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Numerous individuals have died while using a toilet facility or in the process of defecation or urination. This includes confirmed or suspected historical figures as well as more recent notable cases.
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.[8]
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.
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.
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.[30]
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]
Amir Asif, the main antagonist of the 2020 action movie Extraction, is shot after entering the toilet.[32]
Logan Roy, a protagonist on Succession, had a heart attack on the toilet of his private jet while skipping his oldest son's wedding.[33]
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]
^Henry of Huntingdon (2002). Historia Anglorum [History of the English People]. p. 15.
^Chronica Baemorum. "Kochan poslal svého kata a když onen slepec seděl na záchodě v hodině noční, vyprazdňoval břich, proklál ho ostrým oštěpem zezadu až do útrob břišních."
^Hay, David (2008), The military leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115, Manchester University Press, pp. 35, 43–44.
^Turnbull, Stephen (2012b). Ninja AD 1460–1650. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781782002567.