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Not that there are really any good ways.

I posted this hell in another thread, but if you missed it:




This would suck (no pun intended). Painless, but easily preventable.




Peter Verhulsel's death is one of the worst I've ever read about:

Cave diver left message to wife in sand before suffering one of most harrowing deaths imaginable


29-year-old Peter Verhulsel had been diving in the caves with two friends, but he kept leaving the line designed to safely guide the divers back to the exit so he could explore.


He twice left the line to go exploring before being brought back by his friends, but tragedy struck when he let go for a third time after he became lost in a maze of tunnels.


Verhulsel was able to find his way to a small underground beach where there was breathable air, meaning he wouldn't run out of oxygen but he didn't have enough in the tank to try and find his way back out.

Instead, he was stuck waiting in the pitch black darkness and hoping that rescue efforts could find him.

Such efforts were launched, with a six-week search made to find Verhulsel and bring him out of the cave.

Some of the attempts to find him came with 40 yards of his location, but he could not tell they were there and they didn't know where he was either.

Eventually his body was found, though by the time those searching for Peter made it to his location, he was dead.

An autopsy judged that he must have died of starvation after around three weeks, with little else he could do but stay in the cave and wait to see if he could be rescued.
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Col. Angus said:
Basically what happened to the dude in the post above ya. Got trapped, died from boredom (and not being able to eat)
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I saw a picture the other day of the newest Oldest Person Alive. She was something like 117. That's right up there, and I do not want to emulate that. Ricky Gervais has a funny bit about aging. How he wakes up every morning disappointed that he hadn't died in the night. Think about how long it took you to go from birth to senior year in high school. When that oldest woman turned 100, she had that same 17 years stretched out in front of her. You've skin is so thin you can practically watch the blood move around in your veins. Your bones are as frail as bird feathers. You can't eat much but your meds. Viagra was 15 years in your rear view. You quit sleeping -- at all -- around 80. So, at your 100th birthday, you blow out the blaze of candles on the cake and pray that the effort lets you stroke out. Then, surprise, you've got 17 more years of worse than that left to go.
 
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DreadLox said:
I saw a picture the other day of the newest Oldest Person Alive. She was something like 117. That's right up there, and I do not want to emulate that. Ricky Gervais has a funny bit about aging. How he wakes up every morning disappointed that he hadn't died in the night. Think about how long it took you to go from birth to senior year in high school. When that oldest woman turned 100, she had that same 17 years stretched out in front of her. You've skin is so thin you can practically watch the blood move around in your veins. Your bones are as frail as bird feathers. You can't eat much but your meds. Viagra was 15 years in your rear view. You quit sleeping -- at all -- around 80. So, at your 100th birthday, you blow out the blaze of candles on the cake and pray that the effort lets you stroke out. Then, surprise, you've got 17 more years of worse than that left to go.
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**** I wanna live as long as I possibly can. I could find some things to do by the time I’m 117.
 
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Shot through the back of the neck clipping an artery. Laying on the side of the road, bleeding out, realizing you won’t see your wife and three little boys again until the afterlife.
 
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I once had to do the preliminary investigation on some Korean marines setting off a slap flare inside the ****** of a Vietnamese prostitute. Horrid noises were coming from her as I arrived. She was burning to death from inside her body. Can't imagine anything worse.
 
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That's an interesting choice:

Burned alive - unimaginably painful (for a short time)

OR

Al alone, pitch black, in the middle of the ocean (not as painful, but torturously long, and terrifying)


You have to pick one.
 
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kyboy1998 said:
There was a guy here in Oldham county that died that way a few weeks ago. He had a mower turn over on him and was able to call 911 and was on the phone when it caught fire and he couldn’t escape.

I can’t imagine many worse ways.
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The primal sounds from the woman I was talking about (I can't call them screams as the didn't sound human) were louder than the ambulance sirens as they took her away.
 
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I once read about this torture device by this king of some sort. It was a metal bull that a person would get inside and be cooked to death, but there was this tube that came out of it so it sounded like a bullhorn or some **** when the person was screaming in agony. Anyway that doesn’t sound like a great way to die.
 
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J_Dee said:
Not that there are really any good ways.

I posted this hell in another thread, but if you missed it:




This would suck (no pun intended). Painless, but easily preventable.




Peter Verhulsel's death is one of the worst I've ever read about:

Cave diver left message to wife in sand before suffering one of most harrowing deaths imaginable
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Well that’s pretty much the worst things ever. Horrendous ways to go.

The cave one, man, the anxiety from just being stuck alone is 👀 let alone for 20+ hours of coming to terms with your death.


Being left in the dark sea is my biggest fear. The story of Open Water always freaked me out. The two scuba divers left behind by their tour guide.
 
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Falling off of a large ship at night, in the middle of the vast ocean, and watching that ship disappear. That has to be one of the most terrifying things imaginable.
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Yeah I said the same. That’s my biggest fear. The fear of that of not knowing where you are, what’s underneath and knowing no one is coming to save you.
 
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Ron Mehico said:
I once read about this torture device by this king of some sort. It was a metal bull that a person would get inside and be cooked to death, but there was this tube that came out of it so it sounded like a bullhorn or some **** when the person was screaming in agony. Anyway that doesn’t sound like a great way to die.
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Googled your description and came up with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull

"The bull was equipped with an internal acoustic apparatus that converted the screams of the dying into what sounded like the bellows of a bull. The bull's design was such that steam from the cooking flesh of the condemned exited the bull's nostrils; this effect—along with the bull's "bellows"—created the illusion that the bull came to life during every execution."

Ancient Greece could've had iPads with how creative they were yet they used that creativity for torture and monuments to the dead and/or nonexistent.
 
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ANY kind of drowning is always going to be at the top of my list. I have nightmares about sliding on ice while driving and slowly going under. Fortunately for you all, I wake up each time.

Some high school kid dies from asphyxiation after getting caught upside down in a minivan. Awful.
 
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Being cooked to death with tuna would be a bad one:

Jose Melena was performing maintenance in a 35-foot-long oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant before dawn Oct. 11, 2012, when a co-worker, who mistakenly believed Melena was in the bathroom, filled the pressure cooker with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and it was turned on.Apr 28, 2015
 
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HymanKaplan said:
Falling off of a large ship at night, in the middle of the vast ocean, and watching that ship disappear. That has to be one of the most terrifying things imaginable.
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In the cold North Atlantic, no less.

Let's add: listening to my ex-fiance ramble on incessantly ranks a close second.
 
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Austin - where are you currently?
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Union Square, Aberdeen. Black Sheep Coffee, to be precise. "Stealing" electricity. Boarding a train in roughly 2 hours back to Inverness. Really wanted to check out marine mammals swimming near Torrey Battery, but lugging this GD wheeled suitcase around.

Edit: just disembarked ship three hours ago. Plenty opportunity to climb railing and jump overboard.
 
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I heard story the other day about two young kids driving a Tesla and got in a wreck and it started on fire. Apparently, tesla doors lock when you get in a wreck. Unfortunately, they burned alive.
 
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