Poll: Drowning or burning?

[Bruenin]

Once you run out of oxygen you start to hallucinate so drowning would stop being painful after a bit and, fire hurts... I think it would be the worst if you were drowning in boiling water.

 

[kaveradeo]

they are pretty much the same because the fire would burn your nerves and burn away any oxygen. both are suffocation.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Both have you choking to death, either on water or on smoke. Burning just has the added bonus of agonizing pain as your flesh sizzles away. I'd choose drowning any day.

 

[The Lugz]

i would argue that slowly having your temperature lowered is the most horrific way to go
you know you're dieing, then you get pushed below the shivering range and it's a countdown to death

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Drowning. Probably more terrifying, but a HELL of a lot less painful. Also WAAAAAY quicker.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

*looks at both options*

Spoiler: Doesn't Like Either

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Back-To-Seriousness: I think I'd rather drown than burn... Drowning just seems to be the less painful way to go while burning seems much more prolonged and stressful, (physically and mentally)... Hell, I don't even think drowning would hurt, you'd just be very scared and panicked...

IE: Drowning > Burning

 

[Ensiferum]

Speaking as someone who's actually almost drowned and survived...I would still prefer drowning. Fire sucks.

 

[deidara]

These both suck so bad. But if i had to choose drowning, I know it's worse than it seems but being burnt alive seems horrible.

 

[smythn]

in all fairness they are both supposedly extremely painful, with drowning, you panic, your lungs fill with liquid while your brain tells you that you need to breathe; or, have your clothes burn (because skin doesn't actually burn all that well...it acts more like crackling while you cook from the inside...nom) and your lungs instead fill with thick smoke; both of which asphyxiates you.

however, IMO i would rather drown in a tropical reef, dressed as a merman to confuse the bingle out of scuba divers.

 

[boag]

Drowning will let you lose conciousness after about a minute.

Burning to death is a much slower and much more painful process.

 

[thedeathscythe]

I was always told that burning vs drowning was pain vs panic. It hurts more to be burnt, go ask a burn victim. Drowning doesn't hurt as much (while it happens at least), if I was forced to, I would try and inhale water. Once that happens I would begin to panic but my fate would be sealed and I would shortly die. If I lived, I suppose it would hurt my lungs but since it's assumed I don't, pick one. Pain or panic.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Death from morbid questions

In all seriousness though drowning would probably be worse, not that burning would be quick and easy either, but although it may not look as ugly on the outside, drowning is fucking unpleasant.

 

[Vivi22]

An ache in the chest has nothing on burning.

I'm not sure drowning would really be a simple ache in the chest. Aside from the fact that you have the sheer terror that would come with drowning, which will be anything but fast, your bodies first reaction to water in the lungs will be to try and expel it. Of course you can't while you're underwater, and even if you got what was in there out, the act of coughing will simply draw more in. So basically, you'll die with lungs full of water while convulsing, and if you're lucky, you might pass out quickly.

Burning would suck mind you, but I'd imagine that even if your nerve endings don't quickly burn beyond their ability to function (or even if they do but you can still feel the pain because they're damaged so badly), I'd be surprised if you didn't go into shock very quickly and feel none of it while you died. The brain was not made to process the signals from that kind of trauma.

So I think I might have to go with burning, but hell if I can say with certainty.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

While both methods of dying are incredibly painful and terrible, I'd rather drown since I'm not cooking slowly and dying that way.


At least then I can hallucinate that I'm being surrounded by unicorns and whatever to calm my panicking, somewhat.

 

[V8 Ninja]

Drowning may be slightly slower, but it wouldn't involve my flesh burning and me feeling the pain of my skin melting off. So yeah, get me the pool instead of the bonfire.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

THE DANE COOK WAY DIE IN A POOL WITH FIRE ABOVE IT SO HAFE OF ME DROWNS AND THE OTHER HALF BURNS

no.

 

[rawion]

Although with drowning you would just pass out after the first gulp, I still think being set aflame would be really hot. (obviously punny) Plus it seems to me that the nerves would be burned up rather quickly so then you could run around like a fire elemental an wreak havoc before you pass out due to the fire taking all the oxygen out of the air.