Most horrible way to die. . .
 

K, dont know if this has been done yet or not but if so im sorry. . .

What, in your own opinion, is the worst way to die?

Ex. Burning to death
Fatal desease or illness

Basically any way that is prolonged and very painful. . .

Many many ways. Trapped under rubble of a building like on Sept. 11th hoping someone will find you or being trapped under an avalanche. Drowning, much worse drowning underneath a frozen lake because you stepped on thin ice and you can see the people above you desperately trying to free you. Dying in quick-sand. But to me...best I can think of as the worst kinds of deaths are when you're pinned in a certain position that allows you to be alive...but once you're taken out of it you die. This happens a lot in automobile accidents and train accidents where people are run over. A good example is the begining of the movie Signs where the wife is pinned against the tree. Because see you're completely conscious and you almost feel perfectly fine and you can completely and compitently converse with those around you..which are normally your loved ones who are bidding you farewell it's not like when you're on your death bed and you can barely make anything out it's completely clear. I imagine....in my own personal opinion...that that is quite possibly hands down the worst way to die. Some may agree with me.

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I imagine you'd wanna stay like that and live as long as you possibly can all the while knowing that eventually they have to free you from your pinned position and let you go....Indeed a very...very...horrible way to die. Quite possibly even more horrible than that would be to die alone.

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Was done here.

But like I said in the last one, I wouldn't want to be buried alive. I'm sure that would suck.

Kinda the same topic but not really. That one is more so oriented towards picking how you die if you could and this one is just flat out what is the worst way.

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In Shogun by James Clavell a guy gets boiled alive. It took most of the night for him to die. I think it would be hard to go far past that one. Just the though of waiting in that cauldron as the water went from cold to luke warm to warm to hot to too hot would make me mental.

Buried Alive is the worst in my opinion.

Maybe not the worst way but bugged me when I saw it in a movie:

Person swimming in a pool was dragged underwater and had an ankle handcuffed to the grate at the bottom. Everyone was still on the surface swimming and having fun with no clue. Even if someone did see you down there, what could they do? Bolt cutters or a handcuff key aren't exactly readily available. A scuba tank or someone giving you mouth to mouth constantly would be needed.

I think burning to death is the worst possible way to die, although, being boiled to death would be a close number two.

Burning to death for me

I don't think being buried alive would be that bad. As time went on and you didn't eat I think it would be easier and easier to just sleep.

I was going to say something else when I clicked this thread, but now I'm going to have to go with being boiled alive over the course of several hours.

I always thought drowning would be the worst, but now I may have to agree with the boiling. I wonder what the actual CAUSE of death would be from being boiled. Just being too hot, like when you have a high fever?

Being skinned alive I would say..

Acetylene torch, dude. I'd take the burning over the drowning.

In fact, I'm assuming most of you who talk about being burned alive or boiled alive haven't been seriously burned before. I have a pretty high pain threshold, but I can still say that being burned isn't that bad. Your nerves die, eventually.

My vote on the most horrible way to die is tied right now between dehydration from amoebic dysentary and freezing to death (from cold water or cold air, either.) I really hate being cold, and I don't get numb for a long, long, long time. It ranks with uncontrollably shitting myself to death, as far as I'm concerned.

i would think the people in hirsohima that survived the blast only for a very short time, thier clothes become one with their skin...i dont know, its just seems one of the worst terrorist attacks ever to me...

How about death by papercut?

~Tortured by his psychopathic secretary bent on exacting revenge for all her sister secretaries that have been wronged over the years, Jack was slowly bled to death by thousands of small papercuts over a period of days.~

I'm with Thraeryn. Dying of exposure sounds pretty bad. Can't stand being cold. Sure, eventually, it's like going to sleep, it's just the waiting I couldn't stand. Plus, if you die someplace like Everest, there's a good chance your body will end up sitting there forever. No one can waste the enrgy or oxygen bringing you down.

Read "Into Thin Air" by John Krakauer for a pretty amazing account of this.

I think everybody's version is going to be completely different. Dying in a car accident is what I see in my nightmares, but it wouldn't be a horrible way to go. Anything that is a long, lingering, painful death is probably the worst.

I believe at a certain point the dying from exposure to cold isn't as you would expect. The initial chills/shivering/etc. would be bad, but you do eventually fall asleep and die that way. And the Everest situations usually also tie into lack of oxygen at higher altitudes, and you usually hallucinate, so you may not realize you are dying.

My fear is dying by having my body detiorate over time, but having my mind in tact. To know that you are dying, and it may take a couple of years, and not be able to stop it, and eventually be unable to move, is the worst in my opinion.

Anything that involves suffocating under a large weight.

But the most painful way? Heh.

Being tied up and placed face-down (head facing upwards) on a 'cheese-grater' slide, which leads to a pool of vinegar with fire on top.

-Just imagine it...

*SHUDDER*

Dehydration would be pretty bad I think..but worse would be from the move What to do in Denver..... They shoot the guy up the ass and he just lays there for a couple hours in pain knowing he can't be saved. Although the boiling does sound pretty horrid I would think you would pass out after a little bit from the heat.

Drowning or being buried alive would be the worst for me

Anyway where you knew you were going to die and couldn't do anything about it. I have a particular fear of not being able to breath.

Drowning, being slowly crushed to death do it for me.

Crucifixion sounds like ass. Try to hold yourself up for days until your muscles burn out and you can't breath? No thanks.

I would hate freezing to death. Being warm because you are so cold is really annoying.

ya know im thinking more along the lines of ebola where your insides slowly turn into liquid then all the sudden you just start bleeding from everyopening on your body.
i think to me disease is the worst since i have had my share of incounters, bone cancer, various types of viruses that could potentially kill me like pnemonia i cant take medicine for cuz im allergic them. just things like that.

But the worst way by far to die is to die alone

Being in a line, tied up, and someone is blowing the minds out of the people in front of you in the line. You'd be so terrified, its crazy. Or some guy in a airproof suit is spraying white gas onto the people in front of you, and then the people all shit their pants and shake and stuff (think nerve gas)
Or, waking in the middle of the night and realize someone is to kill you but they are cutting in the wrong spot.

Being in a room that closes in on itself very slowly, like at a rate of one inch per month (or whatever, you get the idea). You somehow are given food/air to survive. The room gets smaller and smaller until one day it's one inch too small....

i am thinking anything that inlvolves various types of torture...bamboo shoots under your nails, etc...or being the last one to die, as someone rapes and murders your family right in front of you...but i think being skinned alive would be the worst...really slow with a fillet knife...ugh

Something that involves 3 types of pain: emotional, physical, and mental.

Having everyone you love curse at you and they are the ones who arranged your death and never ever liked you (emotional); being stuck in a room forced to stand with no lights and only bread and water so you don't know what time of day it is (mental); and other type of physical pain (physical).

Starving to death would be aweful... it takes like 3 weeks to starve, at least drowning would only be a couple minutes.. :-/

worst way to die would be in anyway that happens right before a threesome with 2 beautiful women...

alone.

(i said this in the previous incarnation of this thread - and i haven´t changed my mind).

they say drowning is euphoric... so maybe that one would be a decent way to go... and if you´re way out at sea, then maybe your remains would be put to good use as feed for the hungry fishies.

I,ve always had a bad feeling about being buried alive. Slow death has to be the worst.

I heard of people drowning in molasses and shit(sewage treatment plant) that would be horrible and way worse than plain ole water. burning to death and exposure to high amounts of radiation would be bad too.

I see a lot of people saying being boiled alive. It was a movie I think thats bullshit that it would take that long for you to die. Any other creature in the animal kindom die instantaniously when dipped in boiling water. I imagine your body would go into shock and you'd die quite quickly. Prolly still burn like hell for a good ten minutes or something but none the less definitely couldn't be for most of the night. It'd have to be on a pretty low fuckin temperture.

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Possibly, the most horrid way to die is the way that the nazis would occasionally murder pregnant jewish women -by tying their legs together when they went into labor.

I've given this much thought in the past and I believe that that is the absolute worst way to die. Death by a thousand slices comes in at second place; but it's nowhere near as horrid. imho

there was a story a while back where a lady killed her husband by locking him in a container of acid and it took hours for the guy to die. that's up there definetly.

slowly going through a meat grinder feet first

Being buried alive would just blow.

For me I would have to say drowning or being slowly tortured with several different methods.

One of my friends in high school was changing the starter on his car with the car sitting on concrete blocks. The blocks crumbled and the car fell on his chest. It took fifteen minutes for him to die because a neighbor thought he had finished working on it until he saw his legs sticking out from under car and paramedics got there as he died. Not a good way to go.

Pendulum.......

don't die

the most horrible way to die... is having your worst fear realized, constantly. As in the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman - the constant curse of waking from a dream-nightmare, only to realize that you're in a nightmare again, and the cycle repeats, ad infinitum. Your mind dies, eventually, and therefore you die.

Burning takes the cake. I was listening to an NPR story on a kid that set himself on fire in his bathroom and it brough tears to my eyes. He said it hurt horribly initially, but when he decided to live and put himself out shock set in.

Or dying from a 12hour nose bleed.

being buried alive in a box or something and suffocating to death :O, firstly the claustrophobia would take over, the fear would be so great.. oh makes me shiver just thinking about it

Jumping off the empire state building and landing on a bicycle with no seat.

Heh, but seriously, the one that always sticks out in my mind is how that one guy got slowly impaled in Saving Private Ryan. You know, the part when he was fighting with the German guy, and they're both struggling with the knife but it sloooooooowly gets pushed into his heart?

Shudder.

heh, agreed. Maybe its an australian point of view? =)

Not to TJ or anything, but . . .

Buried alive seems to be a recurring choice.

I read once that, upon examination of many old caskets in a European graveyard (they had to be relocated) that over 1/4 of them had scratchmarks <i>on the inside</i> of the lid - a sure sign that the person buried had recovered consciousness and tried unsuccesfully to escape. I guess in those days they were more likely to bury you if you had your eyes closed too long. In fact, some caskets had strings attached to bells on the surface . . . just in case.

Anyway - if you believe in reincarnation, this would explain a lot of claustrophobia cases, eh?

Buried alive or drowning. Drowning would be pretty quick, but buried alive would just suck because you either have to wait to run out of air or starve to death.

Prince_Albert, please do not confuse being at war with Japan a terrorist act. Ten million Chinese(yes more than the Nazis and the Jews) were killed by the Japanese. Do you know what the Japanese called China? The southern resource area. They did not even consider the people who lived there. When Japan attacked us without provocation on December 7, 1941, would you consider that a terrorist act? We dropped the bomb on Japan because we were at war with them. We saved more lives by showing them that we could destroy them, and we convinced them that maybe their emperor was not God.

How about licked to death by a bunch of cats?
Their sandpaper-like tongue slowly scraping away your skin til you start bleeding. 'Course, they would start biting long before that. ;)

HELLZ YEA!!! I was gonna say that before I even read battlemouth's post. Meat grinder, or woodchipper, or snowblower or something like that. I imagine there's worse ways to go, but thats the first thing i thought of! :D Long drawn out painful terminal disease would be horrible, but I'd off myself before that. Unless I was in a coma or something, now that would be absolutely terrible.

Oh yeah being eaten alive by a load of piranhas or sharks or something would be pretty bad too.

After seeing Final Destination 2..I have decided that burning in a fire would have to be the worse way to die.

At the beggining of the movie when it shows the guy burning in the car and screaming trying to get out of his seat belt...That has to suck.

I would not wanna die like that.

some of the more gruesome methods in Foxe's Book of Martyrs come to mind - the romans (and Nero especially) were especially creative when it came to killing Christians

my first choice for worst death would be crucifixion. You die of suffocation slowly but you have spikes driven through your wrists and/or feet (depends on method used to attach the person being put to death). Especially hard when you have a spike driven through your shattered wrist and are fully awake throughout the entire experience.
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sarving to death would be bad and also burning to death would be pain full

Being burnt or flayed.

Ha ha, I literally laughed my ass off for a good 30 seconds after I read that.

Everything that has been said here is basically on the top-ten list for me!

-Lasereth

OK, I'm gonna list two old torture methods used by different cultures WAY back in the day.

The first I'm gonna call The Saw.
You would be suspended in the air upside down by your captors totally naked. Two torturers would get on either side of you, and starting at your crotch, would draw a two man saw slowly through your entire body.
The worst part?
Being upside down ensures a fully oxygenated brain, meaning that you would stay completely conscious the entire time.

The second one is for all of you who fear dying slowly.
The victims head would be secured between two planks of wood with the victim in a standing upright position, and then he would be standing on a pile of flat rocks. One time every day the torturers would remove one of the rocks, slowly choking the victim to death over many days.
The victim was fed to ensure he stayed alive long enough to suffer.

I went to high school with a kid who died in what had to be one of the worst ways possible. He parked his car on a muddy incline, it started either rolling or sliding away, and he tried to grab it. He slipped on the mud, fell under the car, and got pinned down. He probably would have survived had it not been running, but the catalytic converter burned through his stomach and intestines and he went into septic shock. It was a half hour before anyone found him. He was still alive but it was too late. The fire department had to scrape him off the exhaust.

I knew a nurse who was on duty when he came in. She knew his mom; calling her and explaining what happened was a pretty traumatic experience.

Being licked to death by Bea Aurthor.

the worst way to go is drowning. think how it feels when water fills your lungs.

Neato, that was my topic.

I would agree with those thinking a long painful death would be the worse. Knowing that there is nothing anyone can do to help you would be hard.

Having a head full of acid, being guillotined with my head plopping directly into the bowl of a catapult that then launches me (all 8 pounds, as it were) into a cage of hungry pigs.

That would just about be the worst experience I could have of dying (and yes, I do recall some anecdotes here and there indicating a certain amount of time that your head lives on after being decapitated).

How about being staked out on an ant-hill with honey poured over you.

Or being staked to the ground with your eye-lids cut off so you have to stare into the sun.

Or, having ropes tied to all four of your limbs and four different horses, then whipping the horses into....well, you get the picture.

The Apache were very creative torturers, eh?

i think a really bad way to die would be like in space with a space suit on where you just float out into the universe until you die. 1) You die all alone 2) You starve/dehydrate to death 3)space is scary 4) anal probes

I was about to make a mention to this torture (that you taught me about previously, heh), but you beat me to it. I can't imagine anything worse than that. I almost freak ou just thinkin' about that...and then imagining the blood running down your body and face...yikes dude, I need to get out of this thread.

Mongolian Box.

Rapid decompression. You get the suffocating and the exploding at the same time

Ok so I am a wuss....... but any Death that happens to me when I am not sleeping is gonna be the worst. Hopefully, that will be the only time I die.




But if i have to pick a horrible way to die..... I guess a psycho with a belt sander could do alot of damage before you finallly died.

Any situation where I would have to watch someone I love or care about suffer and die before me.

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being crushed VEERRy slowly by 2 steel walls with you in the middle. I WIN :D

in your sleep, do not go gently...

Basically any death where there's nothing you can do about it, but you can try anyways-- ie drowning from extremely deep water, swimming as hard as you can toward the surface and not making it. I've had a few times where that's almost happened, I go to deep and it feels like I'm not gonna make it back to the top... scares the hell out of me every time...

Never really thought up a good way to die....

But I'ld have to say contracting ebola would be at the top of my worst way to die list. Just sorta having all my internal organs melting away and then explosively becoming external organs through every available oriface.

either that or being a captured soldier during the vietnam war. Bamboo manicures up to my knuckles, redhot poker up the ass, or a glass rod shoved into my dick then smashed with a brick. The Viet Cong were veeeeery creative.

Well there is plenty of shitty ways to die but talking from first hand experience almost drowning is scary as fudge. Its bad when you just want to breathe and you are struggling for air but all that happens is a mouth full of water as you choke your way upwards but still no air.

Secondly though, if any of you have read FAST FOOD NATION, some meat packing places are very dangerous and dying from a meat grinder or bone crusher or basically anything is horrible!

Ya know I dunno why people think if you die in your sleep you don't feel it. Maybe if you were in a coma where you don't feel anything but just asleep? If you're sleeping and I go up and shove a sewing needle into your hand you think you're not gonna feel it just cause you're asleep? It's stupid to think that unconscious does not mean brain dead and without feeling. Trust me....You'll feel it unless it's someone going up and shooting you in the back of the head in which case even if you were awake you wouldn't feel it. Don't confuse slightly unaware with no feeling at all.

Asta!!

Ive heard that if you don't panic/struggle, drowning can be one of the more painless/easiest ways to die. (salt water is more painfull)

The worst would be an Alien eat its way out of your chest. It would be worst if you actually knew that the thing was in you (i.e. alien3)

I'd hate to be that guy who hit the propeller in "Titanic".

BuddyHawks...lol maybe your right but who doesn't panic or struggle if you're drowning. Considering that we are hard wired to try to survive I think it would be very hard for me to just sit there and let me die.

I'm going to change mine to being in a cage suspended in the air with bamboo under you. That shit grows an inch a day. Just coming up and you can't go up and farther and it slowly just pierces you...ick.

Wasn't that in a Bond movie or something?

I haven't read every post. So if this is already posted then sorry.

I wouldn't say this is the worst way to die...But it would be very bad.

Somebody puts one bullet in a revolver and plays russian roulette.

You are blindfolded so you cannot see and this man puts the gun to your head and pulls the trigger until he has opened the side of your head.

You would be instantly dead, But it would be the clicking of the empty chamber that would be so horrifying.

Not sure if you mean alone as in no one else is aroud, or alone as in, no family, no friends. My mom died alone in July, alone only because she lived alone. She had many heath problems, but even knowing that, she died unexpectedly. That being said, I've thought about it and if she knew it was coming, it would have sucked to be all by herself with no one around to hold her hand or tell her it's ok or whatever.

I think that alone would have to be the worst.

Crucifiction would be the worst. Being nailed by the hands and feet, eventually ure chest caves in (as there is nothing to support ure trunk) and crushes your lungs, you die of asfixiation, lets not forget the loss of bowel control. This happens over a few days.

I meant both really. Just alone in general no matter what the context it would be sad.

Asta!!

Having only until the end of the year to live, and your only wish being to play half-life 2 once before you go, but then you find out it'll be delayed until April!!!

That, or being crucified under ground in a vat of boiling liquid while aliens chew at your toes and molasses is slowly drained into your mouth. Salt also drains into your eyes and little speakers are plugged into your ears playing really screechy piercing noises. Also, a Russian pimp is breaking your knuckles one by one and telling jokes about your mom to the Spanish Inquisitors who are slowly sliding a scalding hot iron spike into your genital region. Don't forget that there is a gash on the top of your head where a bunch of maggots were deposited, and you can feel them squirming around and actually touching your brains, and after a little while you realize they start coming out of your nose. Any other part of your body that is thus far unaffected has the skin slowly peeled and/or grated off by an old baker and subsequently turned into that weird wax stuff in lava lamps. The lamps are then sold to your mortal enemies as trophy pieces.

That might suck.

Burning, like trapped in a car or something. Definitely.

Theres some really bad ones there! What about being eaten alive by Pirahna fish or rodents? it would be quite quick but it would hurt like hell!

Nine day Kenny G. concert.

death by anal electricution?

that would be kinda scary

Wow, you get the "Best Place" ribbon.:D

I was thinking the "I'm never going to piss THAT guy off" ribbon, but hey.

Yes, because that was a terrorist attack.:rolleyes:

I'd have to say getting skinned or eaten alive.

I say that watching My parents have sex would be about the worst thing in the world. being forced to watch it until I begged for death would be the ultimate torture. Although it wouldn't take long for me to start begging for death.

Oh MY GOD... KILL me NOW! Please kill me now!

way to many to choose from...just about all of them that are slow kinda suck

I think the most horrible way to die might be having your testicles crushed. That is just nasty.

I'd have to go with the crushed nuts.