I'll have to check if it speaks the other, more mundane, death messages; I didn't notice it announcing them earlier, but there's a ten second pause before Text-to-Speech launches, and I usually immediately hit return to restore.
Later: yes, it does: "Blast; you have been cooked by a nightmare..."
: i remember having the "read dialog boxes" option turned on when i
: used macos 9. it seems some appliactions have hidden information in their
: dialogboxes like error codes and such that get read out if speech is
: turned on. but this is something new. pretty cool easter-egg if you ask
: me.