What type of death terrifies you the most

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Suicide

But suicide is a choice. Why would it scare you?

Depression can feel like circling a drain. I do my best everyone not to succumb to the pull. I can see the fear that one day you wouldn't be strong enough.

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ALS

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Anonymous wrote:Any type of suffocation. Drowning, strangulation, chokijg, being stuck in a tight space where my chest cant expand, etc.

When I was 8 I got stuck upside down in a tube. Thankfully someone noticed I'd been upside down for a bit and flipped me over. I remember that tightness in my chest from almost not being able to hold my breath anymore.

When I was 21, I nearly chocked to death. I was eating a salad and a piece of lettuce lodged over my windpipe. I could feel it flapping when I exhaled and seal tight when I inhaled. I knew I either had time to find my phone and diall 911 before I passed out or do the Heimlich on myself. I ended up doing it over the kitchen table and thinking how unfortunate it was that my parents were going to find my dead body. My vision was blackening anD I finally dislodged it enough to get air in. I didn't eat lettuce for a LONG time.

I feel like you've posted about this before! It scarred me and now I'm SUPER careful eating salad, especially if I'm alone.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to think it would be drowning but I revisited the 1985 crash of JAL 123. The Dutch rolls and Phugoid motion I think would have been the worst.

Omg I just read this..30 minutes of extreme motion sickness,fear and death. This made my list

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Yikes‼️
This post is already giving me nightmares!!

My worst fear of dying is one where I of course (!) am privy to the fact that there is no possible way of living.

I.e., being stabbed over + over, being surrounded by immense fire, being submerged underwater in a car or plane, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:People scared of these short but catastrophic scenarios are interesting to me.

I've seen somehow fully mentally sound die a long and slow death of cancer where their body fails them and in the end they are trapped inside their body and have lost all dignity.

That's what I'm scared of.

That happened to my mom. She was begging God to take her. She lsnguishes 6 months in hospice. My dad recently passed away— basically malnutrition and then aspiration pneumonia due to swallowing problem and sepsis. Was terrible. I support euthanasia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes‼️
This post is already giving me nightmares!!

My worst fear of dying is one where I of course (!) am privy to the fact that there is no possible way of living.

I.e., being stabbed over + over, being surrounded by immense fire, being submerged underwater in a car or plane, etc.

Same here. Stuck in the doorway during the Station nightclub fire is pretty high on my list.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People scared of these short but catastrophic scenarios are interesting to me.

I've seen somehow fully mentally sound die a long and slow death of cancer where their body fails them and in the end they are trapped inside their body and have lost all dignity.

That's what I'm scared of.

That happened to my mom. She was begging God to take her. She lsnguishes 6 months in hospice. My dad recently passed away— basically malnutrition and then aspiration pneumonia due to swallowing problem and sepsis. Was terrible. I support euthanasia.

+1. Those afraid of these quick, tragic yet very rare scenarios have clearly never watched a loved one die a slow agonizing death.

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I’m most scared of dying in a house fire or plane crash. But yeah I think a long, slow, painful death to illness would be worse.

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Anything accidental that is slow enough to know you are doomed. People trapped in cave in and diving accidents is a huge fear for me.

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Anonymous wrote:The best thing about a slow death is everyone around you gets to say "goodbye" and is grateful when you finally croak.

the best thing about a fast death is your own absence of suffering.

I've had sudden and slow deaths of family members, and sudden deaths are far more difficult from a grief perspective IMO. Being able to say goodbye was invaluable and healing for me.

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being murdered by a sadist.

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Surprised that so many list fires as a fear. Fire wouldn't even be in my top 10.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised that so many list fires as a fear. Fire wouldn't even be in my top 10.

Why not?

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Anonymous wrote:Long slow painful costing my faking a fortune type death is what I fear.

Even without the expense aspect this is the most brutal. I would rather get hit by a car. (And as a cyclist, that's not unlikely, ha )