For a while in the early 1990s, according to Neatorama, Britain's Channel Four had a documentary series, of a sort, in which living people would address the camera as if they were speaking to the audience from beyond the grave. The still-living speakers would appear on-camera and talk about how they died. Perhaps it made sense at the time.
Anyway, Oliver Reed appeared on such an episode, and indeed, you can even watch it on YouTube. During his "obituary," Reed told the audience that he'd died in a bar full of laughter while he was participating in a "cabbage competition" (whatever that means). In fact, Reed did die in a bar filled with people. Specifically, according to Air Malta, he died in Valletta, Malta, at a bar known simply as "The Pub," where he had consumed copious amounts of liquor, arm-wrestled (and beat) members of the British Navy, and picked up the tab for the entire room. Then, according to the Independent, he "dropped dead," as Ridley Scott described it. About the only thing missing was the mysterious "cabbage competition."
