Elvis Presley and Don Simpson famously died going to the loo. However, both were heavy drug users, which was in both cases determined to have been the cause of death. However, this hasn't stopped the pop-culture memetic mutation making it sound like they died due to on-potty overexertion. Perhaps most famously, The Sopranos' episode He Is Risen involves a heart attack while pushing to poop. The TVTropes article Undignified Deaths includes a few more, and asserts that “hundreds of people die...
