Worst way to die

[John VN]

1st--I'm going to disagree. While Alzheimer's is -- obviously -- horrible, horrible, horrible, I think it's harder on the caregivers than on the dying individual. Maybe I don't know -- I have no personal experience with that topic............................................

2nd--Interesting to note that -- looking over the answers -- overall, we seem to be more afraid of things that aren't actually likely to happen. Our real fears should be cancer and heart disease.

1st bold -- IMO you are correct. I HAD the years of experience being with FIL as he progressed and finally died 2 months post pancreatic cancer diagnosis. At the end he was unaware of the Alzheimer's and Pancreatic Cancer but suffered immensely as did family members, only psychologically not physically.

2nd bold -- I HAVE cancer and am living with it as a LIVE-IVORE not survivor while it might be killing me. I have received my treatment protocol that is experimental and the first guy to be trying this treatment. I have no fear of "what might come" or "my eventual demise." Having bone metastasis of my cancer is often the progression direction but can also include organ involvement. Next week I have a male mammogram. My wife is VERY INTERESTED in the HOW??? me too!!!

 

[NannyBeBe]

My daughter did her final history paper in college on Vlad the Impaler. I was horrified at how horrid that man was.
I think for me the worst way to die would be to burn to death.

 

[TLSnell1981]

I think fire

I would say fire or drowning.

 

[MillauFr]

Being forced to watch a steady diet of Cable TV "news" ala Clockwork Orange. You will go insane in no time at all. Those programs will destroy your brain.

If I was a filmmaker I would copy the Supersize Me, McDonalds movie, showing what happens to people's brains when they watch Cable TV "news". The results are not pretty.

 

[Kitty 34]

Probably getting run over by some reindeer especially walking alone (as I will be) this Christmas Eve.

 

[mikehn]

Eaten alive by some animal. A shark comes to mind.

 

[AustinTink]

These are all horrible but I have to add in the obvious one for 2020... dying alone in an isolation ward of Covid.

 

[fly girl]

Torture. That doesn’t always lead to death, but I think torture leading to murder would be the absolute worst.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

What a festive topic for the holiday season! Fa la la la la!

Anyway. Fire.

 

[Disney Frenhines]

Young, before you have a chance to live your life. My husband died very young, at 30 and they were never able to find a cause, he literally dropped dead with no explanation and as the one left behind I have a hard time with that. He was an exceptional man and it's not fair on him to miss out on living his life when less deserving people (being kind in that description) live long worthless lives.

 

[Disney Frenhines]

Eaten alive by some animal. A shark comes to mind.

You're just an entree to them, so at least being eaten by an animal is helping them survive.

 

[ronandannette]

In a buried coffin, but not yet dead.

As a former funeral professional, trust me - this hardly ever happens.

 

[TippyThomas]

Painfully

 

[GreatLakes]

There was a time I would say fire but I think I'd choose painful and quick over something like ALS or Alzheimer's.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Anything slow and drawn out. I don’t want to suffer for a long time or be a burden to others.

 

[Keetchino]

Anything where you are able to process the fact that you’re about to die..... like your boat capsizes and your treading water and you feel yourself getting weaker, and you know you’re about to go under.... or you are trapped in a room in your house as it burns and you can feel it getting hotter and you know that you’re about to burn alive.... if I go I want it to be quick where I have no time to process it.

 

[Babsy]

Slowly and painfully, over weeks of suffocation, all alone in a hospital ward from Covid 19. You can't talk. You can't move.You know you are dying, you are suffering, you are kept alive for weeks and you are alone separated from everyone you love. I don't think that it can get much worse than that.

 

[KatMac]

Burning to death
The electric chair
Death by fire ants
Being eaten alive
Beheading - When I was a kid, my brother insisted you would be conscious long enough to be aware of the motion of your head falling off your body. True or not, that visual has affected me all my life,

 

[KatMac]

Brain eating amoeba
Flesh eating bacteria

 

[lovin'fl]

I was always terrified of an anyerism. So sudden. Had an aunt die from one and she knew it was there. Awful!

Drowning, fire, falling from a height like a plane or skyscraper or off a mountain....those are all givens (as answers to this thread).

Being buried alive or getting your throat slit...also terrifying.

Just watched grizzly man doc and that would also be an awful ending...same as being eaten by a lion or orangutan... some such.

Terrible topic as I lay awake at night thinking about dying.