Poll: Personally what's worse death by fire or water?

[RIGorous1]

Originally posted by: bleeb
With water, I believe you pass out from lack of oxygen and then you die... with fire.. you are enduring pain at the onset. Therefore the pain with fire is greater than the pain from drowning.

Also remember that I added the part about the pain of frostbite due to the icewater and then your eventual drowning.

Also it depends on how fast you swallow the water... if you take it slower then its not as painful as breathing it in with full breaths.

 

[Kenazo]

being drowned in a vat of HCl might hurt more...

 

[Ranger X]

Fire. If you drown, you'll probably just pass out but being burned alive you'll be alive for a long time.

 

[Eli]

Burning, by far.

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: pyonir
I've heard/read that you pass out from trying to hold your breath when you drown, so you actually suffocate before you realize the water is in you. *shrug*

not true in a sense. when you drown, you actually only have about a teaspoon of water in your lungs. The body has a mechanism to keep the water out of your lungs. The muscles around the trachea will actually spasm closing off the trachea so no water passes. Of course this is right before you start choking on water because you are trying to take a breathe. That is why you suffocate.

 

[pyonir]

Okay

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: bleeb
With water, I believe you pass out from lack of oxygen and then you die... with fire.. you are enduring pain at the onset. Therefore the pain with fire is greater than the pain from drowning.

but, you burn your nerve connections and cease to fell. Perhaps that feels really good, I dont know. I have never had such a burn where I stopped to feel that skin.

obviously, you have no idea what you're talking about. true, 3rd degree burns are not painful because the nerve endings are burnt but you have to go through 1st and 2nd degree before you get to 3rd degree. And no, you don't cease to fell (feel).

 

[Glitchny]

jid say drowning just because of the struglling to break to the surface etc, mostly when people were burned alive they didnt die form the fire. pass out due to the pain and then you inhale too much smoke and die form lack of oxygen, kinda like drowning just without the water.

 

[Aquaman]

Death by Bumba is by far the worst death one can have :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[deerslayer]

I don't wanna die by either one, but I imagine fire would be worse!

 

[pennylane]

I heard that with drowning... once you accept that you're not gonna breathe again, you just sorta pass out. No pain really. Fire... mucho pain....

Edit: didn't notice the elaborate scenarios in the post. forget it