There are things we know are dangerous like drunk driving and loading squirt guns with gasoline by a fire. Then there are other things which are dangerous that we never consider, like acting in nativity plays. Last night, an Ohio woman named Keri Shryock was killed after falling twenty-five feet during a Christmas play.

MSNBC reports:

A female cast member of a Christmas nativity show at a church who was injured when she fell during the performance Wednesday night has died...

Keri Shryock, 23, a cast member from "Awaited: A Christmas Show," fell about 20 feet from a suspension harness during the opening night of the show. Medical personnel attended to her and transferred her to University Hospital, where she died Thursday morning.

Shryock, of Sylvania, Ohio, was a graduate student at Xavier University and a 2008 graduate of Bowling Green State University. Shryock worked with the XU Office of Commuter Services and Off Campus Living.

Shryock was playing the role of one of three wise men who were suspended by cables in the air over the audience when one of the cables malfunctioned, according to Jennifer Lilley, a witness who was at the show.

While this seems the sort of event only to occur in a religious satire, it is really no laughing matter. Our thoughts go out to Shryock’s friends and family.