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** A lot of the [[Nonstandard Game Over|Wrong Ends]], while nowhere near as gruesome, still count. As does Seiko's death. And then there's what happened to the aforementioned ghost children, whose deaths (long before the events of the game) ''easily'' qualify as fearsome.
* [[Large Ham|Inspector Cabanela]] can die this way in Ghost Trick if the player Ghost Swaps the bullet that was supposed to hit him with a nearby helmet mid-flight. The Pidgeon Man says it best: "[[Understatement|That didn't go well.]]"
* One of the worst ways to die in a video game, ''period'', happens in the [[Older Than the NES]] text adventure ''[[The Oregon Trail]]''. One bad end you can come to is to die of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysentery dysentery]. For those who missed that lesson in biology class, dysentery is an inflammatory condition of the intestines caused by bacteria, viruses, parasitic worms, or protozoa. Symptoms include diarrhea with blood, fever, abdominal pain, and rectal tenesmus. <ref>That's when you think you have to poop, but you can't.</ref> Yeah, it's not pleasant.
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