Imagine all the crap we’d be hearing if they did this to Islamoterrorists down at GITMO.
Why should they have to pay benefits when someone kills themselves from stupidity and why would she admit to being married to this guy?
Did it cure his ED?
The appellate courts usually favor the criminal element, the negligent, the incompetent or other wrongdoers. This principle seems to favor the widow in this case.
Goodness gracious great balls of fire.
This certainly was no suicide, nobody would choose such a method. What an embarassing way to die. What do you say to St Peter.....what does he say to you?
The few times I’ve been bitten by a faulty outlet or exposed wire tell me that I’d not want to hook it up to my bidness for fun.
Why would the insurance company even challenge payment? They can’t possibly believe the guy was TRYING to commit suicide by that method. Duh!
Bodie: He said he didn’t feel like it. And I said, you’d better! And he said, or what? And I said, or else you’re gonna be in trouble. And he said jam it.
Professor Hathaway: That’s a wonderful story, Bodie. I noticed you’ve stopped stuttering.
Bodie: I’ve been giving myself shock treatments.
Professor Hathaway: Up the voltage.
-Real Genius(1986)
Everyone knows death by erectocution is not a covered event.
Shocking! ZZZZZZZZZOT :-)
I'm an embedded systems guy, maybe this could be a lucrative sideline....Lol, nah...
Did he get a Darwin award?
When I was an ambulance medic, I actually had such an ambulance call. The deceased was in the basement dressed in a bra and panties and had shocked himself to death using an old fashioned electronic tube tester and wires attached to his nipples. The coroner also ruled this was an accidental death. I felt very sorry for the teenage son who discovered the body.
Spark imagination and a lot of balls whut could go wrong.
Various rockers who choked on their own vomit
An extremely overweight singer who choked to death on a hero sandwich
Dying while on the toilet, pants around ankles
Several deaths by drowning, whether it's falling off a boat at sea or passing out in the tub at home
Autoerotic strangulation gone wrong
Never got a concensus on which circumstance was most embarassing for those left behind, but this seems to be a contender.
He was an electrical engineer. Therefore the insurance company could have refused to pay on grounds that it was an intentional suicide.
To require them to pay in such a case defies logic. If a “licensed gun expert”, died while allegedly “cleaning” a handgun, with the bullet entering his right temple and leaving through his left, the assumption must be that he knew what he was doing and intended to commit suicide.
In this case, in that he *might* have been trying to sexually stimulate himself does not overcome his learned knowledge that to do so *that way* could likely be lethal.
And insurance companies have long be excused from paying claims based on suicide.
Yes the couple had sex issues... BECAUSE THE MAN HAD HYPERTENSION AND DIABETES!
Dude’s junk didn’t work. He was an engineer. He tried to make his junk work himself.
Good initiative, bad judgment. We got an app - er, PILL - for that!
Although perhaps his heart was too deemed too delicate for the little blue pills, so back to the drawing board - which I guess someone beat him to (pardon the pun), going by the items shown in post #25.
Death by stupidity, or too embarassed to order a device, but not suicide. Insurance should pay, IMO.