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calverson · Sep 16, 2008, 01:55 PM

So, what, in your opinion be the worst way to die?

Worst being defined as whatever you think is the least desirable way to spend your last minutes/hours.

To me, it would be left to starve to death in a room, with Rod Steward being played on repeat, unstoppably.

olePigeon · Sep 16, 2008, 01:56 PM

Sitting in a turkey fryer.

ort888 · Sep 16, 2008, 01:58 PM

Find a NASCAR track covered with sandpaper... then getting dragged at 10 MPH around the track by a pickup truck.

Dakar V · Sep 16, 2008, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

Find a NASCAR track covered with sandpaper... then getting dragged at 10 MPH around the track by a pickup truck.

You've given this some thought.

buckaroo2008 · Sep 16, 2008, 02:03 PM

probably being put in a huge ham slicer and having body cut into slices starting at your feet and working up. oh and having to listen to rod stewart would make the situation that much worse...

ort888 · Sep 16, 2008, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar V

You've given this some thought.

For added flair you can add a dozen 5th graders on bikes with Super Soakers filled with lemon juice.

Dakar V · Sep 16, 2008, 02:08 PM

That is some Venture quality stuff right there.

calverson · Sep 16, 2008, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

For added flair you can add a dozen 5th graders on bikes with Super Soakers filled with lemon juice.

With Rod Steward playing in the background. And Steve Ballmer doing running commentary.

Eug · 02:56 PM

If you're looking for ideas, here's one movie that might help:

Audition

Critical response

Audition had its share of audience walk-outs. When shown at the 2000 Rotterdam Film Festival, one enraged woman viewer confronted Miike by shouting at him: "You're evil!" During uncensored members-only shows at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin in 2001, some patrons collapsed in apparent shock. One audience member was rushed to the St. James's Hospital but later discharged himself.

calverson · Sep 16, 2008, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

If you're looking for ideas, here's one movie that might help:

Audition

Hmmm... Well I don't think that anything could be worse than Hostel. Then again, I have not exposed myself to much horror in my lifetime.

Eug · Sep 16, 2008, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by calverson

Hmmm... Well I don't think that anything could be worse than Hostel. Then again, I have not exposed myself to much horror in my lifetime.

I haven't seen Hostel, but here's a piece of trivia. Apparently, the director of Audition (Miike), has a cameo in Hostel.

Shaddim · Sep 16, 2008, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

If you're looking for ideas, here's one movie that might help:

Audition

If Rob Zombie says it's disturbing, it probably is.

The worst way to die? "Sloth" in Se7en.

scaught · Sep 16, 2008, 03:42 PM

Se7en had some cool death scenes.

I like Rod Stewart. Maggie May is a jam

sek929 · Sep 16, 2008, 03:48 PM

Being pressed through a fine mesh screen.

Jens Peter · Sep 16, 2008, 03:50 PM

Buried alive, like in Kill Bill 2...

A Ham slicer would be extremely painful, but imagine laying there, with 2m of dirt above you, knowing there is nothing you can do... Unless you were taught some chinese marshall art

Atheist · Sep 16, 2008, 03:51 PM

The worst way to die would be having to first watch your spouse or children tortured to death before you. (I believe the BTK killer did that with one family.)

sek929 · Sep 16, 2008, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Jens Peter

Buried alive, like in Kill Bill 2...

Which would be extra terrifying without having the tutelage of Pai Mei.

Dakar V · Sep 16, 2008, 03:54 PM

Since we're on the subject, being suffocated by Uma Thurman's ugly feet would pretty horrific.

BigBadWolf · Sep 16, 2008, 04:05 PM

If anyone watched Weeds last week, the DEA agent having his face sanded off would be a particularly brutal way to go. But, I would say any torture would be pretty bad. Impaling would not be fun. Apparently when Vlad would sit you on top of a spiked pole, it could take a week to finally die. They say it was far more merciful to be impaled upside down (through the mouth instead of the ass) as you would die quickly. Torquemada also had plenty of creative ways to prolong your death.

BigBadWolf · Sep 16, 2008, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

If you're looking for ideas, here's one movie that might help

Audition had its share of audience walk-outs. When shown at the 2000 Rotterdam Film Festival, one enraged woman viewer confronted Miike by shouting at him: "You're evil!" During uncensored members-only shows at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin in 2001, some patrons collapsed in apparent shock. One audience member was rushed to the St. James's Hospital but later discharged himself.[/i]

Far better film by the same director is Ichi the Killer. Hostel, Saw, and many others got their inspiration from it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296042/

MacGallant · Sep 16, 2008, 04:30 PM

falling in deep into the opening of an public rural outhouse and being drowned to death in feces and urine which has
been there for God knows how long. . .

don't think anything can top that. . .

Eriamjh · Sep 16, 2008, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by MacGallant

falling in deep into the opening of an public rural outhouse and being drowned to death in feces and urine which has
been there for God knows how long. . .

don't think anything can top that. . .

How about periodic additions of fresh feces?

ShortcutToMoncton · Sep 16, 2008, 05:49 PM

You guys are all sick.

Sick!

brassplayersrock² · Sep 16, 2008, 06:21 PM

Drowning.

moonmonkey · Sep 16, 2008, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

Drowning.

in washing detergent.

subego · Sep 16, 2008, 07:20 PM

Penn Jillete has a good story about someone who doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire in protest.

Once on fire he decided he lacked the courage of his convictions and ran screaming into the nearest fountain... but it was too late and he ended up dying anyways.

ShortcutToMoncton · Sep 16, 2008, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

Drowning.

Really?? Huh. That would be, like, a preferred "bad way to go" for me. Doesn't seem so bad, to be honest… although I guess the choking would be annoying.

But hey, have too MUCH oxygen?? How bad can that be?

greg

brassplayersrock² · Sep 16, 2008, 07:25 PM

You obviously haven't gone through it.

olePigeon · Sep 16, 2008, 08:01 PM

You don't choke when you drown. You go through severe panic when you can't breath, but when you start to "breath" the water, your brain calms down. You die rather peacefully.

Burned alive would suck, although I hear it only hurts for about 30 seconds or until your nerve endings are gone.

calverson · Sep 17, 2008, 03:25 AM

Apparently, they dispatched of some old king this way, but:

Being bent over, and having a copper pipe shoved up your rectum. The copper pipe has rats in it. They heat the copper pipe from the one side, so the rats have no choice but to dig through you, from the ass, through the colon, and into your stomach. Apparently you would be alive and fully conscious for most of the ordeal.

calverson · Sep 17, 2008, 03:30 AM

Originally Posted by subego

Penn Jillete has a good story about someone who doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire in protest.

Once on fire he decided he lacked the courage of his convictions and ran screaming into the nearest fountain... but it was too late and he ended up dying anyways.

Are you talking about this?

calverson · Sep 17, 2008, 03:32 AM

Originally Posted by MacGallant

falling in deep into the opening of an public rural outhouse and being drowned to death in feces and urine which has
been there for God knows how long. . .

don't think anything can top that. . .

One day after they release redesigned MacBook Pros.

PB2K · Sep 17, 2008, 04:14 AM

being eaten alive by a parasite. like being a human hive for 100's of bot flies. ugh, the idea of 1 bot fly inside my body makes me throw up

richwig83 · Sep 17, 2008, 05:06 AM

Drowning would be pretty grim... but being burnt alive would probably be the most horrific!

PB2K · 06:28 AM

how about nuclear burns? after extreme nuclear exposure the symptoms are encouraging at first, but then your skin melts

and speaking of ABC weapons, how about mustardgas?

I also read about a Roman prisoner whose eyelids were cut off and was laid on a bed of needles. he died of a lack of sleep

how about being forced to eat a few kilo's of onions, and have your end-hole sewn shut?

Eug · Sep 17, 2008, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by BigBadWolf

Far better film by the same director is Ichi the Killer. Hostel, Saw, and many others got their inspiration from it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296042/

I have both movies on DVD. I prefer Audition.

calverson · 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by PB2K

I also read about a Roman prisoner whose eyelids were cut off and was laid on a bed of needles. he died of a lack of sleep

That would suck.

Originally Posted by PB2K

how about being forced to eat a few kilo's of onions, and have your end-hole sewn shut?

That would suck too.

Human's can be really twisted puppies. Thing is, we have done this stuff to each other throughout history. Inventive ways to kill people.

Andrew Stephens · Sep 17, 2008, 08:05 AM

When I was young I watched an episode of Space 1999 where one of the moonbase guys elected to go on an alien space ship where the crew were in suspended animation. Unfortunately due to differences in his biology he woke up after a few hours, trapped in a transparent chamber in a space craft full of sleeping aliens, with all the other moonbase guys listening to his screaming over the radio.

I still remember that and think "sucky way to go"

iREZ · Sep 17, 2008, 11:49 AM

i would HATE to die by drowning...scariest thought in the world for me tbh.

Monique · Sep 17, 2008, 04:17 PM

The day you get what you always wanted out of life.

For me it would be living in France or Great Britain or being able to organize that care packages mission or loving a great looking man.

Laminar · Sep 17, 2008, 04:45 PM

You'd rather die never having known that joy?

ort888 · Sep 17, 2008, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by subego

Penn Jillete has a good story about someone who doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire in protest.

Once on fire he decided he lacked the courage of his convictions and ran screaming into the nearest fountain... but it was too late and he ended up dying anyways.

I knew a guy who was going to kill himself by covering himself in gasoline and lighting himself on fire. After some time covered in gas, he decided he couldn't do it. So he went outside to smoke and ignited himself.

This is a true story. The same guy is currently on Death Row for murdering his adoptive grandparents.

Shaddim · Sep 17, 2008, 04:51 PM

How about autoerotic asphyxiation?

Laminar · Sep 17, 2008, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Shaddim

How about autoerotic asphyxiation?

That was on CSI. I believe they called it the killer orgasm.

Shaddim · Sep 17, 2008, 04:57 PM

It's the way Mulder is supposed to die.

driven · Sep 17, 2008, 05:24 PM

Being on the top floor of a skyscraper while it burns knowing that there is no-way down.

PB2K · Sep 17, 2008, 05:34 PM

I nearly drowned at 30 meters below sealevel once, my airsupply was cut off. at that moment i had different things to worry about than pain or a lousy death. i was too busy trying to survive.

Face Ache · Sep 17, 2008, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Burned alive would suck, although I hear it only hurts for about 30 seconds or until your nerve endings are gone.

Saw a bloke once in A&E who had been burned alive and was in the process of dying. Completely charred, fingers toes and other bits* burned off, with only the back of his head and his heels touching the steel table he was trying not to touch, shaking violently and staring dead ahead with lidless eyes. Everyone was just standing around, waiting for him to die. Nothing they could do. ****ing horrible way to die.

*Don't ask.

olePigeon · Sep 17, 2008, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by driven

Being on the top floor of a skyscraper while it burns knowing that there is no-way down.

There's always a way down.

calverson · Sep 17, 2008, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

I knew a guy who was going to kill himself by covering himself in gasoline and lighting himself on fire. After some time covered in gas, he decided he couldn't do it. So he went outside to smoke and ignited himself.

A-la Zoolander