List of people who have died while on the toilet


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Numerous individuals have died while using a toilet facility or in the process of defecation or urination. This includes confirmed or suspected historical figures as well as more recent notable cases.

Deaths in fiction

 * Donald Gennaro (played by Martin Ferrero) is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex while sitting on the toilet of a destroyed restroom cabin in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.
 * A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones: in the book A Storm of Swords (2000) from the series written by George R. R. Martin, Tywin Lannister is killed by his son Tyrion while using the toilet.
 * The Sopranos: one capo for Tony Soprano's crime family, Gigi Cestone, died on the toilet, likely due to stress caused by the new leadership role.
 * Unforgiven: The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) assassinates the character Quick Mike (David Mucci) in an outhouse.
 * Pulp Fiction: in the film, one of the protagonists Vincent Vega is shot by Butch Coolidge while exiting a bathroom by use of machine gun.
 * South Park: in the 2012 episode "Reverse Cowgirl", Clyde's mom falls into the toilet and suffers disembowelment.
 * Saturday Night Live: produced several fictional advertisements for comedic value for a device called a "Toilet Death Ejector", in which a toilet would "eject" a person off of a toilet if they died on it so they would not be found dead on the toilet.
 * Edward Spratt, a fictional English artist in Return of the Obra Dinn, was strangled by the Kraken as he was using the ship's head at the bow.
 * Amir Asif, the main antagonist of the 2020 action movie Extraction, is shot after entering the toilet.
 * Logan Roy, a protagonist on Succession, had a heart attack on the toilet of his private jet while skipping his oldest son's wedding.
 * In HITMAN (2016), the player can kill General Reza Zaydan by dropping a toilet bowl on his head. Moreover, any NPC can be killed by drowning them in a toilet.