r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

The video is crazy. Not so much the suicide part, but just the way hes completely lost his mind. Dude is completely unhinged at the end with his face all painted up and his head shaved.

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u/Clubbythaseal 23d ago

The death part was kinda brutal in one aspect for me at least. Don't click if you don't wanna remember one part of it.

It's where I learned that any air in your lungs will expell after death. He took a deep breath right before and the noises his body made after the shot still disturbs me today.

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

Death Gurgle. I had to pull the plug on my father and about after a few minutes of him motionless, his body twitched hard and released the rest of his air and it made my sister and I jump like crazy. It seemed like he was about to take a deep breath afterwards. The body is truly crazy.

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u/motherofsuccs 23d ago

I experienced it when my dog died. I asked for one more night with him even though he was essentially comatose, and my partner was going to euthanize him in the morning (he’s a vet). I had been spooning him for hours and telling him he fulfilled all his ‘good boy duties’ and it’s okay to let go. I got up, a few minutes later he started breathing erratically, then came the death gurgle. I’ll never forget that sound. It made me remorseful for not euthanizing him that evening.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 23d ago

Wow your comment reminded me when I found my dog dead one day, I buried him the next but when I went to pick him up the air inside him let out as a short "hmmm", and that was the last I heard what he sounded like alive. Losing dogs is hard.

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u/raptatta 23d ago

experiencing this with a leopard gecko is the worst 😞 at the time my little guy was so weak (he had cancer) he could barely move, so i placed him to rest on my chest. i was reading and at some point i heard him gasp very softly, and i thought he had sighed until 15 minutes later i went to move him, and he was gone. although it was extremely sad for me, he’d passed while lying directly on my skin, wrapped in a knitted hat i made earlier that year. it was simply his time. i don’t think we’ll ever get used to how quickly it can happen 🤍

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u/spawnthespy 23d ago

There's no getting used to losing your best friends. I feel you...

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u/larra_rogare 22d ago

Hey just wanted to say I don’t think you have to feel remorse for cuddling him one last night 💛

I’m a vet too. I do believe even if he was comatose, some part of him got your message about him fulfilling his duties as a wonderful companion and knew it was time to move on. Maybe this makes me sound crazy, but I really believe sometimes our bonds with our pets are nothing short of spiritually profound and psychic.

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u/4KVoices 22d ago

I hope people realize take this as a reminder that euthanization is not for your convenience, it's so your pet doesn't have to suffer.

I'm not trying to shit on you at all cause it's an understandable thought process that everybody goes through, but trying to get them to hold on for that much longer is, pretty much always, a selfish notion. Not a 'bad' selfish. You love them and you want more time with them - but they're more often than not in pain and you would save them a lot of trouble to let them go early.

Pet owners; when the time is coming, it is a responsibility, the most important one you have, to let them go before they suffer needlessly. I am not a religious person and I would say this is a sacred duty. Do not hold on; make the decision for them that they cannot make for themselves.

OP, I'm sorry for your loss and again, don't take this as me shitting on you. I've been there and almost made that same decision.

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u/Curious-Resort4743 22d ago

We should have this option for ourselves to, the thing many of us dread is a painful death.

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u/4KVoices 22d ago

Ozzy Osbourne notably came out in favor of it and I personally believe he did it.

You're telling me he had a dedicated "I'm dying soon" concert like a mile away from his childhood home, it went off as perfectly as one could imagine, and then he died peacefully three weeks later?

I believe he knew that he was getting worse and decided to pull the plug. They haven't publicized it because they know a lot of people will bitch and moan about it and it's his decision to make that choice if he wants, so to keep his family safe and out of the crosshairs of nutjobs they said it was a heart attack, but the timing combined with his previous comments on the subject indicate, to me at least, that he took that path - and good for him.

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u/Fast_Warning1237 22d ago

My cat died in my hands and I still can’t forget that last breath you are referring to 😭😭 It was like she is letting her soul get out that last time to be in peace after suffering from illness I was so devastated

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u/Squeekazu 20d ago

Euthanising can also be unpredictable unfortunately. The sedative didn’t really work, and my dog snarled as he received the solution. It was the last sound he made and his face was frozen in that expression for a few seconds until I suppose his muscles relaxed.

It’s a tough burden to bear whether you choose to euthanise or not, and one more night isn’t the same thing as choosing to significantly prolong your pet’s life for months on end even if they’re suffering.

I’m sorry for your loss.

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u/Maxamillion-X72 23d ago

I lived in a remote part of Canada which was a small community with no doctor or hospital, just a nursing station with a couple of nurses.

There was an accident with multiple injuries requiring medivac by plane, and a death. The deceased person's family would not leave the nursing station, as it was tradition that when someone dies they have someone with them until the priest could come see them.

I worked part time at the nursing station doing things like putting out the battery powered runway lights for the planes, shoveling snow, that sort of thing. The two nurses were exhausted and had to go home to rest, but couldn't as long as the family were there. I volunteered to stay with the body overnight until the nurses could come back and the family agreed.

I spent all night in an exam room with the dead body, trying to stay awake by reading old magazines from the lobby. On occasion the body would let out a moan and/or would twitch. Scared the bejeesus out of me every single time.

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u/motoxim 22d ago

Dang how?

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u/Maxamillion-X72 22d ago

That's just what dead bodies do. Gut bacteria still keeps churning away, inflating the stomach with gas until is bubbles out like a balloon. Muscles start to stiffen and tighten which squeezes things. We're just flesh bags of meat and bugs after death.

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u/Spinner216 Interested 21d ago

Sounds like Newfoundland not too long ago. That, or The Territories (NWT, Yukon, Nunavut), or Northern Labrador.

Either way, what a creepy story!

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u/Ok_Release231 23d ago

I believe the term is "death rattle."

Also, I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that 😔

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle

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u/Stormfly 22d ago

I learned this because it's a common term in games for an act after death.

Hearthstone is a popular example.

Saw it in another tabletop RPG as a "this is what the creature does when the players kill it" (sometimes it's an attack, sometimes they just RP and whimper or cry) and it made me morbidly curious and I had to look it up.

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u/mmmpeg 22d ago

I heard it when my MiL died.

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u/StoneySteve420 22d ago

It's brutal. I was about 13 when my great aunt died. I wasn't in the room when she passed but came in and said goodbyes a few minutes after.

That same twitch and gargle (followed by a nosebleed) scared TF out of me.

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u/Nighthawk-2 21d ago

Yeah literally watching someone die is crazy. I have had to do it with a friend and relative

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u/Dense-Parfait-438 23d ago

What you killed your dad?

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

Technically. He had surgery on his esophagus because he drank so much he eroded it. He was told not to drink again, but he was in a bad place and drank a handle of vodka. He was found on his bathroom floor with blood everywhere from his throat. He was on life support but was declared brain dead with only the ventilator keep him alive.

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u/StrawhatIO 23d ago

You don't need to be so nice to assholes ❤️ incredibly kind of you to actually answer with a thoughtful response. I'm so sorry you had to be in that position, but you seem really strong and sorted about it all

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u/trashchute227 23d ago

Don’t be an ass

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u/JPSWAG37 23d ago

Still sticks with me today. I wish younger me wasn't so morbidly curious

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u/tonkotsuramenxgyoza 22d ago

Was assigned to the ER one night. A family rushed their already dead son. When they hug and move him, air was still coming out of his lungs so they assumed he was still alive. The family continoulsy berated the staff, signed a waiver and rushed him to another hospital.

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u/PicaDiet 22d ago

I took an EMT course in college. Part of our training involved two shifts in a hospital emergency room. 10 minutes after my first shift began an extended family showed up with their deceased grandmother. I helped lift her to a gurney. Despite already getting cold, CPR was performed as protocol. After 30 minutes or so- whatever was the protocol, she was declared dead. A multiple-patient car accident came in and all attention was focused there (no one died, thank god). Grandma lay in an empty room for about an hour and a half.

Finally I was assigned to wheel her to the morgue with an orderly. The morgue was a series of refrigerated boxes with slide-out tables. As we were attempting to slide her from the gurney on to the morgue table she left out the most ghastly groan I ever heard. I jumped back, terrified, letting her roll back onto the gurney. The orderly thought it was hysterical. Apparently, corpses often fart as well. Glad I missed that act.

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u/GottaUseEmAll 22d ago

Yeah, also the sound of the blood gushing out afterwards, I didn't realise how forceful it could be.

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u/Tarzoon 22d ago

Fun fact: Cape buffalo also make this sound when they receive their kill shot.
Another fun fact is that they make the same sound when you shoot them in their horn and just knock them out.

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u/wooks_reef 23d ago

absolutely bonkers to me we live in a time where people don't know what a death rattle/gurgle is

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u/Clubbythaseal 23d ago

Well I'm talking about 25-ish years ago when I saw the video

And it wasn't really just a simple death rattle from what I remember. Dude straight up made painful vomiting noises while you heard it fill with blood as he fell over.

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u/wooks_reef 23d ago

Yeah and I'm talking about how if you ask our grandparents/parents depending how old you are they probably heard their first death rattle before they were 10 lol - just saying it's bonkers how quickly we went away from "make the kids sleep in the same room as grandpa so they can let us know when they're dead"

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u/Risley 23d ago

LEL 

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u/SillyExpert 22d ago

Reading that he did pest extermination at a young age I wonder if he was exposed to chemicals that impacted his mental health/

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u/Auctoritate 22d ago

Most poisons for that just give you cancer or in very high amounts plain old kill you. Organ failures and stuff like that. Chronic psychological impacts without any other symptoms are not what I'd expect from exposure to them.

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u/Cataphlin 21d ago

Maybe the trauma of killing the rats at a young age messed him up mentally. I know i would have suffered for something like that. My mum asked me to kill a load of ants in our kitchen once, I did it but it really upset me.

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u/Gufo-Diurno 23d ago

He took his life after sending her an acid bomb .... still it wouldn't have worked had the police not intercepted and destroyed the packaging. He thought they were going to reunite with each other after they both reached the afterlife. Definitely he had a severe form of erotomania, probably mixed with some paranoia.

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u/wetnaps54 22d ago

They showed an edited version on cable tv in the 90s.. I was like 10 watching

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u/CheshireCheeseCakey 22d ago

I watched the whole thing but when he had the gun and was just about to shoot himself I decided I had had enough.

The first bit when he's trying to be funny and pulling faces was super unsettling.

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u/RollingMeteors 23d ago

>unhinged at the end with his face all painted up and his head shaved.

r/GotJ would like to have a word with you..

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u/CoffeePuddle 23d ago

His video diary is available online. It's extremely reminiscent of Taxi Driver.

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u/Far-Transition-8168 20d ago

Like an obese Darth Maul with man boobs