3. Reading Your Own Premature Obituary
What could be worse than reading your own obituary one unsuspecting morning over coffee? Well, if you asked
Marcus Garvey (don't actually bother trying; the man died in 1940) he'd say there's nothing worse. Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who by all accounts led a pretty successful existence. However that all changed when one day, he read his own premature obituary in the paper, which mistakenly said that he died "broke, alone and unpopular". So apparently untrue was the whole thing that Garvey had two strokes which mercilessly carried him off this mortal coil. It's not that his death in itself was dumb - it wasn't his fault after all - it's the entire situation. Someone better have been sacked at that paper for printing what must be the absolute mother of all typos - either that or it was a tasteless prank gone horrifically wrong. Honestly, both possibilities are about as dumb as the other.