Oh, I doubt very much he was peacefully sleeping when he died. He had to have woke up as the house was falling in. But he wouldn’t have any idea what was happening in the dark other than a sense of falling, that is, unless some post fell on his head and knocked him out.
Terrifying way to go.
Stuff of nightmares. Fall of the House of Usher.
“...doubt very much he was peacefully sleeping when he died. He had to have woke up as the house was falling in. But he wouldn’t have any idea what was happening in the dark other than a sense of falling, that is, unless some post fell on his head and knocked him out. Terrifying way to go.”
Well, he had a roof over his head. With all that lumber involved I would wager that he got bumped and tossed around. He might have been awake for some of it but he was soon unconscious. It’s like a car wreck.
My dad was in a mortar attack in a sandbag bunker and that bunker was hit with a big round, and he got bumped in the head with a flying timber, he was never quite the same after that but he didn’t really know what happened and could never really recall what happened as it happened so quickly, in a melee of debris.