4 years on a US Aircraft carrier.
I can assure you sailors think of that more than being eaten by a shark. LOL
Awful ways to die
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I can assure you sailors think of that more than being eaten by a shark. LOL
A documentary about the early years of the U-Boat menace against the British Navy. Policy was to keep going when u-boats were in the area and ships had been sunk. This one sailor was talking about how he recalls a surviving sailor in a life vest yelling taxi as the ship was leaving him very fast. He said the guy kept a sense of humor even though he knew he was going to die.
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I listened to the stuck in cave story while driving home the other day. I never really had claustrophobia but that may have changed with that story. I want nothing to do with caves that have tight squeezes.
About 12 years ago, one of my best friends developed ALS. Less than a year later, he was dead. Watching him slowly (or quickly, depending on how you look at it) deteriorate from using a cane to a walker to a wheel chair to being bed ridden and being barely able to speak and move his eyes was gut wrenching. At the end, he couldn't do anything but move his eyes. I can't imagine the horror of knowing your body was continuing to shut down, day by day, piece by piece and function by function.
I’d go see Dr Smith & Wesson a month or two into the diagnosis.
Getting swallowed alive by a python … that can’t be good.
Ever since I saw Creepshow, I’ve thought being buried in the sand with only your head sticking out ala Ted Danson while the high tide starts slowing coming until it overwhelms you and you drown has got to be absolutely terrible.
I'd probably wait until I felt like my arms were starting to get weak, but not so weak that I couldn't stick my 12 gauge under my chin. Preferably somewhere outside where I could take my wheelchair.
When I was a toddler, my mother would get either a local teen girl or let my older brothers babysit me. They started getting a kick out of throwing me in a closet and locking it up. I have no idea how many times it happened but it happened several times. I have had terrible claustrophobia throughout my life due to this.
Any type of death that involves claustrophobia, being buried alive, stuck in a cave, mine or building collapse. Not being able to move while waiting for the inevitable makes anything like burning to death, drowning, eaten by a wild animal seem quick, merciful and kind.
How about the poor bastards who had to choose between burning to death or jumping to their death from the WTC on 9/11. Choose your death, worse or worse.
Eaten alive, particularly in water because of drowning being an option too would be awful.
Also, Paul Walker has to be one of worst celebrity deaths ever.
All of the above said, I think terminal illness is the worst. I lost my grandmother to Pancreatitis....she was in ICU for the better part of 2 years. Moms best friend died of AIDS as well.
Also, Paul Walker has to be one of worst celebrity deaths ever.
All of the above said, I think terminal illness is the worst. I lost my grandmother to Pancreatitis....she was in ICU for the better part of 2 years. Moms best friend died of AIDS as well.
