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Mine would probably be Rabies.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Bob! Did you forget to set the steam roller on park? My leg is kind of stuck, help me off will you? Ok we'll need a grinder, go turn that steam roller off dude it's rolling this way. The keys? Joe had the keys last? He's off today? Call Joe dude! C'mon!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Being slowly crushed from the feet up by a machine that no one has the ability to stop, while everyone looks on in horror.

Or, more realistically, anything that involves mental deterioration.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rated from most painless to most painful - most painful comes in dead last, so to speak.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that's one thing that's becoming clear. It depends on what you fear, not what is objectively "worst".

Is pain worse than the isolation and hopelessness of dying unreachable, upside-down and alone in Nutty Putty cave? Or is pain worse than dying with no emotions but fear and horror, like with rabies? Or is pain worse than the slow, inevitable fading of the self that comes with Alzheimer's, dementia, or prion disease? Or how about being in the hands of hostile enemies whose joy is to give you a slow, gruesome death?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Where we die is irrelevant - we all die alone. Upside down in a ravine... as long as it doesn't hurt. Death comes for all of us - I simply don't want it to hurt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Brain eating amoebas

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Alzheimer's, Dementia, anything neurological I think.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a certain cruel and unusual method of execution that I have some knowledge of. I remember it involving being force-fed honey and cream and then being left to rot in your own excrement.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Scaphism, thats what I came here to say.

Also known as the boats, is an alleged ancient Persian method of execution mentioned by Plutarch in his Life of Artaxerxes. It ostensibly entailed trapping the victim between two boats, feeding and covering them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time. (Copied from Wikipedia)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Any way whatsoever after my kids, including with the knowledge that they will expire shortly after me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've seen enough people die of diseases to know that I don't want that. I'd rather be crushed to death or hit by a car or break my neck falling then having to suffer for months or years and know that death is coming.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hopefully not asphyxiation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Killed by family

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