What is the worst way to die?

[flyingpig]

I went to this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths and had a morbid laugh. Then I decided to come up with some of the worst ways to die.

- Get run over by an ambulance
- Have a dream where you are dead and you couldn't wake up, but then you realize you are dead...

[Loren Booda]

Think about the best way to live.

To answer your question, review all of the horror movies for the past century. The site makes for good comedy.

[Containment]

I'v always thought being stomped to death by a large crowd has to be one of the worst. It's the main reason I avoid crowds like the plague.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampede

Yeah worst way imo.

[Insanity]

i've thought being eaten by a large predator would not the greatest way.

[cary5]

Electrocuted

[Containment]

Electrocuted

That is actually one of the best ways to go if it's done right... However if gone horribly wrong ya I can't disagree.

[RichardParker]

Eaten by wolves!!

[Chi Meson]

I've known the answer to this question the first time I heard of this condition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia

[disregardthat]

It's easy to construct specific horrific ways to die. Also several varieties of sicknesses would probably go high on many lists if they were presented. But of common non-sickness-related l deaths I'd vote for being eaten by an animal. Immoderate fear of being eaten probably has good evolutionary reasons.

[Pythagorean]

Burning to death at a stake while people with pitchforks spite you.

Going down in a crab pot

buckwheat

[Jimmy Snyder]

i've thought being eaten by a large predator would not the greatest way.
I think being eaten by a Siberian Tiger would be a great way to go. I expect to die at the age of 96 after being shot by a jealous husband.

[Lacy33]

Afraid.

[nismaratwork]

Afraid.

:surprised:

Wow... I just got goosebumps... verbatim I was going to quote, "A stranger and afraid in a world I never made."

Afraid is definitely it, and the worst way to live.



On a technical note, it's generally considered to be the most painful experience to be systematically tortured to death. One example:

Your friends and family are imprisoned, and you're all subjected to outrages and basic physical torture. You're all assured that death is your only escape, and then separated. You're placed with an IV of an amphetamine in one arm, and a barbiturate in the other, and made to witness your friends and family tortured and killed.

You're then left alone in cell that is either uniformly lit, or utterly dark, and filled with white noise. Ideally, you cannot sit or lay down.

Finally, you're flayed alive, and then boiled from the feet up.


My point... any death can be made horrific, but the worst elements will always be the pain, emotional, and physical. One enhances the other, as anyone who has ever been depressed can tell you. Is that a satisfactory answer?

[flyingpig]

Burning to death at a stake while people with pitchforks spite you.

Going down in a crab pot

buckwheat

You are not a Salem Witch Hunter are you?

[PhDorBust]

You know that dream state where you are struggling frantically on this amazing idea and then wake up and realize it was utter nonsense.

I think transcending this fiction into reality would be a pretty horrid death. Force a mathematician to memorize inconsistent and incorrect mathematics for many years until that is all that he knows. Step 2: Inevitable suicide.

[Lacy33]

You know that dream state where you are struggling frantically on this amazing idea and then wake up and realize it was utter nonsense.


Yup!
And not realizing that it is utter nonsense. Thinking you are "gifted" "special" and posting it on PF where it is promply locked and you get an infratcion with points that NEVER expire, even after you do. That is death while still alive. Death by humiliation is like a failed suicide in a black hole...............

[caffenta]

Eaten by wolves!!

I don't know. At least you die knowing someone had a good meal. :devil:

For me it would be: wanting to die (because of physical pain or whatever) but not being able to. Like the sloth guy in the movie Seven :surprised

[Loren Booda]

Either being cruxified or going to hell.

[elfboy]

not solving the problem

[RichardParker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFBqFqPJZo That's what I'm talking about.

[turbo]

Being consumed by cancer, while being fawned on by relatives that wouldn't have bothered to cross the street to say "hi" when you were healthy.



Sorry for the morbidity, but I identify strongly with Ambrose Bierce. He is my favorite author.

[turbo]

PAST, n.
That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge and the dream.Bierce at his best, IMO.

[MrRiggs]

I vote a slow death by papercuts.

[arildno]

To die, with the acute realization that you never had a life worth speaking of.

[caffenta]

There is a fate far worse than the worst possible death: being stuck in the PF politics forum for all eternity with no way out.

[nismaratwork]

There is a fate far worse than the worst possible death: being stuck in the PF politics forum for all eternity with no way out.

You need help out? :wink:

[nismaratwork]

To die, with the acute realization that you never had a life worth speaking of.

To die, knowing that you harmed others through negligence or action has to be worse.

[Borg]

Right after discovering that you've won the lottery.

[nismaratwork]

Right after discovering that you've won the lottery.

I really like your sense of humor (not just in this thread).

That WOULD stink!

[wolram]

Vlad had the right idea, people just so do not like it up them.

[nismaratwork]

Death by successive and violent strikes to the testicles.

It hurt me just to type that.

[FizixFreak]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Am i the only one who found this page disturbing rather than amusing? some of the information on this page is very disturbing and i am happy that i have not been in such accidents/situations like these people have and if anyone gets in such situation(and i pray to GOD that it doesn't happen) i don't think any body will find it amusing.

People on this thread talk about death as if it is a joke and they make me sick and to me the most horrible death is experiences by a person who never realizes the severity of losing his life.

[nismaratwork]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Am i the only one who found this page disturbing rather than amusing? some of the information on this page is very disturbing and i am happy that i have not been in such accidents/situations like these people have and if anyone gets in such situation(and i pray to GOD that it doesn't happen) i don't think any body will find it amusing.

People on this thread talk about death as if it is a joke and they make me sick and to me the most horrible death is experiences by a person who never realizes the severity of losing his life.

You can laugh at death, scream, cry, or run. It still catches you; if you see death as the ultimate severity, what is your life if not a meaningless death sentence?

edit: You don't deal with death much do you? You should hear doctors and EMT's... never laugh harder at rougher stuff... it's called staying sane. In addition, many of these post were NOT jokes AFAICT, including my original two.

[mugaliens]

This is an unwelcomely morbid subject.

Gah.

I had a friend who's father died of lung cancer. He recounted his father's pain often enough that I gathered thats definately not the way I'd ever want to go.

I later learned Smoker Lung Cancer rate is 1 in 3. Non-smoker Lung Cancer Rate is 1 in 500.

do the math

[nismaratwork]

This is an unwelcomely morbid subject.

Gah.

I had a friend who's father died of lung cancer. He recounted his father's pain often enough that I gathered thats definately not the way I'd ever want to go.

I later learned Smoker Lung Cancer rate is 1 in 3. Non-smoker Lung Cancer Rate is 1 in 500.

do the math

Hmmm... a friend's mother died of emphesyma... not a good way to go either. Personally I'd prefer almost anything to Alzheimer's, which my grandmother died of years ago, but I don't know that it's anything like flaying and burning... or psychological misery as described by many.

I have to say, I'd guess that dying with genuine guilt that is well deserved would still be the worst, in any context. Very morbid however... in fact, a friend died of breast cancer (recurrence after 20 years) less than a year ago... still... death is a part of being alive. It bites, to put it mildly, but it's our constant companion that we have to learn to live with, or lose the enjoyment of living. See our poor Freaky friend...

[flyingpig]

Guys check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

This pretty much wins all

[lisab]

This is an unwelcomely morbid subject.

Gah.

I had a friend who's father died of lung cancer. He recounted his father's pain often enough that I gathered thats definately not the way I'd ever want to go.

I later learned Smoker Lung Cancer rate is 1 in 3. Non-smoker Lung Cancer Rate is 1 in 500.

do the math

Excellent statistic, mugs! I work with a guy who's been smoking for over 10 of his 28 years. He's always rationalizing his smoking by saying he knows a 95-year-old smoker in perfect health...sigh :rolleyes:.

[nismaratwork]

Guys check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

This pretty much wins all

Meh... my post 13 beats that. :wink:

[nismaratwork]

Excellent statistic, mugs! I work with a guy who's been smoking for over 10 of his 28 years. He's always rationalizing his smoking by saying he knows a 95-year-old smoker in perfect health...sigh :rolleyes:.

Share that recent article in SciAm about Polonium 210 in tobacco of all kinds. You never know what might scare someone!

[caffenta]

People on this thread talk about death as if it is a joke and they make me sick and to me the most horrible death is experiences by a person who never realizes the severity of losing his life.

Like nismaratwork said, death happens to everyone. That's the single certain fact in life. The worst possible death is experiences by a person who has never recognized that fact until it happens.

I think most people in this thread are not laughing at other people's death. I know I'm not. I didn't even check the link in the first post. But I will poke fun at my very own mortality, at every chance I get.

[nismaratwork]

Like nismaratwork said, death happens to everyone. That's the single certain fact in life. The worst possible death is experiences by a person who has never recognized that fact until it happens.

I think most people in this thread are not laughing at other people's death. I know I'm not. I didn't even check the link in the first post. But I will poke fun at my very own mortality, at every chance I get.

Agreed, and that is exactly what I mean; thank you for offering your take on this.

[flyingpig]

Meh... my post 13 beats that. :wink:

Hold on, being raped for 30 days, getting dumbells thrown at your stomach, forced to drink your own urine and feces, eating cockroaches and being set on fire is not enough?

[Loren Booda]

For a panoply of exquisite tortures, review the deaths of saints from various religions.

[nismaratwork]

Hold on, being raped for 30 days, getting dumbells thrown at your stomach, forced to drink your own urine and feces, eating cockroaches and being set on fire is not enough?

That's bad, but crude... but don't get me wrong, that's horrific too. Still... I'd have to say the "death of your family" and their torture and rape in front of you, then your own isolation until a psychotic break, and finally flaying and boiled?... I really reached for all of that too!

It's frightening when reality trumps your darkest imagination. :bugeye:

@Loren Booda: Good point... being torn limb from limb, crucfixtion, stoning... really those are not fun ways to go.

I think I'd prefer to have my head crushed in a very rapid hydrolic press... I can't think of a more certain way to pass from life into death without any transition. Or... I'd dearly love to die during passionate sexual intercourse at a ripe old age.

[caffenta]

...during passionate sexual intercourse at a ripe old age.

Ewwww! Thanks for the mental image. :yuck:

[nismaratwork]

Ewwww! Thanks for the mental image. :yuck:

Hey, for all you know I look like Hugh Jackman at 100, and I'm going for broke with a model. :wink:

Then again, more likely I'll be a sack of gray flesh and dangly bits. Oh the horror!!!

:biggrin:


You know, I'd have thought that I'd have grown out of this kind of thing by now... apparently not. :smile:

[caffenta]

My new candidate for worst possible death: having to watch people of a ripe old age having passionate sexual intercourse. Over and over and over... :eek:

You know, I'd have thought that I'd have grown out of this kind of thing by now... apparently not. :smile:

When you grow out of it, that's when you know you're dead. :smile:

[lisab]

Ewwww! Thanks for the mental image. :yuck:

Hmm, I don't know...that sounds like a good way to go, to me.

[caffenta]

Hmm, I don't know...that sounds like a good way to go, to me.

For them yes. But not for us having to think about them.

[lisab]

For them yes. But not for us having to think about them.

I was thinking for me :wink:!

[nismaratwork]

For them yes. But not for us having to think about them.

"You've watched it, you can't UN-Watch it!" (Futurama)

[nismaratwork]

I was thinking for me :wink:!

Ahhhh, that's the way! :approve:

[caffenta]

"You've watched it, you can't UN-Watch it!" (Futurama)

:rofl:

[nismaratwork]

:rofl:

That's the spirit! :smile:

[FizixFreak]

You can laugh at death, scream, cry, or run. It still catches you; if you see death as the ultimate severity, what is your life if not a meaningless death sentence?

edit: You don't deal with death much do you? You should hear doctors and EMT's... never laugh harder at rougher stuff... it's called staying sane. In addition, many of these post were NOT jokes AFAICT, including my original two.

YES! if by death you mean natural death then no problem it is unavoidable you can talk about the way you want to but eaten by wolves,getting decapitated,suffocation or bleeding to death is a completely different thing and not even remotely laughable do you have any idea how tragic it would it be if a young man dies in such terrible accident? you have any idea what would be the feelings of his residents? you probably have no clue or else you never talk about such things as if it is amusing.

Meh... my post 13 beats that.

you ARE taking it as a joke who read something so tragic and still think about "competing" and not think about that poor girl for once i remember you from another thread you seemed like a mature person but now it seems like you are just a young kid who does not really appreciate life but you are not the only one to blame every one who sees this tragedy as a source of amusement is mentally SICK guess being good at physics or math does not make you a nice person neither does it makes you appreciate life(nothing personal).

[ThomasT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Am i the only one who found this page disturbing rather than amusing?Well, there were a few politicians and lawyers mentioned if I recall correctly.

[Borg]

YES! if by death you mean natural death then no problem it is unavoidable you can talk about the way you want to but eaten by wolves,getting decapitated,suffocation or bleeding to death is a completely different thing and not even remotely laughable do you have any idea how tragic it would it be if a young man dies in such terrible accident? you have any idea what would be the feelings of his residents? you probably have no clue or else you never talk about such things as if it is amusing.


What are you getting so worked up by? The odds of something like that happening are like ...being struck by lightning. Nobody is making fun of the deaths of others. Life is precious but, is isn't about how you die. It's how you live before you die. Personally, I refuse to take my own mortality seriously which is what others in the thread are doing. If I go out with a bang like lisab or nismaratwork, that would be fine with me. In any case, I won't have much choice of the how, when or where.

[mugaliens]

Like nismaratwork said, death happens to everyone. That's the single certain fact in life. The worst possible death is experiences by a person who has never recognized that fact until it happens.

Caffenta, you both scare me because your post falls well outside the line of what's considered "normal" but you're also an inspiration, because before you hit dirt, you're toast.

[Jimmy Snyder]

Death by urban legend.

A bricklayer on the ground raises a large metal bucket up to the roof level using a rope and pulley. Next, he ties the rope off onto a railing and climbs back up to the roof and loads the bricks into the bucket. Then he goes back down to the ground. He knows that the bricks are heavy, so he wraps the rope around his hand a couple of times and then unties the end of the rope with his other hand. The bricks were heavier than he imagined and with physics being as it is, he was immediately launched upwards at a high rate of speed.

As he was racing up towards the roof he encountered the bucket full of bricks coming down at an equally fast rate. He collides with the bucket and breaks his nose and shoulder. The bucket passes him by as he speeds upwards. He reaches the pulley just before the bucket hits the ground and breaks a few of his fingers as they are mangled by the pulley. When the bucket hits the ground, its bottom falls out and all of the bricks spill onto the ground. Now the the bucket is light and speeds upwards, while the bricklayer comes down. He takes a shot to the groin when one of his legs slips into the empty bucket.

He then tilts enough to fall out of the bucket and continues on down. He lands on top of the pile of bricks and breaks both feet. He collapses in pain there on the bricks, glad to be alive. He lets go of the rope and cries out for help. That's when the bucket comes down, hits him in the head and fractures his skull.

[nismaratwork]

YES! if by death you mean natural death then no problem it is unavoidable you can talk about the way you want to but eaten by wolves,getting decapitated,suffocation or bleeding to death is a completely different thing and not even remotely laughable do you have any idea how tragic it would it be if a young man dies in such terrible accident? you have any idea what would be the feelings of his residents? you probably have no clue or else you never talk about such things as if it is amusing.

I'm sorry, but you're wrong about me in this; I suspect I've seen more and nastier things than you think. I'd be happy to give it up in favor of the ignorance you ascribe to me however. I don't know of any way to explain beyond what I have... you don't laugh at the dead, you laugh at DEATH. I'd add, all death is natural, it's just that some are not preferable. I think perhaps you haven't had much experience with death, and I'm glad for that too.


[you ARE taking it as a joke who read something so tragic and still think about "competing" and not think about that poor girl for once i remember you from another thread you seemed like a mature person but now it seems like you are just a young kid who does not really appreciate life but you are not the only one to blame every one who sees this tragedy as a source of amusement is mentally SICK guess being good at physics or math does not make you a nice person neither does it makes you appreciate life(nothing personal).

I never claimed to be a nice person; in fact, I've claimed much the opposite. I'm noting how you're writing however; nearly a stream of consciousness... kind of a rant. This is obviously either a very personally emotional issue for you, or you have so little experience with death that you just don't understand. We're human FizxFreak... you know what a nurse or doctor is going to say when you finally die some day? "He **** the bed." It's practically a term of art in medicine... do you think it means that doctors and nurses find death amusing?

Death will eventually put us all in our place, but until then we get to try and do the same; you may also note that I am not referencing any ACTUAL deaths, although I'm not sure you care to understand why. I am sorry that you've found this so upsetting, but I'd urge you to consider for a while... maybe talk to Lacy33 on this one.

[FizixFreak]

I'm sorry, but you're wrong about me in this; I suspect I've seen more and nastier things than you think. I'd be happy to give it up in favor of the ignorance you ascribe to me however. I don't know of any way to explain beyond what I have... you don't laugh at the dead, you laugh at DEATH. I'd add, all death is natural, it's just that some are not preferable. I think perhaps you haven't had much experience with death, and I'm glad for that too.




I never claimed to be a nice person; in fact, I've claimed much the opposite. I'm noting how you're writing however; nearly a stream of consciousness... kind of a rant. This is obviously either a very personally emotional issue for you, or you have so little experience with death that you just don't understand. We're human FizxFreak... you know what a nurse or doctor is going to say when you finally die some day? "He **** the bed." It's practically a term of art in medicine... do you think it means that doctors and nurses find death amusing?

Death will eventually put us all in our place, but until then we get to try and do the same; you may also note that I am not referencing any ACTUAL deaths, although I'm not sure you care to understand why. I am sorry that you've found this so upsetting, but I'd urge you to consider for a while... maybe talk to Lacy33 on this one.

You probably might have seen worst i have been lucky in that case thank goodness but the thing is that i cant really change you thoughts on this topic and you cannot change mine i might not find your views very good but a little wicked to some extent but what can i do about it?

Different people have different opinions and if don't respect a mans opinion you should it doesn't really mean that you shouldn't respect the man him self i do agree with a lot of things you say but i am highly disturbed by the fact that people are posting the information about horrific deaths in a sense of competition(and you cannot deny that) i just cannot accept it as anything normal may be all these people are very good individuals in their lives but even if they have such wicked thoughts it really disturbs me but you know what these arguments are really not going to lead us anywhere(and by the way who is lacy).

Forget about all this lets lighten the mood i just cannot get your cute little friend out of my head even though i have never seen her:!!) how is she doing by the way? and are you really sure that she wouldn't be interested in a young handsome man like me? you probably are not cool enough and it is alright if you are not good looking its not a big deal but i think i really think i can make her like men:cool:

[nismaratwork]

You probably might have seen worst i have been lucky in that case thank goodness but the thing is that i cant really change you thoughts on this topic and you cannot change mine i might not find your views very good but a little wicked to some extent but what can i do about it?

You can calm down, and realize that time is going to eventually change your views. Some things are inevitable, and this is the Most inevitable of all. We're all riding the thermodynamic arrow of time to oblivion. That's harsh... you have to find ways to cope, and people who have dealt with a lot of death find that you need to laugh. It's not something that is easily explained, which is why it's usual hidden.

Different people have different opinions and if don't respect a mans opinion you should it doesn't really mean that you shouldn't respect the man him self i do agree with a lot of things you say but i am highly disturbed by the fact that people are posting the information about horrific deaths in a sense of competition(and you cannot deny that)

People are complex, with many facets. I just lost a friend to a recurrence of breast cancer which metastasized horribly. She died badly, leaving a daughter and husband, and she was young enough that it's a damned tragedy. I'm not laughing about that, but I do need to laugh at SOME point; not at her, but at death itself. Is this a competition? Sure... it's very cathartic.



Lacy33 is a member here, and a fine teacher, including expertise in thanatology and nursing (on her profile). I have experience, but not enough to convey this to you properly... I believe she might. Beyond that... and here's the key... where is the wickedness? I'm not trying to bust your balls here, I just want you to reflect on your reaction. I think it's primarily emotional, and then you have justifications after the fact. That's very VERY normal, but you can go beyond that; you're no fool. So.. wickedness... is anyone wishing harm upon good people? In a way... we all want to die well, and we all fear a bad death. How do you overcome fear?... exposure.

Is it NICE?... no. Is it necessary?... Yes. The alternative is the kind of emotional turmoil I'm seeing in your post. That's not a criticism, just an observation... and I'm not being coy, if I want to criticize, you'll know it. I don't think your mind will be changed by this, but it could be a seed that grows when the conditions are right.

[QUOTE=FizixFreak;3163390Forget about all this lets lighten the mood i just cannot get your cute little friend out of my head even though i have never seen her:!!) how is she doing by the way? and are you really sure that she wouldn't be interested in a young handsome man like me? you probably are not cool enough and it is alright if you are not good looking its not a big deal but i think i really think i can make her like men:cool:

She is still adorable, but also very happily in a relationship with another lovely lady. They're quite happy!

Consider this... you have a powerful imagination... that's GOOD, but it can lock you in your own mind. Sometimes we need to step out of that, and really listen to what others are saying. Do you think most of the people posting this are wicked? If not, then we have a dilemma; I'm willing to discuss this as much as you want.

That said, you're still never getting a chance with her, so keep that imagination... as guys, we really do need that. :smile:

[mugaliens]

Have a dream where you are dead and you couldn't wake up, but then you realize you are dead...

If you're dead (brain no worky), how would it be possible for you you realize anything?

[nismaratwork]

Radiation Poisoning.

Hepatic Failure.

Suicide.

[caffenta]

If you're dead (brain no worky), how would it be possible for you you realize anything?

Isn't it obvious? Zombie! :tongue2:

[Lacy33]

Hello FizixFreak, I am Lacy. I am an old lady. A grandma. I have little hair, wrinkled skin and am very very fat. I am crabby and I like it that way.
I was a person who studied to be with people when they die and after, providing they died in a hospital or at home.
Dying can be many things. It is not pleasent for people around. It does not have to be unpleasent for the person dying.
Unless one of the mentors can come in and clear this thread of all the playfull gore and direct the conversation in a proper discussion on death and dying, then it should be closed.
Death is very real to a lot of people now.
Death means different things to people now.
Some people are willing to die for a cause and others are taught and follow a different style of living and dying.
I really think this needs to be watched.
Too many young people today are saying they are willing to die for something.
I personally do not hold to that not to say it is right or not.
Death is very real and final. In this thread it is being played with.

[nismaratwork]

Death gets us in the end, it seems only fair to play with the old man before then. Still... if you agree with Fizix... I need to rethink my stance.

[ThomasT]

... you don't laugh at the dead, you laugh at DEATH.I agree with nismaratwork. In fact, I'll go a bit further. We should not only laugh at death, we should taunt it. But not with either Vietnamese rap music or French mime techniques (and certainly not at the same time) or anything by Yoko Ono. That might really piss it off.

[nismaratwork]

I agree with nismaratwork. In fact, I'll go a bit further. We should not only laugh at death, we should taunt it. But not with either Vietnamese rap music or French mime techniques (and certainly not at the same time) or anything by Yoko Ono. That might really piss it off.

I don't know whether to laugh... or laugh and feel guilty. Ooops... the latter.

[Evo]

The thread has run it's course.