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What Everyone Should Understand About 1,000 Ways!

posted 14 years ago by dmac3014
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I'm a huge fan of this series. Can't wait for Season Three to begin on 12/09/2009 that will have a whopping 13 episodes to 10 for last season and only two, yes a mere TWO, for Season One (come to find out those two were initially going to be the ONLY ones aired before SpikeTV became pleased with the ratings and kept it until its current point now). It's educational and fascinating to view these re-enactments of "the most amazing real deaths ever died".

Which leads me to my point regarding this series. No one knows for sure if these deaths actually occurred as the show claims these demises DID happen. What we're seeing here are RE-ENACTMENTS of what their interpretation was of what might've actually happened to these poor (and occasionally stupid) souls. In other words, you're not seeing their ACTUAL demises. Based on the comments here, everyone seems to be under that impression. The presentation for each is a combination of science, detail, humor, & Darwinism. Remember, their disclaimer also states that the names of the deceased were changed to protect the ACTUAL IDENTIDY of the person who died.

Two examples: the arrogant P.E. teacher who eye-gouged himself to death by the javalin had his deceased body photographed by a student. Camera phones didn't exist at the time this occurred. That should be a clue right there that the series was adding its own touch as to what really happened. Secondly, the guy who was dumb enough to use his feet to push a stuck branch through the woodchipper & ended up the main course for the "Wrong Turn (1,2, & 3)" hillbillies? His name wasn't really Dale! Nor was the guy who actually went through this carnage. Again, Spike being playful on the events.

Maybe the series may have some truth to these. There is a detailed section of UNUSUAL DEATHS that can be found on Wikipedia as well as a breakdown of this series so far. While the portrayals here weren't listed there (the name changes?), it showed me, at least, that the deaths seen here may have just happened or were pretty damn close to it. So "1,000 Ways To Die" may have some merit. Bottom line, the show is just an INTERPRETATION of what MAY HAVE occurred.

Something to consider the next episode you view. If not, just check Wikipedia under Unusual Deaths through the series biography and decide the merit for yourself.

[–] love_him_villevalo 14 years ago

I'm going to say that all of the deaths are real. Read the Book Final Exits. It's an a-z guide of ways you can die and gives you real stories of people who have died in the ways described. It came out before the show so that's probably where the idea came from. But the deaths most certainly are real (although reenacted...obviously)

[–] dmac3014 14 years ago

My point exactly. Everyone here is acting optimistic, and that's fine, but Spike is presenting THEIR version of the deadly occurrences. That's all it is. I might just check that book out. This and Wikipedia under Unusual Deaths should be proof enough that these have (or haven't depending on your view) occurred if others would bother to do some actual research. Here's another question to consider. If Spike TV were to use the real names & places of the vignettes of both seasons, wouldn't they be sued left & right by their families?

[–] NotASpookyGhost 14 years ago

Sued for what? They'd only be reporting on what happened.

[–] Vforvendetta200 13 years ago

Only a few of the deaths in this show are real. The rest, although possible, are entirely made up. And even the deaths that really happened, have names and details changed or added. You can even tell that the so called experts or witnesses in this show are not real either. Most of the fabrications or changes are done to make the deaths more ironic or comedic. This show is very tongue-in-cheek.

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[–] harvardjanitor7 14 years ago

you can't be 100% sure though

i've been researching a couple of them for a while now and i can't find a single article anywhere backing up some of the deaths

like a man dying to head x-rays because his doctor is having sex.

[–] kingarthurup 14 years ago

I believethqt most of the deayhs are totoally concocted. For instance, check out the environmentalist killed by a bear in 2001. The list of bear deaths in the world are well documented... this is bull.

[–] my_newsletter 13 years ago

The bear death could of been just a guess. Maybe the guy was seen chained to a tree, but later disappeared and all that is left is just chains and blood? So it being bear could just be a guess from an expert, like a ranger or something.

[–] kuruyad 8 years ago

WELL DOCUMENTED?! Are you on drugs or just never step outside your fully connected, wired, bluetooth'd, wifi-enabled, big-brother / CCTV-infested suburbia??!

Summer (2015), I drove through the contiguous 48 states on a roadtrip. ~10k mi total, about half (HALF!) of it NO cellular signal, NO mobile internet, nothing.... no people neither, hundreds of miles in a row without seeing a single car in either direction and nothing but deer or elk around... half of america still only gets a total of 2 radio stations on the FM dial (country & random pop hits)

there's places where gas stations be 250 miles apart, no electricity no plumbing. no residences either.

you disappear some places, they just write you off as GONE MISSIN' and forget all about it unless somebody stumbles across you (more likely your vehicle or stuff) and there's enough left to identify.

...AND THATS AMERICA. many other places, nobody'll even ever take a missing person claim, cuz people just up and disappear sometimes, for any number of reasons. and if they DO find someone got ate up by a bear, they'll try REAL hard to write it off as posthumous scavenging, cuz no civil servant wants to deal with that crap (unless it's walking distance from their house - that's those "documented attacks")

[–] LJW7 8 years ago

Timothy Treadwell. True story. Google it.

[–] HunnyBUNCHES 14 years ago

Like I've said before,I believe the deaths are real but the stories and events leading up to them arent anything but what some writers made up.

[–] ImagenAshyun 14 years ago

I'd say the deaths are very real, but not how they're presented: not only are they re-enacted, but they're highly embellished. While I do know that there are people in fursuits who yiff the night away and reject people who don't have a clue, I seriously, seriously, seriously doubt there was an incident wherein they just kept right on f_____ing while the poor fella is being eaten be a bear, and even then that particular incident in itself seems rather unbelieveable--the chances of you dying because of a hungry bear instead of succumbing to overdose or befalling into a more mundane but still fatal accident like getting hit by a car or falling off a cliff are pretty, pretty slim.

But nonetheless, SPIKE does this to attract viewers. The only informational, educational, honest-to-god part is the methods of death--suffocation, internal hemmoraghing, electric shock, etc, from the most unusual (such as an air embolism originating from the vagina) to the preventable (anaphylaxis, which I personally almost underwent twice). The actual circumstances around the death may not be as embellished as featured in the show: the woman who had an embollism probably wasn't very hot and was using a shaved carrot, but the actual death may have happened from a different circumstance.

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[–] dmac3014 14 years ago

You are absolutely right! The embellishment aspect of it proves my point. These were actual deaths that occurred, but this is SpikeTV's take on what happened. This is what I've been saying all along. The re-enactments are just storyline-based accounts. I saw a quick preview of the upcoming season where someone got hit by a meteorite. That might be a little far-fecthed even for me, but I'm willing to see their version of what occurred if this did happen.

A few of the stories from the past two seasons were pretty straightforward, such as the guy who froze to death in the meat keeper after knocking up his mob-boss' granddaughter & stealing his meat. You can get any simple than that! How much of a storyline can you build by just being in a freezer? As far as the two you mentioned, "Kill-Do" & "Em-Bear-Assed" (LOL), I agree those had an elaborate setup from a storyline standpoint.

All in all, the message here is simple. Be careful .... or you will DIE!!!

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[–] TobiasFunkeisQueenMary 14 years ago

The javelin guy is real
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/teacher-hit-by-javelin-dies-1099330.html
but they did put a more modern twist on some.

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"You Cant Fire Me Im your son. I fire you"
Buster Bluth

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[–] TobiasFunkeisQueenMary 14 years ago

The stories are fake, but the death's really happened.
" Your Fired" Lucille Bluth
"You Cant Fire Me Im your son. I fire you"
Buster Bluth

[–] pw90 13 years ago

the one where the guy got cut in the neck with the guy's skate blade has actually happened twice in the NHL within the past 20 years. Neither guy cut died though, thank goodness.

[–] my_newsletter 13 years ago

My guess is that these stories are real, at least most of them are to a large extent. There are problem tons and tons and TONS of real extremely weird fatal death stories like this all throughout history that just require some kind of proof of their validity. All the creators need to do is make the show a little more funny by adding in humor where holes in the story can be filled. So the reenactments probably aren't 100% correct...just how they died are.

[–] robertfranz 12 years ago

I can say at this point that what I have seen of the show - one driveby viewing of one segment - is 100% really bad fake.

The bit I saw was the Exploding Breast Implants.

There is simply no way that can happen.

Even in the vacuum of deepest space, there is simply not enough volumetric difference from expansion of entrained gasses to account for a pressure differential sufficient to exceed the burst capacity of the implant.

And that's dismissing entirely that a commercial aircraft at 30,000 feet is typically pressurized to about 8,000 feet.

If they were that delicate, they'd rupture from normal movement.

And if the pressure differential between the ground and 8,000 feet caused the Happy Fun Bags to rupture, it wouldn't have a force remotely approaching "explosive."

That's just High School physics, or a tradesman's knowledge of the behavior of compressed gasses, or passing the written test for a dive card.

Given that they have made this one up entirely, how could I possibly view the series as anything other than entirely fictional?

[–] ashida12244 12 years ago

For some reason, I still think it's possible... my problem with the episode from "MythBusters" was that they tested the idea using silicone ones. But, in 1,000 ways, the girl didn't use silicone breast implants, in the episode I think they said there were poorly made, extremely cheap, and slightly no different than a couple of water balloons with air in them? Maybe that kind is explosive?