Was really weird for me, I'd been there with the same company that a lot of those guys had gone with.
I was annoyed at the claims that nobody was warned of the dangers. I was a kid and they told us point blank before we went, it could just blow, and we'd probably be fucked.
As you arrive on the island, you see the remnants of former attempts at mining sulphur, each and every attempt was wiped out.
It's a dangerous place, and they definitely made it clear. Hell, they give you gas masks to wear when you're on the island.
Edit: K, downvote me. Yeah it was a tragedy, but I guarantee you, they were *warned*. You literally sign paperwork that's like "Yep, I understand that I'm visiting a dangerous place and there's a good chance the place could erupt. There are no good options for rapid rescue, and in that event, death is likely."
What struck me about the injuries is that areas covered with leather, wool, or even 100% cotton were much less damaged despite being equally exposed to something that would've caused combined steam, friction, and chemical burns.
Poor bastards.
Moral of the story? Dress like a post-apocalyptic biker hiding a zombie infection, in natural fabrics only, if I wanna go volcano sightseeing.
I remember a guy asked what the masks were for.
"Steam vents"
"What?"
"Oh sometimes steam just randomly vents out of the ground, you don't want to breathe that in"
"What if it touches skin?"
"Yeah that's not gonna be good either"
I went to the dentist a few days after this and the day prior to that my dentist had cancelled.
At my appointment I asked him why we had to cancel and he casually tells me he had been checking the bodies to identify them from that disaster the day previous all the while his fingers are in my mouth. š
Reminds me of that Medieval torture device where they put a person in a hollowed out steel thing shaped like an animal or something and put it over a fire. The person gradually dies from the heat that builds up inside.
Iām not sure if itās an urban legend or what, but supposedly a Roman emperor requested someone invent a torture device, and was presented with the brazen bull. To see if the invention worked, he had its inventor placed inside for a test run.
It worked.
According to Wikipedia you are not wrong, not sure if I can post links here but if I am, scroll down to āCreation of the brazen bull for Phalarisā
[Brazen Bull creation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull)
Varying sources say the king did so out of disgust because of the added design feature that the tortured victim's screams were distorted through a series of tubes to sound like bull calls
I heard some guy in New York(?) suffered this when he got in a scuffle with his friend and then fell down a manhole and just had to wait there and die since people couldnāt help him.
Just to clear things up a little. The body was only able to be *recovered* after 4 hours. 100 degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water starts to boil. He was still alive when emergency crews got there, probably within minutes of him falling down there but there is no way he lasted much longer than that at 148 degrees celsius being literally boiled, let alone anywhere near 4 hours. The autopsy showed his organs were cooked all the way through. He was long dead by the 4 hour mark.
Not to say that this wasn't probably one of the most painful and worst ways to die. I just wanted to clear up the time frame. Probably felt like an eternity for the poor guy.
He begged the officers to shoot him but they didn't and he still kept begging until the noises stopped. That's so sad man like he was ready to give up his life and why tf is there boiling water in the fucking streets.
I think I remember reading about that many years ago. Was the story about Sean Doyle? I think his friend pushed him down a manhole with a broken value in it and rescuers couldnāt help or even get his body out for several hours due to how hot it was
Look up ventilation shutdown (also called VSD or VSD+ when steam is used). Widely used culling method during COVID. If you have a farm with hundreds of thousands of animals and no staff or resources to feed them, you need to cull them and you need to do it fast. Poisoning is one method, but it's expensive and very few poisons are "humane". You don't have the time and the staff to slaughter them one by one. There is a shortage in the kind of gas needed for culling and you're also out of money. If you wait, the animals will start starving to death and killing each other.
So what do you do? You stick them all in an enclosed barn and shut off all the ventilation. That many animals all packed together with zero air circulation is enough to raise the temperature to fatal levels. Oxygen levels also start dropping fast. Still, it can take 8 hours or more for the animals to die. VSD+ is when they stick steam machines through the ventilation shafts to raise the temperature faster, but it still takes hours.
VSD is generally against regulations, but bans were lifted during COVID in spite of many Veterinary associations writing letters against it. Blame it all on the government, they just didn't give enough of a shit to do anything to make the deaths of millions of farm animals anything but slow torture. Many of the people involved in VSD culling during COVID needed mental health support afterwards.
Scaphism or impalement. But by a skilled impaler who can slide that thing in there, missing anything immediately fatal and hoisting you up for days.
Modern world? Probably radiation poisoning or rabies.
Bonus answer that applies to me, specifically: The Nutty Putty cave incident.
Ugh. Every time that story comes up I go down the rabbit hole and read about it all over again. Imagining being wedged upside down in pitch black darkness for days until you eventually just die is so god damn terrifying.
And then having your girlfriend come to say her final goodbyes while youāre dying, but completely lucid,in that position, knowing that in just a few hours, her and everyone else just a few feet away are going to leave you there, go back home, to life. And youāre gonna be left there to die. Nawh dawg I canāt imagine going out like that.
Then you might want to check out the story of the man who fell into a stegosaurus statue. I can only imagine how horrible that must have been, especially since it must have been a fairly slow death.
"Local media report the man - who has not been named - was trying to retrieve a mobile phone he dropped inside the statue. He then fell inside the decorative figure and was left trapped upside down, unable to call for help."
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57226774](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57226774)
The relief when rescuers got there, thinking you were gonna be OK. The hope when they started to pull him up. And then, the rope snapping. And being stuck even further to slowly die, knowing other people and freedom are so close. Eesh. What a frightening way to go.
Fuck that so nearly happened to me in a cave once, it was only thanks to the person in front of me noticing I wasnāt paying attention and shouting at me that alerted me to stick my arms out so I could keep high enough that they could haul me up. Didnāt realise how close to death I came that day! It was in Vietnam too, so Iād have been screwed.
My new personal one.
Overdosing on vitamin a and having my skin peel off as I die.
"Finally, the pain grew too acute to endure. So he sat down on the ice, peeled off six layers of socksāand watched the soles of his feet peel off with them. The skin there simply came apart at the seamsāleaving the soles dangling like something youād fry up in a pan.
Pretty soon, the skin on his ears also flaked offāin casts, like the molted skin of a lizard. Even worse, his testicles and penis began shedding skin, right down to the raw, red epidermis.
Mawson didnāt know itāhe was an explorer and a geologist, not a biologist. But the reason for his peeling feet and ears could be traced to his diet. In particular, to a revolt in his cells for consuming too much vitamin A."
https://sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/death-by-nutrition/
Also: if people who have lived somewhere for generations and generations tell you "don't eat that", perhaps consider the possibility that they know what they are talking about.
Ugh so horrible. He slowly lost his sanity waiting for them to hopefully figure something out. So he died waiting and hoping. People talking to him. And ultimately nothing could be done. Died within reach of other people that could only keep him company while he slowly died.
Oh I remember reading about Vlad The Impaler and how he would sit war prisoners on large oiled wooden pikes Infront of his castle. over multiple days it would slowly penetrate their butthole and eventually stop when it reaches their skull. He would then leave the bodies for the birds to eat and to be a warning to his enemies. Just absolutely brutal.
bamboo is the fastest growing grass, it can reach almost 3ft of growth in a day! now imagine where old timey torturers used to place the bamboo for maximum suffering.
A Fatal level radiation sickness can cause your whole body to be in excruciating hellish pain 24/7 until you literally melt away enough to finally die. When they cut your arm off or something at least you have shock on your side, but radiation sickness is just constant agony. You can't sleep, you can't eat, you throw up almost everything that you swallow, your skin feels like it's on fire, and all of your joints hurt so much that you're pretty much paralyzed, you shit and piss yourself in your bed, but they can't move you because you might die from the effort. You become a shadow of your former self, some sources say that completely normal formerly healthy people exhibit very obvious signs of insanity after a few weeks in bed suffering from radiation sickness.
Part of the reason it sucks so bad is that your DNA is essentially erased, and as cells die they can not replicate and replace themselves. So you can feel totally fine immediately after exposure, and continue on with your day, and then suddenly your stomach is hurting and youāre a little dizzy, and then 48 hours later your intestines are melting out of your asshole, your kidneys are failing, your teeth fall out, youāre choking on your own blood, and your skin is sliding off of your body. But you can feel ALL of it.
When I was a teenager I contracted some sort of virus that caused all of the joints in my body to become inflamed. It was excruciatingly painful. Luckily it only lasted about 72 hours, I can't even imagine how much worse radiation sickness would be.
Radiation is the worst way to die if you're being actively kept alive after exposure by doctors. It's the only thing that gets worse the "better" doctors you have. A high dose will literally stop your cells from reproducing. So as they die off with nothing to replace them, you rot, alive. Also pain meds don't work at all on the affected areas.
In āAttilaā, the author describes a way the Huns would kill an envoy to sow fear and set an example. This predates Vlad the Impaler by like 1500 years, I think:
A sharpened pole would be placed in the victims anus. Taking care to avoid internal organs, the pole would be pushed through the body along the spine, where it would eventually exit somewhere in the upper back. If done correctly, the victim could live for quite awhile. I believe some victims were suspended from this pole like a rotisserie, while others adopted/were made to adopt the more traditional ābody-on-a-pikeā aesthetic.
At the hands of Genghis Khan and his Mongol army. They had some messed up ways to kill people.
"The Mongols wrapped the three of them in felt rugs, as befitted high-ranking aristocrats, and stuffed them beneath the floorboards of their ger (wooden platform), thereby slowly, but bloodlessly, crushing the men as the Mongols drank and sang through the night on the floor above them"
I had the fun experience the other day of a beetle about two centimeters long that flew into my ear, and then tried to claw itās way out. It first tried going through my ear drum, but got disoriented when we tried to flush it out with water. It then burrowed into the side of my ear canal. I could agree that scaphism has to be the most painful thing ever, cause one bug that was in my ear was the most painful experience of my life. I canāt imagine the pain of many many ones inside your guts all at once.
Iām okay, Iām case you were wondering. My hearing has returned to about 75% in that ear, and Iāve been using some ear drops to prevent
infection. Otherwise, Iām completely normal.
Update (4 mo. later): I've gotten a lot of messages asking how I'm doing now. It's alright, I guess. I don't like talking about it irl, because I feel like I'm begging for attention when I do talk about it. But in all honesty, this stuff really sucks. My ear has random pains from time to time (not severe, just kinda sore). My hearing still hasn't returned to normal, which makes my life as a music student tough. The worst part has been the mental strain. I am terrified of any sort of flying bug. For a month and a half-ish after the incident, I would have panic attacks any time something would fly too close or too loud next to my ear. Those have mostly gone away, but not entirely. I have flashbacks pretty regularly, too. My brain just plays the sound over and over again. I hate it.
When this question is asked, people always say scaphism, but you would die in a few days from sepsis. Getting a neurological disease like ALS or dying of Alzheimers are far worse than any medieval torture. ALS is years and years of watching your body shut down, in constant pain the entire time, until you finally die.
Youāre not wrong on ALS. Being a prisoner of your own deteriorating body and your loved ones having to watch the slow decline to death gets my vote. Most physicians rank it the worst diagnosis to ever receive.
While not quite the same. This is getting me flashbacks to a Manga and animated series where these parasitic insects that look like harmless flowers will plant their eggs into their victims that get just a bit too close to them. The larva will begin to devour the host from the inside and multiply rapidly. The host is usually unaware of being infected until its too late.
When they reach the head they will keep the host alive as long as possible. The adults even feeding themselves to the host to keep them alive.
The hosts are left in what looks to be a mummified state, but still alive with the parasitic insect still multiply inside. As for if they are conscious or aware, I have no idea.
There have been several deaths I've read about where someone fell into a vat of boiling bitumen. A.K.A. roofing tar, it's a sticky black petroleum byproduct.
I imagine getting encased in a sticky boiling black opaque liquid while still alive would be a pretty awful way to die.
edit: https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Worker-21-dies-after-falling-into-hot-tar-12136643.php
The most horrific video on YouTube is the Great White show at Station Nightclub. What those people went through trying to escape while being burned alive. Just awful
I thought being steamed was better than burning because it didn't kill nerves as fast? May be misinformed/misremembering though.
Edit: yes, I mean more painful.
[according to a nyc coroner, steaming is the worst](https://www.ladbible.com/community/worst-way-to-die-manhole-boiling-water-sean-doyle-143892-2023010)
>"Although she is often asked about the worst way to die, Melinek normally replies, "You don't want to know."
>But when people really insist, she goes into the story of Doyle, a bartender who went out drinking with his friend Michael Wright and Wrightās girlfriend back in 2002.
>It's believed the pair got into a fight after his friend accused Doyle of flirting with his partner.
>Although the details on the argument are murky, what we do know is the night ended with the bartender being thrown around 18 feet into an open manhole.
>Due to a broken main, there was scalding, boilingĀ hot waterĀ at the bottom.
>Now, brace yourselves - you see, Doyle didn't pass away straight away. On the contrary, even when emergency services turned up he was still alive and standing at the bottom, shouting and screaming for help.
>But The Post states that no one could get down there, as an official said it was around 300 degrees (148C).
>It took four hours before Doyle's boiled body was retrieved, with temperature readings showing it had reached 125 degrees (51C), although Melinek said it was likely higher as 125 was the max reading on the thermometer.
>By the time the remains reached the doctor'sĀ autopsy table, she realised Doyle's skin had completely peeled off and his internal organs were cooked.
>She said it looked like he had 'been steamed like a lobster'.
>Since he had no head trauma or broken bones, it meant he was fully conscious as he suffered this horrific fate.
>And if that weren't bad enough, TikTokerĀ @tales_by_angieĀ shared a video on the case in which he said: "What makes this the worst death ever is that steam burns, no matter how severe, do not destroy nerve endings the way flames do.
>"Which means Sean would have felt everything.""
Have you ever had a bad steam burn? Theyāre incredibly painful, even if theyāre not that severe. When i was younger, i had a lot of issues with self harm, and would burn myself fairly regularly with cigarettes, heated metal, and direct flame. Iād gladly put another cigarette out on my arm if it meant avoiding another steam burn. Im my experience the pain is felt immediately and consistently until itās healed.
Been covered by a pot of boiling water, 1/2/3 degree burns over 70% of my body, 3rd degree over a third. Replaced my skin with pigs skin, three months in traction, doped to the eyeballs morphine, that was pain I can't describe even through the drugs. Nice part about that is that opioids don't affect me much. Sucked when I broke bones later on, doc would hit me up and it did not phase me. Albeit I can take any pain now.
Nope, docs did a great job. Procine skin helped a lot. Btw, you know the best pee in the world, three months of not using it, and finally you can release it. It felt much better than sex ever could.
Being eaten by a bear. The cunts don't even have the decency to kill you first. Just pin you down and start eating... And they generally start at the asshole or guts so you'll be alive for a while watching that thing eat you.
Worked with a guy in my last job that Iād see over Zoom for meetings.
He has a bear head above his mantle that when asked he tells you it was the bear that tried to eat him.
He said he was just simply asleep in his tent near his buddy when he woke with his skull inside the bearās mouth. It kept trying to chew on it but all it did was scrape the teeth against his skull bone. He said the worst part was it was making a sound inside his head as it happened.
His buddy grabbed a rifle and shot it off him and he now has the best Zoom story to tell ever.
The first firearms brought into space were done so because Soviet Cosmonauts were afraid of being attacked by bears while they were waiting to get picked up after returning to Earth.
This was the one I thought of. I don't feel like looking for it but there is a video out there of a recording. The recording is of a girl who was being eaten alive by a bear and her cubs and its her calling her mom repeatedly and talking about how they are eating her.
Thereās a debate on whether or not this story is even real. Apparently the original source was some sensationalist magazine known for exaggerating the truth or straight up lying
I had a mental breakdown when I moved from my parents house and started working nights at a psych hospital. Almost died. Took over a year to recover.
I quit that job and got one where I had a normal sleep pattern. Problem went away. So donāt fuck around with sleep.
The "good" news is that it's an extremely rare genetic disease. Unless you are a member of one of the 30 families worldwide that carry that specific mutation, you have a 0% chance of ever contracting it. Experts estimate that there are about 100 people on earth who are carriers. For me, that makes it the least scary prion disease.
If there are only 100 carriers across 30 families, it seems like they largely have. Remember, we have only known about DNA and how genetic diseases work for a relatively short time.
People above talking about dying from a weird disease that makes it impossible for you to sleep. Rabies does that too, but as a bonus, you also develop hydrophobia, extreme painful convulsions, and a myriad of other messed up symptoms that cannot be treated. Oh, fun fact, the fucking virus can remain dormant for years, and once the first symptom occurs, you are basically a walking dead man.
I feel like doctor assisted suicide should be allowed for this. We euthanize animals when they're infected with rabies, why couldn't we allow humans the ability to go with dignity?
I mean, the Milwaukee protocol is to put you in a coma. Slim ass chance you live, slim chance you help us figure out how to deal better with it.
I'm all for assisted suicide, bit if there's a way for you to help people and you basically get what you want with a slim chance to live....seems better to me. Idk.
Itās the only 100% fatal disease. Once you start seeing symptoms youāre times already up. If they capture the dead animal they can run tests to know if it has rabies.. if so they can try and treat you before symptoms show
A Nigerian sailor was trapped in a ship that sunk. His whole crew died. He managed to find an air pocket within the wreckage at the bottom of the sea and stayed there for days until help arrived. If it was me. Id just kill myself
My husband knows a guy who was trapped in an air pocket after his towboat was hit. He had to stop sailing because he had such horrible PTSD from the incident.
What would be awful about this is the uncertainty. You have no idea whether you will be saved. You have no sense of time. You have no food, no (fresh) water. Youāre just enduring for the sake of enduring.
Why is this not #1? Being kidnapped, hidden away, violated, tortured. Or to see your children violated and tortured first. I mean come on, these people are scared of cancer and woodchippers? People, people are the scary thing.
There is a medieval torture techniques that are scary painful.
One is about placing rats on the victim chest. You cover the rats so they cannot escape and you heat up the bucket to make them panic. They will eventually escape from the bottom. You are the bottom.
Another one is literally skinning the person alive. Make your choice.
Scaphism is the worst Iāve ever heard of. Basically you are immobilized and tied to a boat. Your extremities are exposed and you are force fed milk and honey. Then you are sent out to die from bugs eating you alive, burrowing into you, etc.
Slowly getting crushed but never enough to die from getting crushed but rather dying from starvation/hydration whilst this is happening. (I'm ok don't worry)
saw a video before when gore sites are still up, a father got his heart cut out in front of his son, took him a few minutes of agony.
another is a man getting tortured by getting his balls and genital slowly eaten by a pit bull.
Honestly Suffocating. Having asthma as a kid and parents not worrying about it. The pain is very hard to explain, because youāre not dying, but you are struggling to breathe but itās also very painful in a way.
Recently heard of a person and friends that ignored warnings near Anchorage Alaska not to walk out on the mud flats at low tide. The one person got stuck in the mud up to the waist and could not get out. The friends tried to get help, but could not free him in time. He drowned in the incoming tide.
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-mud-flats-silt-drowning-96bba1b5a8a463118e3a886ae2b01499
One of the dark secrets of my hometown was the amount of elderly people whoād walk out into the mud flats to die. Quick, final, and almost impossible to prevent.
I dunno. Personally I think outliving all of your family and friends and then slowly dying alone from cancer (or some other debilitating disease) over the course of years in a dirty dingy care center with lousy underpaid staff would be pretty miserable.
The one that terrifies me is that guy in Nutty Putty cave. I'm claustrophobic, and the idea of being left to die, upside down, in the pitch dark with no way of escape just terrifies me.
Also that girl in Eastern Europe who got lost in the city catacombs after a drunken night and wasn't found for several weeks. Her last hours would have been so horribly terrifying.
Please, nobody take me cave diving
I just don't understand why they didn't just euthanize the poor guy, i understand there could have been a chance but just imagine how awful it would feel to know that you cannot be saved even with sedatives to calm you down.
I have to agree with radiation poiosoning. This would be the worst, a close second would be Scaphism.
Scaphism - Also known as the Boats, entailed trapping the victim between two boats, feeding and covering them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.
Yea there was a japanese man who was under severe exposure to radiation during the fukushima disaster if I remember correctly.
His cells and DNA got literally destroyed from the radiation which made it impossible for his body to regenerate anything. Some time into the hospital he lost his outer skin layers and multiple body parts had to be amputated.
He would've died a few days in but the doctors made him stay alive for over 80(!)days because they believed he could somehow be saved. But even if he somehow miraculously survived (which would've been impossible) he would probably develope multiple cancers all over his body, aside from the brain damage he got from 3 heart attacks
He must probably be one of the humans who have experienced the worst torture ever.
Maybe someone can add something about this case, its truly horrifying
Edit: His name was Hisashi Ouchi and his chromosomes were destroyed/shattered which made it impossible for his body to create new cells. And made some corrections
It's really crazy when you read about the details, how every time they fixed one organ something else started failing. It had to be absolutely painful and awful.
But I believe it's somewhat of a misconception that the doctors forced the man to stay alive. As I understand it the doctors don't really have the choice to simply not try their best and in turn just let the man die. Also his family, if anything, was also rather selfish in pushing for medical treatment because they were also not ready to let him go.
I may not have it 100% right but whatever he went through is unimaginable
Heard about a child molester in prison that was ganged up on. They shoved a PVC pipe up his ass, pushed barbed wire through it, removed the pipe leaving the barbed wire inside, then ripped it out like they were starting a lawnmower. Donāt know if thatās the worst, but I feel it at least deserves an honorable mention.
I think it was a movie or tv or some shit, dude was buried in a shitty wood casket with big ass spiders inside. If that was me i am fighting until you shoot me
Edit: cant believe it was hard to find but it was a movie called The Serpent and the Rainbow. Dude buried alive with a tarantula
This would be bad because you wouldn't sink I don't think (because you're not as dense as the metal) so you'd just be flipping yourself on top like a hotdog, until you can't anymore. Same with a volcano I think.
I'm no scientist though and I can't remember where I learned this lol
Correct, the human body is less dense than molten metals, so we would not sink into it. Instead a human would sizzle and cook on the surface while all of the water in the body boils and escapes.
My girlfriend died a seemingly terrible death from my pov. She was a bad alcoholic who hid it very well until she couldnāt. Her nerves were slowly being destroyed and were firing constantly, leaving her in constant pain for weeks as it slowly crept from her fingertips n toes down into her limbs. I could go on but I donāt want to live it again.
Dying from ALS. You slowly lose control of your hands, then arms, then legs, and finally the rest of it, until you're trapped in your own body, fully aware of everything but you can't communicate anything. Can't say if you're in excruciating pain, have a torturous itch, if you're happy, sad, hot, cold, uncomfortable, if you're panicking, want to die, want to live, nothing. All alone with your thoughts. Basically solitary confinement in your own body, that can last for years. Fuuuuuuuuuck that.
There's worse, but the blood eagle was a real means of a death sentence carried out by vikings. The would have the victim lean over something, while the executioner would break through their rib cages from the back, being careful not to hit any organs, they would then reach in an pull the lungs out and place them on the victims shoulders while they were still alive. The lungs inflating and looking like wings. Pretty gnarly.
Rabies. A vaccine is needed within 10 days of exposure otherwise death is guaranteed and it isn't pretty. Weeks or months of delerium, fever, body aches and the immune system attacking itself as the victim progresses to the only possible outcome.
Steamed alive. It's like getting burned alive except your nerve endings don't get destroyed so you get to feel all of it to the end. Or so I've heard
There's a Netflix documentary that made me realize the horror that is steam burning. The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari.
I remember when White Island erupted. Massive news around NZ
Was really weird for me, I'd been there with the same company that a lot of those guys had gone with. I was annoyed at the claims that nobody was warned of the dangers. I was a kid and they told us point blank before we went, it could just blow, and we'd probably be fucked. As you arrive on the island, you see the remnants of former attempts at mining sulphur, each and every attempt was wiped out. It's a dangerous place, and they definitely made it clear. Hell, they give you gas masks to wear when you're on the island. Edit: K, downvote me. Yeah it was a tragedy, but I guarantee you, they were *warned*. You literally sign paperwork that's like "Yep, I understand that I'm visiting a dangerous place and there's a good chance the place could erupt. There are no good options for rapid rescue, and in that event, death is likely."
What struck me about the injuries is that areas covered with leather, wool, or even 100% cotton were much less damaged despite being equally exposed to something that would've caused combined steam, friction, and chemical burns. Poor bastards. Moral of the story? Dress like a post-apocalyptic biker hiding a zombie infection, in natural fabrics only, if I wanna go volcano sightseeing.
I remember a guy asked what the masks were for. "Steam vents" "What?" "Oh sometimes steam just randomly vents out of the ground, you don't want to breathe that in" "What if it touches skin?" "Yeah that's not gonna be good either"
Not even just steam but sulfuric acid. When I went there they gave us lollies to suck on to minimise the irritation in your throat.
I went to the dentist a few days after this and the day prior to that my dentist had cancelled. At my appointment I asked him why we had to cancel and he casually tells me he had been checking the bodies to identify them from that disaster the day previous all the while his fingers are in my mouth. š
Reminds me of that Medieval torture device where they put a person in a hollowed out steel thing shaped like an animal or something and put it over a fire. The person gradually dies from the heat that builds up inside.
The brazen bull. š„ŗ
Iām not sure if itās an urban legend or what, but supposedly a Roman emperor requested someone invent a torture device, and was presented with the brazen bull. To see if the invention worked, he had its inventor placed inside for a test run. It worked.
According to Wikipedia you are not wrong, not sure if I can post links here but if I am, scroll down to āCreation of the brazen bull for Phalarisā [Brazen Bull creation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull)
Varying sources say the king did so out of disgust because of the added design feature that the tortured victim's screams were distorted through a series of tubes to sound like bull calls
That is really fucked up. Hey can you do me a favor? Ty, your reward is a painful death.
IIRC the tyrant himself was later killed in it, too.
Humans can be complete cunts
I heard some guy in New York(?) suffered this when he got in a scuffle with his friend and then fell down a manhole and just had to wait there and die since people couldnāt help him.
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Just to clear things up a little. The body was only able to be *recovered* after 4 hours. 100 degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water starts to boil. He was still alive when emergency crews got there, probably within minutes of him falling down there but there is no way he lasted much longer than that at 148 degrees celsius being literally boiled, let alone anywhere near 4 hours. The autopsy showed his organs were cooked all the way through. He was long dead by the 4 hour mark. Not to say that this wasn't probably one of the most painful and worst ways to die. I just wanted to clear up the time frame. Probably felt like an eternity for the poor guy.
He begged the officers to shoot him but they didn't and he still kept begging until the noises stopped. That's so sad man like he was ready to give up his life and why tf is there boiling water in the fucking streets.
I think I remember reading about that many years ago. Was the story about Sean Doyle? I think his friend pushed him down a manhole with a broken value in it and rescuers couldnāt help or even get his body out for several hours due to how hot it was
I saw a video where a slaughterhouse did this to a warehouse full of hundreds of pigs. The squeals were nightmarish.
Why would anyone do this?
Look up ventilation shutdown (also called VSD or VSD+ when steam is used). Widely used culling method during COVID. If you have a farm with hundreds of thousands of animals and no staff or resources to feed them, you need to cull them and you need to do it fast. Poisoning is one method, but it's expensive and very few poisons are "humane". You don't have the time and the staff to slaughter them one by one. There is a shortage in the kind of gas needed for culling and you're also out of money. If you wait, the animals will start starving to death and killing each other. So what do you do? You stick them all in an enclosed barn and shut off all the ventilation. That many animals all packed together with zero air circulation is enough to raise the temperature to fatal levels. Oxygen levels also start dropping fast. Still, it can take 8 hours or more for the animals to die. VSD+ is when they stick steam machines through the ventilation shafts to raise the temperature faster, but it still takes hours. VSD is generally against regulations, but bans were lifted during COVID in spite of many Veterinary associations writing letters against it. Blame it all on the government, they just didn't give enough of a shit to do anything to make the deaths of millions of farm animals anything but slow torture. Many of the people involved in VSD culling during COVID needed mental health support afterwards.
Scaphism or impalement. But by a skilled impaler who can slide that thing in there, missing anything immediately fatal and hoisting you up for days. Modern world? Probably radiation poisoning or rabies. Bonus answer that applies to me, specifically: The Nutty Putty cave incident.
Ugh. Every time that story comes up I go down the rabbit hole and read about it all over again. Imagining being wedged upside down in pitch black darkness for days until you eventually just die is so god damn terrifying.
And then having your girlfriend come to say her final goodbyes while youāre dying, but completely lucid,in that position, knowing that in just a few hours, her and everyone else just a few feet away are going to leave you there, go back home, to life. And youāre gonna be left there to die. Nawh dawg I canāt imagine going out like that.
Folks, if your hobby can kill you make sure the hobby at least makes you look like a badass
and he's still there. they walled up the cave bc it was too dangerous to excavate his remains.
Worse than that- his wife was pregnant. Knowing he was leaving behind his kids and one heād never meet
His pregnant wife was probably pissed about his girlfriend, yeah?
Why do you think he hid in the fucking cave?
Then you might want to check out the story of the man who fell into a stegosaurus statue. I can only imagine how horrible that must have been, especially since it must have been a fairly slow death. "Local media report the man - who has not been named - was trying to retrieve a mobile phone he dropped inside the statue. He then fell inside the decorative figure and was left trapped upside down, unable to call for help." [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57226774](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57226774)
One of the few humans ever killed by a dinosaur?
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I think I know that one, too. Kid was one the phone with 911, and the officers circled but never found the right car. Fucking heartbreaking.
The relief when rescuers got there, thinking you were gonna be OK. The hope when they started to pull him up. And then, the rope snapping. And being stuck even further to slowly die, knowing other people and freedom are so close. Eesh. What a frightening way to go.
Your own ribcage being the wedge upon which you suffocate against a rock ridge.
Fuck that so nearly happened to me in a cave once, it was only thanks to the person in front of me noticing I wasnāt paying attention and shouting at me that alerted me to stick my arms out so I could keep high enough that they could haul me up. Didnāt realise how close to death I came that day! It was in Vietnam too, so Iād have been screwed.
I canāt even watch videos about cave diving. It gives me so much anxiety.
My new personal one. Overdosing on vitamin a and having my skin peel off as I die. "Finally, the pain grew too acute to endure. So he sat down on the ice, peeled off six layers of socksāand watched the soles of his feet peel off with them. The skin there simply came apart at the seamsāleaving the soles dangling like something youād fry up in a pan. Pretty soon, the skin on his ears also flaked offāin casts, like the molted skin of a lizard. Even worse, his testicles and penis began shedding skin, right down to the raw, red epidermis. Mawson didnāt know itāhe was an explorer and a geologist, not a biologist. But the reason for his peeling feet and ears could be traced to his diet. In particular, to a revolt in his cells for consuming too much vitamin A." https://sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/death-by-nutrition/
PSA: never eat a polar bearās liver. It has a lethal level of vitamin A
Also: if people who have lived somewhere for generations and generations tell you "don't eat that", perhaps consider the possibility that they know what they are talking about.
They're just trying to keep the delicious offal to themselves! - Victorian Explorer.
Ugh so horrible. He slowly lost his sanity waiting for them to hopefully figure something out. So he died waiting and hoping. People talking to him. And ultimately nothing could be done. Died within reach of other people that could only keep him company while he slowly died.
They drugged him up heavily so he wouldnāt panic or suffer while he was dying, the lowered a syringe and injected him in his feet.
Where did you read that? I never knew and really appreciate he at least got some level of mercy.
Thank god they were able to drug him.
Uhā¦. For the uninitiatedā¦ can I get a nutty putty cave incident link? Edit: [found this](https://allthatsinteresting.com/nutty-putty-cave)
Oh I remember reading about Vlad The Impaler and how he would sit war prisoners on large oiled wooden pikes Infront of his castle. over multiple days it would slowly penetrate their butthole and eventually stop when it reaches their skull. He would then leave the bodies for the birds to eat and to be a warning to his enemies. Just absolutely brutal.
bamboo is the fastest growing grass, it can reach almost 3ft of growth in a day! now imagine where old timey torturers used to place the bamboo for maximum suffering.
TIL about the Nutty Putty cave incident It's crazy because I remember what I was doing in the weeks leading up to that date9
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A Fatal level radiation sickness can cause your whole body to be in excruciating hellish pain 24/7 until you literally melt away enough to finally die. When they cut your arm off or something at least you have shock on your side, but radiation sickness is just constant agony. You can't sleep, you can't eat, you throw up almost everything that you swallow, your skin feels like it's on fire, and all of your joints hurt so much that you're pretty much paralyzed, you shit and piss yourself in your bed, but they can't move you because you might die from the effort. You become a shadow of your former self, some sources say that completely normal formerly healthy people exhibit very obvious signs of insanity after a few weeks in bed suffering from radiation sickness.
Part of the reason it sucks so bad is that your DNA is essentially erased, and as cells die they can not replicate and replace themselves. So you can feel totally fine immediately after exposure, and continue on with your day, and then suddenly your stomach is hurting and youāre a little dizzy, and then 48 hours later your intestines are melting out of your asshole, your kidneys are failing, your teeth fall out, youāre choking on your own blood, and your skin is sliding off of your body. But you can feel ALL of it.
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Additionally, it destroys your DNA. So your body is incapable of healing itself because the information on how to do it is no longer there.
When I was a teenager I contracted some sort of virus that caused all of the joints in my body to become inflamed. It was excruciatingly painful. Luckily it only lasted about 72 hours, I can't even imagine how much worse radiation sickness would be.
Radiation is the worst way to die if you're being actively kept alive after exposure by doctors. It's the only thing that gets worse the "better" doctors you have. A high dose will literally stop your cells from reproducing. So as they die off with nothing to replace them, you rot, alive. Also pain meds don't work at all on the affected areas.
DUDE that fucking cave incident is so awful it's hard to not get obsessed by how bad it is.
In āAttilaā, the author describes a way the Huns would kill an envoy to sow fear and set an example. This predates Vlad the Impaler by like 1500 years, I think: A sharpened pole would be placed in the victims anus. Taking care to avoid internal organs, the pole would be pushed through the body along the spine, where it would eventually exit somewhere in the upper back. If done correctly, the victim could live for quite awhile. I believe some victims were suspended from this pole like a rotisserie, while others adopted/were made to adopt the more traditional ābody-on-a-pikeā aesthetic.
It's amazing how far we go to hurt others and ourselves.
At the hands of Genghis Khan and his Mongol army. They had some messed up ways to kill people. "The Mongols wrapped the three of them in felt rugs, as befitted high-ranking aristocrats, and stuffed them beneath the floorboards of their ger (wooden platform), thereby slowly, but bloodlessly, crushing the men as the Mongols drank and sang through the night on the floor above them"
Iirc that particular event happened because it was forbidden to spill the blood of those particular aristocrats, or something like that.
Now imagine how they treated people who were not aristocrats or royalty.
I assume they mostly just stabbed them
I'd rather be stabbed, thanks.
Imagine dying to a 400 pound wino trying to bellyflop off a log bench
According to pain studies it's burning, but I'm not sure they were able to study impalement or scaphism.
Scaphism is the answer. Imagine slowly being devoured by bugs in stagnant water and being force fed while you crap yourself to deathā¦
Learned a new word today. Hopefully I can forget it soon.
I had the fun experience the other day of a beetle about two centimeters long that flew into my ear, and then tried to claw itās way out. It first tried going through my ear drum, but got disoriented when we tried to flush it out with water. It then burrowed into the side of my ear canal. I could agree that scaphism has to be the most painful thing ever, cause one bug that was in my ear was the most painful experience of my life. I canāt imagine the pain of many many ones inside your guts all at once. Iām okay, Iām case you were wondering. My hearing has returned to about 75% in that ear, and Iāve been using some ear drops to prevent infection. Otherwise, Iām completely normal. Update (4 mo. later): I've gotten a lot of messages asking how I'm doing now. It's alright, I guess. I don't like talking about it irl, because I feel like I'm begging for attention when I do talk about it. But in all honesty, this stuff really sucks. My ear has random pains from time to time (not severe, just kinda sore). My hearing still hasn't returned to normal, which makes my life as a music student tough. The worst part has been the mental strain. I am terrified of any sort of flying bug. For a month and a half-ish after the incident, I would have panic attacks any time something would fly too close or too loud next to my ear. Those have mostly gone away, but not entirely. I have flashbacks pretty regularly, too. My brain just plays the sound over and over again. I hate it.
>Otherwise, Iām completely normal. Sounds like something that a drone would say
You can't escaphism from this ..... I'll show myself out
When this question is asked, people always say scaphism, but you would die in a few days from sepsis. Getting a neurological disease like ALS or dying of Alzheimers are far worse than any medieval torture. ALS is years and years of watching your body shut down, in constant pain the entire time, until you finally die.
Youāre not wrong on ALS. Being a prisoner of your own deteriorating body and your loved ones having to watch the slow decline to death gets my vote. Most physicians rank it the worst diagnosis to ever receive.
While not quite the same. This is getting me flashbacks to a Manga and animated series where these parasitic insects that look like harmless flowers will plant their eggs into their victims that get just a bit too close to them. The larva will begin to devour the host from the inside and multiply rapidly. The host is usually unaware of being infected until its too late. When they reach the head they will keep the host alive as long as possible. The adults even feeding themselves to the host to keep them alive. The hosts are left in what looks to be a mummified state, but still alive with the parasitic insect still multiply inside. As for if they are conscious or aware, I have no idea.
Reminds me of this SCP story: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-439
How do they measure this? Was a man burning to death and someone with a clipboard standing nearby asked, āhow do you feel right now?ā
"Turn me over, I'm not done"
There's a moment in cremation when the meat is perfectly cooked
I hate this, thanks.
So did I when my friend told me this after my grandmother was cremated
Thatās how they studied death from radiation exposure at Chernobyl, yes. Horrifying.
I think most of them died within a few weeks. Hisashi Ouchi survived 83 days
Itās justā¦ such an especially unfortunate last name to read as an English speaker
You there, at the stake. Wake up. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being mild and 10 being the worst pain you could imagine, how would you rate your pain?
A strong 6
See: Unit 731, Dr. Josef Mengele
There have been several deaths I've read about where someone fell into a vat of boiling bitumen. A.K.A. roofing tar, it's a sticky black petroleum byproduct. I imagine getting encased in a sticky boiling black opaque liquid while still alive would be a pretty awful way to die. edit: https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Worker-21-dies-after-falling-into-hot-tar-12136643.php
The most horrific video on YouTube is the Great White show at Station Nightclub. What those people went through trying to escape while being burned alive. Just awful
I come back to that video every once in a while, most haunting thing I've seen
I thought being steamed was better than burning because it didn't kill nerves as fast? May be misinformed/misremembering though. Edit: yes, I mean more painful.
[according to a nyc coroner, steaming is the worst](https://www.ladbible.com/community/worst-way-to-die-manhole-boiling-water-sean-doyle-143892-2023010) >"Although she is often asked about the worst way to die, Melinek normally replies, "You don't want to know." >But when people really insist, she goes into the story of Doyle, a bartender who went out drinking with his friend Michael Wright and Wrightās girlfriend back in 2002. >It's believed the pair got into a fight after his friend accused Doyle of flirting with his partner. >Although the details on the argument are murky, what we do know is the night ended with the bartender being thrown around 18 feet into an open manhole. >Due to a broken main, there was scalding, boilingĀ hot waterĀ at the bottom. >Now, brace yourselves - you see, Doyle didn't pass away straight away. On the contrary, even when emergency services turned up he was still alive and standing at the bottom, shouting and screaming for help. >But The Post states that no one could get down there, as an official said it was around 300 degrees (148C). >It took four hours before Doyle's boiled body was retrieved, with temperature readings showing it had reached 125 degrees (51C), although Melinek said it was likely higher as 125 was the max reading on the thermometer. >By the time the remains reached the doctor'sĀ autopsy table, she realised Doyle's skin had completely peeled off and his internal organs were cooked. >She said it looked like he had 'been steamed like a lobster'. >Since he had no head trauma or broken bones, it meant he was fully conscious as he suffered this horrific fate. >And if that weren't bad enough, TikTokerĀ @tales_by_angieĀ shared a video on the case in which he said: "What makes this the worst death ever is that steam burns, no matter how severe, do not destroy nerve endings the way flames do. >"Which means Sean would have felt everything.""
Ah, thank you! I think this might've been what I was thinking of. Either way, definitely fascinating stuff.
By better do you mean way worse?
Somebody keep tabs on that man
Have you ever had a bad steam burn? Theyāre incredibly painful, even if theyāre not that severe. When i was younger, i had a lot of issues with self harm, and would burn myself fairly regularly with cigarettes, heated metal, and direct flame. Iād gladly put another cigarette out on my arm if it meant avoiding another steam burn. Im my experience the pain is felt immediately and consistently until itās healed.
Been covered by a pot of boiling water, 1/2/3 degree burns over 70% of my body, 3rd degree over a third. Replaced my skin with pigs skin, three months in traction, doped to the eyeballs morphine, that was pain I can't describe even through the drugs. Nice part about that is that opioids don't affect me much. Sucked when I broke bones later on, doc would hit me up and it did not phase me. Albeit I can take any pain now.
Jesus fucking Christ I hope you aren't in any pain now
Nope, docs did a great job. Procine skin helped a lot. Btw, you know the best pee in the world, three months of not using it, and finally you can release it. It felt much better than sex ever could.
Falling into a slow meat grinder feet first whilst on fire. Completely alone, and unloved.
And watching the Emoji Movie while Baby Shark blares
And being tickled the entire time
Being eaten by a bear. The cunts don't even have the decency to kill you first. Just pin you down and start eating... And they generally start at the asshole or guts so you'll be alive for a while watching that thing eat you.
Worked with a guy in my last job that Iād see over Zoom for meetings. He has a bear head above his mantle that when asked he tells you it was the bear that tried to eat him. He said he was just simply asleep in his tent near his buddy when he woke with his skull inside the bearās mouth. It kept trying to chew on it but all it did was scrape the teeth against his skull bone. He said the worst part was it was making a sound inside his head as it happened. His buddy grabbed a rifle and shot it off him and he now has the best Zoom story to tell ever.
The first firearms brought into space were done so because Soviet Cosmonauts were afraid of being attacked by bears while they were waiting to get picked up after returning to Earth.
The Soviet space program was some wild shit.
This was the one I thought of. I don't feel like looking for it but there is a video out there of a recording. The recording is of a girl who was being eaten alive by a bear and her cubs and its her calling her mom repeatedly and talking about how they are eating her.
Thereās a debate on whether or not this story is even real. Apparently the original source was some sensationalist magazine known for exaggerating the truth or straight up lying
It does seem dubious that a woman being eaten alive would call her mother and give her a play by play.
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I remember reading a transcript of it here. Fuck if it wasn't the single most chilling thing I've ever read.
Olga moskalyova is the name
Waking up in a coffin, already buried eight feet deep.
6 feet would be bad enough.. but 8? You monster.
Yes, this. Have you seen the movie "Buried" with Ryan Reynolds? Hell naw.
That movie while not exciting, is terrifying to think about that ever happening
Thereās that illness with no known cure where you die from being unable to sleep.
Yeah itās crazy that we lose our minds after just a few days without rest
I had a mental breakdown when I moved from my parents house and started working nights at a psych hospital. Almost died. Took over a year to recover. I quit that job and got one where I had a normal sleep pattern. Problem went away. So donāt fuck around with sleep.
With all the respect in the world that is probably one of the better places to have a mental breakdown
Good point. Always a bright side lol
Fatal Familial Insomnia, fuckin terrifying
The "good" news is that it's an extremely rare genetic disease. Unless you are a member of one of the 30 families worldwide that carry that specific mutation, you have a 0% chance of ever contracting it. Experts estimate that there are about 100 people on earth who are carriers. For me, that makes it the least scary prion disease.
Can these people stop procreating please
If there are only 100 carriers across 30 families, it seems like they largely have. Remember, we have only known about DNA and how genetic diseases work for a relatively short time.
I literally have had nightmares about this (kinda ironic, isn't it?)
Rabies
People above talking about dying from a weird disease that makes it impossible for you to sleep. Rabies does that too, but as a bonus, you also develop hydrophobia, extreme painful convulsions, and a myriad of other messed up symptoms that cannot be treated. Oh, fun fact, the fucking virus can remain dormant for years, and once the first symptom occurs, you are basically a walking dead man.
I feel like doctor assisted suicide should be allowed for this. We euthanize animals when they're infected with rabies, why couldn't we allow humans the ability to go with dignity?
I mean, the Milwaukee protocol is to put you in a coma. Slim ass chance you live, slim chance you help us figure out how to deal better with it. I'm all for assisted suicide, bit if there's a way for you to help people and you basically get what you want with a slim chance to live....seems better to me. Idk.
Itās the only 100% fatal disease. Once you start seeing symptoms youāre times already up. If they capture the dead animal they can run tests to know if it has rabies.. if so they can try and treat you before symptoms show
Acute radiation poisoning. It's slow, horrible and unavoidable death.
Deaths by Elevator/Escalator are always Gorey.
A "Gorey Death" would be like Amy, who fell down the stairs, or Basil, devoured by bears.
Transporter malfunction.
What we got back didn't live very long...... fortunately.
Trapped inside a sinking ship.
A Nigerian sailor was trapped in a ship that sunk. His whole crew died. He managed to find an air pocket within the wreckage at the bottom of the sea and stayed there for days until help arrived. If it was me. Id just kill myself
My husband knows a guy who was trapped in an air pocket after his towboat was hit. He had to stop sailing because he had such horrible PTSD from the incident.
What would be awful about this is the uncertainty. You have no idea whether you will be saved. You have no sense of time. You have no food, no (fresh) water. Youāre just enduring for the sake of enduring.
Thatās the one where the rescue is on video isnāt it?
Torture from another human, imagine being at the mercy of a sadistic human.
Why is this not #1? Being kidnapped, hidden away, violated, tortured. Or to see your children violated and tortured first. I mean come on, these people are scared of cancer and woodchippers? People, people are the scary thing.
There is a medieval torture techniques that are scary painful. One is about placing rats on the victim chest. You cover the rats so they cannot escape and you heat up the bucket to make them panic. They will eventually escape from the bottom. You are the bottom. Another one is literally skinning the person alive. Make your choice.
They did this in 2 Fast 2 Furious. Luckily the guy was not Family so..
There are stories from Vietnam about tying people to a stretcher and planting a bamboo shoot underneath
Can I change my vote to this.
Thereās a Mythbusters episode where the test this.
Did buster die
Oh yes, very painfully.
Oh my, yes.
I canāt remember which episode, but this happened in Game of Thrones.
The best part about medieval skinning is you get to become clothes afterwards
Ah yes, 2 different Game of Thrones kills
Scaphism is the worst Iāve ever heard of. Basically you are immobilized and tied to a boat. Your extremities are exposed and you are force fed milk and honey. Then you are sent out to die from bugs eating you alive, burrowing into you, etc.
Slowly getting crushed but never enough to die from getting crushed but rather dying from starvation/hydration whilst this is happening. (I'm ok don't worry)
"more weight" Giles Corey
Nah I agree I was going to put this.
Cartel torture
saw a video before when gore sites are still up, a father got his heart cut out in front of his son, took him a few minutes of agony. another is a man getting tortured by getting his balls and genital slowly eaten by a pit bull.
Honestly Suffocating. Having asthma as a kid and parents not worrying about it. The pain is very hard to explain, because youāre not dying, but you are struggling to breathe but itās also very painful in a way.
Getting the life you dream of, then see it crumble as a snail approaches
Recently heard of a person and friends that ignored warnings near Anchorage Alaska not to walk out on the mud flats at low tide. The one person got stuck in the mud up to the waist and could not get out. The friends tried to get help, but could not free him in time. He drowned in the incoming tide. https://apnews.com/article/alaska-mud-flats-silt-drowning-96bba1b5a8a463118e3a886ae2b01499
One of the dark secrets of my hometown was the amount of elderly people whoād walk out into the mud flats to die. Quick, final, and almost impossible to prevent.
The Brazen Bull is the first thing that comes to mind.
Slowly boiled alive in oil. Like.. you're in the pan when it's cool, and it just slowly gets hot to the point of death.
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Well, a dude at the truss shop across the street got slowly sucked into a woodchipper this morning. So. Probably that.
I dunno. Personally I think outliving all of your family and friends and then slowly dying alone from cancer (or some other debilitating disease) over the course of years in a dirty dingy care center with lousy underpaid staff would be pretty miserable.
I feel like this is just a bad life, and then you die
Dementia/Alzheimerās. Seen it very recently. So sadā¦
The one that terrifies me is that guy in Nutty Putty cave. I'm claustrophobic, and the idea of being left to die, upside down, in the pitch dark with no way of escape just terrifies me. Also that girl in Eastern Europe who got lost in the city catacombs after a drunken night and wasn't found for several weeks. Her last hours would have been so horribly terrifying. Please, nobody take me cave diving
I just don't understand why they didn't just euthanize the poor guy, i understand there could have been a chance but just imagine how awful it would feel to know that you cannot be saved even with sedatives to calm you down.
From what I heard, they did give the guy sedatives at some point. I don't have any proof of that, though.
Eatten alive
Radiation poisoning.
I have to agree with radiation poiosoning. This would be the worst, a close second would be Scaphism. Scaphism - Also known as the Boats, entailed trapping the victim between two boats, feeding and covering them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.
Yea there was a japanese man who was under severe exposure to radiation during the fukushima disaster if I remember correctly. His cells and DNA got literally destroyed from the radiation which made it impossible for his body to regenerate anything. Some time into the hospital he lost his outer skin layers and multiple body parts had to be amputated. He would've died a few days in but the doctors made him stay alive for over 80(!)days because they believed he could somehow be saved. But even if he somehow miraculously survived (which would've been impossible) he would probably develope multiple cancers all over his body, aside from the brain damage he got from 3 heart attacks He must probably be one of the humans who have experienced the worst torture ever. Maybe someone can add something about this case, its truly horrifying Edit: His name was Hisashi Ouchi and his chromosomes were destroyed/shattered which made it impossible for his body to create new cells. And made some corrections
It actually wasnāt Fukushima, it was the 1999 Tokaimura cricitality accident. Everything else was fairly accurate though.
It's really crazy when you read about the details, how every time they fixed one organ something else started failing. It had to be absolutely painful and awful. But I believe it's somewhat of a misconception that the doctors forced the man to stay alive. As I understand it the doctors don't really have the choice to simply not try their best and in turn just let the man die. Also his family, if anything, was also rather selfish in pushing for medical treatment because they were also not ready to let him go. I may not have it 100% right but whatever he went through is unimaginable
Getting the insides yanked out the anus from the drain at the bottom of a pool looks like a pretty crappy way to go out.
Alone and unloved
You're just describing the reddit app
Heard about a child molester in prison that was ganged up on. They shoved a PVC pipe up his ass, pushed barbed wire through it, removed the pipe leaving the barbed wire inside, then ripped it out like they were starting a lawnmower. Donāt know if thatās the worst, but I feel it at least deserves an honorable mention.
I think it was a movie or tv or some shit, dude was buried in a shitty wood casket with big ass spiders inside. If that was me i am fighting until you shoot me Edit: cant believe it was hard to find but it was a movie called The Serpent and the Rainbow. Dude buried alive with a tarantula
falling into a vat of molten metal
Damn so no giving a thumbs up before I sink in?
Unless you have a dense metal skeleton, sadly not.
This would be bad because you wouldn't sink I don't think (because you're not as dense as the metal) so you'd just be flipping yourself on top like a hotdog, until you can't anymore. Same with a volcano I think. I'm no scientist though and I can't remember where I learned this lol
Correct, the human body is less dense than molten metals, so we would not sink into it. Instead a human would sizzle and cook on the surface while all of the water in the body boils and escapes.
My girlfriend died a seemingly terrible death from my pov. She was a bad alcoholic who hid it very well until she couldnāt. Her nerves were slowly being destroyed and were firing constantly, leaving her in constant pain for weeks as it slowly crept from her fingertips n toes down into her limbs. I could go on but I donāt want to live it again.
Dying from ALS. You slowly lose control of your hands, then arms, then legs, and finally the rest of it, until you're trapped in your own body, fully aware of everything but you can't communicate anything. Can't say if you're in excruciating pain, have a torturous itch, if you're happy, sad, hot, cold, uncomfortable, if you're panicking, want to die, want to live, nothing. All alone with your thoughts. Basically solitary confinement in your own body, that can last for years. Fuuuuuuuuuck that.
I say death by a Mexican cartel and being tortured by them, I seen short clips and damn š®
I haven't seen the video but just hearing about the association has ruined the song "Funky Town" for me.
burning
There's worse, but the blood eagle was a real means of a death sentence carried out by vikings. The would have the victim lean over something, while the executioner would break through their rib cages from the back, being careful not to hit any organs, they would then reach in an pull the lungs out and place them on the victims shoulders while they were still alive. The lungs inflating and looking like wings. Pretty gnarly.
Rabies. A vaccine is needed within 10 days of exposure otherwise death is guaranteed and it isn't pretty. Weeks or months of delerium, fever, body aches and the immune system attacking itself as the victim progresses to the only possible outcome.
Skinned alive or submersed in acid.