it home with uh death at uh death at a funeral, man. I don't so my main takeaway for the death at a funeral is like if you're gonna be a pole bearer, dude, you know, maybe work your lats out a little bit. Maybe do some back and yeah, do some back and biceps, get prepped and ready, dude. Don't be don't be dropping the dead, dude. And then let alone creating another dead person. Right. You're doing the opposite of your job. Yeah, and they can't even share a grave. Spin that shit, dude. Um I really enjoyed this one. This is a shorter version. Uh we are, you know, trying to still get used to our new space. So um But yeah, thank you guys so much for all the uh the love. Please, you know, hit us with if you know a funny death of the of the week.

SPEAKER_03:

Shoot us the article.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, shoot us the article if you know something about one of the clips we showed today. Leave in the comments, dude. Um, but short of that, it's been another thrilling episode of the Day's Grim, right, Tom? Yes, sir. Uh my name is Brian Michael Day.

SPEAKER_03:

My name is Thomas Grimm.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh, thank you so much, Lexi, and thank you guys so much. Bye bye.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm chopped liver. Well, if you want shady, this is what I give you. A little bit of me mixed with some hard liquor, some blocker than a job. I'm starting my heart quicker than a stock when I can shot the hospital by the docker when I'm not cool, I'm parading. Then I'm blocking the table while it's operating. You waited this moment, stop debating. Cause I'm back. I'm on a I know that you got a job, Miss Chaney. But your husband's hard problems complicating. So the FCC won't let me be, but let me be me, so let me see. They try to shut me down on MTV, but it feels good empty without me. So come on, dip, bum on your lips, jump back, jiggle the hip, and wriggle a bit and get it ready. Cause this is about to get heavy. I just handled all my lawsuits.

SPEAKER_00:

F you Debbie. Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody.

SPEAKER_01:

Just follow me. Cause we need a little controversy. Cause it feels so empty. And now make this look like a job for me, so everybody.