Drowning or Burning to Death?

[Kink3bird]

This has been a age old question that seems to end in nothing close to a conclusion.

It's basically a double edged sword.

Drowning, you panic, you suffocate, you slowly fill up with water and the last few moments of your life are you frantically searching for air that isn't there.

Burning to death although sounds like a painful experience actually doesn't kill you. When you burn to death, the most likely cause of death is suffocation from the smoke fumes so you either suffocate while on fire or pass out due to lack of oxygen.

So a terror-filled death with a racing mind struggling for air that isn't there or every layer of your flesh burning before you pass out from the fumes.

Very physical Vs mental

What are your thoughts? To me nothing beats being buried alive but we won't leave that option open.

[Jokersvirus]

Physical takes the cake, because well, if you see some of the burn victims i have in my law enforcement/ homeland classes you would be sick to your stomach.

drownign you have a chance to survive if you can control the fear, which is very unlikely depending on the situation of course.

I would most likely take... buring, cause i dont want to be drowning waiting for death when burning is almost instant.

[Kink3bird]

Physical takes the cake, because well, if you see some of the burn victims i have in my law enforcement/ homeland classes you would be sick to your stomach.

drownign you have a chance to survive if you can control the fear, which is very unlikely depending on the situation of course.

I would most likely take... buring, cause i dont want to be drowning waiting for death when burning is almost instant.

Well there is no escaping. I did mention that although burning to death would seem very gruesome and painful (the charred body is enough to make you pick drowning) but it's pretty well known you pass out or suffocate from the smoke unless someone was sick enough to put a oxygen mask on you to which you'd die from pain, which is possible btw.

[Charlotte]

Actually burning is painful.
For example, once you touching a hot stuff, your hand will automatically react and get away from it and just imagine you are burn, it's gonna be painful.

So I think drowning is better. Although we gonna feel the painful pressure and atmosphere.

[Kink3bird]

Actually burning is painful.
For example, once you touching a hot stuff, your hand will automatically react and get away from it and just imagine you are burn, it's gonna be painful.

So I think drowning is better. Although we gonna feel the painful pressure and atmosphere.

I'm not arguing that burning will be painful but it won't be the cause of death. It goes suffocation - blacking out then suffocating - or dieing of pain which is when the heart gives out

[thedeparted]

Having let my cousin burn me to close a wound, I gotta say i'll take drowning. It hurt really bad let him hold a lighter to my hand for 20 or so seconds, I couldn't even imagine fire being so much that'd it kill me. But if you were to die in a fire perhaps you are lucky enough that the fire is so hot that kills all your nerves nearly instantly so the death isn't so painful

[Subb]

id take drowning for sure. Being burnt sucks

[Jokersvirus]

Well its not really the fumes that kill you its the fact that oxygen around you is being used up, the fumes do play a role but its the lack of oxygen like you said :P

ever smelled a buring body, its pretty screwed up stuff.

[HamadaLFC8]

Screw drowning, I'll burn to death! At least when you burn to death you can run around and yeah I don't know do something like roll on the floor :P So I guess even the chances of surviving while you're on fire are higher, and I just can't drown to death NO WAY I'D GO FREAKIN CRAZY!

[Charlotte]

At least when you burn to death you can run around and yeah I don't know do something like roll on the floor :P

You make me lough hard here. Hahaha :laugh:

[Muffincat]

I'd take drowning. You're supposed to get a really lovely feeling of euphoria once you get far enough

And even if you don't die from the burning, you're still going to get somewhat burnt while you are suffocating to death... I dunno. I like being in water so at least I'd die somewhere I felt at home I guess *shrug*

[Subb]

Well before u die ur body produces DMT and u have one hell of a trip just before u die

[KittyCat72]

I'd rather drown to death... I can handle mental pain much better than physical for sure. And then I would have a body for others to find too.

[Diligence109]

I've nearly drowned two... maybe three times in my life already (I can't remember atm) and it was a pretty chill experience. I have a rather vivid memory of blacking out from one of them - I didn't panic or anything, I was just like:

"oh wait this is bad isn't it... hhmm... I should try to swim..."
*flails around a bit and remembers he can't swim*
"oh alright then. This sucks. *sigh*"
*blacks out*

Then I was coughing and sputtering and my mom had pulled me out of the lake (thanks mom!... again!... (she was the one to pull me out all the other times, too.))

Having been there done that, I'll stick to drowning. It's a pretty painless way to go so long as you can wrestle your mind into compliance with it.

P.S. - I learned how to swim and can save my own life now :D I'm a big boy

[thedeparted]

Im sorry I shouldn't lol, but this made me lol





"oh wait this is bad isn't it... hhmm... I should try to swim..."
*flails around a bit and remembers he can't swim*
"oh alright then. This sucks. *sigh*"
*blacks out*

[Kink3bird]

You guys are adding way too many variables...

There won't be a body anyways, you can't duck and roll, you have to understand a psychopath would be making you do this.

[EpsilonX]

neither. I absolutely, under no circumstance, want to die through suffocation. If I hold my breath for too long, it like....idk, its unbearable.

[norid]

hmmmmmmmmmm i would rather burn because after a certian temp. your nerve cells shut down. downing you will feel till the very end. But both suck.

[Project Blaze]

I'd prefer drowning, and that's what I voted for. I also hear that you get a high just before you die if you drown. I don't exactly like the thought of my skin boiling and feeling that kind of pain.

[Iceskater101]

I would say neither!
I would want to die of old age and live a long life
I think each of these deaths is scary in its own way
its scary to drown because not only do you know your about to die you can feel yourself not getting oxygen
but its scary to burn to death because you can feel your skin burning and you breathe in your own body burning
both are horrible to go through

[vepanator]

Drowning To Death. I needed to think about this for few hrs before I could make up my mind. I don't rly know why exactly drowning, but after those hrs of thinking, I came up with that.
But theres something magical about fire too.

But if i had my own choice, I would die peacefully in the age of 49. Just falling asleep and never waking up again.

[YuriPrime]

The pain of being burned is excruciating. I'd much rather drown.

[Jaykub]

I'd have to burn Drowning is too creepy.

[BocReaper]

Drowning really sucks. I'm all for going out in a blaze of glory for the world to see and FEAR.

[Jokersvirus]

o.O my question is those monks about 20 or so years ago who burned themselves alive in protest. I remember seeing one who sat himself on fire and sat on the ground and did nothing o.o

So it cant be that bad, right? :P

[BocReaper]

Those monks were super hardcore Joker. Like HARD CORE. Seriously, burning to death is slow and painful. It is also very manly.

[Jokersvirus]

Well since everyone's pain threshold is different I, for example, could set myself on fire and feel so much pain my body just shuts down knocking me out and im done. someone else could do the same thing and be awake the entire time.

[BocReaper]

This is very true. Pretty sure those monks toughed it out. I would not want to do that. My idea of burning to death is in a giant fireball of doom that is fairly quick.

[Jokersvirus]

Ya, if you get a fireball and inhale it your pretty much a goner.

I remember a story in my law enforcement class, my professor saw a house on fire was ordered by his sgt to help him enter the building and look for people a door blew open and a fire ball nearly killed him.

He got lucky and only his shirt was destroyed.

I skipped alot of the funny details, but ya point made :P

[jassinlive]

burn to death. i don't like water

[Melodic]

ive been thinking about this for hours.. a real head scratcher .. well i think id go for burning... i just cant take drowning.. you will be like trying so hard to breathe..but you just cant... while in burning.. you can scream your pain.. run around.. that would at least help you out..

[zavatar11]

i would hate to do either but the less painfull way is my way

[Jokersvirus]

Well define less painful zavatar.

Because burning to death is physical pain, while drowning is mental.

Either way its going to hurt like hell, in one form or another, and will be unbearable.

[Rachel]

i would drown.

[BobTD]

I don't agree with the premise of the topic.

Your correct if you assume that you would pass out from smoke inhalation in a lot of cases say if you where sleeping and a fire started in your home. But thats like saying you get knocked out by hitting your head head against the wheel as your car impacts water after driving off the road.

Those are secondary causes and obscure the whole point of the thread.

Better yet why not imagine your body covered in fuel and lit on fire, and every pain receptor being lit up at the same time.

Or your body forcing you to breath when its reached its limit underwater as a convulsive reaction to its starvation of oxygen as cellular death occurs. Your lungs filling with fluid searing with the agony and failing to expand and contract against the foreign substance.

The choice is in no way mental vs physical.

Both have equal measures of pain. And each can take several minutes to kill you leaving plenty of time for psychological torture to occur.

I voted drowning because at the very least escaping death (ever the survivalist) after nearly drowning will leave you fairly healthy, while being severely burnt would be long term agony and likely death from infection. And even if your survive that permanent and often grotesque scarring could occur.

[Dess]

I chose burning..

I'm scared to death of the feeling of not being able to breathe. I literally freak out when anything is around my neck, and refuse to wear turtlenecks and tight necklesses or chokers, they just freak me right out...

AND Being a welder for 4 years, I'm used to burns.... they don't scare me nearly as much as not being able to breathe. HOWEVER, I'd definitely want to die.. no scarring...