Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting and to another collection of horrible fates.

In this video we're going to go over three stories of people centuries ago.

They all shared very different paths other than the fact that each of their stories took

sudden and violent turns. In each case as well, what they were involved in would go

and have profound impacts on history that are still felt today, but that doesn't make what happened to them any less horrifying.

You'll see what I mean, and as always, viewer discretion is strongly advised.

There's a story that made the rounds on the internet recently about a famous French chemist

known as Antoine Lavoisier.

The story goes that he was sentenced to execution by guillotine and he decided to carry

one last experiment before his death.

He instructed a colleague of his to watch the ordeal intently and in particular watch his

eyes after the guillotine slammed down. Antoine told his colleague he would try his best to blink intentionally

to demonstrate that consciousness didn't immediately fade. On the day of the event, something

incredibly surprising happened. At least that is how the story is told. In truth, there seems to be

far less and far more to the story than that version.

Antoine LaVoisier is often referred to as the father of modern chemistry and is most well known

for his law of conservation of mass.

He was born into a wealthy Parisian family on August 26th, 1743, and in addition to being

exceptionally bright, Antoine was always fascinated by the wonders of the natural world.

He was also uncharacteristically, civic-minded, and deeply concerned about the plight of his fellow men. Coming from a family of well-respected lawyers, though, it was almost a foregone conclusion that

he'd studied law himself. Like his father and grandfather before him, Antoine was eventually admitted

to the exclusive order of barristers after graduating from law school. In the end though, he decided he

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