Death Irony

324 real-life examples of death irony, submitted by readers and voted on by the community. Think you've spotted irony in the world of death? Submit your own example.

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  1. Is it ironic that A person afraid to fly died when a plane crashed on their house.

    84% ironic 12 votes Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that More police officers die from their own gun than from the gun of criminals?

    63% ironic 12 votes Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that Jim Carroll, who wrote the song 'People Who Died', is now dead?

    64% not ironic 12 votes Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that A chef died of food poisoning.

    56% ironic 12 votes Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that A cardiologist dies from a heart attack?

    68% ironic 12 votes Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that Your dead.

    66% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that Steve Irwin the crocodile hunter, the man the myth, the legend the man who has survived a ton of crocodile snake and venomous animal attacks died from a stingray which has one of the least death totals per year.

    95% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that Alexander Hamilton died in a duel even though he believed duels were sheer-stupidity and that you were throwing your life away?

    89% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that An ambulance drives at high speed to answer an emergency call in order to help save a life but then runs over the patient they were supposed to help and kills them instead?

    85% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that That an 86 year old woman gets strangled to death by her medical alert necklace?

    89% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that To commit suicide by an overdose of antidepressants?

    85% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that You die of thirst while being straned in the middle of the ocean.

    80% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that Special scissors for cutting plastic "suicide packaging" are sold in "suicide packaging"?

    78% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that A boy dressed up as a vampire for halloween dies of blood loss?

    68% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that An inmate who was sentenced to death hanged himself in his cell less than a week after a judge commuted his sentence to life without parole.

    85% ironic 11 votes Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that A man is killed by a falling hard hat.

    82% ironic 10 votes Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that The inventor of the stop sign died when he failed to stop at an intersection?

    90% ironic 10 votes Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that The sniper Turned over the dead body and looked into his brothers face.

    74% not ironic 10 votes Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that I smoke but love life.

    72% not ironic 10 votes Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that A boy was stabbed to death after attending a memorial fundraiser for a friend who was also stabbed to death?

    54% ironic 10 votes Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that The person who was concerned that I would commit suicide actually ended up committing suicide?

    76% ironic 10 votes Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that A man has never ridden a plane in his life and finally rides one for the first time then it crashes.

    62% not ironic 10 votes Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that Michael Jackson died on his 'this is it' tour?

    53% ironic 10 votes Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that Steve Irwin was killed in a freak accident by a stingray...perhaps...

    66% ironic 10 votes Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that You try to save poor babies by eating them.

    56% not ironic 10 votes Vote →