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Title: Worst ways to die
Post by: noisyturtle on Fri, 16 November 2012, 21:03:22
Woo, finally an uplifting thread. What do you think would be the worst way to die, anything you can imagine. I would say being a fish out of water. Fish have about 5 second memories, so every 5 seconds you would realize in a panic you were about to die and cannot breath. Every 5 second cycle would be worse and more agonizing then the last as you got closer and closer to death never fully comprehending what was going on until the last moment when you regain your memory for just a brief second only to die immediately. :'(
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 16 November 2012, 21:11:05
When my daughter was about 3, a father of one of my close friend's father died - in his sleep.

I told her, and she was very upset. She said it was awful.

Perplexed, since I figured that it was actually a pretty good way to go, I asked her "Why?"

Her reply? "Because he wouldn't know that he was dead!"

Ah - the logic of a 3-year-old!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: FoxWolf1 on Fri, 16 November 2012, 21:13:44
Years of general decline in health, culminating in confinement to a "nursing home" where all you can do is suffer for even more years while waiting to die, all the while watching all your life earnings being consumed by the medical system so that all your attempts at building an inheritance for your family wind up being for nothing, until further progression of your general decline robs you of even that awareness, reducing your existence to nothing but pain interrupted by periods of awareness just long enough to realize that all you do is suffer and incur debt, followed at long last by death, broken, broke, and alone, from nothing in particular, by which point everyone who knew you will have become so weary of you from watching you do nothing but suffer that they can no longer find it in themselves to care about your passing.

Interestingly, such deaths are quite common.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 16 November 2012, 21:26:16
I am totally convinced that a "Hemlock"solution could, and should, not only be legal, but also common.

There is little doubt that I would choose it for myself, once my quality of life was degraded past a certain threshold.

Although the elders in my family mostly went quickly and with dignity, I have, and am, watching my wife's ancestors inflict and endure monumental suffering on themselves and surprisingly large circles around them.

It is a tragedy and a horror.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Trent on Fri, 16 November 2012, 22:14:00
Decapitation
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: ekw808 on Fri, 16 November 2012, 22:24:39
Drowning, or tortured to death.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: metalliqaz on Fri, 16 November 2012, 22:24:59
Decapitation

Please.   Death by sawing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_sawing).  Victim was hung upside down and literally sawed in half.  Since the blood didn't drain out of their head, they stayed conscious through most of it.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Trent on Fri, 16 November 2012, 22:40:38
Decapitation

Please.   Death by sawing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_sawing).  Victim was hung upside down and literally sawed in half.  Since the blood didn't drain out of their head, they stayed conscious through most of it.

Edit: Death by sawing
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: noisyturtle on Fri, 16 November 2012, 23:44:51
Decapitation

Please.   Death by sawing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_sawing).  Victim was hung upside down and literally sawed in half.  Since the blood didn't drain out of their head, they stayed conscious through most of it.
This was totally one of the torture chambers in Amnesia.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: xsphat on Sat, 17 November 2012, 00:53:48
I am totally convinced that a "Hemlock"solution could, and should, not only be legal, but also common.

Do you mean the Hemingway Solution? That's both barrels in the mouth, pull the trigger with your toe. And I think it should be ok as well.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: xsphat on Sat, 17 November 2012, 00:54:23
Drown in a tank of HCL.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: aeta on Sat, 17 November 2012, 00:58:21
Personally, I think cancer is one of the worst ways to die.

When my daughter was about 3, a father of one of my close friend's father died - in his sleep.

I told her, and she was very upset. She said it was awful.

Perplexed, since I figured that it was actually a pretty good way to go, I asked her "Why?"

Her reply? "Because he wouldn't know that he was dead!"

Ah - the logic of a 3-year-old!

I actually understand that logic. I would hate dying in my sleep because I would leave unfinished business. Of course, when you're dead the unfinished business no longer matters, but still. haha.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: dirge on Sat, 17 November 2012, 01:08:39
Eaten alive.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: kravlin on Sat, 17 November 2012, 01:23:43
one humorous, one serious.

1. Death by getting run over slowly by a steamroller from the legs up, purely because the steamroller would stop the bleeding from areas it's crushed.

2. Bees.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 17 November 2012, 01:38:27
Burning while being sawn in half in a bath of HCl.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: xsphat on Sat, 17 November 2012, 02:05:21
You know what we post in this thread will happen to us in act 2, right?
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 17 November 2012, 02:09:45
Rowdy deletes his earlier post ...
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 17 November 2012, 02:11:50
Ok then ...

Worst way to die: being tickled to death by 100 naked 18 year olds ...
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: TheQsanity on Sat, 17 November 2012, 03:48:40
Thinking of death hurts but once it has happened. It is done. Mental torture with or without physical torture would be pretty bad.

If anyone that will be dying soon, please be at peace.

Best way to die? Carcrash. Not wishing on it but one of the better options.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 17 November 2012, 04:15:44
Best way to die: of natural causes in your sleep.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: noisyturtle on Sat, 17 November 2012, 06:29:57
Best way to die: of natural causes in your sleep.
Best way to die: Suffocated in a pool of tits.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: metalliqaz on Sat, 17 November 2012, 07:26:59
Death by snu-snu!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: keyboardlover on Sat, 17 November 2012, 08:01:17
PERMA B-B-B-B-B-BAN!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: 1391401 on Sat, 17 November 2012, 09:08:48
Alone.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sat, 17 November 2012, 09:10:32
Alone.
Yes.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: metalliqaz on Sat, 17 November 2012, 09:16:09
Everyone dies alone.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: noisyturtle on Sat, 17 November 2012, 09:44:18
Man, this thread got super depressing.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: singaporean123 on Sat, 17 November 2012, 09:45:27
By not resolving issues you really wanted to? It's like knowing you're going to die, yet you can't leave in peace
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: bear95 on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:03:24
A dream I dreamed a couple times is where I kill people by complete accident and everybody hates me. I'm shunned by everyone and I try to show I'm innocent but nobody listens so I start making this plane(I don't know how in the world the plane is relevant but I do it every time for some reason). I start flying the plane and somehow I feel that flying it is going to prove my innocence. But before anybody can see me, I start losing control. I'm afraid that I might kill someone else so I turn and crash into the water and kill myself. So I end up dieing without being able to prove my innocence and for me, I feel the worst way to die is to die hated.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: TheQsanity on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:07:15
Man, this thread got super depressing.

Yea... maybe make a thread like best way to die or things to do before you die....
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Shadovved on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:09:38
Things to do before I die?

Make a will  :))  :))  :))
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: TheQsanity on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:10:54
Things to do before I die?

Make a will  :))  :))  :))

That's the spirit!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Shadovved on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:13:43
Maybe I will leave all my KMACs and keycaps and stuff to one of the mods.......

Ask them to do a charity auction for GH with my prized possessions  :cool: :cool:

Sounds good to me!  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: TheQsanity on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:14:56
Maybe I will leave all my KMACs and keycaps and stuff to one of the mods.......

Ask them to do a charity auction for GH with my prized possessions  :cool: :cool:

Sounds good to me!  ;D ;D

Sure!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Shadovved on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:15:49
Hahahaha yay! Just hope that I actually remember to include it in my will LOL  :p
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: TheQsanity on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:18:38
Hahahaha yay! Just hope that I actually remember to include it in my will LOL  :p

Definitely. If we leave our keyboards anywhere else they might be recycled!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Shadovved on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:20:52
I think so..... For the uninitiated, they would definitely think a backlit, bling, anti ghosting logitech is better than a KMAC or even a Filco or even a model M :)

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: longweight on Sat, 17 November 2012, 11:27:50
Dying before being enough of a man to grow a beard would be depressing.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: TheQsanity on Sat, 17 November 2012, 12:34:00
Dying before being enough of a man to grow a beard would be depressing.

Or enough og a woman.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: asura on Sat, 17 November 2012, 12:48:20
I can't comment on anything else, but drowning's pretty ******* awful.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 17 November 2012, 15:45:16
Man, this thread got super depressing.

The thread title might give you a clue ;)
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: xsphat on Sun, 18 November 2012, 06:47:19
I think life is the worst way to die.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 18 November 2012, 15:16:42
I think life is the worst way to die.

LOL but so true.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: lazerpointer on Sun, 18 November 2012, 16:53:39
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Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: noisyturtle on Sun, 18 November 2012, 17:31:43
Worst way to die: Being in a Dane Cook audience.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Input Nirvana on Sun, 18 November 2012, 17:37:43
Dying while in an unhappy point in your life...and knowing it.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: Findecanor on Mon, 19 November 2012, 04:37:47
Personally, I think cancer is one of the worst ways to die.
There are many ways to die of cancer.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: TheQsanity on Mon, 19 November 2012, 05:14:16
Personally, I think cancer is one of the worst ways to die.
There are many ways to die of cancer.

Dying while in chemo whould not be nice. Well chemo isnt really nice if you finish all 6 of them either.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: JoeC on Mon, 19 November 2012, 21:32:19
Worst way to die: Being in a Dane Cook audience.
Seconded!
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: hashbaz on Mon, 19 November 2012, 22:11:00
I don't know about worst, but I fear drowning.

Best way to die?  Getting run over by a steamroller in place of someone you love.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: tipo33 on Mon, 19 November 2012, 23:10:00
1 drowning
2 burning
3 being put feet first through a wood-chipper

As a medical professional, I have thankfully only seen the first two.
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: iri on Sat, 01 December 2012, 05:32:27
this is how one should die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NrlIK_ArzeM
Title: Re: Worst ways to die
Post by: davkol on Sat, 01 December 2012, 06:12:46