Yeah, I have done that too!

there i was, atop a large cliff laughing triumphantly as i had just slain a dragon (two actually, but not at the same time) and gotten a word, i was just so happy i could tear out your intestines and skip rope with them!! well i decided to jump and use one of my newer shouts, ethareal, by the time i made it to the bottom i went from ghost-like to normal to ghost

I accidently set myself on fire when I shot down one of those flame-filled pots. The stupid Draugr I was trying to kill had just moved away from the oil as well so all I accomplished was a suicide.

accidental double post

1st most embarrassing: Killed a dragon near Morthal, had a little sliver of health left, then a mudcrab came up behind me and finished me off in one pinch. >.<

2nd most embarrassing death: Running straight off the mountain and falling to death because I missed a turn on the path from High Hrothgar...d'oh

I was trying to catch a butterfly which was fluttering just overhead. Stepped off the edge of a cliff.

I came out of white run main gate. Instead of walking around I decided to jump off the wall to get to the carrige faster. The jump off the wall killed me.

I was facing a draugr in a nordic ruin when suddenly he used unrelenting force and i went flying back and landed on a pressure plate which then raised me to the ceiling to be impaled on several spikes!.....totally pwned by a draugr!!

"I WAS JUST KILLED BY A BUCKET" was the title of a thread here on these forums just a few days after game release. It had me laughing for ages. The poster went on to say he got his revenge by locking the bucket in a cell.

Ah, here it is:

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1270376-i-was-just-killed-by-a-bucket/page__fromsearch__1

Completed the main quest, then accidently launched myself of the Throat of the World with a whirlwind sprint.

Fortunately I had saved.

I've had plenty of these.

Let my guard down, talked to Lydia, killed my by Skeever...

I was walking over a waterfall with Shadowmere when suddenly he slips down the 1500 foot water fall and all i can do is stare at him crying while we both plunge to our deaths. it was a grave day.

I actually got shot in the knee by a draugr deathlord. I died with that single shot....

Fall from a cliff when Mountain climbing.

I was walking my first character for the first time from Riverwood to Whiterun, carrying my bow, looking for something to shoot. There was a cow up ahead on the road, I didn't see anyone else around, so I took a shot, and another. The cow, with an arrow in it's rump, is now in a lumbering run, bleating. Then I get hit from the rear and die. I assume a giant got me. Haven't seen a cow on that road since.

Most embarrasing death was in Oblivion after defeating the goblin chief in some goblin fort, I decided to sit on his throne for a well deserved rest from a long and ardous battle. Turned out the throne was trapped and there was this animation of a spiked Iron ball on the end of a chain swinging into my head. My health was so low from the battle that the darned thing knocked me off the throne and killed me on the spot. I am probably not the only one who has made that mistake, but at least I learned from it and have not suffered from a similar fate in Skyrim. I am more careful now.

Hah! So I wasn't the only one with that idea!

And well, if we're talking about other games in the series: in Morrowind there's some guy (I think an elf?) who fell from the sky, apparently having invented boots with which you can jump very high. This looked really cool to me, so I immediately tried it out. Very cool indeed, until I started falling back to the ground. Needless to say; it didn't end well. Next traveler would discover two bodies with a pair of cool jumping boots.

Oh right, Skyrim. Well, I like to try out a lot, just for the heck of it, so there are quite a few instances in which I die. Like "waterfalling" and suddenly noticing this waterfall is a liiiiiiiittle bit higher than anticipated. Or messing up my keyboard keys, and instead of shouting, I put away my weapons. Anyway, one I still remember clearly was at the very beginning. I was fascinated by Alduin and thought I was kinda immortal because it was still the intro. So I tried to watch him as much as possible, and happened to run and jump a lot around the dragon (what? I still think he looks really cool!). And then I suddenly received a fire blast right in the face ... I needed some time to recover from the shock seeing my character being tossed against the wall like a limp doll and getting the loading screen ... ;_;

And then there was the time when I wanted to train my hand-to-hand combat by fighting mudcrabs and wolves bare-handed. I got attacked by three wolves, but was on the losing side so I ran a bit around while healing up. Turns out I ran around a bit too much, 'cuz when I finally decided to take on the wolves again, they had multiplied by ten. Seriously, so many wolves around me, I was so heavily surrounded I couldn't manage to run away anymore as they all stood in my way, and I died miserably.

I was skipping through the heather outside of Whiterun chasing butterflies and I ran smack into a sabre cat. That ended my skipping days.

Jumped off somewhere really high in markath, then proceeded to run into a sign with 2 hp. The sign swung over my head and hit me in the back, killing me.

Firing an arrow to set off a rune trap and having it hit my follower's Frost Atronach. Was not fun considering it cornered me and I'm an archer.

I did the same thing after getting the first word. Leaving the dungeon through the back way had a nice ledge to test it out on. I now call this place New Khartag Point.

I left a cave only to stand on a small ledge halfway up a mountain. The 'talking dog' companion I had at the time promptly pushed me off the ledge.


Splat.

I died during the escape sequence from Helgen . . . I was unaware that there were bits of the environment that could be used in combat, and I decided that it would be a fantastic idea to use my newly discovered flames spell in the middle of a pool. It turns out that that pool was made of oil, and it just so happens that oil is flammable. Not my greatest moment.

LOL