The worst way to die?

[TeaCeremony]

Slowly. Dying slowly via any means would be horrible imo, since dying fast is... well fast to get over. But dying slowly with the knowledge of the fact you are dying is horrible.

 

[Vegosiux]

Slowly. Dying slowly via any means would be horrible imo, since dying fast is... well fast to get over. But dying slowly with the knowledge of the fact you are dying is horrible.

[edgy mode]

And this is why life sucks so hard...it kills everyone, and it kills us slowly...

[/edgy mode]

OK more seriously now, I'd be absolutely willing to sell my soul to the devil (if I hadn't done that already) so that I'd be guaranteed not to die is by suffocating because my throat seized for some reason. That's just cruel.

 

[J Tyran]

Alzheimer's or other degenerative neural diseases frighten me, might not be the worst though. Getting tortured to death or burnt alive are probably among the worst, people say being buried alive is but I doubt it. The first few minutes might be utterly terrifying but you don't have much air in a coffin, once oxygen starvation kicks in the victim wouldn't care what was going on.

 

[Luquent]

Live disembowelment.

 

[Skeleon]

I dunno, burning? But surviving for a while? And getting to a hospital where they try to save your life? But then you get infections all over your destroyed skin? But not destroyed enough for the nerves to be dead and numbed? And then, eventually, after weeks of suffering, you die? I dunno. Just one awful way. There are plenty awful ones.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

I dunno, burning? But surviving for a while? And getting to a hospital where they try to save your life? But then you get infections all over your destroyed skin? But not destroyed enough for the nerves to be dead and numbed? And then, eventually, after weeks of suffering, you die? I dunno. Just one awful way. There are plenty awful ones.

I was informed that your pain receptors would burn away rather fast so the pain would stop quickly and you would suffocate quite fast after that.

Edit: I guess if you survive it's a different story.

 

[Alcamonic]

Being fried alive on a large metal floor. It would be like burning some bacon, just you on the other side.
Standing on your feet until you can't feel the pain anymore because the pain receptors near your feet have burnt away, and then you fall down on your knees or back.

 

[PhoenixUp]

How the ebola virus ruins your day:

"He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning around and around. He is going into shock. He leans over, head on his knees, and brings up an incredible quantity of blood from his stomach and spills it onto the floor with gasping groan. He loses consciousness and pitches forward onto the floor. The only sound is a chocking in his throat as he continues to vomit while unconscious. Then comes a sound like a bedsheet being torn in half, which is the sound of his bowels opening and venting blood from the anus. The blood is mixed with intestinal lining. He has sloughed his gut. The lining of his intestines have come off and are being expelled along with huge amounts of blood. Monet has crashed and is bleeding out."

(excerpt from Richard Preston's The Hot Zone)

 

[saintdane05]

Angering a time lord. Since then, you won't die.
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"We wanted to live forever, and so the Doctor made sure we did."

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Being goatsied to death by a dirty diseased tramp with sharp nails.

 

[xplosive59]

- Pitchblack room
- Conveyor belt floor made of sandpaper, moving slowly
- Alone and no way out
- Slowly sanded to death over days due to fatigue

That or the Brazen Bull.

 

[Cooperblack]

Bound to chair with a stereo blasting Justin Bieber song until you die..

 

[Fdzzaigl]

Without sedation and possibly with a drug injected to keep you perfectly still but conscious, your eyes are gauged out, then your eardrums and middle & inner ear are drilled out to take away your sense of hearing and balance, followed by your nose being cut off and straws being inserted under your fingernails.

After that you are left disoriented for a while before being slowly roasted or dissolved in an acidic substance.

That's pretty much the worst I can imagine and I'm already pretty disgusted at imagining something like that.

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

A car crash. That's one of my few phobias, and it's the #1 reason I won't drive anywhere during the winter when the roads are icy. I'd hate to die mangled and bled out like that.

 

[The Funslinger]

Probably having a starved rat inserted into one of your orifices through a pipe & eating you from the inside out...that was possibly one of the most messed up things I've ever read.

American Psycho was a strange book...

OT: Being flayed from top to bottom, or bottom to top.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Really, I didn't think I'd be the one to post this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zcaL35f8ps

Imagine begging for someone to kill you because it would be kinder than what they are about to do to you? I liked Johnny up to that point. I mean, I still do. But that takes a sick fucker to do. One bullet, it's done and over. But you're subjecting someone to a death that couldn't even come quick enough, and no possible way to cause it to end the suffering quicker.

Worse yet, he didn't wake up in that situation. He has days to realize that everything he's done led up to that point. If he was stronger, if he was smarter, if he just decided to program computers for a living, he wouldn't be slowly starving to death... laying in his own waste and probably even contemplating ingesting it just to keep the pain away. His bones and joints locking, his muscle crying out in pain as they waste away on one side and the sheer weight of his body inevitably crushes the left side of his body.

All he can do is sit there, and pray it comes quicker.

 

[piinyouri]

I've went over this in my head a probably disturbing number of times over my life.
And in the end I cannot think of another worse (realistic) way to die than by burning.

Everyone has burnt their finger by touching a hot pan, or stove or what have you.
Remember how that feels? When for a split second the only thing you can think of is how fast you can move your hand away from the source of the pain?

Can anyone really truly imagine what that would feel like if applied to your whole body? And no way to get away from it?

That's fucking nightmarish.

 

[cbraley]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoWantsToLiveForever
Being immortal.

 

[Greg White]

Let's see...gunshot to the intestines is a pretty bad way to go since the wound is almost guaranteed to go septic and it will take a while to kill you, but there are worse.

The Israelis had one method of execution where they would tie you down in a boat and force-feed you honey until you got diarrhea and keep that up for a day or two until it killed you.

Crucifixion comes to mind as well since it could take days to kill.

The worst I've heard of though was one drug enforcement officer who was tied to a tree in a swamp by means of barbed wire up his rectum.

 

[BlackStar42]

Scaphism. From an ancient greek description:

"[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lay down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within.
They offer him food, and if he refuse to eat it, they force him to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and honey, pouring it not only into his mouth, but all over his face.
They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed.
When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired."

That's probably the most horrible I can think of, though it was thankfully rare.

This is the first thing that came to mind. The brazen bull was pretty horrible, as well.

It was a hollow bronze statue of a bull with a door on one side. The victim was locked inside and a fire was lit under it, roasting them alive. The head had a system of tubes that would make their screams sound like the bellows of an angry bull.


This was another Greek invention, btw.

Seriously, fuck the ancient Greeks.

I was going to say being hung, drawn and quartered. Or alternatively being flayed alive. *shudder* If I had to be executed medieval-style, I'd opt for a beheading- relatively quick, as long as the executioner knew what he was doing.