Thread: Burning or Drowning?

Okay, would you rather die by burning or drowning?

Let me put this into perspective.

Drowning: Hold your breath for as long as you can, and when you can't take it anymore, keep holding it in, until you are kicking the floor, then you can hold it in. (Breathe eventually though)

Burning: Think about burning yourself with a candle. Now imagine putting your face in jacuzzi water. Now think about heat so intense your skin blackens and shrinks and sloughs off, and your hair burning, your eyes drying up and breathing in fire and smoke.

Which would you prefer? (If you had to choose, i.e. burning ship in middle of ocean and you can't swim.)

(I'm a pretty darn good swimmer, for one thing. As long as I didn't cut myself in shark-infested waters, I'd go with the water.) ... Oh wait, if I "couldn't swim..."

I'd take drowning. I love water and I would imagine that drowning would be quick and somewhat peaceful.

Burning to death is one of my absolute least favorite possible ways to go. Sure you'd pass out from the pain after a while, but the smell and having to hear yourself scream... Ugh!

DROWNING, burning needs to DIE

Drowning is apparently very peaceful once you quit panicking about your lungs filling up with water and just accept that you're going to die. Not painful at all

Burning on the other hand... my hand still hurts from brushing against a hot casserole dish a few hours ago.

This threads destined to die, most people would rather down On the other hand if it was between being burned or being skined alive (shivers) it may last longer.

yeah I would say Drowning.

Originally Posted by Vance

Okay, would you rather die by burning or drowning?

Let me put this into perspective.

Drowning: Hold your breath for as long as you can, and when you can't take it anymore, keep holding it in, until you are kicking the floor, then you can hold it in. (Breathe eventually though)

Burning: Think about burning yourself with a candle. Now imagine putting your face in jacuzzi water. Now think about heat so intense your skin blackens and shrinks and sloughs off, and your hair burning, your eyes drying up and breathing in fire and smoke.

Which would you prefer? (If you had to choose, i.e. burning ship in middle of ocean and you can't swim.)

Drowning, any day, sure its rough and all that but, you die faster then with fire, with water you just kinda pass out after and drift into death

with fire, your screaming and roasting to death....

Originally Posted by guerilla

Drowning, any day, sure its rough and all that but, you die faster then with fire, with water you just kinda pass out after and drift into death

with fire, your screaming and roasting to death....

Like I said before, pretend it's an explosion/wall of fire type death where you are alive for 4 seconds, as opposed to 30/60 asphyxiating.

I duno, fire scares me, id rather asphyxiate, People get off on that, maybe its a good death?

Not fun.

Anyhow, I nearly drowned as a kid. It was very peaceful.

Originally Posted by guerilla

I duno, fire scares me, id rather asphyxiate, People get off on that, maybe its a good death?

Did I just hear you right? Honestly?

I think you are referring to breathing into a bag, which is breathing carbon dioxide (used oxygen) instead of oxygen. Your body thinks you are breathing air, but is unable to extract any oxygen from the mix after it is all used up. Subsequently, you start to black out and lose consciousness. (Yeah, fun)

I somehow think that's a little different from holding your breath as you sink underwater, until your lungs burn so badly you start breathing in water through your nose and mouth until your body lets go. The point is you are not breathing anything. That's asphyxiation, and it is not fun. Please try my test of holding your breath for as long as you can before you black out.

There is some sort of euphoria when the brain is deprived of oxygen, and not just by breathing "used oxygen" with your head in a bag. In high school, a guy I knew ended up killing himself when he hung himself in the bathroom. Apparently he had done that before in the past (I don't know the details), but it was ruled that he was not attempting to commit suicide.

Either way, by fire or by water, you die. I'd rather take the less horribly-disfiguring method. (As for a firey explosion where I would be assured a quick death, I might go for that.... might.)