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1Even a show about people dying various different deaths can have its happy moments.
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5* #1: "Ichi-Boned". A repressed Japanese couple, though they love each other very much, are so scared of having sex that they never slept together on their wedding night. Several years later, with the [[DutchCourage help of some plum wine]], the two finally consummate their love, but [[OutWithABang they end up quietly and peacefully passing away in their sleep]] [[TogetherInDeath together]] from simultaneous heart attacks since [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome their bodies weren't used to the effects of orgasm]]. The narrator said that this was such a heartbreaking (yet awesome) way to die that it was given the number one spot ([[BilingualBonus or, as it's called in Japanese, "ichiban"]]).
6* #163: "Drivers Dead" The narrator expresses a little sympathy for the JerkassWoobie, and suggests he got peace in death and went to Heaven.
7* #182: "Homie's Dead", after the revived husband scares the robber off the balcony to his death, the wife, who had thought she had failed to revive him earlier with CPR, is very relieved to see him alive and they embrace. Given how many times this show has used the HenpeckedHusband trope, and how the segment was originally portrayed as a full blown DownerEnding, its nice to see a married couple that do love each other.
8* The Narrator has a bit of a sweet moment in #219: "Chairway to Heaven". Unlike his usual way of cynically making fun of the victim (usually for their stupidity) in the segment, who in this case happens to be a deadbeat dad, the Narrator instead shows a bit of his PapaWolf side and outright states his dislike towards him.
9-->'''Narrator:''' We get a lot of losers on this show, but a guy who turns his back on his own family? I’d like to kill him myself.
10* #258: "Less is Mormon." The Narrator again shows his sweet side by cheering on Karen for escaping a polygamist cult and watching her would-be husband, the cult leader, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard get killed by one of his own booby traps]].
11* Death #412: "Re-Tired". An elderly man dies peacefully of old age while enjoying his daily ritual of reminiscing about his life in the driver's seat of his pristine [[https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_533979-Chrysler-Windsor-1946.html 1946 Chrysler Windsor]]. The car's worn-down parking brake fails, causing the car to roll down the hill, the runaway Chrysler [[DyingMomentOfAwesome killing a scumbag thief who was fleeing from the gas station he had just robbed.]]
12* #786: "Curl Up and Die" The ex drug dealer cheekily rambles on about how Quaaludes are great "leg spreaders" and benefit both genders during sex (in a purely consensual context here). However, he switches to a dead serious tone when warning the viewers not to take alcohol with Quaaludes due to the high risk of death.
13* #803: "Bomb-Bino." A man is forced to dig his own grave after being unable to pay back a debt to the mob. However, he digs up an un-exploded hand grenade in the process and it blows up in the mobsters' faces, killing them. Thankfully, the man survives thanks to the pile of dirt besides him, and he takes it as a cue to leave, grateful for the stroke of fate.
14* #1000: "Premature Endings". We see several idiots admitted to an emergency room who are about to die after various bizarre and stupid accidents. Then we see a woman who calmly and obliviously walks through the madness to see her ailing father who is in hospice care. The father then passes away peacefully from natural causes, after a long and rewarding life, with his daughter holding his hand. May be the one death that actually outranks Ichi-Boned as the most sympathetic death.
15** What makes it better was that this was originally supposed to be the final death shown in the series, hence the number and the clip show at the end. Instead of making a snarky quip, the narrator reminisces on all of the stupid ways people have died over the course of the show and concludes that the show has really been an instruction manual on how to live. (un)fortunately, the show got renewed for another season, but points for effort.

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