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Can you die from a broken heart? Heck yeah! At least that is what a 50 year old women found out while visiting her sister-in-law’s grave. Thank goodness she had an AICD, pacer-defibrillator. And that very same AICD also showed that it fired during the actual burial as well.
The unidentified […]
Jesus did not die of suffocation like others who were crucified in Roman times. Dr. David Ball simulated the crucification of Jesus and has concluded that Jesus died of a ruptured heart.
Jesus couldn’t have shouted at his death if he were suffocated, but could have shouted if he had a ruptured heart.
Jesus suffered further damage […]
Louis Acompora died at age 14 when a lacrosse ball in play struck his chest between heartbeats. After throwing the ball back, he had an instant cardiac arrest, then died. He was later determined to have commotio cordis, cardiac death caused by blunt force trauma to the precordium, the part of the body over the […]
Christa Lilly had a heart attack and stroke in 2000 and has (mostly) been in a coma ever since. Last Sunday, she woke up.
Christa had no idea that she’d been “asleep” for so long and had no sense of the passing of time. For three days, she enjoyed the company of her family, including four […]
We’ve learned about pencils, combs, and knives in the heart. Now we’ve got a nail in the heart.
Seventeen-year-old Matt Dexter was helping to construct a barn when he accidentally triggered a nail gun that was being lowered down the ladder to him. Matt was shot in the chest with a three and a quarter inch […]
A 12-year-old girl in Kenosha, Wisconsin stabbed a classmate in the heart with a rattail comb on Monday. The victim had a 4- to 5-inch piece of metal embedded in her chest that required surgery to remove. What’s worse, the stabbing occurred in the morning but the victim didn’t realize she’d been stabbed until […]
In a freak accident similar to the one that took Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s life, an 81-year-old man was struck in the chest by a 3-foot-wide stingray while boating on the Intracoastal Waterway of Florida. James Bertakis managed to make it to shore where he was taken by ambulance to Broward General Medical Center. […]
Freak accidents involving injuries to the heart might be the next new category here at A Hearty Life. Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin died on Monday, September 4, 2006 during a dive after a stingray struck him.
His producer, John Stainton, said:
He came over the top of the stingray and the barb went up into […]
In a game of pretend gladiators with his police officer father, 11-year-old Conor Johnson was stabbed in the heart and died four short hours later. His mother, Sharon Johnson, claimed that his medical care was inadequate with no specialist cardio-thoracic surgeons available.
Ian Johnson, 40, told a coroner’s inquest how the four-inch stainless steel knife “slipped […]
Four-year-old Brandon Clawson died in July when he tried to make himself a sandwich and ended up stabbing himself in the heart.
He climbed on a worktop, took a knife from a kitchen block and began to make a sandwich.
After laying out the bread, meat and salad cream he fell, with the knife puncturing his chest […]
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