Corpse from Mt. Vesuvius Discovered, and the Internet Won't Leave Him Alone

A very unlucky man who lived almost 2,000 years ago was recently discovered in Pompeii, and the Internet is ensuring that his untimely death was not for naught.

While many of the people who were overtaken by the ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD have been found, one corpse was only discovered recently. Fortunately for the 30-something-year-old man, it is clear that he was able to outrun the destruction from the volcano. He did not suffer the same fate as many of his countrymen, who were buried by ash and rock. But unfortunately for him, as soon as he was able to escape the volcano, he was crushed by a very large stone (some say it was a door jamb) and killed. And now Twitter is having a good laugh. Poor guy can’t catch a break.

Archaeologists working at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, uncovered the remains of a 30-year-old man who appears to have survived the initial eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., only to be killed when he was struck by a large slab of stone https://t.co/CgQFTssa6x pic.twitter.com/C4JEvAERMn

— CNN (@CNN) May 29, 2018

Some Twitter users were unsure of the man’s status:

Is he going to be okay?

— Kevin Dekker (@kevin_dekker) May 29, 2018

Did he die

— kChod (@Kevchod) May 29, 2018

Yes… He’s responding to treatment

— Olayide Nas (@OlaideNas) May 29, 2018

My man will pull through

— kChod (@Kevchod) May 29, 2018

Others had good intentions:

Cool cool. Let's start a gofundme for his medical bills.

— Kevin Dekker (@kevin_dekker) May 29, 2018

And others knew he’d be covered:

He lived in Ancient Rome. He was fully insured.

— Matija Lah (@MatijaLah) May 29, 2018

Well, it could be the plot of a particularly bad CSI episode:

credit CSI Pompeii?

— Dedrian Parmer (@DedrianParmer) May 29, 2018

Et cum capti inter saxum et…

[puts on shades]

locum durum! pic.twitter.com/q34FiRlCYz

— We The Purple (@AlexNoelPeraza) May 29, 2018

How we all feel sometimes:

pic.twitter.com/O6xyO10Usj

— darth™ (@darth) May 29, 2018

Some users tried to get inside the unlucky’s man’s head before his demise:

Man: Oh no, a volcano destroyed my city! Gee whizz, how can this day get any w- https://t.co/W1VUnUMVhd

— Eddie Bowley (@Eddache_) May 29, 2018

Perhaps it does run in the family?

Wile E. Coyote's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. https://t.co/agvnDmlmII

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) May 29, 2018

Too soon?