Man accidentally hang himself for real during Lent presentation

i don't really understand.. did he hang himself with what he thought was a prop? isn't that stupid anyway, regardless? to put something round your neck? i don't understand how the prop wouldn't have made him die as well.. hanging by anything is fatal, no?

What a pity, almost sounds like the actor almost met his one of the1000 ways to die stunt. The props in stages may seem to be very harmless but they could also kill very easily. It’s a miracle that the guy did not die because it was practically impossible to tell whether he was acting or had actually passed out due to excessive choking.

That's one freak accident. It was still fortunate that he didn't die from it.

i never knew that you could play around with hanging your self. that is something it seems like your mother would tell you not to do as a child. i know he was trying to make the role look real, but there is no way to play off hanging. i hope he ends up okay.

oh my can I see the original article, is he okay now or did he die on the spot

This is really horrible. I did a scene once that did require me to 'hang' myself as well. It was made into an action shot where I stared at the noose in front of me, then half way through the monologue, put it and tighten it around my neck while I stood on a chair. Then at the end I start to step off the chiar and the stage went black. In reality I had to quickly adjust back to the chair so I really wouldn't end up hanging myself. This was a short ongoing monologue in a series I had to do about 20 times in an hour.(People walked from one scenario to another in groups) By the end of the hour I couln't feel my legs anymore because they had gone numb from standing on a folding chair for so long...the last time my legs didn't make it back the chair because I couldn't feel them but luckily a stage hand saw what was happening and ran up in the dark to lift my body up and put it on the chair. I had a rope ring for about a week around my neck all for the sake of theater. I hope this guy turns out to be okay.

Wow that really is terrible. I hope that he survives. That is really scary that this happened and a very unfortunate accident. He was trying to do his role well and wound up nearly dying because of it. I cant imagine being in that situation how scary that would be strangling like that.

Oh my. Poor guy, hope he will survive! But what can't understand is how come there were so many people around, other actors should have realize that he hung up himself for real by mistake... for long minutes they were just standing there not having a clue what's going on? That's weird.

Most of them think that the arrangement for the stages is very simple but this type of issues gives us people an evidence that they are very important and a simple careless mistake can cause a lot of problems