Least fun ways to die...

I nominate the following:

http://www.journaltimes.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=7425

Must have hurt for a good 45 seconds or so...REALLY HURT...

 

I don't know about that, check this one out: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1982414,00.html

 

I would think your adrenaline would kick in by the time it was at your ankle and you wouldnt feel much, if anything.

Also how fast does a wood chipper pull you in ?

Id be very interested in any MD's thoughts on this.

 

As an MD, I still believe it would hurt . A lot.

 

It says the guy had a tree service so I'm guessing it was a big high speed chipper..... some of those can really pull a lot of of material through real quick so I bet it happened too fast for him to react. Not that it's any less sucky a way to die.

 

If I was the engineer of a wood chipper I would design it so that workers have to wear tag wrist bands that upon entering closely to the blade would immideatly shut of the machine.

 

Nothing like having that happen in your home town! I don't know though, the Grizzly Man getting eaten by a bear he was living with is pretty bad.

 

belt sander

 

How about a power drill into your ear or your head in a vice?

 

I read that one of Saddam Hussein's sons used a wood chipper as a means of execution...head-first or feet-first at his discretion.

 

The title of the thread is least-fun, not sensational... I think that'd be a pretty unconventional way to go... As far as dying goes, I don't think any way would be fun (but if we replaced the word "fun" with enjoyable, starvation might rank up there, but that's for a different thread)...

I think a least-fun way to die would be heart attack in your sleep or slipping in the shower and breaking your neck...

There was a Law & Order CI episode where some guy drilled a hole into some girl's skull and poured scalding hot water on her brain... It was a homemade lobotomy gone awry...

 

What difference does it make? I'm quite sure that dying is dying.

 

Or maybe an ankle band in this case?

 

Fine, I'll be the one to say it:

"This guy was a chip off the old block!"

 

There's a relatively famous case in Connecticut of a husband who killed his wife and then fed her through a wood chipper. The police did not find enough evidence to convict.

 

Probably like this... long, but worth reading to the end - even if for no other reason, do it for his folks.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635202250,00.html

 

...a big chipper will pull you through faster than that...WAY! faster...3,4 seconds maybe?

...drawn and quartered would probably be worse.

 

That story was heart rending.

Late this past winter I had an experience that added a candidate for the least pleasant way to die list. My dad was having more than the usual ammount of stiffness and pain in his shoulders, which he treated as bursitis after a vistit to his othopedist. A few days later he called me complaining of lowwer back pain. A few days after that he had what appeared to be the flu, and all the while his shoulders and back continued to ache. The growing ache in his back was accompanied by nauseatingly excruciating stabbing pains brought on by small movements. His fever persisted and increased, so his othopedist took a blood culture and had him admitted to the hospital. To make a long story shorter, he had a multifocal staph infection that eventually produced two epidural abcesses. He was in the septic stage when he arrived at the hospital. My father stakes no claim to being an all around tough guy, but he has always seemed nearly impervious to physical pain. I've seen him slam his hand hard in a car door and simply mutter a curse and move on apparently unscathed. By the time I got to the hospital the day after he was admitted, he was on a hefty regime of dilaudid and some kind of benzodiazapine (valium class drugs) he would drift on the edge of conciousness, but the episodic pain in his back would cause his knees to rise and his back to arch - his entire body was rigid and trembling. He would be fully concious and scream uncontrolably. I stayed on the couch in his room for three days and nights in a row. It sounded like a Civil War hospital after the battle of Shiloh. This was the doing of the abcess in his spinal column in his lower back. After two surgeries (five level laminectomy, and dura repair) and massive doses of antibiotics, he seemed to be on the road to recovery. Then his symptoms reappeared in his neck and shoulders. He had an other abcess in the epidural space in his cervical spine. Another five hour surgery and the spine surgeon warned us that he'd need an MRI to look for more abcesses in the epidural space in his skull. Fortunately, there were none. My father has made an almost complete recovery in half the predicted time. The stapholocci causing his infection were not methicillin resistant (nevermind vancomycin resistant) and proved relatively vulnerable to standard treatment. A more resistant strain, a less brilliantly skilled surgeon, or less than excellent physical condition for a man his age prior to the illness and could well have died in unremmiting, hideous pain. I have never seen pain so severe, so utterly debilitating, and so implacably resistant to analgesia. Trust me, you do not want to die this way.
HESSIAN

 

ok, that was really depressing

 

I think drowning would be the worst.

 

Paper cuts

 

reading Noah's posts.

 

i second that

 

The story with the J.J kid is depressing. Teenagers picking on others is never ever going to stop, especially kids that are different and then the last sentence....

The telephone rang at the Serassio home the night before his funeral.
"You know where J.J. is?" the caller asked. And then, laughter.

how the hell can someone do that...

 

sick, I can't imagine anyone finding humor in making a call like that. Sad to think there are people like that out there.