We're celebrating the Christmas season by re-tweeting some of our best tweets from the last year (and we'll post them here too). To kick it off, here are the most gruesome and bizarre deaths we found in MEMSO this year.
1595: Sultan Murad III dies from epilepsy. On his death bed he ate solid meats, thick soups and other aphrodisiacs 'for he lay immersed in lust'.
18/8/1503: Controversial Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) dies. Ugliest and most monstrous corpse anyone had ever seen. No human form or likeness. His mouth foamed like a boiling kettle. Swollen body was as long as it was wide. His corpse was stuffed into coffin and jumped on in order to close the lid. Borgia's stomach was swollen and liquidized, and his face turned the colour of wine, mulberries and dirty rags, and began to peel off...
1/8/1714: Q Anne dies at 7pm. Suffered stroke on 30th of July, but death due to gout and ultimately erysipelas (skin infection). Her body was so swollen the coffin was extra large and entirely square.
Get all our Twitter updates during 2012 at http://twitter.com/tannerritchie/
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