MORE PEOPLE WHO DIED WHILE TAKING A SELFIE

IN 2014 A POPULAR PUERTO RICAN MUSICIAN

NAMED JADIEL EL TSUNAMI WAS KILLED AFTER

HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS MOTORCYCLE ONE

SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN ROCHESTER, NY, RIGHT

AFTER TAKING A SELFIE ON HIS MOTORBIKE.

IRONICALLY, HE HAD PREVIOUSLY RELEASED A

TRACK ENTITLED, “ME DESCONTROLO”

(“I LOSE CONTROL”)

THEIR DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO TAKE AN

“EYE-CATCHING PICTURE” AND UPLOAD IT TO

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES COST THREE

COLLEGE FRIENDS FROM INDIA TO LOOSE

THEIR LIVES EARLIER LAST YEAR WHEN THEY

WERE RUN OVER BY A SPEEDING TRAIN.

THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON THE RAILWAY

TRACKS OF MATHURA, NEAR KOSIKALA, INDIA

A WOMAN DIED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION MOMENTS

AFTER UPLOADING PICTURES OF HERSELF AND A

“HAPPY” STATUS TO HER FACEBOOK PAGE.

MORE SPECIFICALLY, AT 8:33 A.M. (ON THURSDAY,

APRIL 24, 2014) A POST APPEARED ON COURTNEY

SANFORD’S TIMELINE WHICH READ:

“THE HAPPY SONG MAKES ME SO HAPPY.”

AT 8:34 A.M. POLICE WERE CALLED TO

REPORTS OF A CRASH.

A TEENAGE GIRL FELL TO HER DEATH AFTER TRYING

TO TAKE A SELFIE FROM A RAILWAY BRIDGE IN

THE CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

XENIA IGNATYEVA WENT TO THE BRIDGE IN

KRASNOGVARDEYSKY TO TAKE A PHOTO OF

HERSELF AT NIGHT WITH THE RAILWAY LINE IN

THE BACKGROUND TO CREATE “THE MOST

DRAMATIC EFFECT.” SHE LOST HER BALANCE

AND FELL TO HER DEATH

ANOTHER TEENAGER LOST HIS LIFE IN THE

PHILIPPINES AFTER ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTING

HIMSELF WHILE TAKING A SELFIE IN WHICH

HE WAS HOLDING A GUN TO HIS CHIN

A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD FROM SOUTHERN

SPAIN WAS ELECTROCUTED AFTER CLIMBING

ONTO THE ROOF OF A TRAIN TO TAKE A

SELFIE WITH FRIENDS

IN WHAT IS THE DEADLIEST SELFIE INCIDENT

(SO FAR), SEVEN YOUTHS FROM INDIA, INCLUDING

TWO BROTHERS, DROWNED IN A LAKE WHILE

ATTEMPTING TO TAKE A SELFIE. THEY GOT ON

A LOCAL BOAT TO TAKE THE BEST POSSIBLE

PICTURES AND AS THEY WERE CLICKING AWAY

WHILE STANDING ON ONE SIDE OF THE BOAT,

IT TILTED SENDING THEM INTO THE LAKE

WHERE THEY DROWNED

IN WHAT MIGHT BE THE GREATEST TRAGEDY OF

ALL, A POLISH COUPLE FELL OFF A CLIFF IN

PORTUGAL AFTER CROSSING A SAFETY BARRIER

TO TAKE A SELFIE. THEY WERE SURVIVED BY

THEIR TWO CHILDREN WHO, TRAGICALLY,

WERE PRESENT AT THE SCENE AND

WITNESSED THE DEATH OF THEIR PARENTS