Morbid Mortality Monthly - September

Award Winning American playwright Tennessee Williams died in 1983 at the age of 71 when he swallowed an eye drop bottle cap in his room at the Hotel Elysee, New York. He would routinely place the cap in his mouth, lean back, and place his eye drops in each eye, but it is believed that alcohol and narcotics may have contributed to the choking...



Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams