There have been some exceedingly extraordinary deaths throughout the course of history and the nineteenth century was no exception. Read on to hear the stories of some individuals who probably wish they had gone to www.sunlife50plan.co.uk and got themselves life insurance!

Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died in 1816 after attempting to relieve a blockage in his urinary tract by inserting a piece of whale bone through it. In 1814, 9 people met a watery end in London when 1,468,000 litres of beer burst out of the vats in the Meux and Company Brewery and flooded the streets. In 1834, the Scottish botanist David Douglas fell into a pit trap with a bull which subsequently gored him to death. In 1871 a terrible stroke of irony befell the U.S. Congressman, Clement Vallandigham. Whilst defending a murder suspect in court, Vallandighm was attempting to illustrate that the victim could have shot himself accidentally while drawing his gun. Whilst demonstrating this, Vallandigham accidentally shot himself. Perhaps most bizarre of all, Leonidas Grover, a farmer in Indiana, was killed in 1879 when a meteorite fell on him whilst sleeping in bed.