@LRRRonEarth There was a book I read as a child called, "Suffocated by potatoes" or something like that. It recounted tales of people that had died in worse ways than most everyone. The title comes from a guy who had a warehouse full of potatoes fall on him and not kill him at once, but slowly suffocated him before he could be extracted.
Honest to god, my kid brain LOVED that book.