15 Deaths Showing The Grim Reaper's Ironic Side
![15 Deaths Showing The Grim Reaper's Ironic Side](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/761527_320x180.jpg)
The reaper comes for us all. But sometimes, when he's feelin' goofy, he likes to have a little fun with it! Sure, he could have struck down the anti-seatbelt activist with lightning, but why not kill him in a car crash? We have to imagine the pallid specter of death not only playing chess against a Swiss guy for some reason, but also pulling pranks and then giggling about it.
All (okay, most) deaths are tragic. But some of them are like, a little bit funny too. Like, really: if you wrote some of this stuff into a TV show, you'd get laughed out of a writers' room. Laughed out and then fired. But who could have possibly predicted George Michael's last Christmas would literally be his last Christmas? Not us, that's for sure. I mean, come on. Here are a few of the most ironic deaths in the history of our fragile species:
![George Michael's heart gives out on Christmas. 2016 You can't escape the song Last Christmas for about a quarter of the year. Wham! singer George Mi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/761525.jpg)
![Deadlifter deadlifts ...to death. 1993 Four-time World's Strongest Man Jon Pall Sigmarsson, who once said there is no reason to be alive if you can't](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/761524.jpg)
![Niagara Falls daredevil dies by pratfall. 1926 CRACKED'COM Bobby Leach was the second person to go over the falls in a barrel. 15 years later, he slip](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/2/761522.jpg)
![Marvin Gaye shot by the gun he gave as a gift. 1984 CRACKED COM Gaye became increasingly paranoid later in his career, even wearing a bullet-proof ves](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/761523.jpg)
![The sea captain's accidental honor killing. 1794 CRACKED COM TWO friendly ships passed each other somewhere around Hawaii, and Captain John Kendrick f](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/1/761521.jpg)
![Beach Boy drowns. 1983 CRACKED CON Drummer Dennis Wilson was, ironically, the only surfer in the group. He went afternoon drunk diving in Marina Del R](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/761520.jpg)
![Fugitive gets his ass kicked the day he escapes. 1980 CRACKED COM Four death row inmates escaped Georgia State Prison the day before Troy Leon Gregg w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/761519.jpg)
![Helmet hater dies of head trauma. 2011 A New York anti-helmet protest ride turned (extremely predictably) deadly, when a rider fell off his Harley and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/761516.jpg)
![Anti-seatbelter dies an obvious and preventable death. 2005 CRACKED COM A few months after writing an editorial titled Individual Rights Buckle Under](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/761517.jpg)
![Guy who discovered REM falls asleep at the wheel. 1953 CRACKED COM Eugene Aserinsky was a sleep researcher who brought the Rapid-Eye Movement sleep st](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/761518.jpg)
![Founder of the lce Bucket Challenge drowns. 2014 CRACKEDO 27-year-old Corey Griffin co-founded the viral challenge when his friend Pete Frates was dia](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/761514.jpg)
![Inmate makes his own electric chair. 1989 South Carolina very bad dude Michael Anderson Godwin managed to get his sentence reduced from the death pena](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/2/761512.jpg)
![Segway investor dies on a Segway. 2010 POLIS CRACKED CON British entrepreneur Jimi Heselden purchased the goofy gyrobike company, and that same year,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/761511.jpg)
![Guy drowns at a lifeguard party. 1985 The New Orleans Recreation Department threw a pool party to celebrate a perfect record of O drownings for the wh](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/761513.jpg)
![Woman dies at her own funeral. 2012 CRACKED COM A 49-year-old Russian woman was declared dead of a heart attack, but then woke UP while her family wer](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/5/761515.jpg)