737doctor From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1332 posts, RR: 47 Posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 2757 times:
I'm not trying to be morbid or anything, but what do you think would be the worst way to die? We all will have to go someday, but some ways are obviously more dignified and less painful than others.
My top three:
Burning to death
Being mauled and eaten alive by a bear
Being trapped on a doomed airliner and knowing that you are going to crash
I'm pretty sure you've all thought about it, so how about it?
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 75 Reply 2, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 2710 times:
The thought of dying in a plane crash does not bother me, because ultimately your demise is very quick. But things like drowning, being burned alive, mauled by an animal as someone said to me are the worst ways to die. If for some reason I get shot, I want it in the head or heart, so it's quick. Not in the gut, where a lot of internal damage could be done, and the death would then be slow.
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Arsenal@LHR From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 7791 posts, RR: 22 Reply 4, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 2705 times:
Being stabbed to death multiple times would rank high in violent deaths, you would feel that you are being stabbed repeatedly knowing that you're dying while being in unbearable pain.
AC320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 2699 times:
How about skydiving and your parachute doesn't deploy? You'd have a relatively long time to reflect on your life and make your peace with G-d on that one.
American_4275 From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1076 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 2696 times:
AC320, How about skydiving and your parachute doesn't deploy? You'd have a relatively long time to reflect on your life and make your peace with G-d on that one.
True...but you would probably die in mid-air instead of hitting the ground.
CPH-R From Denmark, joined May 2001, 5755 posts, RR: 4 Reply 8, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 2694 times:
Actually, a guy here in Denmark came across what I'd say was the most worst way to die:
He was on one of these free-fall type of rides (where you're pulled up in the air, and then go down fast, VERY fast!). Anyway, apparently he was a bit *ahem* fat, and the safety bar was unable to close completely.
Anyway, at about 100 feet, and this is what some witnesses have told the police, he fell out of his seat, dropped the 100 feet to the ground, hit the engine case, and finally fell on the fence that surrounded the ride, thus being spiked to death
Galaxy5 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2034 posts, RR: 27 Reply 11, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2668 times:
Being captured by Islamic terrorists, being tortured and having your throat cut while being filmed seems like a pretty bad way to go. If I had my choice it would be while doing my job and dying quickly in a crash.
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Victech From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 546 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2652 times:
Getting hit head-on by a speeding train (I was on an Amtrak train a few years back when a guy decided to "end it all"--just looking at the bloodied nose of the P42 locomotive made me sick).
Nerve gas (up there with suffocation or asthma, but much worse)
How about getting "intimately familiar" with the internals of a jet engine? On the gruesome scale it gets pretty high marks...
EGGD From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2001, 12426 posts, RR: 40 Reply 14, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2649 times:
To be honest, suffocating and drowning doesn't bother me, as its more awkward than painful. Being stabbed, or in particular, throat cut, is far more of a bad way to go .
Of course, I can think of lots of ways, just give me time
Dripstick From Canada, joined Dec 2001, 2364 posts, RR: 23 Reply 16, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 2610 times:
Falling down an elevator shaft of a 100-story flaming building and on the way down having a stroke, getting stabbed, drowned, being eaten alive by rabid elevator monkeys that have locked on to your jugular vein, and then finally landing on a family of excitable porcupines.
Cyril B From France, joined Jun 2001, 396 posts, RR: 3 Reply 17, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 2599 times:
To be killed in a train or a car crash is far more horrible than to be killed in a plane crash... and i think the worst way to die is to be killed in a car accident..
its stupid, and bloody..
Flyboy36y From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3039 posts, RR: 8 Reply 20, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2565 times:
Burning, Bleeding to death, Drowning, being eaten all bad.
I'd prefer to die in a plance crash if it goes quich. The worst way reall is when you are being murdered/executed and you know it. When death is not inevitable by nature but being inflicted by a person.
FutureSQPilot From United States of America, joined Jul 2002, 147 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2560 times:
Most plane crashes go quick...but I think one of the worst ways to die would be in the AS MD-80 crash...falling from 18000 ft knowing youre going to die...like being in a falling elevator only much worse. Also...I head a story of a girl who fell into the machine area of a roller coaster and was shoved through a 6"X10" hole...
Kaitakfan From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 1586 posts, RR: 7 Reply 22, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2559 times:
Hmm the thought of Having to make the choice of staying in a burning building 1000 feet above ground or jump to the streets below sounds like a pretty bad situation. The worst part about it would be making the way up to the ledge and letting go. Afte that, I am sure you would black out and that would be that.
DeltaRules From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3624 posts, RR: 11 Reply 24, posted (10 years 11 months 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2539 times:
The ones I fear most are:
Plane crash, Asthma Attack, Suffocation, Drowning, Being attacked by an animal.
I wouldn't want to experience any of the mentioned above my post, though, either.
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25 ADG: Apparently drowning is quite peaceful .. you reach a point where you body simply relaxes and you drift away.... So say survivors. I suspect any death
26 Boeing nut: Burning to death. But the very worst way to die........................ Alone.
27 David B.: How is someone stoned to death? Throw rocks at them until they die? That's going to be very tedious. Or are they crushed by stones and large rocks?
28 EGGD: Well, I've heard that when you drown, you can take quite alot... I remember seeing a program about how you drown. I think, you can struggle for someth
29 Delta717: A tornado warning is issued, you have no basement, so you hide in an interior closet, and the tornado picks you up and slams you down on a pile of deb
30 737doctor: OK let's recap so far... Burning to death: 5 votes Mauled/eaten by an animal: 5 votes Drowning: 4 votes Plane crash: 4 votes Asthma attack/suffocation
31 EGFF: 'Dying while sleeping: 1 vote' I havn't kept upto date with the thread so whoever posted that, are you sure? If there was anyway i'd want to die it wo
32 Climbout: I sure wouldn't mind dying peacefully in my sleep. I've gotta agree with burning to death. That's got to be the most unbearable and painful way to go.
33 Notar520AC: Anything involving the following is not on my list! Burning Falling Slashing Slice n' Dice Collisions at high speeds which leave you barely alive to s
34 EGGD: dudes... ever get frightened that you didn't fasten your safety harness properly, or it might suddenly release or something (rollercoasters). Dan
35 Boeing4ever: 1. Having a fat guy sit on you 2. Seeing Jacko naked 3. Being eaten by a pack of wild weasels (the animals, not the aircraft) 4. Getting your eyes pec
36 Trickijedi: I always thought having a heart attack was one of the worst ways to die seeing that 1) it's painful, 2) some heart attacks are slower than others and
37 Chuckles1225: Well I heard on TV that having your space suit tear during a space walk would be the most painful way to die. The suction of space would suck ALL of t
39 BO__einG: I got another one. Being Stucked inside a fully loaded Septic Tank. Or drowing in a Poo clarifyer at a waste treatment plant. But ya, Burning has to b
40 Airlinelover: For me, the worst way to die would be: Alone Knowing that I have not done everything I can in my life Not feeling like I had a good life.. etc etc I k
41 Victech: I also have to vote for dying by SNV (Sin Nombre Virus)...it causes your lungs to fill with fluid, you literally drown internally. Unless you are hook
42 Fokker Lover: I was burned before. I can say that it was the most excruciating pain I ever felt. I never ever want to be burned again. That would be the worst way t
43 PROSA: Based on reports from people saved at the last minute, drowning is said to be exceedingly unpleasant. I'd also imagine that choking on food is horribl
44 IMissPiedmont: Drwoning is, contrary to popular belief, a very unpleasant way to die. For the person that said bleeding to death, I assure you that is not very unple
45 Maiznblu_757: I heard choking was quite a terrible way to die, in fact, a lot of people would like their worst enemies to die this way and wouldnt help them either.
46 Srbmod: Radiation poisoning. If you've seen the footage of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you know what I'm talking about. So definitely don't want th
47 AC320: Being electrocuted once before, I can say that's not a pleasant experience
48 NBC News1: Someone putting a lawnmower on your face.
49 Arsenal@LHR: For me, dying in a plane crash is still the worst way to die, even though it might a quick and painless death. Did anyone see a picture of one of the
50 Dripstick: AC320, that's shocking! Tell us more about it!
51 EGGD: Arsenal.. come on, you ain't gonna seee your own guts spilling out of your torso, it happens in alot more things than just plane-crashes!
52 David B.: Plane crash is not a bad way of dying. How do you like to be skinned alive, boiled alive, burned or fried. Jumping off a tall building would also be a
53 David B.: Another pleasent way to go is high speed train hitting your body, explosions are just as good.
54 ExpressJet_ERJ: I'd have to say being trapped in a tiny area that being filled up w/water.
55 Arsenal@LHR: OK, there are worser ways to die than plane crashes, but what about a crash like USair 427 or Swissair 111, where there isn't much of a body to bury f
56 Heavymetal: Two pretty nasty ways *A friend of mine, a State Trooper in a New England State, told us the story of a car that crashed into a powerline pole one sum
57 Transactoid: I was the one who said dying in sleep... It's not so much the ACT of dying in one's sleep that would be horrible. It's the THOUGHT that this could be
59 Dripstick: ...think about that when you're in bed tonight... Rest in peace.
60 Dripstick: Falling off the top of a large building Getting run over by a car Being involved in a car accident Heart attack Drowning Suffocating Starving to deat
61 Vafi88: sh*T! I just saw the michael jackson photo and it scared the poop out of me...now I gotta got o bed I would WANT to die in an airplane or in my sleep.
62 AC320: want to know more about my shocking experience? well, I was like 4 and stuck a knide in a wall socket, don't think i need to say more than that
63 AC320: That should be "knife" some doofus put the "d" too close to the "f" on the keyboard
64 BigPhilNYC: Shit, if I could choose a non-conventional method of death (othe than in a heroci fashion), I'd choose a plane crash. Worst.......Drowning, getting sh
65 Brianhames: I once had a book called, "Unpleasent Ways to Die" It was all these cartoons dipicting awful ways to die, it was great. Anyway, my choices are in no p
66 737doctor: OK, here's the latest tally. It was more difficult this time because some of the answers were similar and required judgment calls on whether they shou
67 737doctor: Also here are the results from Mr. Poll.com out of 517 total votes. Notice that burning to death tops both lists... Burned to death (4%) Eaten alive b
68 Acidradio: Howabout being sat on by Rosie O'Donnell? That I think tops all of the abovementioned...
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