List Of People Who Died On The Toilet
Numerous individuals have died while using a toilet facility or in the process of defecation or urination.
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This includes confirmed or suspected historical figures as well as more recent notable cases.
Pre-20th century
| Date | Location | Name | Age | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer of 581 BC | Jin, China | Duke Jing of Jin | Unknown | Died falling into a toilet pit. | |
| 8 April 217 AD | Between Edessa and Carrhae, Roman Empire | Caracalla | 29 | Murdered by his soldiers while stopping to urinate, on his way to Edessa | |
| 11/12 March 222 | Rome | Elagabalus | 18 | Murdered by the Praetorian Guard "in a latrine in which he had taken refuge". | |
| 336 AD | Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire | Arius | 80 | Died from explosive gastrointestinal problems while in a public toilet | |
| 30 November 1016 | Oxford or London, England | King Edmund Ironside of England | 26 | Stabbed while defecating in a toilet. | |
| 4 November 1035 | Lysá nad Labem, Bohemia | Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia | 60–70 | Stabbed with a spear from under a toilet seat while defecating. | |
| 26 or 27 February 1076 | Vlaardingen, Lower Lorraine | Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine | Unknown | Was assassinated while using a toilet. | |
| 19 April 1578 | Echigo Province, Japan | Uesugi Kenshin | 48 | Allegedly assassinated by a ninja while using a toilet, but very unlikely because his anticipation of his own death is recorded in a death poem. Early sources record his deterioration of health condition, his complaints of pain in the chest "like an iron ball", and as Kenshin Gunki (1582) records "on the 9th day of the 3rd month he had a stomach ache in his toilet. This unfortunately persisted until the 13th day when he died". It is much more likely that he suffered from esophageal cancer. | |
| 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. | |
| 1892 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | J.W., also known as Balloon Man | 29 | Suffered from congenital aganglionic megacolon, which brought him considerable fame for his bloated abdomen. He suffered from constipation, and was found dead in a bathroom at the age of 29, apparently having died trying to defecate. His eight foot long colon is currently on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. |
20th and 21st centuries
| Date | Location | Name | Age | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 1966 | Los Angeles, California, United States | Lenny Bruce | 40 | Died from acute morphine poisoning caused by an overdose in the bathroom of his home in Hollywood Hills. | |
| 22 June 1969 | Chelsea, London | Judy Garland | 47 | Overdosed on barbiturates while using a toilet. | |
| 24 October 1971 | Paris, France | George Dyer | 38 | Overdose of alcohol and amphetamine while using a toilet. Portrayed in The Black Triptychs | |
| 16 August 1977 | Memphis, Tennessee | Elvis Presley | 42 | Cardiac arrest due to alleged drug overdose. | |
| 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. | |
| 19 January 1996 | Los Angeles, California, United States | Don Simpson | 52 | Died of heart failure caused by combined drug intoxication in the bathroom of his home in Bel Air. | |
| 8 March 2004 | Hollywood Hills, California, United States | Robert Pastorelli | 49 | Overdosed on morphine while on a toilet. | |
| 25 June 2011 | Pilton, Somerset, United Kingdom | Christopher Shale | 56 | Died of a heart attack on a portable toilet while at Glastonbury Festival. | |
| 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. | |
| 10 October 2016 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany | Tamme Hanken | 56 | Died of sudden heart failure on a hotel toilet. | |
| 21 June 2019 | Doha, Qatar | Toufiq M Seraj | 63 | Fell unconscious on an aeroplane toilet en route from Dhaka to Doha, pronounced dead of massive heart attack shortly after landing. | |
| 23 November 2021 | Seoul, Republic of Korea | Chun Doo-hwan | 90 | Having multiple myeloma, found "fallen down" by a probable heart attack in a toilet at home. |
Deaths in fiction
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- Donald Gennaro (played by Martin Ferrero) is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex while sitting on the toilet of a destroyed restroom cabin in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.
- A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones: in the book A Storm of Swords (2000) from the series written by George R. R. Martin, Tywin Lannister is killed by his son Tyrion while using the toilet.
- The Sopranos: one capo for Tony Soprano's crime family, Gigi Cestone, died on the toilet, likely due to stress caused by the new leadership role.[citation needed]
- Rick McCarthy (played by Eric Keenleyside) from Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (2003) dies from expelling an alien while on the toilet.
- Unforgiven: The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) assassinates the character Quick Mike (David Mucci) in an outhouse.[citation needed]
- Pulp Fiction: in the film, one of the protagonists Vincent Vega is shot by Butch Coolidge while exiting a bathroom by use of machine gun.[citation needed]
- South Park: in the 2012 episode "Reverse Cowgirl", Clyde's mom falls into the toilet and suffers disembowelment.
- 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.
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.
- Amir Asif, the main antagonist of the 2020 action movie Extraction, is shot after entering the toilet.
- Logan Roy, a protagonist on Succession, had a heart attack on the toilet of his private jet while skipping his oldest son's wedding.
- In HITMAN (2016), the player can kill General Reza Zaydan by dropping a toilet bowl on his head. Moreover, any NPC can be killed by drowning them in a toilet.[citation needed]
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References
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