Top 10 Most Ridiculous Deaths of 2010 By IHateEverything  [37 more lists]

As probably the craziest, coincidental death of 2010, an elderly man named Than Singh received a receipt for his own cremation.

We've all gotten a faulty charge on a credit card at some point in the mail, and then had to spend all day proving that you didn't actually buy a $5,000 surfboard since you live in Colorado. This man, on the other hand, opened a letter one day to find out he was being charged for his own cremation services from a week earlier. Making sure he wasn't a pile of ashes before he called, he decided to dispute the claim.

Before he could do anything about it, though, the shock of the whole ordeal, as well as the likely high cost of the cremation, caused the man to have a heart-attack. He was rushed to the hospital where he died shortly after.

And in an insanely coincidental, and slightly indicative of foul play twist, the man was not only brought to the same crematoriam he was charged for earlier that week, but given the same serial number, 89, that he had been given in his notification letter.

This is creepy beyond belief because he either received a letter from the f*ture, like that horrible Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock romance flop, someone played a horrible, horrible prank on him that went terribly wrong, or this crematorium has the worst coupon system in world history.

Either way, this tops the list as the craziest, most shocking death of 2010 that was reported widely in the news.

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Attached here is a really, hilariously serious/interesting man reading the news off of the web... in case you're feeling lazy.

Finland: a place with little to nothing to do other than watch Conan O'Brien reruns, and where anything (make that temperatures, activities, anything) warmer than below-freezing sounds pleasant.

Only in Finland would you have a World Sauna Championship. Well, that's where it was held, at least, in its 11th and final year, 2010.

A little background: the event's rules state that people cannot touch themselves, each other and that they have to wear normal bathing suits in this test of endurance. The beginning temperature in this crazy endurance challenge? Try and guess. 100 degrees? Maybe 150? Try 230 degrees Faranheit, baby!

Every 30 seconds half a liter of water would be dropped, creating more steam, making it hotter.

This event had a Japanese audience of about 40 million and was held yearly in a country where snow made something like this a welcome relief.

In 2010, Vladimir Ladyzhensky, a Russian competitor, died. It seems Vlad couldn't take the heat in the finals, though that heat was 230F, and after six minutes he promptly died.

The man who came in second had third degree burns over 70% of his body, scorched his respiratory system, had kindey failure and is, to this day, not getting a gym membership anytime soon."

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You may think that no one's stupid enough to try to break into a house by way of the chimney anymore, but Dr. (seriously) Jaquelene Kotarac thought she might give it a try, regardless of logic or common sense.

Did she manage to get into her boyfriend's house? Well, technically, yes, so mission accomplished. Her ex spent the night somewhere else, so nobody could hear her calling for help or saying anything.

The woman was a little, um, well-endowed, so she got lodged about 2 feet from the opening of the fireplace. The pressure on her chest was so much that her lungs couldn't expand, so she suffocated rather quickly.

She was finally found by a house sitter while investigating a weird smell, when they spotted fluids (gross) leaking from the unused chimney.

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