100 Ways to Kill Your Character

Natural Causes

• Acute Illness/Infectious Diseases: an acute disease is a disease with either or both of a rapid onset and a short course
  • influenza
    
  • Lower respiratory infections
    
  • Diarrheal diseases
    
  • Tuberculosis
    
  • Malaria
    
  • Measles
    
  • Pertussis
    
  • Tetanus
    
  • Meningitis
    
  • Hepatitis
    
  • syphilis
    
  • West Nile disease
    
  • Lyme Disease
    

  [*]Chronic Illness; a disease that is long-lasting or recurrent.

  • heart disease
    
  • Cancer
    
  • Liver disease
    
  • Kidney disease
    
  • AIDS
    
  • Parkinston's
    
  • Alzheimer's
    

Suicide

• shooting
  
• exanguination
  
• overdose
  
• handing
  
• poision
  
• "suicide by cop"
  
• murder/suicide
  
• homicide/suicide bomber
  
• mass murder via suicide (like 9/11)
  

Accidents- urban:

• Vehicle Crashes
  • Air Crashes
    
  • Ship sinks
    
  • Car Crashes
    
  • Bus Wreak
    

  [*]Structural Failures

  • elevator collapse
    
  • bridge collapse
    
  • building collapse
    

  [*]Fire

  • fire- office
    
  • fire- industrial
    
  • fire- commercial
    

  [*]Energy Related hazards

  • eletrical problems- down power line, malfunctions
    
  • electrical fires
    
  • Nuclear plant accident/incident- radiation release
    
  • natural gas leaks
    
  • Refinery fires
    
  • Storage related incidents (coal, oil, natural gas)
    

  [*]Industrial Accidents

  • industrial/hazardous waste- fumes, fire, poisioning
    
  • industrial accident- refinery fire, chemical release
    
  • Refinery fire/coal, oil or natural gas storage
    
  • Toxic chemical release/ liquid poisioning of groundwater
    

  [*]Urban Crime

  • overdose- accidental
    
  • gang violence (undirected urban violence)
    
  • drive by shooting (undirected urban violence)
    
  • Organized Crime Hit (wrong place/wrong time)
    

Accidents- suburbian/rural:

• hunting accident
  
• injury/shock
  
• recreational vehicle accident (4-wheeler)
  
• Work vehicle accident (tractor, combine)
  
• house fire
  
• Cave ins/sink holes
  
• tainted water
  
• raiders, bandits, rebels
  
• Animals
  • Snake-bite (primary)
    
  • Spider-bite (primary)
    
  • Scorpion sting (primary)
    
  • Allergic reactions to insect stings
    
  • mosquito borne illness
    
  • Predators (Bear, cougar)
    
  • feral animals (dogs, hogs, etc)
    

  [*]Environment

  • exposure
    
  • environmental illness/severe allegy
    
  • terrain related injuries (falls)
    
  • falling trees
    

  [*]Hazards

  • abandoned dangerous equipment
    
  • abandoned toxic materials
    
  • abandoned dangerous structures
    
  • abandoned mines
    

Murder

• robbery/homicide
  
• shot
  
• stabbed
  
• Impaled
  
• poisoned
  
• beaten to death/head trauma
  
• blunt force trauma
  
• strangulation
  
• Fatal reaction to recreational drug combination
  
• overdose- forced
  
• overdose- sold drugs too pure intentionally
  
• hate crime
  
• ritual killing
  
• ritual sacrifice
  
• Murder as a result of a primary crime like arson or sabatogue.
  
• Murder as a result of a terrorist incident
  

Act of War

• Small Arms
  
• Machine gun fire
  
• Grenade, fragmentation
  
• Bombardment/barrage
  • Artillery bombardment
    
  • Aerial bombardment
    
  • Naval Bombardment
    
  • Morter fire
    
  • Missile impact
    
  • precision munition (smart bomb)
    

  [*]Weapons of Mass Destruction

  • WMD- nuclear
    • Dirty bomb (conventional bomb used to spread highly radioactive particles over a large area)
      
    • fission bomb (kiloton yield)
      
    • Fusion or two-stage bomb (megaton yield)
      

    [*]WMD- chemical

    [*]WMD- biological

    [*]WMD- kinetic energy weapon

Natural Disaster

• Storm
  • lightning
    
  • high winds
    
  • tornado (regional)
    
  • hurricane or typhoon (regional)
    

  [*]flood

  • hurricane related storm surge
    
  • flash flood
    
  • dam burst
    
  • spring snow melt
    
  • backwater
    

  [*]Fire

  • forest fire/Wild fire
    
  • fire caused by volcanic action
    
  • fire- seasonal
    

  [*]Earthquake

  • Building Collapse
    
  • Fire
    
  • trapped
    
  • injury, bleed to death and/or shock
    
  • electrocution
    
  • tainted water
    

  [*]Volcano

  • pyrocastic flow
    
  • lava- falling
    
  • lava- flowing
    
  • Rapid snow melt/flashflood
    
  • secondary fire
    
  • poison gas
    

  [*]tidal Wave

  • washed out to sea
    
  • building collapse
    
  • buried in rubble/mud
    

  [*]Afterkill- in many large scale disasters, the aftermath is just as deadly if not, more so

  • starvation
    
  • bad water or food
    
  • disease
    
  • secondary events (aftershocks, eruptions)
    
  • exposure
    
  • general weakened condition due to hunger, dehydration, exposure
    
  • paranoia/panic/predatory behavior among survivors
    

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