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Which is worse IYO, drowning or burning..

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Vormund said:
Not that I really know but my impression is:

Burning = more painful
Drowning = more terrifying
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Pretty much the general consensus too.
Drowning for me.
 
Most of the time people in water don't actually drown - usually it's a heart attack due to overstimulation of the vagus nerve. So you go pretty quick. I think it depends on the type (fresh or marine) and temperature of the water though. So that makes burning worse for sure.
 
Don't you slowly start to black-out before you drown? Burning on the other hand I'm pretty sure you're wide-awake for the entire thing.
 
From my understanding, drowning isn't actually all that bad. The worst part is trying to hold your breath, then you pass out and involuntarily breathe in water and die. Not so bad.

Burning though. That's gotta be some intense pain.

Drowning for sure.
 
I'd say burning. I've never been burned to death but I'd imagine while you were burning you'd also be being suffocated by the smoke and heat much like drowning.
 
As it has been said, it's either pain or hopelessness. I'm immediately against burning to death, but the thought of drowning is more frightening in the long run.
 
I actually drowned when I was 10. Stupidly took a tiny inflatable ring out to sea at Bournemouth (i think), floated under the pier, hit a girder and got tossed out.

I remember breathing in a ton of water and my vision starting to go grey around the edges and then blacking out. Woke up dazed way further down the beach with some bloke pumping on me
chest
. Felt like I had swallowed half the ocean and my hearing was messed up cause my ears were full of water which lasted a few days.

I have also burnt my finger frying an egg. This was by far the more painful and harrowing experience. Ouchy.
 
I came really close to drowning once. So close that I went down for the final time and dont even remember getting pulled out. But not so close that anyone needed to do CPR on me. There is panic in drowning but not really any pain.

Burning to death on the other hand is probably about as painful as it gets though.
 
Its going to take you a lot longer to burn than it is to drown. You can also be resuscitated if you drown, no such luck with burning to death...
 
Baby Jesus said:
I actually drowned when I was 10. Stupidly took a tiny inflatable ring out to sea at Bournemouth (i think), floated under the pier, hit a girder and got tossed out.
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You're posting this from the grave?
 
Stabbie said:
You're posting this from the grave?
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Nope... you are.

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drowning any day of the week, although there must be a point when your on fire that you go into shock and cant feel anything up to that point would be brutally painful just the thought of my eyes setting on fire makes me cringe. iv also read that when you drown you hallucinate due the lack of oxygen to the brain so you probably wouldnt know to much about what's going on right at the end.
 
I would imagine burning to death would probably be the most painful way to go. Drowning would be awfully scary, but burning would just be so agonizing, id rather drown

Rather not think about either scenario though...
 
Burning is definately the worse way.
I have a friend in the fire brigade who says that when a body is burned it pulls itself into the foetal position and you can see the fear in their face.
 
Go visit the burn ward and then say that drowning is worse. Burning is absolutely one of the worst ways to go as it is incredibly painful and even with 90 percent of your body burned you can still live on for a few days in intense pain before you die.
 
PaleFolklore said:
I'd say burning. I've never been burned to death but I'd imagine while you were burning you'd also be being suffocated by the smoke and heat much like drowning.
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Really? I get burned to death all the time. :P

Burning is worse but both suck. Would hate to go through any of them...
 
Drowning. Burning to death is much slower, constant pain. When drowning, you'll only feel pain when inhaling water, after which you'll quickly pass out as your brain runs out of oxygen.
 
Nyx said:
I once heard that your lungs filling up with water is the most intense pain a human can feel.
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Not from what I remember, I was 10 though. It was incredibly uncomfortable (especially coughing it back up), but you're more concerned with choking and trying to snatch the tiniest bit of air.

It felt like I passed out quite quickly, my vision just dimmed out like going to sleep. I remember a bit of panic, but mostly I remember thinking 'you stupid bastard, this is why you should listen to your parents' :D

The overwhelming memory is of the greyness around my peripheral vision before and after passing out. That, and not properly thanking the guy that saved my life, but I was young, dumb and full of sea water. I didn't quite grasp the gravity of the situation.
 
I think burning is worse. I imagine that when drowning, the panic and whatnot fades away with your consciousness as you lose oxygen. With burning, you're probably conscious with the pain for far longer.
 
Kulock said:
Burning is worse.

Even if you are going to die, there's also at least the hope you'll be rescued. And let's say you are. Almost drowning means lung damage, burst blood vessels, and probably brain damage from lack of oxygen, I think? Almost burning to death means you have burns across your entire body, plus lung damage, probable brain damage, and all that other stuff. So if you want to hold out hope for surviving right until the end, it's drowning. With burning there's a point where you probably don't WANT to survive it.

Plus you could at least fantasize while drowning that mermaids will save you Peter Pan-style. Who's going to save you from burning? The Emperor, that's who. Then he'll put you in a life support suit, and then you'll be stuck in a George Lucas movie. And then you'll find yourself being redubbed and edited pointlessly into new scenes all the time. And nobody wants that.
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+1
 
Drowning doesn't seem like a bad way to go, to be honest. I'd pick that over cancer. You guys are afraid of drowning because you'll realize that you're going to die for 10 seconds before you asphyxiate? How do you think cancer patients feel, knowing they're going to die months ahead of time.

Burning is probably the last way I'd want to go.
 
TheExodu5 said:
Drowning doesn't seem like a bad way to go, to be honest. I'd pick that over cancer. You guys are afraid of drowning because you'll realize that you're going to die for 10 seconds before you asphyxiate? How do you think cancer patients feel, knowing they're going to die months ahead of time.

Burning is probably the last way I'd want to go.
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Burning is up there for me but in a thread last week someone mentioned this weird ancient death torture where they would send you off to sea in a boat without being able to move and then proceeded to give you food to cause diarrhea. The small boat would fill with your own shit and then bugs would start eating you. Apparently someone lasted 17 days like that. I don't if burning is worse than that.
 
Drowning. It doesn't seem like a particularly bad way to die. Especially if the water's cold enough. I think I could probably accept my fate then.
 
Big-E said:
Burning is up there for me but in a thread last week someone mentioned this weird ancient death torture where they would send you off to sea in a boat without being able to move and then proceeded to give you food to cause diarrhea. The small boat would fill with your own shit and then bugs would start eating you. Apparently someone lasted 17 days like that. I don't if burning is worse than that.
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Oh yeah, burning's pretty bad, but some of that medieval shit is unreal. Like being drawn and quartered.
 
Drowning...how long does it take for someone to drown? It's probably less painful compared to burning. Burning of the outer skin, hair, etc. Move down to inner skin, and finally organs and such. Yes humans are flammable but I prefer neither death.

My vote goes to burning as the more painful way to die.
 
After watching a documentary about people being burnt at the stake i would deffo prefer drowning.
 
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