Thanks for further obliteration the definition of "irony".
A man was protesting the state law of mandatory helmet use during riding. He died while not wearing a helmet. How exactly is that "irony"?
He wasn't insisting that it's safe; he was insisting that it's his right to make his own choice.
Would it be "ironic" if somebody who believe in legalizing heroin died of an OD? Would it be "ironic" if an enlisted man died in battle?
Please people, stop using big words until you know what they mean.
I think it's close enough:
iro•ny \"i-re-ne also "i(-e)r-ne\ noun pl iro•nies [L ironia, fr. Gk eironia, fr. eiron dissembler] (1502)
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning — called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and esp. the opposite of the literal meaning
b : a usu. humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony
c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
(2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity
b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play — called also dramatic irony, tragic irony syn see wit
