List of people who died on the toilet

Numerous individuals have died while using a toilet facility or in the process of defecation or urination. This includes confirmed or suspected historical figures as well as more recent notable cases.

Pre-20th century
Date Location Name Age Description Source
c. 12th century BC Moab Eglon, King of Moab Unknown Assassinated by left-handed judge Ehud while on the toilet. [1]
Summer of 581 BC Jin, China Duke Jing of Jin (Ju) Unknown Died falling into a toilet pit. [2]
8 April 217 AD Between Edessa and Carrhae, Roman Empire Caracalla 29 Murdered by his soldiers while stopping to urinate, on his way to Edessa [3]
336 AD Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire Arius 80 Died from explosive gastrointestinal problems while in a public toilet [4]
30 November 1016 Oxford or London, England King Edmund Ironside of England 26 Stabbed while defecating in a toilet. [5]
4 November 1035 Lysá nad Labem, Bohemia Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia Unknown Stabbed with a spear from under a toilet seat while defecating. [6]
26 or 27 February 1076 Vlaardingen, Lower Lorraine Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine Unknown Was assassinated while using a toilet. [7]
4 August 1306 Olomouc, Bohemia Wenceslaus III of Bohemia 16 Murdered with a spear while sitting in the garderobe. [8]
19 April 1578 Echigo Province, Japan Uesugi Kenshin 48 Allegedly assassinated while using a toilet. [9]
25 October 1760 Kensington Palace, London, England, Great Britain George II of Great Britain 76 Collapsed shortly after attending to his close stool, possibly died of an aortic aneurysm. [10]
1892 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA J.W., also known as Balloon Man 29 Suffered from congenital aganglionic megacolon, which brought him considerable fame for his bloated abdomen. He suffered from constipation, and was found dead in a bathroom at the age of 29, apparently having died trying to defecate. His eight foot long colon is currently on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. [11] [12]

20th century
Date Location Name Age Description Source
22 June 1969 Chelsea, London Judy Garland 47 Overdosed on barbiturates while using a toilet. [13]
24 October 1971 Paris, France George Dyer 38 Overdose of alcohol and amphetamine while using a toilet. Portrayed in The Black Triptychs [14]
16 August 1977 Memphis, Tennessee Elvis Presley 42 Cardiac arrest due to alleged drug overdose while using a toilet. [15]
8 March 1989 Columbia, South Carolina Michael Godwin 28 Initially sentenced to death by electrocution, but later reduced to a life sentence. He was accidentally electrocuted when he bit a pair of earphone wires while sitting on a metal toilet. [16]

21st century
Date Location Name Age Description Source
8 March 2004 Hollywood Hills, California, United States Robert Pastorelli 49 Overdosed on morphine while on a toilet. [17]
25 June 2011 Pilton, Somerset, United Kingdom Christopher Shale 56 Died of a heart attack on a portable toilet while at Glastonbury Festival. [18]
17 May 2013 Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jorge Rafael Videla 87 Died of a heart attack while on a jail toilet after slipping in the shower. [19]
21 June 2019 Doha, Qatar Toufiq M Seraj 63 Fell unconscious on an aeroplane toilet en route from Dhaka to Doha, pronounced dead of massive heart attack shortly after landing. [20]
23 November 2021 Seoul, Republic of Korea Chun Doo-hwan 90 Having multiple myeloma, found "fallen down" by a probable heart attack in a toilet at home. [21]
28 September 2022 Los Angeles, United States Coolio 59 Died of a heart attack on a toilet while at a friend's house. [22]
October 2022 Ukraine Unknown Unk. An unknown Russian soldier hiding in a toilet during the invasion of Ukraine was shot through the toilet door by a Ukrainian soldier. [23]

Deaths in fiction
  • Donald Gennaro (played by Martin Ferrero) is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex while sitting on the toilet of a destroyed restroom cabin in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.[24]
  • A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones: in the book A Storm of Swords (2000) from the series written by George R. R. Martin, Tywin Lannister is killed while using the toilet.[25]
  • The Sopranos: one capo for Tony Soprano's crime family, Gigi Cestone, died on the toilet, likely due to stress caused by the new leadership role.
  • Rick McCarthy (played by Eric Keenleyside) from Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (2003) dies from expelling an alien while on the toilet.
  • Pulp Fiction: in the film, one of the protagonists Vincent Vega is shot by Butch Coolidge while exiting a bathroom by use of machine gun.
  • South Park: in the 2012 episode "Reverse Cowgirl", Clyde's mom falls into the toilet and suffers disembowelment.[26]
  • Saturday Night Live: produced several fictional advertisements for comedic value for a device called a "Toilet Death Ejector", in which a toilet would "eject" a person off of a toilet if they died on it so they would not be found dead on the toilet.[27]
  • A panicked passenger (played by Leanne Adachi) locks herself in a restroom and gets pulled down the toilet by the Octalus in the 1998 movie Deep Rising.[28]
  • Edward Spratt, a fictional English artist in Return of the Obra Dinn, was strangled by the Kraken as he was using the ship's head at the bow.[29]
  • Amir Asif, the main antagonist of the 2020 action movie Extraction, is shot after entering the toilet.[30]

See also

References
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  2. Zuo Qiuming (translator James Legge). "Book VIII. Duke Cheng". Zuo Zhuan (in Chinese and English). University of Virginia. Retrieved 23 April 2012. Chapter X.
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  6. Chronica Baemorum. "Kochan poslal svého kata a když onen slepec seděl na záchodě v hodině noční, vyprazdňoval břich, proklál ho ostrým oštěpem zezadu až do útrob břišních."
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  8. Charles Edmund Maurice, The Story of Bohemia from the Earliest Times to the Fall of National Independence in 1620 (1896), p.117
  9. Turnbull 2012, p. 32
  10. Thompson, pp. 289–290; Van der Kiste, p. 213.
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  15. "Elvis' addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death". PBS NewsHour. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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  21. 이호승; 강수련 (23 November 2021). "'끝내 사과 없이' 전두환 사망..'친구' 노태우 떠난 지 28일만(종합2보)". News 1 (in Korean). Retrieved 23 August 2022.
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