unpleasant ways to die

being dragged under a freight train
or any train but I've been around enough the former to be especially humbled by it's power

I was reading some excerpts from Destruction of the West Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas which is part of a larger book having more & various excerpts

He said that the Spaniards would hang the Natives low to ground just so the toes could barely touch & then set fire under them & they'd strangle & suffocate while burning.


Let's the get the ball rolling here
there must be some kind of death accrued from balls

 

Not being able to breathe must be unpleasant enough.

 

Being a Prisoner at a North Korean concentration camp

 

Fire...

 

Alone

 

I saw my brother in law pass away, last year. COPD not being able to breathe.
That must be so scary.

 

What a unpleasant thread

 

These I know happened: A man fell into a hay baler and was killed.

A young newly married man lay down in a cotton gin baler to nap during lunch. The machinery is never shut down during cotton season and is REALLY loud. The main baler came back from having lunch in his car and shut the massive metal door and started up the baling process. Had he approached from the other direction--he would have seen the man laying in the baler. The bale was hauled to the yard and the guy that hauled the bales--saw blood on the bale. When the man who closed the door found out what had happened to his helper, he went into shock, took off running and knocked himself out running into a cotton trailer. I'd say those were unpleasant. ( I worked at that cotton gin one season when I was 18)

 

I didn't/ couldn't watch that either. My stories above were kind of personal--I worked the cotton gin and I drove the same hay baler.

 

He died of not being able to breathe when he was consious. Scary!

 

We wouldn't know how we were going to die. It will perhaps be in an unplasant way. Who knows?

Is there even such a thing as a painless death?

What we all know is, we are all going to die sooner or later.

 

[QUOTE="Grandeur, post: 8950549, member: 309854"]We wouldn't know how we were going to die. It will perhaps be in an unplasant way. Who knows?

Is there even such a thing as a painless death?

What we all know is, we are all going to die sooner or later.[/QUOTE]





That happens to most of us who happen to have Asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and or Pulmonary Fibrosis, and we have a good idea how our end is likely to be - gasping for breath until our heart ceases to function !!!

 

Terrible. How can one stand such pain?

I try to keep my breath but the longest I could do was 2 minutes and 15 seconds. It is turning into an unstandable pain. So I start breathing. That is no pain to stand.

 

We learn to live with it, until the end comes !!!

 

I also read that people who commit suicide by jumping from height die of not being able to breathe. It is not all broken bones that kill them but internal bleeding that comes with it. And the internal bleeding will keep you from breathing. Therefore you are gonna die of not being able to breathe. The same way.

But this must be reason of death when jumping from regular buildings, not extremely high buildings. If you jump from a skyscraper, I don't think you would live more than a second after reaching the ground Lol.

 

Wrong, I knew someone who fell (not jump) from high rise office block (10th floor) he lived for all of 2 months !!!

 

10th floor is a regular building. It is not a skyscaper. I had written skyscaper above.

 

Damn!

 

Tenth floor wasn't the top of the building !!!