Spouting Nonsense – Nobody ever died from public speaking (without having an underlying health condition)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On May 31, 2017 I blogged about Spouting Nonsense – Nobody ever died from public speaking. I described about thirty people who had died while speaking. At Buffalo 7 on September 10, 2020 there is an article titled The power to overcome presentation anxiety is already within you with a narrower claim that:

“Nobody ever died from talking on stage. Not without underlying health conditions, anyway.”

 

But in my previous post I already had included two people who had no underlying health conditions. Inijero Asanuma was stabbed with a samurai sword on October 12, 1960, and Malcolm X was shot on February 21, 1965.

 

I did some more searching and found three other examples of shootings described in Wikipedia. On June 29, 1992 Mohamed Boudiaf (the seventh president of Algeria) was shot by one of his bodyguards while he was giving a televised speech in Annaba. On April 23, 1993 Lalith Athulathmudali (a former Cabinet Minister of Sri Lanka) was shot while he was addressing a gathering in Kirulapana. On December 19, 2016 Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, was shot while he was speaking at an art exhibition in Ankara.  

 

An image of the grim reaper was adapted from Wikimedia Commons.