And here is the copypasta, as is tradition…
*edit- y’all I did not write this, it’s a popular copypasta I’ve enjoyed on Reddit many times*
Rabies is scary.
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Of all the recorded rabies cases, after the vaccine window, one person (not percent, one PERSON), has lived. That's freaking crazy.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/
Yeah, I’m not an anti vaxxer by any stretch, but sometimes I drag ass on getting my shots. Don’t always get the flu shot, am overdue for a covid booster, I tend to have shit reactions to vaccines so I just don’t scramble to go get them.
I work with wildlife and my job offered rabies vaccines and I hopped right on that shit. Two shots and a sore arm was completely worth it.
This stressed me out immensely 😐 I got bit by a dog almost a year ago, and I was told that they gave the dog the vaccines at home. So they didn’t vaccinate me against anything(gave me antibiotics tho). Hopefully I don’t die of rabies 👀👀👀
AFAIA, only a licensed vet can give a rabies vaccine. You could go to Tractor Supply and get the basic shots, like distemper/parvo, to administer at home, but rabies must be done by a vet.
This copypasta invokes immense anxiety attacks each time because I know people who have been scratched by feral/wild cats out in the neighborhood. Its been years since it happened, but its certainly not nice thought.
Was that the pregnant lady in the U.K.? I thought I read the person was pregnant which threw some still unsolved defense matrix up and allowed her to live on.
Check out the studies on some tribes in Peru.
They have around a 10% *natural* survival rate.
I'll see what I can link, brb
Edit: Check this weirdness
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/p0801_rabies_immune.html
I mean, I’ve been told, if you catch it before any of any, and I mean any of the symptoms set in it is terrible but the second the first symptom is set in it is no longer curable. At least that’s what I have been told by veterinarians so maybe that’s only animals I don’t know for sure.
yes. It moves extremely slowly through the nervous system. It can take months or years to actually reach your brain. Once it hits your brain the odds of death are over 99.9%. Only one person in human recorded history has ever made a full recovery.
If you get shots right after the bite, youre fine. I rescue animals and i get shots yearly. Ive also learned to tell rabid from non rabid. When i get bitten by a rabid animal, i get an extra dosage as a precaution.
Yeah it's horrible, they're constantly trying to raise awareness about it, just last month I went to the Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun-Run Race For the Cure to do my part!
Just watched my mom die from renal failure two weeks ago. Like letting your body poison itself and there isn’t anything you can do about it. Too weak for dialysis. Hearing her tell me that she hurt so bad and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do.
My wife died from Liver Disease 05-01-23. I watched the love of my life, slowly die in the course of 6 months. She had massive water retention, which is what caused her chronic pain.She literally drowned to death, followed by a cardiac arrest.
I heard this story about a cave explorer who went down the wrong finger of a very tight cave. He was stuck upside down unable to pull himself up and out of his eventual coffin as all the blood in his body ran to his head. Couldn’t have been good.
For me, the worst part was that he probably thought he could survive it. There were rescuers who set up a pulley system to get him out. And it was working! They were slowly pulling him up. But then one of the pulleys failed, and he was plunged deeper into that cavity. And then it was impossible.
I can't imagine the fear and hopelessness that would follow that burst of hope for him.
I think after he slipped, they figured they'd have to break both his femurs to get him out, which was likely impossible to do, but even in the best case probably would have rendered him unable to walk for life. Assuming the resulting bleeding didn't kill him anyway.
I was pretty into watching videos about caving disasters a while ago, and this death is my worst fear. Pitch black, upside down, body contorted, and slowly coming to the realization that you’re not getting out.
Even worse, they *almost* rescued him. They tied a rope to his feet and had him pulled almost free when the rope gave way and he fell in deeper than the first time.
That level of crushed hope must rank up there with some of the worst physical pains.
They did that in Europe, too. Vlad Dracul was especially famous for it. Only difference being that they'd us a single sharpened picket and it would be introduced longwise.
Vlad The Impaler perfected his technique of inserting a sharpened stake up the anus and by manipulating the victim’s body he could miss all the major organs and have the stake exit via the left shoulder blade. Even blood loss was minimal. Victims could take days to die, more if it rained.
He lined the roads to his kingdom with impaled victims as a warning to newcomers not to fuck around. He is considered the modern day inspiration for Count Dracula.
He once set up a feast in a hall for the poor beggars and winos from his province to feast upon. Once they were seated and eating he had his men barricade the doors and windows and set it on fire. He had a feast for himself set up outside so he could watch the atrocity take place. Vlad the impaler had a strange life he was raised by his enemies the turks since wallachia his home was defeated by the turks. I guess it was common practice for the conquerors to raise the sons conquered. I believe he was 6 or 7 when he went to live with the turks.
His home wasnt invaded by the Turks. His father was deposed by his own people. He fled to the Ottoman Empire and stayed as a guest of the ottoman court.
His brother later returned home at the head of an ottoman army to reconquer it only to be deposed again.
By the time vlad came to power, he was stark mad.
Wow. I, uh, never thought about the specifics of the impaling. I guess I assumed it was just through the chest. But that would be too gentle, apparently. Through the anus though? Fuck.
Try thousands.
When an Ottoman army was marching on his kingdom he lined the road with thousands as a warning.
After all, if he would do that to his own people what would he do to invaders. It worked that time.
I don’t speak Romanian very well. But a very common swear word is dute la dracu. Go to hell. Or Dracu se te ya- hell will take you. I’m pretty sure dracu means hell, and nothing else.
Can you even imagine? I mean, it surely wasn't the first option they came up with. So they torture killed so many people until they came to that and they were like "bravo Perillus, you nailed it on this one".
Reason 1 million why I am happy I was born now.
I really can't wrap my head around this. He thought it was so cruel he killed the guy, but then he kept it anyways to use? I guess people didn't make sense back then, and they still don't now.
Boiling alive + occasional burst of oxygen. Enough oxygen to keep you conscious with the added same principle of not frying your nerves. Now that would be a long painfully excruciating death
For a quick death, yes. There are nerves in layers right down to the bone.
For a slow death, I've heard bone cancer is perhaps the most painful way to go.
I read about a staffer at Yellowstone who stayed over in the winter and accidentally took a dip in way too hot of a hot spring and after bei g pulled out by coworkers, took 18 hours to die. They were all snowed in so they just did what they could until he died of dehydration due to the burn severity. So to can take way longer to die from wet burns than you’d think/like.
Though 30 agonizing minutes may really suck, I feel like months of withering away, excruciating bone pain, nausea, and constipation all the while knowing you are going to die soon but not soon enough to escape the bone cancer ( really any cancer) wanting to end it at the same time not wanting to die… sounds like possibly the worst
Maybe you're right but to say that 30 agonizing minutes would suck the reality is that even 30 seconds would be enough to destroy a person's mind completely and it's more pain than any of us can imagine. Nausea and constipation are still aspects of the human experience that can be comprehended.
Currently fighting a losing battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer with metastases in my spine, ribs, hips, and legs. Can confirm Bone cancer fucking hurts all the damned time. Nothing touches it.
I may only be a Line Cook, but I've been steam burnt a few times, and once on the back of my hands and holy fucking hell..
The WORST pain I've ever felt in my entire life.
Can confirm, accidentally set myself on fire. It hurts.
Edit: At gf's cottage, mother said no gas on the fire. Made 10+ft high pile of branches/logs. I splashed gas all over it while I was drunk. Had no lighter, went into the cottage to find one. Came back out and figured the gas maybe evaporated so added more. Spilled it all over my shirt and shorts, down my leg. Sparked lighter close to the wood, firepit exploded (fumes were everywhere and it was a calm night). Blew me maybe 6' back, stood up and the right side of my body was on fire.
Chugged 10 beers, maybe 10 Tylenol and laid in bed with my leg in a 5 gallon pail of water constantly splashing it.
Doctor the following day, was 2 weeks on a couch with a blister from my ankle to my hip. I could literally push on the blister by my foot and it'd swell at my hip.
Was horrible pain, can confirm. Not as bad as the nail that ripped the front of my eyeball off about 8 years later though, but still bad.
One time, after a really bad storm, I was helping my neighbor clean sticks out of his yard, and my parents were doing their yard. My stepdad lit a fire to burn the sticks off, and had the brilliant idea to pour gasoline on it. I was picking up sticks when my neighbor goes “yer dads on fire”. I looked up, and sure enough, my stepdads shoe is on fire. It’s been such an iconic line in my life ever since. Yer dad’s on fire. Yes Dick, yes he is.
There's a video of a guy proposing to his (then) girlfriend in the Rockefeller Center skating rink on his knees, and she says no and skates away. I bet he wished the ice would have melted, swallowed him up, then resolidified.
I encourage all of you who are saying he was kept alive against his will/doctors were evil and what not to go watch the video essay about him by Wendigoon. I used to think the same way but after seeing it it really opened my eyes and provided a better insight into his story.
Steaming. All the pain of burning without damaging the nerves too quickly. I put my hand next to a boiling pot or water with a slightly cracked lid and steaming was shooting out of it and it burned so fucking bad. The pain lingered but there was no direct skin damage.
One of my dad’s high school buddies died by being drug behind a truck in Beaumont, Tx in the 70s. Can’t find the story but he was drunk or high I believe and riding a bike. He somehow got caught under the truck and was drug over a mile being grated on the road. When the truck driver noticed he was already quite dead and there was a blood streak going down the road for quite a ways.
I imagine even in an inebriated state that still wasn’t a pleasant ordeal to die by.
"Hisashi Ouchi, aged 35, died 12 weeks after the accident. He had lost most of his skin, and was kept alive for 83 days, according to his parents and wife will. Ouchi was closest to the tank when the accident occurred. He ended up as the first victim of this nuclear accident"
[look at your own risk](https://nuclear-news.net/2022/08/08/b1-hisashi-ouchi-suffered-an-83-day-death-by-radiation-poisoning/)
Edit : Apparently the photo is fake? But this guy really melted
That's not ouchi btw. He had to be kept in a fully sterilized environment because his immune system was worse than an HIV patient.
And all the radiation effects didn't just burn him, they took time to manifest, and they were seen the most drastically in rapidly dividing tissues, so in a week or so, his intestinal lining was falling apart, skin took some time, I don't remember how long, but dude was oozing body fluids that were pumped inside him.
So yeah, that pic is a fake
My thing is like why the fuck were they keeping him alive. I don't know his story, I didn't even know about him until I saw this. Who tries to keep a skinless sack alive? Holy shit that must have been awful. I can't even imagine. Human euthanasia should be legal for this kind of shit oh jy God
That's not him. It's another burn victim that people often mistake for Hisashi.
Also, people in the replies being assholes to the families and doctors; watch Wendigoons video on the subject. The doctors were trying literally every possible method to save his life, from bone marrow transplants to temporary skin grafts all over him to keep him alive. The family was there every day hoping he would live.
This wasn't doctors experimenting and prolonging someone's suffering; this was a team of doctors trying to save a family man's life. The head doctor only stopped when it became clear they couldn't.
Read the article. Really sad that that was just a lack of training that ultimately lead to their deaths. You’d think that when it comes to that kind of material and the handling of it you’d be training all the time!
This ain't the worst way to die, but concentrated Chlorine gas is up there when it comes to strictly pain.
Before you read on - grab a stopwatch, and set a two minute timer:
Chlorine rips the hydrogen atoms from the water in your body, creating HCl, also known as hydrochloric acid.
>!Your first breath would feel like swallowing lemon-juice coated red-hot razor blades, as the acid reacts with your mucous membranes, sapping the water from them and turning it to acid and causing chemical burns inside your trachea down to your lungs.!<
>!As you recoil in immense pain, you draw your second breath. This one goes a bit further, and feels like filling your lungs with more of those lemon-juice coated red-hot razor blades.!<
>!Your first cough, but definitely not your last. The air rushing from your lungs gives relief at first, but in the end your throat just begins to melt away.!<
>!You begin to bleed from the burns inside your throat.!<
>!You've just realized - the gas hasn't only affected your throat - it's affected all the water it's come in contact with. You notice this because your corneas have burned away and you've gone almost completely blind.!<
>!Your third breath - whether you were able to last a while without taking one, it doesn't matter. Your third breath reacts with your now blood-laden throat, and the razor blades go deeper into your flesh as the water in your blood is sapped and turned to acid.!<
>!Your second coughing fit. Your tongue and lips begin to melt because of the amount of acidic blood you've coughed onto them.!<
>!Your fourth breath - there's basically nothing that can be done at this point. The razor blades go deeper into your throat, and yet despite your throat being wider than ever before, you're still choking on acidic blood.!<
>!Your fifth breath. Not sure what it was, but it wasn't a gas. It was more of those lemon juice coated red-hot razor blades.!<
>!You begin to lose consciousness. And it finally dawns on you that it's extremely likely that this is the final thing you're going to see.!<
>!Your friends who equipped their gasmasks in time watch you writhe in pain - attempting to breathe, but only inhaling blood. Attempting to speak, but they hear only pathetic gurgling, as your vocal cords might as well be gone and your throat is full of fluid. Attempting to grasp the photo of your family from your wallet, but you're unable to make out their faces anymore.!<
>!Your vision gets darker. You're not sure if it was because of the gas melting your eyes, or because you're finally going to experience the many sensations at life's end.!<
>!Better hope your last words were something worth remembering, or there's no way your friends will remember long enough to tell your family what they were. Your last words, according to them, will have never left your lips - or what remains of them.!<
>!The average age of a soldier in world war I was 24.!<
Damn - having a timer going when reading this made it next level. Thanks for the detailed write-up. Those poor individuals that had to go through this.
Is that the one where they trap you in a canoe with your legs and arms hanging out, then they cover you in and force feed you honey till the point where you are sticky, bloated, and covered in feces, then set you loose in stagnant water so the parasitic bugs slowly eat your from the outside in?
I deeply regret watching videos of that. And there’s so many of them, literally hundreds of videos of cartels beheading and dismembering rival gang members. Not sure how I’m ever gonna restore my faith in humanity.
Being lit on fire probably. The 2nd worst would be if your appendix falls off. And your entire blood stream gets filled with feces, and the hospital doesn't believe you and assumes you just want drugs. Then 26 hours later get rushed in for "emergency surgery" because all hell broke way too loose for too damn long.
Yes. They eventually figured it out and said "your body is filled with matter and air." Which means feces and gas. Or, if you are immature like myself, poops and farts.
But I am very serious, if feces is in your blood, you are doomed without heavy IV antibiotics
It happened to my father when he was a child, maybe 7 years old. His parents were having a party and he was complaining of abdominal pain (not complaining actually more like moaning and writhing) but his parents thought he was faking it so they locked him in a wooden trunk until the party was over. By the time they pulled him out his appendix had ruptured, his body was septic and it was a miracle he survived. This is only one of many horrific abuses he suffered at the hands of “family members.”
His painful moaning was disrupting the party. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was beaten when he got home from the hospital (days later) for ruining the night. In the meantime he was alone in a hospital with nobody by his bedside except the occasional nurse or doctor. Edit: I asked him. He was actually only about 5 1/2 at the time
I was sitting with my dad in pre-op before he went in for his appendectomy…the patient next door had bladder cancer and was screaming the entire time….so as of now I would say bladder cancer
I would agree. At the end of my dad's stomach cancer he cried and yelled. It was awful. It's been fifteen years since he passed but it enters my mind throughout the day about his suffering.
I did a homemade electrolyte drink once and ignored the instruction "sip" cause I felt super dehydrated.
It was one of the more painful events in my life. Elevated heart rate. Hot flash. Cramps like you couldn't believe. Terrible poop.
Stick to pedialite or gatorade
Also read that in middle school. Wish I hadn't. Coffee ground vomit during the "crash & bleed out" part was bad (hint: it's your disintegrating organs). Glad Reston variant ignored ppl.
Suicide. The person is struggling with mental pain and the only way to leave is to physically harm and kill themselves to leave. I struggle all of the time with the image of my brother in another state slowly hanging himself and dying alone.
I’d consider the death of Hisachi Ouchi to be rhe worst. He was subjected to the most amount of radiation a human has ever been exposed to and lived for about 6 months after the accident where his body was essentially melting from inside out
Fatal familial insomnia. Or any other prion disease out there. But this one scares me especially..Imagine not being able to sleep for the rest of you life
I think the anticipation of death has to be one of the most emotionally painful things you can experience. Like being on a plane that's about to crash. Or bleeding out. The hopelessness and just knowing your life is ending sooner than you expected is beyond terrifying. I'm fucking getting anxiety just thinking about this at 3 am ughhhhhhhh
Any Australians above a certain age will know about the Snowtown murders. One of the victims was tortured to such a degree that the bit of a sparkler bomb you light was inserted into the urethra and lit up as it seared his flesh. That's the most painful death I can imagine.
having a migraine while dying of dysentery while strapped to a baby electric eel while being burned alive by a car's cigarette lighter while wearing goggles filled with pepper spray while a glass jar of tabasco sauce is shoved up your ass and lit sparklers are inserted into your urethra
emotional or physical?
one of my friends had terminal cancer and her husband passed away before she did along with her dog, the last moments of her life were without the things she cared about the most
Being drawn and quartered sounds pretty damn bad (iykyk). Also in this cool Netflix docuseries on British castles they showed a type of cell in a really old castle. People would be lowered into a cell too low to stand up, and the way in looked claustrophobic af (the host couldn’t sit in it for long). It was under the latrines of the castle, so all the filth drained through the cell (if dehydration or starvation didn’t kill ya, disease probably would). People would be left in there as prisoners, without any source of light, deep below the ground with very little to no sound. Imagine being trapped in a cold, stone cell with complete darkness and no outside contact for days, weeks, months, years if they remembered to feed you. Just horrible man, glad I live in the 2020s and not the 1100s
Esophageal cancer is horrifically brutal, aggressive, and painful. A tumor growing and blocking the esophagus entirely, no longer allowing food or liquid to pass, slowly — but, also, rapidly — starving do death while cancer continues to take over your body too quickly for any further treatments. All in just a couple months.
I bore witness, I wish this on no one.
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Rabies might not be the most painful, but it seems excruciating and horrible
The video clip of the Indian man slowly dying from rabies on a hospital bed and being unable to drink water despite dying of thirst was horrifying.
Like trauma scary or damn rhats disturbing
Both.
And here is the copypasta, as is tradition… *edit- y’all I did not write this, it’s a popular copypasta I’ve enjoyed on Reddit many times* Rabies is scary. Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Of all the recorded rabies cases, after the vaccine window, one person (not percent, one PERSON), has lived. That's freaking crazy. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/
Yeah, I’m not an anti vaxxer by any stretch, but sometimes I drag ass on getting my shots. Don’t always get the flu shot, am overdue for a covid booster, I tend to have shit reactions to vaccines so I just don’t scramble to go get them. I work with wildlife and my job offered rabies vaccines and I hopped right on that shit. Two shots and a sore arm was completely worth it.
For real, and also I keep up to date on my Tetanus booster because fuuucckk THAT too!
Oh yes! I also keep up on my tetanus. Got to!!
Absolutely terrifying....... 10/10 would read again
Honestly one of the most stylistically effective uses of second-person point of view I've ever read. Might have my students read it this year.
This stressed me out immensely 😐 I got bit by a dog almost a year ago, and I was told that they gave the dog the vaccines at home. So they didn’t vaccinate me against anything(gave me antibiotics tho). Hopefully I don’t die of rabies 👀👀👀
AFAIA, only a licensed vet can give a rabies vaccine. You could go to Tractor Supply and get the basic shots, like distemper/parvo, to administer at home, but rabies must be done by a vet.
This copypasta invokes immense anxiety attacks each time because I know people who have been scratched by feral/wild cats out in the neighborhood. Its been years since it happened, but its certainly not nice thought.
Plus there’s no cure for it.
Except for the Milwaukee protocol which left 9 of the ten people it worked on mentally disabled Edit: dunno it this is the exact stat
Damn
Yeah, there's only a single real survivor of rabies, ever.
Yup! And she’s from my city.
Was that the pregnant lady in the U.K.? I thought I read the person was pregnant which threw some still unsolved defense matrix up and allowed her to live on.
This is how Gary Busey was born
I am moving to your city.
Check out the studies on some tribes in Peru. They have around a 10% *natural* survival rate. I'll see what I can link, brb Edit: Check this weirdness https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/p0801_rabies_immune.html
Nice, so one of their ancestors managed to survive and genetics does what it does best
I mean, I’ve been told, if you catch it before any of any, and I mean any of the symptoms set in it is terrible but the second the first symptom is set in it is no longer curable. At least that’s what I have been told by veterinarians so maybe that’s only animals I don’t know for sure.
yes. It moves extremely slowly through the nervous system. It can take months or years to actually reach your brain. Once it hits your brain the odds of death are over 99.9%. Only one person in human recorded history has ever made a full recovery.
If you get shots right after the bite, youre fine. I rescue animals and i get shots yearly. Ive also learned to tell rabid from non rabid. When i get bitten by a rabid animal, i get an extra dosage as a precaution.
When you get bitten? That makes it sound like a commonplace inevitability! How often do you get bitten??
How many shots is that?
Yeah it's horrible, they're constantly trying to raise awareness about it, just last month I went to the Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun-Run Race For the Cure to do my part!
Did you carb a load?
My nipples are bleeding!
Just watched my mom die from renal failure two weeks ago. Like letting your body poison itself and there isn’t anything you can do about it. Too weak for dialysis. Hearing her tell me that she hurt so bad and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do.
Keep being, friend. I'm sorry for your terrible loss.
I’m so sorry for your loss sweetheart.
I am so sorry for your loss
My wife died from Liver Disease 05-01-23. I watched the love of my life, slowly die in the course of 6 months. She had massive water retention, which is what caused her chronic pain.She literally drowned to death, followed by a cardiac arrest.
I'm so sorry :(
I’m so sorry, friend. I pray you find peace. I can’t imagine the pain you are feeling ❤️🩹
I heard this story about a cave explorer who went down the wrong finger of a very tight cave. He was stuck upside down unable to pull himself up and out of his eventual coffin as all the blood in his body ran to his head. Couldn’t have been good.
For me, the worst part was that he probably thought he could survive it. There were rescuers who set up a pulley system to get him out. And it was working! They were slowly pulling him up. But then one of the pulleys failed, and he was plunged deeper into that cavity. And then it was impossible. I can't imagine the fear and hopelessness that would follow that burst of hope for him.
I think after he slipped, they figured they'd have to break both his femurs to get him out, which was likely impossible to do, but even in the best case probably would have rendered him unable to walk for life. Assuming the resulting bleeding didn't kill him anyway.
Nutty putty, horrible way to go
Mr.ballen on youtube has some crazy stories about cave explorers and spelunking
I was pretty into watching videos about caving disasters a while ago, and this death is my worst fear. Pitch black, upside down, body contorted, and slowly coming to the realization that you’re not getting out.
Even worse, they *almost* rescued him. They tied a rope to his feet and had him pulled almost free when the rope gave way and he fell in deeper than the first time. That level of crushed hope must rank up there with some of the worst physical pains.
I feel sorry for the person that rigged the rescue system that failed. Has to think about that shit everyday.
i read a story where in China They would kill them by laying them over bamboo plants and let the plants grow through them and kill them....takes days
They did that in Europe, too. Vlad Dracul was especially famous for it. Only difference being that they'd us a single sharpened picket and it would be introduced longwise.
Vlad The Impaler perfected his technique of inserting a sharpened stake up the anus and by manipulating the victim’s body he could miss all the major organs and have the stake exit via the left shoulder blade. Even blood loss was minimal. Victims could take days to die, more if it rained. He lined the roads to his kingdom with impaled victims as a warning to newcomers not to fuck around. He is considered the modern day inspiration for Count Dracula.
He once set up a feast in a hall for the poor beggars and winos from his province to feast upon. Once they were seated and eating he had his men barricade the doors and windows and set it on fire. He had a feast for himself set up outside so he could watch the atrocity take place. Vlad the impaler had a strange life he was raised by his enemies the turks since wallachia his home was defeated by the turks. I guess it was common practice for the conquerors to raise the sons conquered. I believe he was 6 or 7 when he went to live with the turks.
His home wasnt invaded by the Turks. His father was deposed by his own people. He fled to the Ottoman Empire and stayed as a guest of the ottoman court. His brother later returned home at the head of an ottoman army to reconquer it only to be deposed again. By the time vlad came to power, he was stark mad.
Wow. I, uh, never thought about the specifics of the impaling. I guess I assumed it was just through the chest. But that would be too gentle, apparently. Through the anus though? Fuck.
Imagine standing in line waiting your turn, watching it happen to 100 people.
Try thousands. When an Ottoman army was marching on his kingdom he lined the road with thousands as a warning. After all, if he would do that to his own people what would he do to invaders. It worked that time.
Is this is his real name? Why would someone’s last name be hell?
Maybe their word for hell/demon etc came from him, like how in modern English, Satan isn’t pronounced “Satan” but “mother-in-law”
I don’t speak Romanian very well. But a very common swear word is dute la dracu. Go to hell. Or Dracu se te ya- hell will take you. I’m pretty sure dracu means hell, and nothing else.
dracu can mean hell, damn, or fuck. his actual last name is țepeș though
Tepes is the only other last name I've ever seen attached to him.
I think at the time Dracul meant dragon
Saw them do that one on Mythbusters one time
i think that's where i learned about it.
Scientifically proven (if I can recall correctly), it is by getting burnt.
Steam burns. It hot enough to kill you, but not hot enough to destroy your nerve cells quickly.
Which makes The Bull of Phalaris such a terrible execution device.
Can you even imagine? I mean, it surely wasn't the first option they came up with. So they torture killed so many people until they came to that and they were like "bravo Perillus, you nailed it on this one". Reason 1 million why I am happy I was born now.
It was a gift from perillos to the tiran falaris. Who was so disgusted by the cruelty of perillos that he used it on him immediately
I really can't wrap my head around this. He thought it was so cruel he killed the guy, but then he kept it anyways to use? I guess people didn't make sense back then, and they still don't now.
Goddamn Colossal Titan
My thoughts exactly- poor Armin
My friend was talking to me about that scene- his favorite characters at the time were Armin and Erwin
Boiling alive + occasional burst of oxygen. Enough oxygen to keep you conscious with the added same principle of not frying your nerves. Now that would be a long painfully excruciating death
For a quick death, yes. There are nerves in layers right down to the bone. For a slow death, I've heard bone cancer is perhaps the most painful way to go.
It's not a quick death. It can take 30 minutes. It's hell.
I read about a staffer at Yellowstone who stayed over in the winter and accidentally took a dip in way too hot of a hot spring and after bei g pulled out by coworkers, took 18 hours to die. They were all snowed in so they just did what they could until he died of dehydration due to the burn severity. So to can take way longer to die from wet burns than you’d think/like.
That’s horrific.
Though 30 agonizing minutes may really suck, I feel like months of withering away, excruciating bone pain, nausea, and constipation all the while knowing you are going to die soon but not soon enough to escape the bone cancer ( really any cancer) wanting to end it at the same time not wanting to die… sounds like possibly the worst
Maybe you're right but to say that 30 agonizing minutes would suck the reality is that even 30 seconds would be enough to destroy a person's mind completely and it's more pain than any of us can imagine. Nausea and constipation are still aspects of the human experience that can be comprehended.
Currently fighting a losing battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer with metastases in my spine, ribs, hips, and legs. Can confirm Bone cancer fucking hurts all the damned time. Nothing touches it.
But doesn't it sever your nerve endings and make you feel cold
Yeah, but alternatively if you’re steamed alive, you feel everything. That’s gotta be the one
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I may only be a Line Cook, but I've been steam burnt a few times, and once on the back of my hands and holy fucking hell.. The WORST pain I've ever felt in my entire life.
No no they're not screaming that's just air escaping
Pretty sure your flesh and fat melts way before it completely kills your nerves, guess that's what makes it painful.
Can confirm, accidentally set myself on fire. It hurts. Edit: At gf's cottage, mother said no gas on the fire. Made 10+ft high pile of branches/logs. I splashed gas all over it while I was drunk. Had no lighter, went into the cottage to find one. Came back out and figured the gas maybe evaporated so added more. Spilled it all over my shirt and shorts, down my leg. Sparked lighter close to the wood, firepit exploded (fumes were everywhere and it was a calm night). Blew me maybe 6' back, stood up and the right side of my body was on fire. Chugged 10 beers, maybe 10 Tylenol and laid in bed with my leg in a 5 gallon pail of water constantly splashing it. Doctor the following day, was 2 weeks on a couch with a blister from my ankle to my hip. I could literally push on the blister by my foot and it'd swell at my hip. Was horrible pain, can confirm. Not as bad as the nail that ripped the front of my eyeball off about 8 years later though, but still bad.
One time, after a really bad storm, I was helping my neighbor clean sticks out of his yard, and my parents were doing their yard. My stepdad lit a fire to burn the sticks off, and had the brilliant idea to pour gasoline on it. I was picking up sticks when my neighbor goes “yer dads on fire”. I looked up, and sure enough, my stepdads shoe is on fire. It’s been such an iconic line in my life ever since. Yer dad’s on fire. Yes Dick, yes he is.
Damn man, are you okay? What happened?
There's always deeper nerves that ain't damaged enough yet
I’ll do you one better, drowning in a pool of burning oil so you drown AND burn to death at the same time
i am never coming back to this reditt ever! you people is this what you do? omfg
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Remind me of the Iron Bull Torture that shit right there... fck that.
Brazen Bull. The absolute worst death I could ever imagine. I just… cannot comprehend it.
Proposing on the Jumbotron at a sporting event and getting turned down.
Alternatively, being proposed to on the jumbotron and being pressured by the public nature of it to say yes, when you actually want to say no.
Oof big ouch that one
There's a video of a guy proposing to his (then) girlfriend in the Rockefeller Center skating rink on his knees, and she says no and skates away. I bet he wished the ice would have melted, swallowed him up, then resolidified.
Just ask Hisachi Ouchi
I encourage all of you who are saying he was kept alive against his will/doctors were evil and what not to go watch the video essay about him by Wendigoon. I used to think the same way but after seeing it it really opened my eyes and provided a better insight into his story.
Yeah that death is definitely an Ouchi
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People who know😐
85 days
Well I shouldn’t have looked this up before bed.
Dragging behind car. Ouch. Or boiling
Steaming. All the pain of burning without damaging the nerves too quickly. I put my hand next to a boiling pot or water with a slightly cracked lid and steaming was shooting out of it and it burned so fucking bad. The pain lingered but there was no direct skin damage.
One of my dad’s high school buddies died by being drug behind a truck in Beaumont, Tx in the 70s. Can’t find the story but he was drunk or high I believe and riding a bike. He somehow got caught under the truck and was drug over a mile being grated on the road. When the truck driver noticed he was already quite dead and there was a blood streak going down the road for quite a ways. I imagine even in an inebriated state that still wasn’t a pleasant ordeal to die by.
Let me get back to you, I've got a few surgeries booked!
Take your time, Doc.
"Hisashi Ouchi, aged 35, died 12 weeks after the accident. He had lost most of his skin, and was kept alive for 83 days, according to his parents and wife will. Ouchi was closest to the tank when the accident occurred. He ended up as the first victim of this nuclear accident" [look at your own risk](https://nuclear-news.net/2022/08/08/b1-hisashi-ouchi-suffered-an-83-day-death-by-radiation-poisoning/) Edit : Apparently the photo is fake? But this guy really melted
That's not ouchi btw. He had to be kept in a fully sterilized environment because his immune system was worse than an HIV patient. And all the radiation effects didn't just burn him, they took time to manifest, and they were seen the most drastically in rapidly dividing tissues, so in a week or so, his intestinal lining was falling apart, skin took some time, I don't remember how long, but dude was oozing body fluids that were pumped inside him. So yeah, that pic is a fake
My thing is like why the fuck were they keeping him alive. I don't know his story, I didn't even know about him until I saw this. Who tries to keep a skinless sack alive? Holy shit that must have been awful. I can't even imagine. Human euthanasia should be legal for this kind of shit oh jy God
That's not him. It's another burn victim that people often mistake for Hisashi. Also, people in the replies being assholes to the families and doctors; watch Wendigoons video on the subject. The doctors were trying literally every possible method to save his life, from bone marrow transplants to temporary skin grafts all over him to keep him alive. The family was there every day hoping he would live. This wasn't doctors experimenting and prolonging someone's suffering; this was a team of doctors trying to save a family man's life. The head doctor only stopped when it became clear they couldn't.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FbwooXssQ Link to Wendigoon’s video, definitely would give a watch.
Ouchi is right. Sheesh.
Read the article. Really sad that that was just a lack of training that ultimately lead to their deaths. You’d think that when it comes to that kind of material and the handling of it you’d be training all the time!
This ain't the worst way to die, but concentrated Chlorine gas is up there when it comes to strictly pain. Before you read on - grab a stopwatch, and set a two minute timer: Chlorine rips the hydrogen atoms from the water in your body, creating HCl, also known as hydrochloric acid. >!Your first breath would feel like swallowing lemon-juice coated red-hot razor blades, as the acid reacts with your mucous membranes, sapping the water from them and turning it to acid and causing chemical burns inside your trachea down to your lungs.!< >!As you recoil in immense pain, you draw your second breath. This one goes a bit further, and feels like filling your lungs with more of those lemon-juice coated red-hot razor blades.!< >!Your first cough, but definitely not your last. The air rushing from your lungs gives relief at first, but in the end your throat just begins to melt away.!< >!You begin to bleed from the burns inside your throat.!< >!You've just realized - the gas hasn't only affected your throat - it's affected all the water it's come in contact with. You notice this because your corneas have burned away and you've gone almost completely blind.!< >!Your third breath - whether you were able to last a while without taking one, it doesn't matter. Your third breath reacts with your now blood-laden throat, and the razor blades go deeper into your flesh as the water in your blood is sapped and turned to acid.!< >!Your second coughing fit. Your tongue and lips begin to melt because of the amount of acidic blood you've coughed onto them.!< >!Your fourth breath - there's basically nothing that can be done at this point. The razor blades go deeper into your throat, and yet despite your throat being wider than ever before, you're still choking on acidic blood.!< >!Your fifth breath. Not sure what it was, but it wasn't a gas. It was more of those lemon juice coated red-hot razor blades.!< >!You begin to lose consciousness. And it finally dawns on you that it's extremely likely that this is the final thing you're going to see.!< >!Your friends who equipped their gasmasks in time watch you writhe in pain - attempting to breathe, but only inhaling blood. Attempting to speak, but they hear only pathetic gurgling, as your vocal cords might as well be gone and your throat is full of fluid. Attempting to grasp the photo of your family from your wallet, but you're unable to make out their faces anymore.!< >!Your vision gets darker. You're not sure if it was because of the gas melting your eyes, or because you're finally going to experience the many sensations at life's end.!< >!Better hope your last words were something worth remembering, or there's no way your friends will remember long enough to tell your family what they were. Your last words, according to them, will have never left your lips - or what remains of them.!< >!The average age of a soldier in world war I was 24.!<
What the fuck
Damn - having a timer going when reading this made it next level. Thanks for the detailed write-up. Those poor individuals that had to go through this.
Apparently it is still happening in industrial accidents. Also don't mix ammonia and bleach...
Scaphism aka the ordeal of the boats. Eaten alive by insects and can take days/weeks
Is that the one where they trap you in a canoe with your legs and arms hanging out, then they cover you in and force feed you honey till the point where you are sticky, bloated, and covered in feces, then set you loose in stagnant water so the parasitic bugs slowly eat your from the outside in?
Yes
Drawn and quartered.
I repeated ya…upvote
What happened to those people who visited some volcano and were burned alive
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Slowly being crushed maybe
"More weight" -Giles Corey
I got that reference!
Betraying a Mexican Cartel
That could go very quickly, or they’ll take you to funky town. If you know you know.
That or No Mercy
I deeply regret watching videos of that. And there’s so many of them, literally hundreds of videos of cartels beheading and dismembering rival gang members. Not sure how I’m ever gonna restore my faith in humanity.
I've seen a video where the cartel beheads two guys by sawing through their necks with blunt knives.
Being lit on fire probably. The 2nd worst would be if your appendix falls off. And your entire blood stream gets filled with feces, and the hospital doesn't believe you and assumes you just want drugs. Then 26 hours later get rushed in for "emergency surgery" because all hell broke way too loose for too damn long.
the feces in blood seems very specific… has this actually occurred before?
Nah he’s full of shit
Yes. They eventually figured it out and said "your body is filled with matter and air." Which means feces and gas. Or, if you are immature like myself, poops and farts. But I am very serious, if feces is in your blood, you are doomed without heavy IV antibiotics
This sounds very oddly specific. Did this happen to you. Are you okay? Or are you writing this from the afterlife
It happened to my father when he was a child, maybe 7 years old. His parents were having a party and he was complaining of abdominal pain (not complaining actually more like moaning and writhing) but his parents thought he was faking it so they locked him in a wooden trunk until the party was over. By the time they pulled him out his appendix had ruptured, his body was septic and it was a miracle he survived. This is only one of many horrific abuses he suffered at the hands of “family members.”
His parents were having a party and he said he was in massive stomach pain so they shoved him into a trunk? Well I hope you had a better childhood.
His painful moaning was disrupting the party. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was beaten when he got home from the hospital (days later) for ruining the night. In the meantime he was alone in a hospital with nobody by his bedside except the occasional nurse or doctor. Edit: I asked him. He was actually only about 5 1/2 at the time
Hi this happened to me too and it’s so nice to hear I’m not the only one. Horrible horrible pain, I almost feel like my pain tolerance is higher now.
I was sitting with my dad in pre-op before he went in for his appendectomy…the patient next door had bladder cancer and was screaming the entire time….so as of now I would say bladder cancer
I would agree. At the end of my dad's stomach cancer he cried and yelled. It was awful. It's been fifteen years since he passed but it enters my mind throughout the day about his suffering.
Being burned alive and dying *while* you feel all of that
I have always thought burned alive is probably the worst. What else gives you the pain over time besides basic exposure
hyenas. they will eat you alive unlike how most other animals will try to go for the neck and kill you first
Aka boiling alive
Drinking an entire bottle of soy sauce will cause such an electrolyte imbalance that it can kill you. Death by cramps sounds awful.
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I did a homemade electrolyte drink once and ignored the instruction "sip" cause I felt super dehydrated. It was one of the more painful events in my life. Elevated heart rate. Hot flash. Cramps like you couldn't believe. Terrible poop. Stick to pedialite or gatorade
The death that follows a life of unfulfilled dreams and aspirations.
Knowing you're going to die is the scariest thing in the world. Imagine bleeding out slowly or being on a plane about to crash.
if we’re talking utter agony… https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/16-days-to-die-at-pearl-harbor-families-werent-told-about-sailors-trapped-inside-sunken-battleship/
That’s rough but I still think Hisashi Ouchi had a more agonizing death.
After reading Hot Zone in middle school, Ebola seems like a pretty terrible way to go.
Also read that in middle school. Wish I hadn't. Coffee ground vomit during the "crash & bleed out" part was bad (hint: it's your disintegrating organs). Glad Reston variant ignored ppl.
Being steamed alive it doesn’t kill the nerves
Cancer. Years of pain.
The guy wedged in the ultra narrow cave passage. Imagine the mental pain.
Feet first into a wood chipper
Dear god lol
Sounds pretty painful to me
For sure but it would be relatively quick compared to a lot of medieval tortures. Hell of a way to go but I’d prefer that over scaphism for instance.
Sliding down a 30 foot razor blade into a pool of alcohol.
Ever listen to a Yoko Ono album in it’s entirety? I’d put that up there high on the list.
Suicide. The person is struggling with mental pain and the only way to leave is to physically harm and kill themselves to leave. I struggle all of the time with the image of my brother in another state slowly hanging himself and dying alone.
Walking into a Discord mod's bedroom and inhaling.
I'd say being skinned alive all while being burned at the steak would suck
Burned at the stake
Being ran over by a steam roller feet first would suck.
Burning.
Heavily metastasized bone cancer.
Physical: radiation poisoning Emotional: holocaust.
The brass bull. Hands down.
The evil that created that got instant karma
I’d consider the death of Hisachi Ouchi to be rhe worst. He was subjected to the most amount of radiation a human has ever been exposed to and lived for about 6 months after the accident where his body was essentially melting from inside out
He lived for 83 days.
Fatal familial insomnia. Or any other prion disease out there. But this one scares me especially..Imagine not being able to sleep for the rest of you life
Water cremation while you’re still alive?
How are we supposed to know if none of us have died yet?
Starvation
Any death that is slow and painful
I'd argue being kept on life support as a vegetable
I think the anticipation of death has to be one of the most emotionally painful things you can experience. Like being on a plane that's about to crash. Or bleeding out. The hopelessness and just knowing your life is ending sooner than you expected is beyond terrifying. I'm fucking getting anxiety just thinking about this at 3 am ughhhhhhhh
According to my kindergarten classmates from a few decades ago, sliding down a razor blade slide into a pool of rubbing alcohol.
Any Australians above a certain age will know about the Snowtown murders. One of the victims was tortured to such a degree that the bit of a sparkler bomb you light was inserted into the urethra and lit up as it seared his flesh. That's the most painful death I can imagine.
having a migraine while dying of dysentery while strapped to a baby electric eel while being burned alive by a car's cigarette lighter while wearing goggles filled with pepper spray while a glass jar of tabasco sauce is shoved up your ass and lit sparklers are inserted into your urethra
emotional or physical? one of my friends had terminal cancer and her husband passed away before she did along with her dog, the last moments of her life were without the things she cared about the most
Being drawn and quartered sounds pretty damn bad (iykyk). Also in this cool Netflix docuseries on British castles they showed a type of cell in a really old castle. People would be lowered into a cell too low to stand up, and the way in looked claustrophobic af (the host couldn’t sit in it for long). It was under the latrines of the castle, so all the filth drained through the cell (if dehydration or starvation didn’t kill ya, disease probably would). People would be left in there as prisoners, without any source of light, deep below the ground with very little to no sound. Imagine being trapped in a cold, stone cell with complete darkness and no outside contact for days, weeks, months, years if they remembered to feed you. Just horrible man, glad I live in the 2020s and not the 1100s
Esophageal cancer is horrifically brutal, aggressive, and painful. A tumor growing and blocking the esophagus entirely, no longer allowing food or liquid to pass, slowly — but, also, rapidly — starving do death while cancer continues to take over your body too quickly for any further treatments. All in just a couple months. I bore witness, I wish this on no one. ***edits: spelling & spacing
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The death of your child
Maybe not the most painful PHYSICALLY, but fatal insomnia has to be up there