1000 Ways to Die, does it real?

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I watched it today, on tv

I wonder if this program is really based on facts.

There was a story of a sadistic warden of a prison for women, guy accidentally. ate the drug-soaked cake, which confiscated his women prisoners.
This guy died from flash bang.

I find a lot of it questionable, especially when they had a story about a hockey goalie in Montreal get his jugular accidentally sliced open during a game by another player's skate, and he rapidly bled to death. Not long before I had seen a show called Sports Science where they showed some of the most gruesome injuries in professional sports history, and there was a similar story except that the goalie was saved by his own trainer who pinched his artery shut until paramedics arrived. He also lived to tell his experience and didn't seem like the overly aggressive jerk he was portrayed in the re-enactment on 1000 Ways To Die (like most victims so we won't feel to bad for them).
I stopped watching the show because it got too graphic, hypersexed and disgusting, the women portrayed nearly always look like scantily-clad supermodels (one of them actually was a supermodel who went on a bulimic eating binge but died because her stomach ruptured before she could throw it back up), and the men are always complete idiots. Ick. And even if it was the re-enactment of an actual incident, the prison warden might not have been a sadistic monster. He might have been just doing his job, the women were in prison because they're criminals, and the fact they had a drug-soaked cake in the first place shows who the "bad guys" really were.

I love the show and disagree with most of what you said lostonearth. I feel sorry for anyone who dies.

I've seen it, quite interesting most of the deaths seem plausible, if the deaths were made up then this program would have been put to a dead end long ago.

They exaggerate incidents, sometimes combine different incidents to tell a good story, and make the people involved look either stupid and/or evil to justify them dying.

I often doubt the authenticity of the stories. I think a few maybe based on historical events like one death where a man died from uncontrollable laughter. Laughing for several straight hours on end will eventually put a person into cardiac arrest so that story was authentic. However, I would bet that 75% of them never happened. One example was a women with boob implants that exploded while she was on an airplane at high altitude because of the chemicals that were put into her boob job and the reaction it had. I think a story like that one COULD happen, it's just that either it didn't happen yet or the real story was a little different. Look at it as a what if. That's why they have many doctors on the show that back the stories up of why they could have died even though they could be fiction. I mean you know the stories are fictionalized because all the people who die are idiots or jerks and the show mockingly shows those people deaths were almost comical like they deserved it. But in the end like everything else the show was made to entertain so everything has to be exaggerated and you can't treat this show like a history lesson.

A few of those deaths have actually occurred; it's just that the producers have replaced the people and fictionalized them somewhat.

It's an entertaining show, and I have no doubts that there is some truth to many of the stories they have on there, but I believe a lot of it is also exaggerated to make it more shocking/interesting for TV. It's basically like the Darwin Awards, but aimed at a much less sophisticated audience.