Comments on: A Deadly Ritual: 5 Men Who Died from Shaving

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:51:21 +0000

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By: Dobson

Dobson — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:27:30 +0000

There is a typo in the lord carnarvon bit – recupertaing should be recuperating.

Lord Carnarvon took ill with sepsis. While recupertaing at the

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:43:47 +0000

I came to this article believing I’d read some horrible stories beginning with “The razor slid effortlessly through the flesh of his neck.” Not one slit throat. Surprising and a little disappointing.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:55:39 +0000

Interesting article. Best part; the Brenden Frasier jab at the end!

By: Rhubarb

Rhubarb — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:30:20 +0000

Even today Egyptologists are told not to shave a few days before and after leaving tombs because of the minor wounds shaving could cause, allowing bacteria to enter the body.

By: Chris Kavanaugh

Chris Kavanaugh — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:03:46 +0000

Marlon, Badger brushes came to prominence after a anthrax outbreak in WW1 thought to originate from horsehair brushes. All modern badger brushes of european manufacture have been sterilised.
What we, and of greater import detractors call ‘traditional shaving’ is actually the rather recent zenith of shaving products geared toward self shaving. It’s detractors from Gillette to bloggers can shout so as to alter the constellations in the sky; but not my regimen.
Merkur HD- Super Iridiums-Mitchell’s Wool Fat- Woods of Windsor or TOBS #74

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:06:55 +0000

I think it’s interesting that several of these people were noteworthy or related to someone that was… Unless there’s a lot more deaths by shaving than these listed and just the more famous guys were mentioned.

By: Lucius

Lucius — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:06:22 +0000

scriabin experimented with tone and harmony in his compositions? clearly a madman! he must rank with orville & wright, who were addicted to solving human flight, or perhaps e.e.cummings who turnd his back on centuries of puncuation rules

well before the days of pundits and investigative reporting, schuman, another madman said that a revolution can happen in the concert hall and the cop on the beat be none the wiser

like scriabin, he too experimented with tone and harmony—but did he inhale?

By: Marlon

Marlon — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:11:26 +0000

I just bought a new badger brush! Did you have to tell me that first story with anthrax?

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:19:59 +0000

Death by shaving? Flashes of Sweeney Todd….