As Andy Bull highlighted after Phillip Hughes's death on 27 November last year, cricket has had far more "freak" deaths than it would care to acknowledge.
"Annie Hall" is the famous one, but there you are as "Freak" in "Death Wish". You don't just blend in.
If you found Oasis too dizzyingly futuristic, then Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are the band for you, their oeuvre typified by sub-Kinks/Small Faces plodders such as "Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks" and "The Death of You and Me".
Construction on the project was beset with numerous freak accidents and deaths from faulty equipment that had shown no sign of damage when inspected.
People get freaked out by death for obvious reasons.
In a time when mostly no one seems to be writing about drunk death freaks on the ocean anymore, and for all its self-deceptions, its stop-start miseries, its sprawl, McGlue is as satisfying as anything you're likely to find appearing in your weird little hands this year.
But the death "did freak us out," he said.
Previously: Nurse Dima discovered that a series of freak accidents preceded the death of a terminal patient.
The zoo called King's death a "freak accident," involving a woman who had been a keeper at the zoo for 14 years.
What if I had managed to trick myself into feeling / experiencing the normal emotions of a normal person stricken with grief to avoid the realization that I was a frozen freak, unmoved by the death of my mother?
