What are some of the most unusual and bizarre ways people have died?

[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 you 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.

:

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.

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

 

[Loren Booda]

Either being cruxified or going to hell.

 

[elfboy]

not solving the problem

 

[RichardParker]

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?

 

[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 anybody 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 anybody 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 that's definitely 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 that's definitely 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 that's definitely 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 .

 

[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.

 

[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 .

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.

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.

@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.

 

[nismaratwork]

Ewwww! Thanks for the mental image.

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

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




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

 

[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...

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

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

 

[lisab]

Ewwww! Thanks for the mental image.

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 !