Which are the most painful worst ways to die? Is it possible to find this out?
Pain is usually a subjective feeling, so everybody experiences it differently, and the person who is only capable of explaining the pain intensity at the moment of death is… well, dead. So, naturally, we cannot scientifically rank the most painful ways to die. But, we guess nobody is expecting that, as the mere thought of burning alive is enough for most of the normal people to feel horrified by imagining the pain person experiences.
For some reason, people love to write about the ways of dying, as we’ve learned that while making our list of 7 Easiest Painless Ways of Killing Yourselves Quickest. On the Internet, you can easily find the best ways or most common ways to die. Who are we to judge the people who love to write and read about that? Maybe they find those articles interesting or experience some weird kind of relief.
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The internet is actually full of the forums and blogs where people give their opinions on most painful worst ways to die. If you ask people on Quora, they are very clear about this problem. They have easily explained which most painful deaths are providing few clear explanations and instructions how to define the painful death. To die painfully, a person must feel strong physical and mental abuse, dying must be slow and the victim must be aware of the dying.
Risking to be called morbid, we must say that we read many interesting stories about the most painful deaths ever recorded. We read about the waiter who had been pushed into the boiled water and died after the hours of cooking, being conscious during that time and clearly aware of the things around him. We also read about something called “bamboo torture” where a person is tied to the bamboo tree for a couple of weeks, during which time the soft bamboo tree penetrates into the person’s skin, bones and tissue and literally grows inside of the person. That is something which we can call a long and painful death. However, reading about the most brutal deaths was not so interesting (as we thought that it would be), so we checked the sites on which medicine and science were trying to provide us with the most logical answers about the painful deaths.
To create our list we used few similar lists that we could find using sources such as Quora, TheChive, Whatculture, HowStuffWorks, to name a few. Then, we took the most mentioned deaths on those lists and ranked them according to how many times they were mentioned there. Do not feel sick in the stomach reading about the most painful worst ways to die as you will learn a lot about the human nature, medicine and in some cases about the history of human tortures.
10. Lethal injections
In case you didn’t know, most states use the three-drug combination for lethal injections; one to stop muscle activity, second to cause the stage similar to coma and the third to stop the heartbeat. Even though it sounds as a simple and most dignified way to die, nobody could really explain the right effect of those injections and if they are painful or not. Even the doses are not finally determined. People who watched the prisoners dying from these injections, testify that these deaths looks highly painful. The reason is the inability of moving due to legs and arms paralyzes while other drugs kill the organs.
9. Being eaten by animal
If you may feel safe from this type of the death and think that it could not happen to you, think twice about that. It is true that most of us do not live in African deserts and there are no lions that can tear us apart, but there are many animals which can eat us in big cities, too. Have you ever seen your neighbor’s dog or big birds in cities situated nearby forest? We can add special bacteria which eat human flesh on this list and many types of tortures used in history which included binding rat cages on prisoners and leaving them to eat prisoner’s flesh. Eating can last a couple of hours, during which time they simply cannot move, but feel the worst pain which we can imagine.
8. Dehydration
It is hard to explain why this method, number 8 on our list of most painful worst ways to die is painful. The medical explanation starts from the smaller parts of the human body, cells. If they are empty, they are looking for the energy and the source of the oxygen, usually got from the water. During that period, they are shrinking, saving the last reserves of the oxygen, which causes pain. After a while, organs start with shrinking, and in the end they need to shut down.
7. Falling
Falling from the height is not deathly only because of the breaking on the sidewalk. There are medical proves that some people who fell actually died during the fall, so they were not able to feel the true pain. But, is there any worst thing that being aware of the death caused by hitting on the ground and not be able to stop that? To be added to this list we can mention a special variation of this death, falling into a volcano, which, let be honest, cannot be compared with any other creepy death we know.
6. Electrocution
If you read about lethal injection as the first item on the list of the most painful worst ways to die and felt revulsion, then this killing method will make you feel something worst. So, if you ever find yourself in a situation to choose a way how to be executed, do not ever choose the electric chair instead of the injection. The reason is the time it lasts, which can be a few minutes, during which time person feels severe pain, caused by the tearing of the organs. The electricity is very powerful and goes through the body looking for the easiest and fastest way to go out, cooking and roasting the organs without mercy.
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5. Decapitation
Simply translated as cutting off the head, this method that ranked 5th on our list of most painful worst ways to die was used in Middle Age. In the modern age, there are proves that it was used in prisons, concentration camps, and wars. To successfully perform it the executor has to be very precise and well trained and has a very sharp knife or sword. It was also a common cause of death in battles, where obviously were many swords in hands of the angry swordsmen. If that are not enough, there are many cases where persons have been decapitated by accident, in traffic accidents, or even at home in some weird set of circumstances. What is painful here, you may ask. Well, there is medical researching which say that person is alive for a couple of seconds after the cutting and perfectly aware of the situation.
4. Starvation
Like we said about the dehydration, the pain and suffering during the starvation that ranked fourth on our list of most painful worst ways to die is actually a normal reaction of our body struggling with the loosing of the energy and important vital components. However, the person that is starving for several days starts to hallucinate, loses the strength and mobility in arms and legs and falls in coma. It is needed at least three weeks to these symptoms start, and there are records that some strikers have survived more then 40 days without food.
3. Suffocation
Here is important physical moment, when a person is actually in a panic and do not know how to stop the situation. Being in a panic actually blocks the person from doing something which can really help them. The person is dying in panic and with pain. The similar thing happens during the drowning.
2. Radiation
If there is a really slow and boring death that is the one caused by radiation that’s up next on our list of most painful worst ways to die. Maybe the word boring is not a perfectly chosen for this situation, but people who died from the high level of the radiation were literally wishing to die as soon as possible. Depending on the level of radiation and the durability of the exposure, a person can have deep and awful burns on the skin and even in body organs, can be poisoned and have hallucinations. During that time, they feel severe pain.
1. Burning alive
Finally, we are at the first place with the worst and most painful way to die. This type of death has been found on every list we read about the painful deaths. However, death caused by fire can last very long or be finished shortly, obviously depending on the size of the fire. Doctors also claim that persons in big bonfires like those used in Middle Age died from the choking smoke shortly after the first flames had touched their clothes. However, bearing in mind that the pain which the person surely feels while the fire is burning its skin and panic and fear due to inability to get out from that situation we have to accept the suggestions from the forums and sites and declare the burning alive as the worst of most painful worst ways to die.
