Comments on: 3 Bizarre Cases of Death by Shaving

By: emmiline

emmiline — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:53:03 +0000

Heather- i thought the same thing too!

i also thought of one of my favourite george bernard shaw snippets-

A razor company once invited George Bernard Shaw to shave his famous beard. He responded with a postcard:

Gentlemen:

I shall never shave, for the same reason that I started a beard, and for the reason my father started his. I remember standing at his side, when I was five, while he was shaving for the last time. â€œFather,â€ I asked, â€œWhy do you shave?â€ He stood there for a full minute and finally looked down at me. â€œWhy the hell do I?â€ he said.

â€“ GBS

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:19:05 +0000

interesting article my granddad uses a straight razor I tried for a few months but then I went back to an electric razor for the convenience. I shave in the car on my way to work.

BTW: Im fairly sure ads by Google are tailored to keywords in the article.

By: kokopeli420

kokopeli420 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:12:34 +0000

Wow
ReCaptcha: The Hurtful, how fitting!!

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:18:51 +0000

I have a buddy who used to wear a full beard, after a few years of it he decided to shave it off. I don’t know if it was the razor or what but he got a really bad infection and had to be hospitalized for weeks. He lived but is severely scarred – it looks like his beard was burned off. Insult to injury – he can no longer gow hair on his face, and so, cannot grow a beard to cover up the scars…

By: larry craig

larry craig — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:24:09 +0000

anthrax virus??? come on again anthrax is a bacterium not a virus. the three deaths listed above technically caused by razors, true they were brought forth by said shaving implements but they died of other causes. i would, and do, use a straight razor compared to what is commonly out on the market, because i control how sharp it is. and before you think anything im 23 so still a young buck.

By: Hastings

Hastings — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:29:14 +0000

I’ll have to agree – Sweeney Todd inspired all the way. The music will be in my head all day!

And yes, I too found the rolling razor add rather…creepy…following that blog!

recaptcha: plumper 1929 – I don’t think wall street would agree

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:27:02 +0000

I always think of Lord Carnevon, George Herbert, who was Howard Carter’s financial backer for the excavation of King Tut’s tomb. He died from an infection after shaving a mosquito bite, right in Cairo, Eqypt. His death lead to the whole “curse of the mummy” myth. Happy Halloween!

By: OkieMelissa

OkieMelissa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:36:36 +0000

haha, I can’t stop thinking of Sweeny Todd, now:)
AND I see the rolling razor ad, too – way awkward.

Has anyone ever tried to shave with a straight blade?

(obvi I haven’t…)

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:21:06 +0000

Duuuude, razors scare me!

By: Matt S.

Matt S. — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:07:54 +0000

There was an early 20th century Russian composer named Alexander Scriabin; he composed some of the most adventurous and difficult piano music of all time. More interestingly, he had a messianic complex and was bat-crap crazy. He literally thought that if he could play this one piece he was writing (called the “Mysterium”) in the Himalayas on an organ that projected colored lights onto a screen while being played, he could bring all of humanity to a higher plane of consciousness and thus destroy the world, freeing us from our shackles of pain and so forth. So, yeah–he was nuts.

One day, he shaved over a pimple with a rusty razor, got sepsis, and died. He never finished the Mysterium, and he never brought about the end of the world. So–yay for shaving accidents, I guess.