Top 10 Worst Ways to Die
Once I went caving (for those who don't know, it is when you explore caves) and I was crouching down because the ceiling was only about 2 or 3 feet high. Then we came to this little hole in the ground, and I was laying on my stomach to get a close-up look at it. I lost my grip and slid head-first into this tiny little hole. I couldn't move my arms and couldn't see anything. After about 10 or 15 minutes, people pulled me out but, sheesh... Scariest moment of my life for sure.
No food, no water, dark, cramped, limited air, nothing to end it quicker besides abusing the air, nothing to save you, no one to save you, and your only way out is nearly impossible.
Definitely the worst. Once I accidentally caught my finger on fire. Most painful thing ever. If you think it isn't, then imagine someone pouring hot acid over you. No joke. And you slowly die. I would really hope that the smoke knocks me out for the time being.
If just burning yourself on a pot or curling iron feels like hell, I can't imagine how excruciatingly painful it must be to have your whole body burning. I agree with most who say, in this scenario, you pray you die of smoke inhalation before you burn to death.
Having almost drowned once before, I think this is the worst way to go. I would rather take the intense pain of burning alive, having my body ripped apart, or simply experiencing a slow ravage of agonizing physical pain until I begged for death and passed out. Because at least the pain is the last thing you think about as opposed to what's ultimately going to happen to you.
By the end, you might even welcome that final release just to escape it. When you drown, you are acutely aware of your life counting down and the aching burn of your last breath running out. Being stuck under a suffocating mass of water with no way out and going through the sheer adrenaline-driven terror of those last few seconds is the most petrifying thing imaginable.
Think about it! This shouldn't be #8. Sit there right now and try not to blink for twenty seconds. Now imagine, you still can't, and you never can again no matter how much your eyes burn.
You can't stand because the weight hurts too badly on your feet. But you can't lay down because the weight hurts too badly everywhere else. You're freezing, but also burning, and are vomiting and everything else. This is the worst, beside a billion paper cuts slicing through entire chunks of your body, just a half inch at a time, until too much of you has been cut off.
It's horrible. Torturing people doesn't do anything. You torture them, you're in jail. So what's the point? Why do it? People have families. Torturing doesn't make you a better person, and it shouldn't make you proud or happy that you did it.
You're not just ending their lives in a terrible way, you're also leaving their loved ones in tears and heartbroken. So, quit doing life-ruining things and imagine how you would feel if you died that way.
Being kidnapped to an unknown room where no one can save or even hear you is terrifying. Even sunlight doesn't pass through that room. You're alone with the sinner, tied to a chain or chair in an uncomfortable way.
Thirst takes over, drying your mouth. As you confirm the situation, you quickly observe the surroundings - full of rusted and dirty tools. You realize it's exactly what you feared: "torture."
Being trapped under ice is like being buried alive while drowning. Ice is actually pretty soundproof, and thick ice is hard to break. Plus, you would be able to see people and the world, knowing that they won't be able to save you. It also is much more possible than actually being buried alive.
More horrifying than being buried alive because you can see the world through the ice but can't get out to it.
Plus, in your panic, you lose sight of where the hole in the ice is, and you begin to drown from the shock.
This is a mixture of drowning and being buried alive. I think it's one of the worst ways you could go.
You feel your lungs fill up with water, and you are pounding on the ice to break free. But you're trapped, forever, between life and death.
This punishment was meant as a deterrent, so crucifixion would have been publicly displayed for all to see. First, the victim would be stripped naked and whipped, often tearing open their back. They would then be forced to carry a beam (or the whole cross) to the place of execution, and beaten if they slowed down. Upon reaching the place of execution, they would be stripped once again (usually they were dressed after the whipping). This second stripping would be very painful, as the blood and sweat would cause the skin to stick to the clothes, sometimes tearing the skin away with the fabric.
Next, the victim would be tied (and occasionally nailed) to the cross. People hung there for hours, if not days, eventually dying in agony. A truly painful and humiliating way to die.
Dying alone while starving or dying of thirst is just... very tragic. There have been various film clichés of castaways on deserted islands sending out messages in bottles to see if they get a response from someone nearby. And those instances happened in real life, as well.
Imagine if your bottle didn't reach someone who picked it up on a beach and that certain someone called a rescue team immediately. You would try hard to survive, but you would only die of hunger or thirst in the process. I have tried sending out messages in bottles on the waves near my home in the past, but no response ever came. It's just straight-up disturbing...
Having almost gone this way, I know it is horrible. I had a very high fever with severe headaches, and there were moments when I thought I was going to die. It's only thanks to my friends and family that I kept my inner strength and promised myself I would make it out alive.
I was only 11 years old when this happened, so I was determined not to die at such a young age. But there were times I felt helpless and considered giving up on life. Truly, one of the worst ways to go.
This should be at the top. Although it's not as painful as many other diseases, and the infected usually live a couple of years after being diagnosed, think about it. Not remembering your family, the most important moments in life, your own children... It's sad, for the person and his or her family.
I understand sharks need to eat to stay alive, and humans are one of the things that they eat. We can't do anything about it, but think of it like this: if you went to an all-you-can-eat buffet and there were many food options, but you only chose one meal out of fifty or something. This may sound stupid, but they have other things to eat - fish being one of them.
This is a really aggressive way to pass, and you can't do much if a shark approaches you. Teleporting to the shore isn't going to happen (sadly), but that's why I avoid deeper water.
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Extremely painful. Imagine skinning the top of your head slowly and painfully.
Ow, yeah. This is when people rip your head open for your hair.
No, this is a pretty bad and painful disease. Just nope.
Imagine that you just shrug it off, but as time goes on, you taste blood, you don't feel well, you get deathly sick, and then you go to the bathroom. You see that your mouth is filled with blood, and then you black out. And then, when you are reviewing your life, you are just thinking, 'How did I die from that?'
Watching your life leak out of your body would be absolutely terrifying.
Why else would people instinctively grab at the wound to try to stop the bleeding?
I got hit right on the eyebrow with a stick by a girl. And I was gushing blood. She said it was an "accident," but really, I don't think it was.
If you survived this, your life would never be the same again. It would be ruined.
Technically, the worst way to die for a woman is first being harassed, then being killed. That's wrong.
This would really suck to die this way.
Getting electrocuted sounds HORRIBLE! Think about it, almost anybody who has survived being struck by lightning described it as feeling like they got hit over the head with a sledgehammer. Or they say it's like one of those little static shocks you get when you touch a doorknob magnified hundreds of thousands of times. Ah! Imagine your body becoming a fried circuit. Oh, snap.
I've been shocked before, and it feels like a thousand needles jabbing into your skin. Multiply that by a million, and you get this. How is this below Justin Bieber?
Probably the most horrible way to go because, in car accidents, you can survive. But if your plane is about to crash, you can either pray for a miracle or wait for your doom.
If you survive a plane crash, then you would be extremely lucky.
It would be less than a second of pain, so not too painful.
This would be so horrible. I couldn't even imagine the terror.
You would be dead before you felt much of anything.
Depends. If it's a headshot, then you'll die so quickly you won't even feel or hear anything.
A heart shot is also quick but not instantaneous, meaning it still hurts. But anywhere else would suck.
Well, guns are very painful and powerful. I would rather be killed right away rather than endure that.
A headshot is quick, and the heart is too, but anywhere else will hurt like hell.
I struggled between this and drowning. But ultimately, I thought that the main problem with both drowning and being buried alive is that you end up oxygen-deprived, and that's what ultimately kills you.
I have been in a situation where I almost drowned, and it's chilling. The other ways may be more painful, but I would rather take the pain until I passed out than go through the sheer terror of your air running out.
Maybe you do end up light-headed and euphoric as the air runs out. But the seconds when you're reaching that tipping point are the most petrifying moments imaginable because you're so aware of it. There's nothing to divert your attention or focus on to take you out of it.
At least with pain, you have something substantial and physical to dwell on, and intense pain can even make you wish for death. Oxygen depletion is a whole other matter. It's the thing of nightmares and a whole other kind of pain.
On his way to school, all but one person lived. Guess who it was. Your son.
I heard Joe Ranft (Heimlich) died this way. If there's any silver lining, it sounds like Joe was killed very quickly.
One day, someone in need of a new heart will use yours.
Should be number one. It would hurt a lot and it's so damn brutal.
Hanging is like the third worst way to die. I can imagine that it's a little painful. You can't breathe, and there's nothing you can do about it.
At least after, your world begins to fade out in blackness as your body stops working.
All your life, you've worked towards being known as not suicidal, and then one day, that rope just slipped.
That would suck.
If you're going to get hanged, make sure it snaps your neck, or else you're just going to hang there, slowly suffocating to death.
How can this even happen? And just watch, I'm going to trip into a meat grinder some day.
Eh, at least I saw it coming.
I'm not aware of what this is, but just by looking at the picture, it seems horrible. Please don't make this happen anymore.
Falling by accident into a wood chipper.
Think of all the sweat and lost items. This is a horrible way to die.
This would be a slow and painful way to die. No man should have this happen to them.
Slowly crushing - types of deaths are the worst.
I hope that doesn't happen to me!
House bombings during war would be the worst. You can't turn the lights on, no matter what.
Terrible, just horrible. You burn, and it takes forever to get medical attention.
It would be like drowning in 100+ degree Fahrenheit water. I would be scared, and the hot tubs have chemicals in them. Swallowing too much water can kill you.
You would get claustrophobic and run out of breath. By far, one of the worst ways to die.
Wow. That would be slow and painful. The body loses energy in this situation.