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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"work for Wells Fargo"... per another thread...
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.
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.
Alzheimer's would have to be a horrible way to go. Both for the patient and loved ones. Slowly slipping away.
Fascinating posts so good job by all. My perspective (and not counting illnesses as to me that's a separate category):
- The worst way to die would be long duration of knowing your doomed with extreme pain.
- The cave thing comes to mind here. The guy was in pain - maybe not super severe - but he was upside down and aware he was in deep shit for at least 24 hours.
- I think only torture for months and then being murdered like the Israeli-American hostages would be worse, but I’m focusing on accidents / natural events.
- Second worst would be just knowing for a long time that you are doomed, but not being too sure exactly when it is going to happen.
- Getting left alone in the middle of the ocean comes to mind here.
- Third Worst: Severe pain during relatively quick death.
- Getting caught feet first in a wood chipper would probably be the worst of this path.
Positive thing is the mental aspect of the person with it is gone, so it doesn’t effect them personally as much as it does family. My dad had dementia and passed a couple years ago. He was happy as a clam most of the time.
As @JDHoss said, ALS has got to be the worst for the person that has it. More than any other disease imo.
Both severely suck, but ALS impacts the individual more than Alzheimer’s imo.
My understanding is that ALS doesn’t hurt. Only positive thing I can think of regarding that terrible illness.
I knew a gal whose young daughter had brain cancer and it caused tremendous pain. They would have to let her cry because there was nothing they could do at times. What that poor woman went through makes me count my blessings.
I knew a gal whose young daughter had brain cancer and it caused tremendous pain. They would have to let her cry because there was nothing they could do at times. What that poor woman went through makes me count my blessings.
I had a coworker whose 9 year old son died with brain cancer. He said his pain was excruciating at times, and yes, my friend said that he experienced no physical pain with ALS. Only the mental anguish of losing his body functions, even his ability to cough or clear his throat in the final days. That, and the burden and sadness of his wife and three kids who were either just out of college or just starting. Some of us from work, led by a coworker who should have probably done this sort of thing for a living, remodeled their downstairs bathroom to include a large shower with a ramp. Gary got maybe a couple of months use of that.
I've thought about that and that's a horrendous way to go. I'd still would've jumped.
But the 9/11 stuff, the feeling that I fear are those few seconds where you see your plane is headed toward a building and you know it's over.
I don't have anxiety or panic attacks. But listening to that cave one, I couldn't finish it, I was starting to not feel well (quickly).
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Swallowed by a python is pretty quick per my understanding. 1) Snake bites you. 2) Instantly squeezes you so hard your heart stops (or at the least pass out), and 3) Then swallows you. After step 2 you're out of it so you won't really know you're being swallowed.
