what do you think is the worst way to die?
popular choices include drowning and burning.

There are conflicting views though as drowning can be ok sometimes...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:30, 31 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Being poked repeatedly with a long stick
that's got to be a shit way to go
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:32, Reply)

Drowned in human faeces....
Although the burning at the stake of the guy in Last of the Mohicans still HAUNTS me!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:33, Reply)

Burning
There is nothing that frightens me more than being burnt. To me, it's the worst physical pain possible.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:35, Reply)

Apart from really silly/convoluted deaths
Being buried alive and left to die would be fucking horrific.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:35, Reply)

I wouldn't say drowning is all that bad.
I nearly drowned once. Fell off my surfboard, cracked my head on a rock underwater and passed out. Woke up on the beach throwing up water all over a mate's wetsuit.

I don't remember any of it.

Burning would be the worst way to go in my opinion.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 7 May 2009, 10:36, Reply)

Running away
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:37, Reply)

Being boiled alive. Probably more painful than burning.
(username1, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:41, Reply)

any way
in a state of sobriety
( cackers, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:43, Reply)

This basically comes down to pain
So...

Burning.
Eaten alive.
Tortured to death (hung drawn and quartered for example).
And any illness or poison that makes you die screaming.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:43, Reply)

Dying filthy rich must suck
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:49, Reply)

Burned alive?
Pfft. One deep breath to scorch your lungs and it'll be over with reasonably quickly.
I'm with Lab on this one. Buried alive would be just the pits.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 7 May 2009, 10:49, Reply)

I think this actually happened
Some bloke had a 'special' pair of grundies which had a pipe leading from the rear to a gas mask.
He was discovered dead from asphyxiation by his own fart gas. Some weird kind of fart/shit/wank fetish.

How do you inform the next of kin?

I'd hate to die this way as it's not something I want to be remembered for.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:50, Reply)

Landing on an island populated solely by bisexual nymphomaniacs
and being allergic to all of the available food.

Just throwing it out there
( DarkSon a time and date will follow this username on, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:50, Reply)

At work we have decided that
gettiing aids and then ebola (or ebolaids) is the worst way to go.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:51, Reply)

DarkSon
Surely the allergic reactions would cause swelling, and that would be a good thing?

Me? I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly
(Bert's other profile wants to wear your balls on a necklace, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:52, Reply)

Pfft buried alive. Surely its a matter of:

time x physical discomfort x mental discomfort
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:53, Reply)

Bert
Only if you were humping the melons in question, and surely you'd be attempting to hump other things?
( DarkSon a time and date will follow this username on, Thu 7 May 2009, 10:58, Reply)

For me
It would have to be any way that leaves me in pain for a protracted length of time, or something wich robs me of my ability to move and communicate, I think that being stuck in my own mind would be horrible.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:00, Reply)

I reckon the ignominy
of being savagely shafted up the arse with a chair leg and then being dumped into Michael Barrymore's swimming pool to die rates pretty highly.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:06, Reply)

I'd hate to die
of sore toes
( fudboy high ideals and crazy dreams, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:09, Reply)

The death of an old English King
He was reportedly imprisoned in the Tower of London for years, before being turned upside down and having a metal funnel forcibly inserted into his anus. Then molten lead was poured into the funnel.

The traditional punishment for sexual deviants involved the condemned man being suspended by his ankles, naked while he is slowly sawn in half starting from the crotch.

I should imagine that either method is pretty nasty and serves to remind that we live in enlightened times, although they're both fitting means for doing away with really shit politicians in my humble opinion.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 7 May 2009, 11:13, Reply)

Got to love the old mediaeval tortures
Apparently with the crotch sawing one they typically got down to your belly button before you died. Lovely.

Another personal favourite is the one where they tie you down with a cauldron over your stomach and put a rat in it, then heat the cauldron from outside. When it gets too hot in there the only way out for the rat is eating its way through you.
(username1, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:25, Reply)

Thinking about drowning
If you're conscious then it can't be that a good way to go, if it was why have so many fishermen been recovered with boot marks and the like on backs, shoulders, and heads, as their companions have tried to climb up them in an attemp to survive?

The best way to die that I can think of would be through the cold. As the core body temperature drops you begin to feel sleepy, and after hypothermia has set in you just fall asleep and eventually die.

In a related note, one of the best ways to stave off hypothermia is wanking!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:13, Reply)

Haha, I can easily believe that
I quite often have a wank if I'm cold, saves putting the heating on!
(username1, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:26, Reply)

Locked-in syndrome.
And then twenty years on life-support, slowly going insane.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:26, Reply)

A fourth term in office
That would be fucking horrendous.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 7 May 2009, 11:31, Reply)

Being eaten alive
Or under any form of sustained pain.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:32, Reply)

DarkSon
You don't know me AT ALL
(Bert's other profile wants to wear your balls on a necklace, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:37, Reply)

A Revision
Torn apart slowly by a team of Clydesdales would be pretty uncomfortable.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 7 May 2009, 12:00, Reply)

I think an Aztec form of execution
was being coated in honey then left for the ants to eat.

Yeuch.

Scalding to death would be horrible - I remember that case of a baby who died when a boiler exploded in the flat above - it took about three weeks for her to die. Poor thing :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 7 May 2009, 15:24, Reply)

on a mildly serious note
When I was considering methods of "rolling a seven" I investigated and managed to rank order the most painful, thus

Most painful: self immolation
Most timely: self death of a thousand cuts

And at the other end of the scale

Least time: electrocution (essentially running a defibrillator backwards)
Least pain and eventual choice
A heady wee cocktail including drunkenness thus boxing my already quite screwed liver, prescription meds ensuring that the liver is totally stuffed, and the coup de grace of immersion hypothermia in a place where the nearest transplant facilities are around 4000 miles away. If the immersion hypothermia didn't get me I'd be so wasted that I would drown and if all of that didn't work unlikely as it is then I'd finally due of septicaemia as my liver being SO screwed I'd go into hepatic and then renal failure within 12 to 18 hours. -
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Thu 7 May 2009, 23:48, Reply)