# worst way to die **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 11, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403 "2002-05-11T00:25:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/41 "2002-05-11T17:07:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Alone and unloved. \*\* Without a doubt - I work in a hospital and see it all the time - tears my heart out. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/42 "2002-05-11T18:07:31Z")
The 9/11 victims on the top floors. Having to choose between dying from smoke inhalation and/or burning to death, or jumping out the window, and not knowing what happened or why? And the homeless-guy-in-the-windshield is a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/43 "2002-05-11T18:19:03Z")
Alzheimer’s. Any other chronic, debilitating illness would probably come in a close second. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/44 "2002-05-11T18:46:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > \*\*Alzheimer’s. Any other chronic, debilitating illness would probably come in a close second. \*\* My grandmother had alzheimers, its not as rough on the person who has it as it is on the family. Other than always being sure that someone was stealing her underwear, she wasnt that unhappy. Drove us batshit though ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/45 "2002-05-11T19:05:29Z")
Being bored to death doesn’t sound like much fun. ---
**Author:** ![Doublemint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doublemint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doublemint)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/46 "2002-05-11T21:01:41Z")
Hoplessly trapped in the dark while the room burns around you in a razor blade factory… ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/47 "2002-05-11T22:48:05Z")
Does anyone else remember the story of the flight attendant that was sucked out of the plane and her body was never found? That’s got to be a bad way to go (assuming you don’t die immediately die due to the cold and the lack of oxygen) but knowing you were going to fall to your death… (frequent morbid paranoid obsession with that scenario) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/48 "2002-05-11T23:16:04Z")
Hmm…I think I read somewhere that many victims of fires die because of the smoke, not the burns, though their bodies are burned afterwards. That wouldn’t be so bad as burning and feeling the pain, but dying of suffocation. Still bad, but not as bad as the other one. ---
**Author:** ![Latte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Latte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latte)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/49 "2002-05-12T01:59:09Z")
Actually, I always thought drowning would be one of the more preferable ways to go, though there would obviously be the feeling that you were missing out on the rest of your life. The first “breath” of water would make you pass out, at least. For me, anything around my neck is very creepy. I can’t even wear a stiff choker kind of necklace. The classic suicide in stories of hanging oneself always perplexed me. Why would one wish to make one’s own death that much more unpleasant? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/50 "2002-05-12T08:14:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Latte \* > \*\*Actually, I always thought drowning would be one of the more preferable ways to go, though there would obviously be the feeling that you were missing out on the rest of your life. The first “breath” of water would make you pass out, at least. > \*\* How about missing out on the air that should be there? That’s not a fun experince > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Latte \*\*\* > For me, anything around my neck is very creepy. I can’t even wear a stiff choker kind of necklace. The classic suicide in stories of hanging oneself always perplexed me. Why would one wish to make one’s own death that much more unpleasant? \*\* I think the idea for people who kill themselves by hanging is, if done in a certain way, your neck will break when you reach the rope limit, thus sparing you the horrible agony of being choked to death. I’d personally go for the freezing death. Go to sleep and never wake up. That or shotgun to the head. Kills you and little chance of having a bullet lodged in your brain and massive brain damage if you survive. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403/51 "2002-05-12T10:20:17Z")
> [@](#): > > I think being read to from a Robert Frost book WHILE being burned would be awful Jarbaby, you mispelled e.e. cummings! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-way-to-die/108403.md?page=2)