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Undignified Deaths


In Campeche, Mexico, in May, lovers Jose Agustin Noh and Ana Maria Camara Suarez succumbed to carbon-monoxide poisoning as they slept after having sex in a hearse; they'd left the engine running to keep the air-conditioning on. And in April truck driver Ling Yiu-hung's 1997 death was officially ruled carbon-monoxide poisoning by a Hong Kong coroner; Ling had passed out and died after being stuck for hours in a traffic jam. (Source: "News of the Weird" by Chuck Shepherd).

 

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