When we take pictures, we want to capture a moment…something that we can cherish later. With the advent of smart phones equipped with cameras, taking ‘selfies’ has become a craze of sorts. People go to extreme lengths to take pictures of themselves in the most bizarre situations. Sadly, for some unlucky ones, some of those moments turned out to be their last. This need for increasingly putting oneself at risk to take more spectacular and risky self portraits to outdo others on social networking platforms, needs to stop immediately.

9. These two Iranian women wanted to take a selfie while singing karaoke in the car .They got so engrossed that they stopped watching the road and crashed into another car.

10. A Polish couple on vacation in Portugal tried to take a selfie on the edge of a cliff on August 10, 2014 . . . they both fell to their death. Their death was witnessed by their two kids, 5 and 6 years old respectively, who had accompanied their parents to the Cliff.