Mine would probably be Rabies.
Leprosy. Nobody recognises how horrific it is, that nobody will ever be able to physically touch you, hug or hold your hands again. The damage happens to nerves, lungs, skin and eyes, and symptoms take upto 20 years to appear.
@TheAnonymouseJoker we’re supposed to call that Hansen’s disease now, I think.
Had no idea. TIL.
I think I may be an outlier here. I really don’t want to die in a sudden ‘didn’t-see-it-coming’ kind of way, like getting hit by a semi or a freak accident with heavy machinery kind of way. The idea of going from living, thinking, feeling, person to chunk(s) of meat in an instant terrifies the shit out of me. Especially if it’s caught on video and people watch it for laughs or whatever possesses them to watch that kind of thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to die in some slow, painful way either, but something I had some agency in would be worlds better. Like taking a bullet to save a loved one, or punching my own ticket after getting a terminal diagnosis, or even just taking a deliberate, calculated risk.
I’m alright with anything that will kill me instantly. My fear is having something so sudden that will keep me bedridden and helpless to finish it all. I won’t wish it on an enemy.
I had family members that needed care and I was happy to provide it. But to see them like that was hard and I know it was harder for them to go through that not just it felt like that to me but they told me so as well. They were too religious to end it. I’m not so I hope I’ll never experience this fear of mine.
My biggest fear, given mental health issues, wondering through out life if I’m going insane, seeing things, hallucinating, etc…
I’m terrified that the moment of death, I won’t be able to tell if it’s real or not. So it will be an infinitely protracted moment, and right now, I may already be in that moment.
Being eaten alive by animals
Especially if already injuresd or weak such that you can’t fight back and it’s just a few smaller animals. You can feel every little bite, rip and agonizing tear and your death is greatly prolonged.
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Nightmare fuel
Dying at work.
These people have already taken damn near everything they can from me. I’d rather kill myself right now than find out I die at work.
Being slowly crushed from the feet up by a machine that no one has the ability to stop, while everyone looks on in horror.
Or, more realistically, anything that involves mental deterioration.
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Killed by family
There are so many things that would be fighting for last place honestly. Idk, being stuck deep in a cave Nutty Putty style for days, barely able to breathe, arms pinned totally by my side, legs all twisted, total darkness. Slowly suffocating as the blood pools in my head and I become delirous.
That terrifies me so much. But idk, there are so many horrific ways to die. There are many cases of people being tortured to death over weeks or even months if they somehow survive that long.
There are also a bunch of diseases that are all around awful and terrifying. That syndrome where you are trapped inside your own body, total unable to move anything but you are aware of everything around you, maybe would be the most horrific.
Idk, too many horrible ways to suffer and die in this world…
Fuck, I forgot Nutty Putty cave. Switch my answer to that.
Every time I watch a video or read about that incident I feel myself start to almost panic. And I’m not prone to panic attacks or anything, but that scenario just makes me freak out.
Imagining the feeling of trying to move and feeling literal hundreds of feet of totally immovable rock encasing your limbs, not a milimeter of give or flex.
Ugg, literally making my heart rate go up as I type this :S
I think the cave that internet historian made video on was worse. The guy was stuck for multiple weeks.
It’s pretty fast though, and doesn’t seem to entail much suffering.
Any way whatsoever after my kids, including with the knowledge that they will expire shortly after me.
Lathe accident.
I’ve seen a video and heard some stories. I work in a CNC shop, but I’m not a machinist. I think it would be terrifying for a moment, painful for a moment, then nothing. Gruesome for sure, but I think they’re are certainly worse ways to go. I believe the ‘popular’ video is called, pink mist, or something like that, if that’s any indication of the outcome.
Ugh. This is why I’ve stopped clicking on everything.
Alzheimer’s. The thing I fear most is that I will die surrounded by a bunch of people I don’t know, feeling scared and alone. I’m terrified of forgetting who my loved ones and my family are. I don’t want to go like that.
This is where physician assisted suicide has a really strong case.
This gets my vote. Runs in my family and I’ve seen it first hand a ton of times by now. It is absolutely heart wrenchingly terrible. Not looking forward to that one bit.
Yeah, my dad made a living will and made sure I was comfortable with making him die(right wording?) If he gets that way. Already have a state and legal process, just enjoying time why we have it.
Dying from poisoning with Dimethylmercury, which happened to one scientist and it’s like an Alzheimer’s speed run but you don’t see it coming.
Idk, but bone cancer looks like a bad way to go.
My mom died from that one. Horrible. Morphine couldn’t touch the pain
I’m sorry to hear that. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
