buttercup
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Buried aliveSuffocation. No question.
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Buried aliveSuffocation. No question.
The worst way for to die would be to be shot by an enraged husband at age 105. By then I wouldn't be able to run fast enough.
Burning to death in a fire would be the worst way to go to me. Being stabbed or shot in the abdomen and dying slowly is a really bad way to go also.Since human mortality seems to be the theme of 2020, I've been giving thought to the worst way possible to die. Not just the worst way, but the way that induces the most dread. For example, dying in the Sarlaac (from Star Wars) would be an extremely horrible way to die, being digested over 1,000 years. On the other hand, because it is extremely unlikely to happen, it's not going to be worrisome to anyone who isn't a galactic bounty hunter with a jet pack.
Statistically, human beings have a 98% chance of dying at some point in their lifespan (+/- 2% margin of error) so this is a topic which should interest most of us.
I purposely chose not to include a poll because it would limit types of deaths into specific categories such as 'gruesome', 'lonely', painful', 'embarrassing', etc. The manner of death you describe should be that which fills you with the most dread. For some, that might be a death by COVID (very topical). For others, being snuffed out with the remainder of life on Earth by a gamma ray burst from a distant star.
I'll start it out with what I consider a particularly terrible way to die...
"Dying of a slow and painful cancer (such as bone or rectal), in a cut-rate nursing home, with dementia and your family never visit."
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow,
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow,
It's not about if you knew you were dying tomorrow. In a Sylvia Plath kind of way, we're all dying tomorrow.
It's about what kind of death fills you with the most dread.
I'm not seeing a lot of folks here say COVID.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow,
It's not about if you knew you were dying tomorrow. In a Sylvia Plath kind of way, we're all dying tomorrow.
It's about what kind of death fills you with the most dread.
I'm not seeing a lot of folks here say COVID.
I know. I was just adding another dimension to it.
Either way, you cannot choose.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow,
It's not about if you knew you were dying tomorrow. In a Sylvia Plath kind of way, we're all dying tomorrow.
It's about what kind of death fills you with the most dread.
I'm not seeing a lot of folks here say COVID.
I know. I was just adding another dimension to it.
Either way, you cannot choose.
You can always choose what to dread. It's a conscious decision.
Follow up question ...
"If you didn't die, how long would it take before immortality became a fate worse than death?"
A few centuries? A couple of millennia? A few million years?
Crap
Forgotten.Since human mortality seems to be the theme of 2020, I've been giving thought to the worst way possible to die. Not just the worst way, but the way that induces the most dread. For example, dying in the Sarlaac (from Star Wars) would be an extremely horrible way to die, being digested over 1,000 years. On the other hand, because it is extremely unlikely to happen, it's not going to be worrisome to anyone who isn't a galactic bounty hunter with a jet pack.
Statistically, human beings have a 98% chance of dying at some point in their lifespan (+/- 2% margin of error) so this is a topic which should interest most of us.
I purposely chose not to include a poll because it would limit types of deaths into specific categories such as 'gruesome', 'lonely', painful', 'embarrassing', etc. The manner of death you describe should be that which fills you with the most dread. For some, that might be a death by COVID (very topical). For others, being snuffed out with the remainder of life on Earth by a gamma ray burst from a distant star.
I'll start it out with what I consider a particularly terrible way to die...
"Dying of a slow and painful cancer (such as bone or rectal), in a cut-rate nursing home, with dementia and your family never visit."
I wish. Maybe someday my wish comes true!^^ lucky bastard is going out doing the nastyNot going to say lest it happen to me.