Suggestion: Fatal Method Acting

I'm kind of bugged by the fact that this trope is imageless, and decided to see what I could find for it to at least start brainstorming image ideas. After some searching (and considering fatal wrecks like Dale Earnhardt's, Ayrton Senna's, and the incident where one of Bill Elliot's tire changers ended up crushed between his and Ricky Rudd's cars among more obscure incidents) before settling on this◊. The caption could read something like "Gordon Smiley impacting the wall during qualifying for the 1982 Indy 500. He was killed instantly"

Here's the thread where I found it. If The OP has a different image where you see his body trapped under the wreckage of his car.

I should also admit that I exclusively considered auto wrecks for this because I'm a big auto racing fan and because I feel that an auto crash shows the fatal part very clearly, plus it's hard to find pictures of people dying on TV shows, due to them usually not airing the part where someone died, if they air the episode at all, whereas there's generally a lot of images and video footage of an auto racing accident, fatal or no due to the live nature of the event and sometimes slow trickle of information on the status of drivers.

That link doesn't work.

The link works for me. Don't know why Photobucket wouldn't. The suggestion is acceptable.

Not sure I like the idea of having an image where someone's dying.

... in real life, I'm sure you mean. :)

This is generally about real people, though, which is why it's marked as trivia.

Aha. Had a brain fart and thought it was for fictional performers who'd died onstage.

Well, we could use a fictional example. The one that comes to mind immediately (though I didn't consider it, because it's kind of gruesome. The guy has lost his head, after all) would be Francois Cevert's body in Film/Rush2013. I have it on DVD and can see about getting a screenshot of his body tomorrow.

Clock is set.

Closing for inactivity.