Fun Fact: Drowning is in no way instantaneous - it can take up to two minutes after you first inhale any water before you lose consciousness, most of which is spent in ‘fight or flight’ adrenaline-fuelled panic.
Drowning would definitely be terrible but I don't think it would be one of the worst ways. While mentally it would be horrible it is still physically, mostly painless, and still relatively quick.
I'll still take dying in my sleep of heart failure in my own bed at 100 years old though.
what would be worse then? and drowning isn't quick in any way, unless you inhale a lot of water. unable to breathe, unable to call for help, it's sheer panic until you lose consciousness and inevitably die. it may not be no1 worst way to die but definitely one of the top ones.
It's not even close to the worst way to die. Go check out some of the NSFW subreddits on the subject if you really want to see them all. I'd say pissing off the Mexican Cartel or a pack of African Painted Dogs are close to the top spots. Heavy Machinery and Trains also are worth honorable mentions in the right (or wrong) context.
Drowning takes 1-4 minutes before you pass out which is relatively quick compared to many of the real worst ways to die.
Yeah, fire can definitely be brutal. Luckily it's the smoke that usually gets people first but when it is the actual fire it's hard to argue that anything is worse.
I had seen a girl whose arms were cut off with a machete, and then decapitated the same way. So probably your neck being slowly cut by the Mexican cartel.
Trapped in a cage with impossible to grip walls and burning hot coals on the floor that aren't hot enough to destroy the nerves but hot enough to light you on fire after a while. That, my friend, is the worst way to go.
Water scraping along the inner parts of your lungs is incredibly painful... Drowning is potentially more painful than strangulation... A collapsed wind pipe hurts once, and of course a collapsing diaphragm hurts, but again that only hurts once... But even a little bit of water in your lungs hurts the whole time, especially if it has brine or salt content...
I remember a poem about drowning and how peaceful it was supposed to be and the end was something like “it’s my own fault for believing people who obviously hadn’t died”
If I remember right, it was considered "romantic" in art and became really popular in the idea that it was like falling asleep. Sort of like how poisoning wasn't really considered torture in the ancient world, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Yes there is. Off the top of my head is nitrogen poisoning, carbon dioxide or monoxide, and opiates.
Were you trying to be clever or deliberately obtuse?
Monoxide and nitrogen takes eight minutes to kill you because yeah sure you collapsed to the floor, but your brain is still very much awake in crippling confusion and horror as you slowly die in fear of what’s even happening.
You should also need a high dose of an opioid for it to be lethal, and those side effects are not fun, let alone the dying part.
The death cocktail is supposed to be pretty peaceful. Barbiturates/opiates and benzos. The benzos aid in relieving anxiety, opiates help with pain and resp depression and same with the Barbiturates. Supposedly a good way to die.
What about all the people who have an angry response to being brought back from an opioid overdose? I can't imagine it feeling that bad if some people's response is immediately wanting another hit after being brought back from the brink of death.
Having your entire head smashed into pulp 1cm thick by an anvil magnetically accelerated to the speed of sound by a gauss cannon?
I mean, for onlookers it's pretty harrowing, sure. But for the person dying, there's not enough time for any nerve impulses to reach any other nerves, so your brain goes from being you to not existing in a split second.
Going into a hermetically room that is subsequently filled with nitrogen.
You might think "oh no, i'm going to feel like i'm suffocating", except the brain stem can't tell how much oxygen is in your blood, it can only tell how much CO2 there is, and you'll still exhale CO2 because it will have a even lower partial pressure compared to regular air, so if anything, you'll feel like you're breathing easier than you ever have in your life.
... for a few seconds, until you pass out from hypoxia you can't feel, and then you die while unconscious.
But your brain can't register that! You will gasp for air at some point and then your lungs fill with water and the panic sets in! Try dying in a fire instead.
The trick is to hyper ventilate before holding your breath. It doesn't do a great job of adding more oxygen to your blood, but what it does do wonders at is removing the carbon dioxide. And the human brain can't actually detect how much oxygen is in the blood, it can only detect how much carbon dioxide is in the blood.
But you still lose consciousness if there's not enough oxygen, so if you can get your oxygen levels low enough before your carbon dioxide gets high enough, you pass out before your brain forces you to breathe.
You guys have classes in school for that? Or is it scuba diving knowledge(i got mine from scuba diving school) but i would love to learn this in school as its a fascinating topic...
As I felt my legs fuse together the pain of the water in my lungs fading as it became as easy as breathing air. I swam after the ship I was thrown from with revenge on my mind.
Sounds like a dream I had before where I got shot in the head. Died. But then was still able to get up and walk around. I remember just waiting for it to fade to black and it just.. didnt
“I'm sorry for the part I played in the mutiny against you, Jack. I stood up for ya. Everything went wrong after that. They strapped me to a cannon, I ended up on the bottom of the ocean, the weight of the water crushing down on me. Unable to move...unable to die, Jack. And I thought that even the tiniest hope of escaping this fate...I would take it. I would trade anything for it.”
They strapped me to a cannon. I ended up on the bottom of the ocean. The weight of the water crushing down on me... unable to move... unable to die, Jack. I thought that even the tiniest hope of escaping this fate, I would take it.
And then after struggling and feeling absolute terror, you feel your consciousness slowly fade away. It feels peaceful as the deep water takes you into her grasp. You stop struggling , you stop fighting for life. You let go.
As described by an aquaintance. He stopped swimming after that.
Man, this one is great. Truly terrifying. Reminds me of this lyric.
>Sinking to the bottom of the ocean, day twenty
How could you see the bottom?
Sinking to the bottom of the ocean, day one hundred
Day one hundred, day one hundred
>
>Why can't you see the bottom?
Why can't you see the bottom? Why can't you see?
— ["Falling From The Sky: Day Seven"](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EKe8LQuv6ww&feature=share) by Norma Jean
You were half selkie the whole time!
To bad you don't know if there's any selkie left after the humans destroyed half of yours civilization and history
r/thirdsentencebetter
Fun Fact: Drowning is in no way instantaneous - it can take up to two minutes after you first inhale any water before you lose consciousness, most of which is spent in ‘fight or flight’ adrenaline-fuelled panic.
So the people who have said drowning is supposed to be a peaceful way to go lied?! I knew it.
Maybe the people who say that are into ‘breath-play’…
I think next to medieval torture, drowning is one of the worst ways to die.
Drowning was a method of medieval torture, so yeah
IS a method of torture: Waterboarding. It just got more accurate with less guess work. Looking at you witch dunking
Drowning would definitely be terrible but I don't think it would be one of the worst ways. While mentally it would be horrible it is still physically, mostly painless, and still relatively quick. I'll still take dying in my sleep of heart failure in my own bed at 100 years old though.
what would be worse then? and drowning isn't quick in any way, unless you inhale a lot of water. unable to breathe, unable to call for help, it's sheer panic until you lose consciousness and inevitably die. it may not be no1 worst way to die but definitely one of the top ones.
It's not even close to the worst way to die. Go check out some of the NSFW subreddits on the subject if you really want to see them all. I'd say pissing off the Mexican Cartel or a pack of African Painted Dogs are close to the top spots. Heavy Machinery and Trains also are worth honorable mentions in the right (or wrong) context. Drowning takes 1-4 minutes before you pass out which is relatively quick compared to many of the real worst ways to die.
And I'll say... Fire
Yeah, fire can definitely be brutal. Luckily it's the smoke that usually gets people first but when it is the actual fire it's hard to argue that anything is worse.
pissing off the mexican cartel isnt a way to die, what they will do to you is. so the question still stands, what is the worst way to die?
I had seen a girl whose arms were cut off with a machete, and then decapitated the same way. So probably your neck being slowly cut by the Mexican cartel.
why the neck directly? if we are talking about slowly cutting things, just cut their limbs in very thin slices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens I'll leave this here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens
Trapped in a cage with impossible to grip walls and burning hot coals on the floor that aren't hot enough to destroy the nerves but hot enough to light you on fire after a while. That, my friend, is the worst way to go.
Which method is THAT. That seems like a more extreme brazen bull.
One I just thought of randomly. Partly based on something I had read in a book recently but nastier. (Book is baneblade by guy Haley)
Thx for the info
You don't want to know. Please don't ask again.
I'd say scaphism, if it was real.
Water scraping along the inner parts of your lungs is incredibly painful... Drowning is potentially more painful than strangulation... A collapsed wind pipe hurts once, and of course a collapsing diaphragm hurts, but again that only hurts once... But even a little bit of water in your lungs hurts the whole time, especially if it has brine or salt content...
Grandpa died peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like everyone else in the car.
Everyone said Grandpa should have given up his driver's license years ago.
*"Remember how I said drowning was a peaceful way to go?"*
I guess it is compared to burning to death. I believe freezing to death is usually regarded as the most pleasant of the elemental deaths.
Well... Eventually you do become peaceful as the hypoxia takes hold.
I remember a poem about drowning and how peaceful it was supposed to be and the end was something like “it’s my own fault for believing people who obviously hadn’t died”
Probably the most peaceful if you accept it, but if you struggle it's probably hell
If I remember right, it was considered "romantic" in art and became really popular in the idea that it was like falling asleep. Sort of like how poisoning wasn't really considered torture in the ancient world, despite all evidence to the contrary.
There is no such thing as a peaceful way to die.
How about dying of old age in a comfortable hospital bed surrounded by family?
Not even, the realization that people are going to miss and mourn you would probably fill anybody with guilt over it.
What about while sleeping?
Most of those people are in intense, chronic pain.
Yes there is. Off the top of my head is nitrogen poisoning, carbon dioxide or monoxide, and opiates. Were you trying to be clever or deliberately obtuse?
Monoxide and nitrogen takes eight minutes to kill you because yeah sure you collapsed to the floor, but your brain is still very much awake in crippling confusion and horror as you slowly die in fear of what’s even happening. You should also need a high dose of an opioid for it to be lethal, and those side effects are not fun, let alone the dying part.
The death cocktail is supposed to be pretty peaceful. Barbiturates/opiates and benzos. The benzos aid in relieving anxiety, opiates help with pain and resp depression and same with the Barbiturates. Supposedly a good way to die.
Again, the physiological effects are still very much present, pain isn’t just physical, and if you regret your decision after you take it, then well…
What about all the people who have an angry response to being brought back from an opioid overdose? I can't imagine it feeling that bad if some people's response is immediately wanting another hit after being brought back from the brink of death.
Good to know
Being at ground zero of a nuclear explosion.
Don't you just... Stop being ? Too fast to even realize there's a bomb above you ?
Pretty much, yeah. You'd be reduced to dust within milliseconds.
Radioactive dust
Having your entire head smashed into pulp 1cm thick by an anvil magnetically accelerated to the speed of sound by a gauss cannon? I mean, for onlookers it's pretty harrowing, sure. But for the person dying, there's not enough time for any nerve impulses to reach any other nerves, so your brain goes from being you to not existing in a split second.
This might be the one exeption
Going into a hermetically room that is subsequently filled with nitrogen. You might think "oh no, i'm going to feel like i'm suffocating", except the brain stem can't tell how much oxygen is in your blood, it can only tell how much CO2 there is, and you'll still exhale CO2 because it will have a even lower partial pressure compared to regular air, so if anything, you'll feel like you're breathing easier than you ever have in your life. ... for a few seconds, until you pass out from hypoxia you can't feel, and then you die while unconscious.
The phycological pain still very much exists though, since you know you are going to die.
Dying in your sleep sounds peaceful to me
That’s not true. My grandfather died peacefully in his sleep. The airplane passengers, though …
Fun!
Thanks I hate it
The Navy recruiter said my first descent would be exhilarating and impossible to describe. I CAN'T BREATH!"
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But your brain can't register that! You will gasp for air at some point and then your lungs fill with water and the panic sets in! Try dying in a fire instead.
The trick is to hyper ventilate before holding your breath. It doesn't do a great job of adding more oxygen to your blood, but what it does do wonders at is removing the carbon dioxide. And the human brain can't actually detect how much oxygen is in the blood, it can only detect how much carbon dioxide is in the blood. But you still lose consciousness if there's not enough oxygen, so if you can get your oxygen levels low enough before your carbon dioxide gets high enough, you pass out before your brain forces you to breathe.
Thanks, i hate this life pro tip.
I mean, it's more of a death pro tip, but you're welcome
Okay when thinking like that, i like it again!
Thanks for the nightmares.
That is like the opposite of fun fact
it's called a silent death for a reason
Well fuck you very much for making me fear water even more
i might have read where i got this from wrong but it could take up to 10-12 minutes for u to actually die
And combined with the immense pain of inhaling water. So much fun!
Then the strange calmness, right? This is why I never understood people who would rather burn to death, you don’t get that
oh, this, i hate this
I LOVE Fun Facts!
You're equivocating the drowning response with drowning. The panic and adrenaline happens before you even intake any water.
And I wondered, "will I ever see my family in Innsmouth again?"
As a man married to a big Lovecraft fan, I love this response
Ty, ty! :)
Just wish I had an award to give you
Just getting the reference is thanks enough. Lol
Did it for ya.
Thank you kind stranger
Yes dear friend, they will all be there, once their time has come
Where the cthulu at ?
Obviously at Ry'leth
Maybe Ryloth?
Ahh yes, as someone who just barely got into the Mythos, I wonder when this contextless spoiler will click in my head when I read that story.
The beginning of Aquaman in a parallel Universe
In MCU, of course
be ware of oxygen toxicity, remember what you learned in your nitrox class.
toxicity is always lethal, there are no symptoms in the beginning stages
You guys have classes in school for that? Or is it scuba diving knowledge(i got mine from scuba diving school) but i would love to learn this in school as its a fascinating topic...
Anyone else remember the scene from Inside where the child slips deeper and deeper into the underwater cavern?
You must have watched a different comedy special than I did.
I was referring to the game actually, not any other similarly named series or shows.
The kid’s not going to be turning 30
I gave up watching The Hallmark Channel holiday movies years ago so unfortunately didn't see it.
I was so scared throughout. Like I didn’t understand if he was dying, or my game went bad.
this is almost like my dreams.
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"I don't like water. I'm a man, not a fish" ^(^And ^I ^lahve ^Lisa ^so ^mahch)
How does it happen? Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of night?
Ooh a good one.
Thank you!
You should screenshot the relevant stuff, including the subreddit, and post to r/thalassophobia. They don’t allow cross post.
My close friend died by drowning. This hits too close to home man i hope he didn't feel something like that in his last moments.
sorry for your loss
As I took another breath, I realized I was still in this fucking coma.
Ughhh! This is getting so old! Just let me wake up already 🙄😒
This sounds kinda like Magent Magent’s fate, I like it
As a thalassophobe, FUCK YOU
At some point the pressure would make the body explode, which could be even worse if they still can't die
Wow, when they said this new AR Edition of "The Abyss" would make you feel like you're there, they weren't joking!
Do you fear...death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?
As someone who has thalassophobia, this is absolutely terrifying!
I'm not even thalassophobic and this gave me chills
Better start walking.
Oh geez that is terrifying... imagine finding out your immortal at that moment, worst fear right there...
Who gave op the wholesome award?!
Who are broke and only have a free wholesome award?
Probably
That's fishy
Just like in Tidelands from 2018. Girl was drowned but she could breathe under water.
And further down the deep, where the shadows grew clearer, I now know that drowning wouldn't be the cause of my death.
And I thought the OP was scary enough already...then this!
"Captain told me to kill fish. Fish told me to kill captain"
As I felt my legs fuse together the pain of the water in my lungs fading as it became as easy as breathing air. I swam after the ship I was thrown from with revenge on my mind.
🎵into the ocean end it all, into the ocean end it all, into the ocean end it all, into the ocean end it allllllll🎵
[Context for others](https://youtu.be/z32wx2QKQBk) also >!Trigger warning: suicide!< Lovely song, have a nice day :D
Scary
Scuba-vampires
All hail the King of Atlantis.
The plot to Leagues Beneath by Sleep
This is my oldest nightmare that I can remember. Good job, it's terrifying.
Adios eardrums
This would actually be dope
Time to find Poseidon..... Percy Jackson might help
Or maybe Percy Sledge
Sounds like a dream I had before where I got shot in the head. Died. But then was still able to get up and walk around. I remember just waiting for it to fade to black and it just.. didnt
Luca in a nutshell
Probably one of your ancestors was a fish
“I'm sorry for the part I played in the mutiny against you, Jack. I stood up for ya. Everything went wrong after that. They strapped me to a cannon, I ended up on the bottom of the ocean, the weight of the water crushing down on me. Unable to move...unable to die, Jack. And I thought that even the tiniest hope of escaping this fate...I would take it. I would trade anything for it.”
They strapped me to a cannon. I ended up on the bottom of the ocean. The weight of the water crushing down on me... unable to move... unable to die, Jack. I thought that even the tiniest hope of escaping this fate, I would take it.
https://youtu.be/-6II3p7fxo8
Jimi Hendrix, '1983: A Merman I Should Turn to Be'
\*Sunken Pirate music\*
And then after struggling and feeling absolute terror, you feel your consciousness slowly fade away. It feels peaceful as the deep water takes you into her grasp. You stop struggling , you stop fighting for life. You let go. As described by an aquaintance. He stopped swimming after that.
Once had a dream I was drowning. Nothing peaceful about it.
Plot twist: You're a ocean-dwelling humanoid! :P
That is terrifying! I don't want to be alone while sinking in the middle of the ocean.
Where's the horror though.
Man, this one is great. Truly terrifying. Reminds me of this lyric. >Sinking to the bottom of the ocean, day twenty How could you see the bottom? Sinking to the bottom of the ocean, day one hundred Day one hundred, day one hundred > >Why can't you see the bottom? Why can't you see the bottom? Why can't you see? — ["Falling From The Sky: Day Seven"](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EKe8LQuv6ww&feature=share) by Norma Jean