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Farmer, his wife, two daughters and farmhand died in pit
Authorities say they may have suffocated on methane gas or drowned
Farmer was trying to clear drain in pit, passed out
Others died coming to farmer's aid

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/04/met....ap/index.html

Talk about a shitty death. I couldn't think of a worse way to die.