Scariest way to see someone else die. EDIT: (Has gotten gruesome.)

[Coppernerves]

What do you think it is?

One side of their skull breaking open, followed by a bang a second later, from half a mile away?

A sudden collapse, with no breath, pulse, or explanation when you go to check?

Perhaps something less sudden, such as a debilitating illness that might already be incubating inside your own body?

Also why do you think it's scary?

What was the scariest death of another person you've ever seen? (can be fictional).

For me, it was probably in Supernatural, when a guy was magically compelled to drink a bottle of bleach.
I guess I'm particularly nervous about sickness, especially anaemia, vomiting, and loss of blood into bladder/gut/throat.
As a biology enthusiast, I love all those clever bodily systems working together beautifully, so the corruption of them into weapons against each other is horrifying.

Another example is in Metro 2033, when Artyoms' gas mask breaks above ground, (not scripted), and he dies coughing and choking, unable to find a new one as he panics.
I felt a pang of guilt when, later in the game, I did it to an enemy, sure he was one of the Nazis' soldiers, but he was still a fellow human being, which is emphasised when there are post-apocalyptic monsters everywhere, and he might not have even been a Nazi.

 

[Orange12345]

I saw this movie once, who's title escapes me but he was mind controlled/hypnotized to eat glass beer bottles until he died, I was a bit younger when I saw this so I am probably remembering it scarier then it was but still you could hear him crunching the glass and see some of it cutting through his throat

 

[HardkorSB]

I saw a few deaths such as:
- my aunt dying of lung cancer over the period of several weeks
- a guy I used to go to school with hanging himself
- a guy I don't know jumping off a bridge and splattering all over the pavement

Maybe it's because I've been watching horror/gore movies and such since I was about 4 but those didn't scare me.
If anything, they were just depressing.

I think that the only way someone's death would be even remotely scary to me is if I knew that the same thing could happen to me any moment now (like, someone gets shot in the face right in front of me and I'm next in line).

 

[Pandalisk]

Seeing any death would scare the crap out of me, i'm a bit of a coward when it comes to those kinds of things. My brother once put a paper clip through his nail and finger (he didn't feel anything, he just turns to me and goes "Hey, look" when were watching TV. even thought it was hilarious when he realized what he did). I saw it and ran out the house screaming in panic and then realized i was half-way down the drive and went back inside to see how he was, couldn't bring myself to enter the TV room again, i just kinda hugged the door frame and asked if he was alright meekly.

He was fine and my mom just took the clip out gave him a plaster and thought it was hilarious but I can't imagine what i'd be like if i saw someone die in person if that's the response i gave to such a small thing when i was sixteen.

 

[Lilani]

I think just any sort of painful death that I could have done something about, but for some reason failed to stop or prevent. And very up-close and personal, so that I can hear them and see their eyes.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Seeing someone desperately trying to escape his/ her life in a confined space that is closing in on him/ her and he/ she is getting tighter and tighter from it. It get to the point he/ she exploded like trying to sqeeze out every toothpaste out from a toothpast tub.

I'm pretty much referring to that last part of the film Akira with that female character. I feel worse that she didn't deserve to be killed since she was innocent throughtout the film.

 

[Epic Bear Man]

Death by sickness, would be my worst. When one of my cats had a litter, only two survived. One of the cats that was dying I held in my arms for a few hours, trying to keep it awake and alive until it couldn't hold out any longer and succumbed to her eternal rest.

Then another cat, the mother cat's brother, got into a fight with a raccoon, got infected, and we were notified there was nothing we could do to help him. His spinal cord was infected, and he was dying a slow and painful death. So I had to watch him get put down.

Both of those were difficult to watch, if only because it was there before my eyes. I'm sure any death would be hard for me to deal with though.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I remember watching 1000 Ways to Die and saw some dude die of bloodloss because he slipped when the toilet broke and a large shard got shoved right up his anus. It's not scary but I cringe every time a death even similar to that shows.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

I've only seen death in real life once, but that was when I was a baby in my grandma's arms so I don't really remember. The worst way to see someone die is a long, painful sickness in which they lose their memory and are unable to really have conversations anymore. The scariest way I could see someone die is probably someone trying hard to escape something like a tidal wave or a tornado then realizing they're going to die. I've seen many real, actual deaths in shock videos or gifs that I had the dis-pleasure to click on and all of them have been scary as fuck to me. Just seeing someone's life, the life of someone who had a childhood just like me and had hopes and dreams, wiped out without mercy is terrible.

 

[SciMal]

What do you think it is?

Scariest? Bot fly larvae from the inside out. Thousands of them boring through the person's body and escaping over the course of a few minutes.

That's the visceral fear. Fight or flight stuff.

Intellectually, emotionally, it's watching someone die slowly over the course of months or years. Hunger and malnutrition, cancer and chemotherapy/radiation, incurable diseases - because you have to go back and face that horror and realization time and time again. Watching the person you knew be replaced with a new version whose fingernails are yellow and brittle, without muscle tone and no fat, cloudy eyes, raggedy hair, and the inevitability of their own death very obvious in their eyes. When you don't see them recover, but just get worse and worse. You start hoping for a death that would only take a few minutes, regardless of how gruesome.

 

[Glasgow]

Suicide. Teeth to the wrists.

You can't unsee that. I haven't forgotten.

 

[Coppernerves]

What do you think it is?

Scariest? Bot fly larvae from the inside out. Thousands of them boring through the person's body and escaping over the course of a few minutes.

That's the visceral fear. Fight or flight stuff.

Intellectually, emotionally, it's watching someone die slowly over the course of months or years. Hunger and malnutrition, cancer and chemotherapy/radiation, incurable diseases - because you have to go back and face that horror and realization time and time again. Watching the person you knew be replaced with a new version whose fingernails are yellow and brittle, without muscle tone and no fat, cloudy eyes, raggedy hair, and the inevitability of their own death very obvious in their eyes. When you don't see them recover, but just get worse and worse. You start hoping for a death that would only take a few minutes, regardless of how gruesome.

You've made me feel so sorry for my Grandpa right now, his (now late) wife had alzheimers.

Also, do bot fly larvae really only take a few minutes?

 

[Spoonius]

If you want to see what real bloodshed and mindless human denigration looks like, this is your link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hZj_8nC_30

Disclaimer: Definitely NSFW. Don't watch it if you don't have the stomach for it. This video imprinted itself upon my mind when I first watched it, and I can only imagine what it must be like to watch this happening to a family member.

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EDIT: Also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM5Z6m24jXk

 

[loc978]

Seen plenty of disturbing deaths listed here, but scary? Scary is someone being eaten alive mere inches from where you lay, and if you move a muscle or breathe too loudly the thing eating them will notice you, making you next.

I wasn't even particularly scared by the deaths of people I had lived with for over a year in the middle east. Shocked, angry, sad, overwhelmed, yes. Scared? No.

 

[Xarathox]

Having discovered my brother-in-laws body one morning before Christmas, back in '07. He had pneumonia (though that was unknown at the time) and had been drinking pretty heavily the night before. He had passed out on my couch and sometime during the night his lungs filled with fluid, and he drowned in his sleep.

I'm old enough to have experienced the loss of loved ones, like my grandparents and the like, and have certainly seen them in open casket funerals. But that... is something that I will never get out of my head. I can't close my eyes without seeing his body curled up in full rigor mortis. That image is permanently burned into my retinas.

How scared did it make me? I was a massive alcoholic at the time, and I haven't touched a drink since that day. That could have been me...

 

[SciMal]

You've made me feel so sorry for my Grandpa right now, his (now late) wife had alzheimers.

Alzheimer's is a little more merciful than the worst. At least the person probably doesn't know what's going on when it really sets in. But for everybody around them, yes, it's one of the toughest things you can do.

Also, do bot fly larvae really only take a few minutes?

That depends on where they are and what direction they start boring. Most of the time, no. They'll bore through your flesh for a couple of weeks.

 

[Coppernerves]

It looks like the scariest deaths are the ones which aren't tucked away behind a fourth wall.

I really thought people would be talking about deaths in fiction rather than life, but I guess it's therapeutic to talk about your own horrible experience, even if remembering them is painful.

 

[Rad Party God]

The first time I saw Final Destination 3 (I was young and stupid), it kinda scared me for a bit the scene where the blonde chicks die in a solar bed. The scene itself was kinda gruesome in that their skin was bubbling with the heat and they couldn't do anything about it. The chicks themselves were stereotypically stupid and hollow (hence the reason they were there in the first place), but the scene itself kinda left me a bit disturbed for a couple of days.

The very thought of horribly, slowly dying burned alive was what scared me about that scene.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

Someone properly, honestly, burning alive. Imagine the smell, the helplessness, the screaming, the visceral pain as the skin is charred black, the fat burns and the nerve endings are seared.

Watching someone being eaten alive by fire ants also horrifies me, seeing as that is both a slow and painful way to go. Like drowning in a sea of living razor blades.

Hunger also seems fucking horrifying because of how utterly it will transform a person before they eventually die. They'll go from lovers and friends to mortal fucking enemies because they can think of nothing other than their next meal, nothing other than themselves.