I can imagine the most painful of deaths would be to being locked in a windowless cell and forced to listen to Celine Dion and LeeAnn Rymes songs 24 hours a day.
On the subject of death by stroke/heart attack while bumping uglies. Yes, it would be nice for the soon to be dead person, but their partner would have performance anxiety the rest of their lives.
Bigamy is having one wife to many. Monogamy is the same. - Oscar Wilde
Celine Dion torture maybe…but you haven’t heard the song of europe competition.muzak for hell, that’s how it is.See Thor’s thread.
“After all, for the suicide victim, hell is imminent.” ARG220
(Sure; assuming he/she believes in that sort of thing … I should think so.)
The worst I’ve heard is from “Shogun” (the book, not the fabled miniseries). One of the Portuguese sailors is selected by drawing straws and gets simmered to death in a big pot over a period of about 10 hours (a trained attendant monitors the fire so that it is just right - not TOO hot, now …). This is done in front of the others as a demonstration that they are totally without control of the situation. (Eeeeeeek!)
That’s fiction, of course, but James Clavell was actually taken POW by the Japanese during WW2. The WW2-era Japanese were extremely poor hosts (nearly 40% of their POWs did not survive the experience). So who knows, maybe there’s a kernel of reality in there.
A great book, BTW.
Imagine this:
You, for some reason, fall into a deep coma. They stick you in a bed in the hospital and wait a while. You can’t move, you can’t see, taste or smell, maybe not even sense touch. You can, however, hear everything that’s going on. Your family comes to visit, and, having heard that the comatose can hear, talk to you. Your best friend, your significant other, etc. come, sit, and talk at you. They say things you wish you could reciprocate. This goes on for months.
Then, you take a slight turn for the worse. The doctors falsely conclude that you are dead, and tell your friend and family in the room, where you can hear. Then they pull the plug.
I’d think being boiled in oil would be the worst I can think of it. The joys of being simultaneously burnt to death and drowning…
How in the world did this thread get resurrected? And in GQ, rather than IMHO/MPSIMS?
The answer to the your second question is that this thread originated before IMHO was born. (You can now see why I love that forum so much!)
I’ll move it home.
See a short story, “The Easy Way Out,” by John Brunner (who just happens to be BRITAIN’S BEST SF AUTHOR), published in his book * Foreign Constellations: the Fantastic Worlds of John Brunner* (New York: Everest House, 1980).
A spaceship crashes on a barren planet and one of the occupants is badly injured, multiple fractures, cannot move. He has a device with him called the “easy way out.” It emits waves that override the brain and puts the subject into a coma, giving him peaceful, pleasant hallucinations until he dies. Will he use it?
Reading the case of the Indian lady, it is so similar to Brunner’s concept that I wonder if he might have gotten the idea from it.