This book has many suggestions . . .
Starving to death in sub-Saharan Africa - because of something as banal as freight costs, greed of the kleptocracy ruling my country and indifference of the rest of the world.
Interesting information about drowning Phlosphr and all, thank you.
In which case, I’ll change my answer to being Burned at the Stake.
There are many painful ways to die. But I think the worst way to die, would be dieing due to something you did, whilst being too scared to save someone you love.
Cheers, Bippy
What the hell are you supposed to do with a hardwood floor?
You could get a splinter from the floor and die from the infection. That would be a pretty lame way to die.
Pretty much any long, lingering illness. I actually rather like the idea of drowning, if one has to die at all.
Not to be to over dramatic or spoil the spirit of the thread but… I would die any death to make sure my daughter lived, so the worst death would be one where she died too, anything after that is secondary.
But to answer the OP and not be a total nob, it would have to include a lot of fear and a lot of pain, something along the lines of Lobsang’s death by a thousand plucks, combined with being eaten from the inside out by some fleash eating worm, combined with fire, and also being buried alive [I realize we are getting into some logistical issues here but you just try for as many of those as possible]…maybe throw in having to listen to “Lady in Red” over and over while all that other stuff is happening. Death by hackneyed claptrap… shudder
You are trapped in a room, strapped face up on a table. A circular disk is attached to your head, surrounding your mouth and nose. “Hmm” you think, “this is odd and quite possibly not good.” You are able to see that the 10 people in your life most important to you (for the sake of the post: dad, mom, spouse, 2 kids, brother, sister, 2 grandparents, best friend) are chained to the walls of the room.
A person walks into the room and spins a wheel that lands on a number corresponding to one of the 10 people. That person is sliced open resulting in a bloodletting of most of their blood supply, killing them. That blood is then poured into the disk strapped to your head.
Do you:
Try to swallow it, knowing that it will just happen again with another loved one getting killed and you having to once again try to survive?
or
Try to hold your breath while failing to come up with a plan to escape knowing that you will then drown in the blood of one of the most important, but now dead, people in your life?
Burned at the stake, conscious.
Actually, any death that you can SEE coming to you would suck.
I mean, what if you’re strapped to a table, and you can SEE someone coming at you with a circular saw?
Or you were driven off a cliff and you could SEE yourself crashing to the ground.
Or if you could SEE your death approaching as the lion stalked you, while tied to the tree.
A tie for my choice…thrown, tied up, into a pit of snakes. shudders Severe serpent-phobia here. Whatever it’s called.
Having your nuts bitten off by a Laplander. 
Seriously, I agree with Sapphire Wolf that seeing your impending doom would be the worst. The worst for me would be falling from a great height…high enough that I’ve got a horrifically long time to realize what’s about to happen. After experiencing that, going splat on the pavement would almost be a relief.
I image that the last few moments of auto-erotic asphyixation are bad, when you realize how ridiculous you will look when they find you.
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It’s every parents dream to outlive his child.
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That’s a great way to do it! Off a tall building!.
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Actually, I think the ants would not survive the trip.
Some of my favorites
-Tied to a propeller blade and…Contact!!
-Being disembowel by midgets in front of a crowd of peasents (a la Braveheart)
-Pretty much anything involving my ass
-Crushed by a large, slow, mechanical device
-Anything involving being eaten by something smaller than you (like ants, rats, dauchtsunds, whatever)
-Drawn and quartered
-Broken on the wheel (in ye old days, they would sometimes take a prisoner, break his arms and legs and braid them through a wagon wheel) lighting the wheel on fire and kicking it down a hill is my idea
Death by molten lead being poured into your ears would really suck.
Your boat sinks in the middle of the ocean, full of all your family and friends. It’s night-time, freezing cold, and a full moon overhead. As you all float there helplessly you see the first shark fin, and then another…
I should imagine a stoning would be quite unpleasant.
For the stonee, that is…
From what I’ve read being crucified was a pretty awful way of dying. A good combination of brutal actute pain, stakes through the wrists and legs, and a long drawn out process so the suffering lasts. Really just imagine being nailed to a cross and left in the desert to die over a serveral day period. You’ve got exposure, dehydration, pussing infected wounds from the nails, vultures/crows/ravens etc… going after your eyes and other soft bits, insects trying for the same and you eventually suffocate when the muscles in your chest finally give out from the strain caused by the position you’re hanging in. On top of all that you have to listen to bunch of British guys singing “Always look on the bright side of life!” 
Another awful way I’ve read about is to have a brass pot filled with rats strapped to your abdomen, then having the pot heated. The rats will try, and succeed, in clawing out through the softest surface available… Especially awful for those who are phobic of rodents.
Others I think would be especially nasty:
-Burned at the stake
-Any death by exposure scenerio
-I’ll second ** msmith537’s** dislike of ass related deaths
-Being locked in a sound booth playing “The best of N’sync” nonstop with two tables: one with a pentiful food supply the other with a straight razor. Decisions, decisions decisions…
-once a day having a different bone broken and left unset, starting at the toes and working up to your neck.
That would be a terrible way to go, being smothered with a cat.
“Getting trapped in the gears of a combine”
-Naked Gun
I would imagine that any of these deaths posted here could be ‘outdone’ by adding the element of a spot of turd stuck on the tip of your nose
Did you read George Orwell’s 1984? If not, spoiler alert…
There’s a torture scene wherein the bad guy threatens to place a cage around the victims head. Inside the cage were two hungry rats. Lovely…