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This has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Megan Gibson (2011-01-14). "Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary: 10 Unforgettable Entries". TIME. Archived from the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2010-01-15. This page, which doesn't claim to be complete, lists examples of unique or rare circumstances in which people have died. Gruesome? Yes. Distasteful? Perhaps. Fascinating? Definitely.
Caitlin Dewey (2015-11-05). "The most fascinating Wikipedia articles you haven't read". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-11-06. When the Wikimedia Foundation recently polled its staffers about their favorite pages, these lists of urban legends, weird deaths and under-touted revolutions were among the winners. No explanation necessary, tbh: They're all self-evidently fascinating.

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There is a holding tank for content, removed from the article due to poor sourcing, which may have been included in the article for a considerable time: Talk:List of unusual deaths/Sourcing issues. Following talk page discussion, and in line with WP:STALEDRAFT, it has been agreed that any content in this holding area not sourced within 6 months from addition should be removed.

Taiwanese Woman Dies After Bathing Herself in Alcohol

I won't go ahead and add this on my own but I feel like this is a good contender for the list. https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/30274/20210324/taiwanese-woman-dies-after-bathing-herself-in-alcohol-amid-sars-epidemic-in-taiwan.htm Flzrian (talk) 21:27, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification: I would be happy to write the section for this but I am bringing forth the suggestion first in case there is heavy disagreement or bathing in ethanol is more common than I think. Of course dying from an alcohol overdose is not uncommon but surely the overdose resulting from someone bathing in it and ingesting it mainly through the skin is? This is the only case of this or something similar I could find. Flzrian (talk) 21:39, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. The usual criterion for inclusion on this page is that a reliable secondary source calls the death unusual, or some synonym thereof. Otherwise, as history shows, the page devolves into a slapfight of "this is totally weird enough!" "Nuh uh!", and nobody needs that.

For this, the linked article and the paper regarding the case give us "Alcohol (ethanol) can be absorbed through the skin, but intoxication caused by skin absorption is rare, especially in adults" and "Although this situation is surprising and devastating, serious side effects from alcohol-based skin disinfection are rare." I also found this, which adds "died due to an unusual effort to ward off the virus" and "documented cases of people with a BAC over 1% are rare, but reports of them do exist."

If that second source is deemed reliable, I see no reason why this couldn't be included. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 15:47, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Death

Is the most chronologically recent (6/5/2024) addition actually unusual? It sounds like a pretty standard incident of automobile death. Quickiepedia User (talk) 16:00, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It had no source, so it's been deleted anyway. But it was about a railway death. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Neither unusal nor sourced. Removed and messaged the editor. Captainllama (talk) 16:26, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

José Luis Abad

I'll post links here to see if this death is qualified for this page.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/spanish-porn-actor-arrested-over-fatal-toad-venom-ceremony

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spanish-porn-star-nacho-vidal-manslaughter-arrest-toad-venom-ritual-psychedelic-a9550291.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52920291

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/porn-actor-nacho-vidal-investigated-after-man-dies-in-toad-venom-ritual/QORYEVCWA6YCCIOYEC66PDFK5E/ Cahlin29 (talk) 19:46, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Guardian says: "Vidal’s lawyer, Daniel Salvador, said the death was sad but accidental", but doesn't say it was unusual.
The Independent does not seem to describe it as unusual.
The BBC does not seem to describe it as unusual.
The New Zealand Herald says ""This was a commonly practised activity carried out for therapeutic or medicinal ends, but which posed a serious threat to public health despite being dressed up as what appeared to be an apparently inoffensive ancestral ritual," police said."

So no, it's not eligible with these sources. But it sounds very unusual, doesn't it! Maybe should be added at Enguera? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:35, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Pananian

Richard Pananian was a 20 year old California resident who flew from his seat and landed on a freeway sign after an automobile accident. A few days beforehand, his family sacrificed a lamb to ensure him good health from God. I don’t necessarily have a source that states the death was unusual, but it uses the synonym “bizarre”. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/losangeles/news/lamb-was-sacrificed-in-protection-ceremony-for-man-killed-in-bizarre-5-freeway-crash/ HimynameisAndre (talk) 21:39, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The source says "died in a bizarre crash". That might be good enough, but I'd await a second opinion. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The same article also has "The unusual nature of Pananian's death is "ironic" considering a sacrifice that was performed for him the Sunday prior, his cousin Armen Kardashian wrote in a GoFundMe page." Given both of these, I think it's a valid entry. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 22:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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	:The source says "died in a bizarre crash". That might be good enough, but I'd await a second opinion. [[User:Martinevans123\|Martinevans123]] ([[User talk:Martinevans123\|talk]]) 21:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)		:The source says "died in a bizarre crash". That might be good enough, but I'd await a second opinion. [[User:Martinevans123\|Martinevans123]] ([[User talk:Martinevans123\|talk]]) 21:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
			::The same article also has "The unusual nature of Pananian's death is "ironic" considering a sacrifice that was performed for him the Sunday prior, his cousin Armen Kardashian wrote in a GoFundMe page." Given both of these, I think it's a valid entry. [[User:NekoKatsun\|NekoKatsun]] ([[User talk:NekoKatsun\|nyaa]]) 22:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)