This day in history: 26 year-old Mark Gleeson died on this day in 1996 while trying to cure his sleeping. In order to cure his snoring, the burly maintenance worker shoved tampons up his nose and taped them there so they wouldn't come out. He died from suffocation, with sleeping pills adding to his breathing difficulties.
Snoring can be deadly, but that is usually because the person doing the snoring ends up getting killed. According to a news story in 2008 in the Calgary Sun, it was reported that Kevin Martin, a man irritated by another man’s snoring in a homeless shelter led to a fist fight which resulted in the death of the man who was allegedly snoring.
One Chinese university student in 2010 stabbed his sleeping roommate to death because he snored too much.
A prisoner in Dublin killed his cellmate in 2000 because of his snoring.
Also in Ireland, after 26 years of marriage, Sylvia O'Doyle shot her husband because of his snoring.
A woman killed her boyfriend in Bishopville, South Carolina in 2007 because of snoring. She shot him three times.
Old West outlaw John Wesley Hardin once killed a man because of his snoring.
In 2019, a Florida woman shot her boyfriend because he was snoring too loudly.
In 2018, it was reported that Enrique Leyva, 47, smothered 92-year-old Veronica Ivins with a pillow in New York City because of her snoring.
Perhaps these deaths could have been avoided with an anti-snoring t-shirt. Since snoring mostly occurs with people sleeping on their back, you can actually buy shirts with pockets sewn onto the back of the t-shirt where you place tennis balls in those pockets so that the wearer will have an uncomfortable awakening if they try to flip on their back.
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