Worst way to die

[low-key]

Alzheimer by a zillion

 

[nw6675]

Alone

 

[Kittyblue]

I think fire

 

[Pyotr]

Run over slowly by a steam roller from the feet up.

 

[low-key]

Run over slowly by a steam roller from the feet up.

that was number 18 on my list

 

[RDR_BU]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

 

[J'aime Paris]

Fire, drowning, ALS

 

[FigmentSpark]

In a buried coffin, but not yet dead.

 

[low-key]

In a buried coffin, but not yet dead.

someone is watching to many horror movies

 

[Jimmy Mouse]

thrown in the croc pit at animal kingdom.

 

[CT Yankee]

Before I accomplish everything on my bucket list.

 

[bcla]

I bought an earlier version of this as a gag gift.

 

[neverlandsky]

Long suffering before death: hospice, ALS, cancer, dementia, alzheimer's, 3rd degree burns, etc.

 

[Heather07438]

Vlad the Impaler comes to mind

 

[disneychrista]

Alone. By anything that involves pain.

 

[Micca]

someone is watching to many horror movies

Yet you're the dude with the list of at least 18 horrible ways to die???

 

[amcnj]

The ones that always came to mind first were fire and drowning, perhaps carryovers from a child’s perspective. As I got older I thought maybe those are instead quicker and less painful in the long run than some other conditions.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

Yet you're the dude with the list of at least 18 horrible ways to die???

Well, someone had to beat out the dude who only listed 17, right?

 

[Meriweather]

fire

 

[MrsPete]

Alzheimer by a zillion

I'm going to disagree. While Alzheimer's is -- obviously -- horrible, horrible, horrible, I think it's harder on the caregivers than on the dying individual. Maybe I don't know -- I have no personal experience with that topic.

In a buried coffin, but not yet dead.

While I know this is unrealistic, this is -- by leaps and bounds -- my biggest fear. It's about as possible as being run over by a steamroller feet first.

My real answers:
- Being trapped somewhere -- like in the rubble of a fallen building -- unable to move or escape, starvation /suffocation while knowing what's happening.
- Fire, and the worst-of-the-worst would be trapped in a burning car unable to escape.
- Drowning, and the worst-of-the-worst would be drowning while trapped and unable to swim away.

Note that all my answers involve entrapment of some type.

Interesting to note that -- looking over the answers -- overall, we seem to be more afraid of things that aren't actually likely to happen. Our real fears should be cancer and heart disease.