The advancement of civilization has given a fighting chance to those whose lack of awareness

might have gotten them killed in the past.

But some people make such terrible decisions that even the achievements of the modern world

can't keep them alive.

Let's dive into some unbelievably dumb ways people died, earning themselves a Darwin Award for Natural Selection.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. You're amazed. No one likes having to take out the trash for collection, but we don't usually expect to find ourselves carried off alongside our garbage.

But for Diego Mata, a combination of heavy drinking and dumpster diving led to exactly that one fateful evening in March 2019.

CCTV footage taken on the night in Rosemont, Illinois's

Entertainment District captured the 31-year-old drunkenly climbing into a dumpster around 4 a.m.

An hour later, the garbage truck arrived, tipping the contents of the dumpster, including

Mata, into its powerful mechanical jaws. Mata's body was later recovered from a sanitation facility where he was found to have been

crushed and disposed of.

What a rubbish way to go.

It seems like common sense that if you don't know how to swim, you should probably learn

before doing ocean water sports.

Unfortunately, this didn't occur to Jerry DeVice in July 2019 when he took to the sea

in the jet ski he'd purchased mere hours earlier.

Despite his desire to have a wild time in the water, Device never learned to swim,

so when he lost control and flipped his new toy he was thrown into serious peril

Within moments the sea it overwhelmed him and he drowned when you're in Poseidon's house it pays to be respectful because he can be one remorseless son of a titan

Now another aquatic story of a different nature Tina Christofferson was an extremely intelligent woman with a

reported IQ of 189. Unfortunately, irrational fear affects even the smartest minds and a specific

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