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It is these personal stories that make Dr Farmer's anger at such "stupid deaths" so compelling.The good doctor's motives and methods are better described in "Mountains Beyond Mountains".
Stupid deaths, as the residents of Cange called them, were the norm; children died from diarrheal diseases, because there was no clean drinking water.
He did not say what any Haitian could have told him: that the day before, and the day before that, Haiti had seen hundreds of such "stupid deaths," and, over the centuries, thousands more.
It's perfect, given that Horrible Histories, with its focus on poo, gore and stupid deaths, is exactly the sort of thing the trio would write if they had to lower the age of their target audience and cut out all of that incest, sadism and men in black-faces abducting women from their homes.
The show also created several popular recurring characters and concepts, notably "Stupid Deaths", in which a skeletal, platinum-blond Grim Reaper amuses himself while processing souls for admittance to the afterlife by forcing candidates from throughout history to relate the embarrassing details of their demise.
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And what a stupid death it would be too.
He died a stupid death after living a stupid life, but leaving behind him a body of work which virtually defines its genre.
The other evening I watched a television correspondent shake his head over what he movingly described as a "stupid death" — a death that, but for the right medical care, could have been prevented.
My point is, I will die a stupid death in the streets of Cleveland.
An Internet search for Jim Fixx -- arguably Mark Hughes's most direct circumstantial antecedent -- a man who, having popularized running in the 70's, dropped dead of a heart attack while on a jog, turns up mentions of him on Web pages devoted to exercise, certainly, but also on almost as many joke sites, one of which is titled, simply, the Stupidest Deaths in Known History.
Among the stupidest deaths are those caused by illnesses acquired in the clinics and hospitals intended as places of healing".
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