Actually a sadistic executioner will have the person in the guillotine facing UP.
…and lop off a limb or two before moving to the main event.
Shame on you! Have you never watched Barbarella?
The thread did bring back to mind the 70’s film Double Agent 73, which featured Chesty Morgan’s rather unusual method of killing…
So, where did we see this cartoon?
I chose firing squad, but, I could be persuaded to go for the guillotine if tumbrels are thrown into the deal.
When you exhale hard and hold your lungs “empty,” there’s still some air in your lungs, and the O2 in it will take some time to get depleted. During that period blood continues to flow through your lungs, and even when it doesn’t get oxygenated very well, at least it’s hanging onto the oxygen it’s still got; it’s up to your metabolism to deplete your blood of the oxygen it has in it.
When you exhale and then fill your lungs completely with helium, now the O2 concentration in your lungs is immediately very low; As soon as this happens, blood passing through your lungs will be rapidly deoxygenated (i.e. O2 will move from your blood to the helium/air blend in your lungs), and you’ll start sending that oxygen-free blood toward your brain. That’s why you pass out so darn quick.
If your name is Agrajag then you could try a variety of execution methods and reliably report and the best and the worst.
That was my thinking as well.
Ultimately, I think I’d choose a method that I wouldn’t see coming, which pretty much eliminates all of them on the list. I suspect that the actual anticipation and dread is far worse than the very short amount of pain, etc… from a long-drop hanging, firing squad, lethal injection, etc…
Lethal injection isn’t like having a pet put down. You don’t go to sleep: the drug paralyzes you so that you can’t inhale, and you suffocate. Like death by boa constrictor.
Not for me.
Hmmmm…all of the above?
Just for a creative mix of the options listed…
Inject me with an overdose of whatever and force me to inhale mustard gas. Then wrap a wire (high E guitar string?) around my neck and attach it with a firm 30-foot rope tied to the floor. A general can yell “PULL!” and then you can throw me out of the 43rd storey window. His troops can use me as a skeet target as I fall.
At the end of my very long drop, the wire tied to the rope will constrict around my neck and slice through it, much like a garrote – unless the wire gets hung up on one of my vertebrae instead of sliding between them. In that case, my head will just rip off the spine and spinal cord. Either way the severed parts will continue falling.
Oh, and put a pool of water on the ground down there, just to catch the body and include something like a drowning effect, and maybe attach a 3-phase current to the rim so that, once my body makes a splash the circuit will travel to it and start the frying.
Hmm…I dunno about the keel-hauling, but perhaps someone might push an elephant out the window after me. Maybe the other end of that 30-foot rope should be tied to a boat with an elephant on the deck. Make sure the underside of that boat hits me and make sure the ASPCA is on duty somewhere else.
But now I’ve left out the guillotine…:smack:
–G!
Y’say you’ll be all right come tomorrow
But Tomorrow
Might not be here for you!
…Collins & Van Zant (Lynrd Skynrd)
…That Smell
…Street Survivors
Hmm, death by Skinner Box. I like it.
Barry Kramer, the publisher of CREEM magazine died of an overdose of nitrous oxide. Seems like a not at all terrible way to go, if my experience at my dentist is any indication.
I’m the one who voted for keelhauling, btw.
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Preferably while I’m snuggled in bed.
“Shoot straight, you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it!”
Firing squad. I want then to look me in the eyes.
No, I want my head held up for all to see.
I don’t want to be executed at all.
But I chose “firing squad” because I want to look right in the eye of those who would kill me. No blindfold.
I figure no matter how I go it’s going to hurt like hell, so what the heck.
And if I remember to I’ll quote Breaker Morant "Shoot straight you bastards! Dont’ make a mess of it!
:smack:You know, I should have read the rest of the thread before posting. Now it looks like I’m copying.
I’d choose firing squad…but I’d really, really prefer it if they would aim at my head, please. A high-velocity rifle round will disrupt (destroy) brain tissue faster than the speed of nerve signals propagating within the brain. Essentially, “I’m dead before I know it.”
If they shoot me almost anywhere else, I’ll have a nasty experience of feeling it happen, which I really would rather avoid.