Talk:List of unsolved deaths

Article should be re-evaluated: Do mummified and ancient remains really belong on this list? Or people who disappeared mysteriously?

I really don't feel that the remains of ancient humans and mummies belongs on a list like this. Of course we don't necessarily know how they died, but that's kind of loose with the idea of what these pages are about. Shouldn't this list be more for people whose deaths had a noted record of debate for how they died? Someone who likely died of natural causes in 10,000BCE doesn't belong on this list, just because we discovered their remains 10,000 years later, and don't officially know how they died. It just doesn't fit at all. Nor for people who probably died in pre-historic battle or something.

And as for people who disappeared mysteriously (which there was never a body found), they are already part of these respective lists. Which are more appropriate for them, as we do not know their ultimate fate. So even if enough time has passed that they are obviously dead by now, those lists are more appropriate for them.

Unless there's some serious beef with what I'm saying, I propose cleaning up this article. It should have a more focused scope on people in which different OFFICIAL investigations came to different conclusions; or were otherwise notably questioned (usually in their contemporary times).StrangeApparition2011 (talk) 17:27, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

@StrangeApparition2011: Note that most of if not all these deaths were pre-mature as they died young, which I would say counts as unsolved deaths. Davidgoodheart (talk) 18:30, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

In the spirit of necroposting (very apt for this page,) I would argue that they are not "unsolved" so much as they are "forgotten." They almost certainly didn't die of mysterious circumstances -- the people who buried them very likely knew how they died. Dying young was not uncommon in the ancient world. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE IS REAL EMO!_{(talk or whatever)} 10:00, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

I completely agree with the above poster. I think it really doesn't fit this page, it makes no sense to include it. Wikipedia has a serious problem with people adding very trivial additions to lists.StrangeApparition2011 (talk) 04:50, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Kilgallen

Content has been removed from that section because it was WP:SENSATIONAL, WP:OR, unsourced, or attributed to an established conspiracy theorist. Regarding the latter, see the extensive earlier discussions here, here, here, here, here, and here. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:41, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Robert Maxwell

It has never been established if Maxwell's death was an accident, suicide or murder. Shouldn't there be an entry for him? 147.147.24.46 (talk) 20:24, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

King Tut

Tutankhamun should probably be on the list; there have been several different attempts to establish the cause of his early death (he was aged around eighteen to twenty). Illness, a fall from a horse, an epileptic seizure or assassination by someone close to him? 188.150.64.57 (talk) 18:38, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

19th century

The first example of an unsolved death in the 19th century section is Meriwether Lewis along the Natchez Trace. It was called a "nature trail", when in fact it was a major indigenous travel-way for up to 10,000 years. https://www.nps.gov/natr/learn/historyculture/index.htm#:~:text=Congress%20designated%20the%20Natchez%20Trace,use%20dates%20back%2010%2C000%20years. . I have made edits in the past but have not attempted anything like this and I hope and expect someone will make this section better. Krisandtim (talk) 05:52, 26 December 2023 (UTC)