# Most painful way to die via a "liquid" injection?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 4, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345 "2009-05-04T21:18:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/1 "2009-05-04T21:18:36Z")
I was just thinking to myself the other day… What could you inject into somebody that will cause the most agonizing, horrible, gruesome way to die, under a week? It has to be a liquid that you can injet into someone via an IV type needle. Some kind of acid? Something that will slowly freeze your blood, cause it to expand until you blow up?
thoughts?
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### Author:  [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/2 "2009-05-04T21:28:42Z")
Need answer fast? 😉
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### Author:  [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/3 "2009-05-04T21:28:44Z")
Injecting an acetaminophen (paracetamol) solution of sufficient concentration will result in a slow, painful, agonizing death from liver failure.
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/4 "2009-05-05T00:34:31Z")
A combination of blowfish toxin with jellyfish and spider venom?
Paralyze them so they can only lay there and “enjoy” it.
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### Author:  [@hroark2112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hroark2112)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/5 "2009-05-05T00:35:46Z")
Air
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### Author:  [@Commander\_Keen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Keen)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/6 "2009-05-05T02:30:41Z")
Poisonous lava
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/7 "2009-05-05T02:35:58Z")
Clamato
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/8 "2009-05-05T02:47:45Z")
This thread reminds me of [this movie.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115033/)
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/9 "2009-05-05T02:57:34Z")
Hydrofluoric Acid
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/10 "2009-05-05T02:58:58Z")
> [@psychonaut](#):
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> Injecting an acetaminophen (paracetamol) solution of sufficient concentration will result in a slow, painful, agonizing death from liver failure.
It’d probably take longer than a week.
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/11 "2009-05-05T03:14:04Z")
JB Weld
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### Author:  [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/12 "2009-05-05T03:18:21Z")
Years ago a local motorcycle organization near here shot some guy up with a bunch of battery acid.
This was after they shot and stabbed him several times but before they dumped him into a quarry.
The dude lived!
I don’t know if this is an indication of a tougher constitution than most people have or that battery acid isn’t the best thing to use for your situation.
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### Author:  [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/13 "2009-05-05T03:34:14Z")
potassium chloride
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### Author:  [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/14 "2009-05-05T04:32:03Z")
I’d go with a big, cloudy vial of methicillin-resistant _Staph. aureus_ or meningococcus.
Yes, as a matter of fact I _am_ terrified of sepsis, necrosis, gangrene, etc.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/15 "2009-05-05T04:41:25Z")
Liquid Mercury?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/16 "2009-05-05T04:48:24Z")
> [@USCDiver](#):
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> Hydrofluoric Acid
You needn’t bother injecting this, though - hydrofluoric acid is readily absorbed through the skin. Just douse a sufficient portion of the victim’s exposed skin in the stuff. A slow, agonizing death will ensue.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/17 "2009-05-05T04:56:23Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Liquid Mercury?
Oh, I forgot, since we’re looking for painful, I was thinking this would be even more painful if it was inject IM. It might not ‘absorb’ but I think it would hurt like hell tearing the muscle apart as it goes in.
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### Author:  [@Commander\_Keen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Keen)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/18 "2009-05-05T05:07:08Z")
Anyone read _The Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson? (great book, btw). There’s a method of execution described called the “seven minute special”, or something like that. Basically you’re injected with a bunch of tiny little nano-bombs, give them a few minutes to course through your veins and get all spread out, and then when they flip the switch, you basically explode all over the place.
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### Author:  [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/19 "2009-05-05T05:22:58Z")
My vote is for some methicillin and vancomycin resistant staph aureus in solution. That’ll fuck you up until they find out what it is, and by that time it’s probably too late.
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### Author:  [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-way-to-die-via-a-liquid-injection/495345/20 "2009-05-05T05:35:56Z")
> [@Commander\_Keen](#):
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> Anyone read _The Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson? (great book, btw). There’s a method of execution described called the “seven minute special”, or something like that. Basically you’re injected with a bunch of tiny little nano-bombs, give them a few minutes to course through your veins and get all spread out, and then when they flip the switch, you basically explode all over the place.
They explode in a _spherical pattern_. When it’s done, you look like you’ve been cut down by a melon baller, or like the net of dough that’s left over after you’ve cut out all the cookies.
But significantly less appetizing.
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