since most nurses know that death is a sensitive matter for families, I wanted to see how the students could handle telling families unusual circumstances that surround the death of a loved one.

1. 1) 2001: Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, from Germany, was voluntarily stabbed repeatedly
and then partly eaten by Armin Meiwes (who was later called the Cannibal of
Rotenburg).
Brandes had answered an internet advertisement by Meiwes looking for someone for
this purpose. Brandes explicitly stated in his will that he wished to be killed and eaten.
This inspired the Rammstein Song "Mein Teil" ("My (private) part") and the IT Crowd
episode "Moss and the German".

2. 2) 2001: Michael Colombini, a 6-year-old American boy from Croton-on-Hudson, New
York, was struck and killed, at Westchester Regional Medical Center, by a 6.5-pound
metal oxygen tank when it was pulled into the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
machine while he underwent a test.
He began to experience breathing difficulties while in the MRI and when an
anesthesiologist brought a portable oxygen canister into the magnetic field, it was pulled
from his hands and struck the boy in the head.

3. 3) 2003: Brian Douglas Wells, an American pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania,
was killed by a time bomb that was fastened around his neck. He was apprehended by
the police after robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people
who had put the bomb around his neck and would kill him if he refused.
The bomb later exploded, killing him. In 2007, police alleged Wells was involved in the
robbery plot along with two other conspirators.

4. 4) 2003: Dr. Hitoshi Christopher Nikaidoh, a surgeon, was decapitated as he stepped
on to an elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas, USA on August 16,
2003. According to a witness inside the elevator, the elevator doors closed as Nikaidoh
entered, trapping his head inside the elevator with the remainder of his body still
outside.
His body was later found at the bottom of the elevator shaft while the upper portion of
his head, severed just above the lower jaw, was found in the elevator. A subsequent
investigation revealed that improper electrical wiring installed by a maintenance
company several days earlier had effectively bypassed all of the elevator's safeguards,
and thus enabled it to move under any circumstances.

5. 6) 2004: Ronald McClagish, from England, died after being trapped inside a cupboard
for a week. A wardrobe in the bedroom outside had fallen over, trapping him inside.
In an effort to free himself, McClagish accidentally wrenched a water pipe from the wall
and the water gushing from the pipe eventually caused his death from bronchitis. His
body was not discovered until two weeks later.

6. 7) 2004: An unidentified Taiwanese woman died of alcohol intoxication after
immersion for 12 hours in a bathtub filled with 40% ethanol. Her blood alcohol content
was 1.35%.
It was believed that she immersed herself as a response to the ongoing SARS
epidemic.

7. 8) 2005: Kenneth "Mr. Hands" Pinyan of Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S. died of acute
peritonitis after seeking out and receiving anal intercourse from a stallion, an act he had
engaged in previously on numerous occasions without injury. Pinyan delayed his visit to
the hospital for several hours out of reluctance to explain the circumstances of his injury
to doctors.
The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington state. His story was
recounted in the award winning 2007 documentary film Zoo.

8. 12) 2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old American woman from Sacramento, died of
water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii console in a KDND 107.9 "The End"
radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, which involved drinking large
quantities of water without urinating.

9. 16) 2008: Gerald Mellin, a U.K. businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a
rope around his neck and the other to a tree.
He then went into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down a main road in Swansea until
the rope decapitated him. He supposedly did this as an act of revenge against his ex-
wife for leaving him.

10. 18) 2008: James Mason, 73, of Chardon, Ohio, died of heart failure after his wife
exercised him to death in a public swimming pool. Christine Newton-John, 41, was seen
on video tape pulling Mason around the pool and preventing him from getting out of the
water 43 times.

11. 19) 2008: Nordin Montong, 32, a janitor at the Singapore Zoo, committed suicide by
entering an enclosure containing white tigers and provoking them with brooms and a
pail.
Three of the tigers pounced on him, dragging him by the neck to the back of their
enclosure. He was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.

12. 21)2009:SergeyTuganov,a28-year-oldRussian,bettwowomenthathecould
continuouslyhavesexwiththembothfortwelvehours.
Severalminutesafterwinningthe$4,300bet,hesufferedaheartattackanddied,
apparentlybecauseofhavingingestedanentirebottleofViagrajustafteracceptingthe
bet.

13. 24) 2009: Kim Sa-rang, a 3-month-old Korean girl, died from malnutrition after both her
parents spent hours each day in an internet cafe raising a virtual child on an online
game, Prius Online.

14. 25) 2010: Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, a physician (internist) from Bakersfield, California,
was found dead in her boyfriend's chimney. She had been trying to break in through the
chimney and died of asphyxiation.
The body was found after a house sitter noticed an odor and fluids coming from the
chimney.