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Burning for me, followed by drowning, which IMO is a worse form of suffocation.

My actual least-preferred way (to the point where it's practically a phobia) isn't on here.

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Burning seems like the most painful.

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Underleveled posted...

My actual least-preferred way (to the point where it's practically a phobia) isn't on here.

I am curious

I'm probably the most scared of drowning, but from what I've read once the water fills your lungs it becomes quite peaceful.

Burning sounds painful and horrific all the way through.

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au_gold posted...

Burning seems like the most painful.

Indeed. I can't even fathom it. I mean, I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but when you think about the difficulty of, say, keeping your hand on a hot burner (I think most people could only handle a second or two at the absolute most), to imagine that kind of pain across your entire body, and prolonged, possibly for minutes. Ugh, no thanks.

Josiah_Is_Back posted...

Indeed. I can't even fathom it. I mean, I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but when you think about the difficulty of, say, keeping your hand on a hot burner (I think most people could only handle a second or two at the absolute most), to imagine that kind of pain across your entire body, and prolonged, possibly for minutes. Ugh, no thanks.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OxrBik16Hzg

Freezing is a walk in the park compared to everything else on the list.
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DoctorPiranha3 posted...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OxrBik16Hzg

If that's Thich Quang Duc, I'm well familiar with him. And I would be hard-pressed to find a more awe-inspiring example of human willpower than that. Un-fucking-real.

Depends on how I'm burning. If you pour gas over me and set me on fire or drop me into a volcano or something that's probably preferable to drowning.

Slowly baking to death in the middle of the Sahara desert would be worse.

However the truly least preferable way to die are all disease related things. Cancer, rabies, flesh eating bacteria, brain eating amoebas, Lyme, complications from AIDS and such are the worst way of dying I can think of.

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bigtiggie23 posted...

Freezing is a walk in the park compared to everything else on the list.

That's the one I would choose as my way to die, from the list. I actually like the cold and I find it much more bearable to withstand extreme cold than extreme heat.

Josiah_Is_Back posted...

That's the one I would choose as my way to die, from the list. I actually like the cold and I find it much more bearable to withstand extreme cold than extreme heat.

Once again, it depends. Being dropped into the middle of Antarctica winter is "easy"

Freezing to death at -2 degrees Celsius? You'll be suffering for a very long time, slowly watching chunks of your body fall off.

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dr_strangelove posted...

hopefully they gave him a HUGE shot of morphine beforehand

Not even sure that would help, to be honest.

I'm a fan of variety. If I had my way I'd try all of them.

Drowning seems like a long and unpleasant process.

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Always thought the worst way to go, would be nailed into a coffin (hand and feet, with a metal bar holding your neck in place), thrown into a body of water with oil on top that been lit on fire. Never sure if you'll drown first, burn first but you'll be in agony the whole time.

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When you say suffocating, do I have a choice in how I suffocate? I mean you have strangulation under that, and to me that would be the easiest option of the bunch if you can control how it happens. If you wrap something around your neck and if you quickly tighten it you pass out pretty quickly. Do it well enough and your out before you even have a chance to have second thoughts.

Edit: I just realized this was least preferred way to die. Oops. I guess fire, though I hear it's not as horrific as you would expect. I mean obviously it's horrific, but I guess your nerves get fried pretty quickly. Still, until that point must be agony.

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Of those listed, drowning.

Of personal fears would be to fall or get pinned/stuck somewhere where no one could hear me or wasnt visited too often

Burning, but I feel like buried alive should be in it's only category. It's long, dark, trapped in a box for hours slowly dying. That sounds terrifying. Being strangled or choking is usually a minute or two and done.

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Burning

Or electrocution since I work with that on the daily

buried alive. that is a huge fear of mine. if someone buried me alive I would beg them to put a gun in there with me I can use latter

At my work, we get recurring stories from back in the old days of toddlers falling into copper boilers full of scalding water and taking days to die.

Fucking sad stuff.

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from the list, burning i guess

but from my experience, i have an automatic fear of looking at sharp object directed to my eyes, it just makes me numb and getting stabbed through the eye socket will be worse than burning (for me)

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Once again, it depends. Being dropped into the middle of Antarctica winter is "easy"

Freezing to death at -2 degrees Celsius? You'll be suffering for a very long time, slowly watching chunks of your body fall off.

lmao you the type of person to drown in a puddle

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Sphyx posted...

At my work, we get recurring stories from back in the old days of toddlers falling into copper boilers full of scalding water and taking days to die.

Fucking sad stuff.

the fuck

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In order of worst to best (1 being least preferred, 5 being most preferred)

1.) burning
2.) drowning
3.) electrocution
4.) suffocation
5.) freezing

Pretty sure with freezing you at least start feeling warm or so towards the end from the hypothermia, yeah?

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Bleeding out would be the worse way to go if you ask me.

Of the choices on the list I think we could all agree that burning would be the worse.

I think suffocation could be just as bad if it were drawn out and you were struggling.

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SoundNetwork posted...

the fuck

Older newspapers were pretty blunt about the details of things like that, and it was heartbreaking to read the stories, but the frequency of incidents is even more shocking.

We really take for granted just how much easier our lives are with the technology we have.

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I don't care.
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Out of those, probably suffocation by getting buried alive or drowning.
In general, death by digestion after getting eaten by a big ass snake or something would suck. A lot.

Burning definitely. All these other ones have situations that can make them less shitty, or just aren't as bad. But being burned to death is always going to be terrible. Drowning in salt water is a lot less painful than fresh water. A choke hold, if applied right, while knock you out from lack of bloodflow to the brain rather quickly, before you feel too much pain from the lack of air to the lungs.

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As getting "eaten alive by a bear" is not on the list, i went with fire

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Hopefully with drowning you could hold your breath long enough to pass out and then drown peacefully when unconcious

With burning alive its just misery for like 30 minutes
Electrocution should be near instant death
Suffocation probably isnt as bad as burning or drowning
Freezing is just whatever. Get get cold and numb and numb then die

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Apparently before dying form asphyxia you have a massive orgasm, so that's something to soften the blow.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Once again, it depends. Being dropped into the middle of Antarctica winter is "easy"

Freezing to death at -2 degrees Celsius? You'll be suffering for a very long time, slowly watching chunks of your body fall off.

That's the thing though, you have to use the most extreme example of freezing to even come close to comparing to the other ways.
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Being electrocuted is one of my biggest fears, though suffocating and burning seem just as unpleasant. Being eaten is another one I'm afraid of.

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All of these you can come to accept except for burning and electrocition....both can potentially boil your eyes while youre still alive and not in shock to numb it.....fire can colapse your lungs though and thats an extra special kind of hell...imma go with burning

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Frankly, I straight up hate the fact that I'm gonna die.
I used to see people die after accidents a lot. So I thought "well, I hope I die peacefully."
But then I saw a few people die "peacefully."
Your pulse kinda tapers off and then your body kinda makes some futile attempts at gasping for air. It's kinda disturbing to watch.
Just knowing I gotta go through that shit one way or the other keeps me up at night. Lol

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I think asphyxiation and being buried alive are two very, very different ways of death.

I wanna be able to wiggle around. >_>
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freezing + suffocation, trapped under ice lake.

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Ricemills posted...

freezing + suffocation, trapped under ice lake.

Ironically enough, I believe this combination actually makes it more feasible for you to survive. I've seen a few stories where people were trapped under the ice of a frozen lake for several minutes (10-15) but when they were rescued they were actually revived and suffered no brain damage. Something about the super cold temperatures lowering their metabolism and heart rate so much that their body was sort of in a "stasis" mode.

Josiah_Is_Back posted...

Ironically enough, I believe this combination actually makes it more feasible for you to survive. I've seen a few stories where people were trapped under the ice of a frozen lake for several minutes (10-15) but when they were rescued they were actually revived and suffered no brain damage. Something about the super cold temperatures lowering their metabolism and heart rate so much that their body was sort of in a "stasis" mode.

that could also mean that it's a slow, painful death.

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True.

SoundNetwork posted...

lmao you the type of person to drown in a puddle

Anything less than freezing point of water causes frostbite. You can die of hypothermia (aka freezing to death) at temps far higher than freezing point of water without frostbite, but adding frostbite to the mix makes it worse.

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Hospital bed.

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