
I’ve always thought that a nice way to go when my time comes is in my sleep. But what of these unfortunate and mostly untimely deaths? How did they come to take their last breath? *In 620 BC, an Athenian lawmaker by the name of Draco was smothered to death by gifts of hats and cloaks showered upon him by an appreciative audience in a theatre in Aegina! In 455 BC another Athenian, this time a tragedian by the name of Aeschylus met an untimely death when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald head, mistaking it for a…