And is there something even more painful? (i.e. unimaginably painful)
Given a choice between passing a kidney stone and giving birth, I’d rather give birth.
Yes, I’ve done both.
Of course, I haven’t lost a limb to a hungry rabid dog, so I can’t tell if that would be more painful. But from my own experience, passing a kidney stone was the worst.
Burns. Just the thought of a bad burn makes me want to faint.
My wife said the same exact thing, and meant it. Luckily I have passed neither a child nor stone.
Would losing your life-long partner count as the most painful thing imaginable?
Or physical only? I would thing either burning alive or as a man, putting glass in the mans penis and breaking it in little pieces (if this really happened, possible rumor from the Vietnam War).
How about a third-degree penis burn, combined with passing a kidney stone?
Being badly burnt. Mind you, it’s never happened to me, but judging by what happens when I get a nasty burn on my finger from the oven, and extrapolating that to oh, say, 80% of my body, I’d say that’s got to be the worst.
I’ve been burnt pretty badly. It was with hot oil, though, and not fire, so that probably makes a difference because I still have to say labor is by far the most painful thing imaginable. But perhaps that’s because I don’t want the squalling little rugrat at the end of it, either. 
A badly scratched cornea ranks as my personal #1 even though I have done some other things like chopping my knee with an axe that were pretty bad as well.
There’s that one we heard of as kids…
Sliding down a razor blade into a pool of alcohol.
Excuse me while I go shrivel up.
How 'bout being hit in the cojones. 
Both of them at once, by a longboard.
While wearing only board shorts.
And your friends don’t know whether to laugh or cry. :mad:
I broke my elbow last week.
I’ve broken my collarbone three times.
I’ve been stung by a jellyfish twice.
I hit myself in the balls last year very hard.
But nothing I’ve yet experienced comes near having a twisted intestine, an experience of pain that crippled me to near-paralysis, took 4 shots of morphine to calm me down, and had me nil-by-mouth on a drip for a week.
For guys, I reckon having one’s balls nailed to a plank would be the worst thing imaginable. Being burned alive, though… gaaah.
Especially if it were large, plywood and you were in the middle of a hurricane.
In James Clavell’s “Shogun,” a man is slowly boiled alive for hours and hours until he finally expires.
I cannot imagine how anything could be worse than that. It would certainly be as bad as being on fire but would take longer.
They say that being shot in the stomach is the most painful experiance, although the concept of dying by ‘Buckwheats’ per ‘Things To Do In Denver’ has got to be up there.
‘Buckwheats’ was the term used to refer to beating a victim down onto all fours, and then having the barrel of his/her gun shoved against their rectum. The last step was to fire all of the bullets up the victim’s colon while trying not to leave either an entrance or exit wound, but leaving the victim alive long enough to suffer through excreting out their life blood.
I image being burned to death. The people in the upper floors of the World Trade Center chose jumping over burning :eek: :mad:
Slamming ones male genatalia into a car door. And then having that car drive off at an ever increasing speed.
Being hung, drawn, and quartered strikes me as being rather awful.
Been there, done that. And it is not something I wish to repeat. If anyone wishes to get a true measure of how many times you blink try scratching your cornea.
Worst imaginable? In tomorrow never dies, when Bond and sexy chinese partner are captured, they are to be tortured by some blond haired german. To convince the audience of his sincerity, he picks up a utensil that looks like a socket screwdriver. The difference is that this tool has a pick that is coiled towards the center so as to drive it in to whatever fits in the socket. Whenever I think of pain I think of this tool twisting on one of my testies.
Worst imaginable ? How about this :
That sounds . . . pretty bad.
One of Ludlum’s Covert-ONE books (I think) had a doctor administer something to keep the guy from going into shock and/or passing out and maybe something to inhibit endorphins, and then directly stimulated pain receptors in the spinal cord. The guy couldn’t even scream.
Freaked me out.
Of course, Der Trihs tops that, since they couldn’t burrow through space itself to start anew.