Everything obvious has been mentioned. So, I'll mention the obscure:death by steamroller. Being squished to death has just got to suck a bunch of dicks. Being sucked into a jet engine.. Another horrible way to check out. Spiders and centipedes, I'm not sure how you die from these, but I hate spiders and centipedes. And finally, butt rape.
I was just about to say getting squished has always been a huge fear of mine. The movies just put the image of getting killed by incoming collapsing walls as one of the worst ways to go out. Or after going on this thing having it break midride and just falling to your death.
Um, how about impalement? Impalement would suck. 'Specially by this guy: <a class="postlink" href="http://mytransylvania.blogspot.com/2009/08/13-shocking-facts-about-vlad-impaler.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://mytransylvania.blogspot.com/2009 ... paler.html</a> <a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler#Methods_of_execution" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_t ... _execution</a> I can't find the link now, but there was an article explaining that, along with the above fucked up methods, he would take families, sit them in a circle facing each other, and impale away. He also got so "good" at his impaling method that the impaling device would often miss vital organs (entering through either the anus or vagina), allowing victims to bleed out over days (while watching their family members do the same). I'm as freaked out by drowning/fire/laser sharks as the rest of you, but I'd take any of that over family-inclusive impalement (though does anyone else find 'impale(ment)' to be a fun word to say?). Best way to die? High as fuck on heroin, after eating a plate of bacon, with Megan Fox Riding me and Jessica Alba sitting on my face. It'd be death by awesome.
When we had this same discussion a few months ago, I said death by autoerotic asphyxiation, and you are found by your kids. I'd rather burn for hours trapped in a car than have my son walk in on me, hanging from the ceiling fan in spike heels and black lingerie, a still running vibrator stuck in my ass, and tranny porn playing on the computer. Not like I really do any of that stuff... You guys believe me, right? And when we had this discussion on the old board, I'll never forget what one guy said: "Your head in a prison shitter, after being the latest unlucky victim in a game of 'Fill the white guy with gallons of ghetto sperm.'"
Worst way would be drowning where you could see the surface of the water, like if you were trapped under a rock and the surface was a foot from your face.
As mentioned before, sharks. The thought of looking down and seeing a shark swimming up towards me, mouth open would probably cause me to have a heart attack and die before it actually got to me. Even though I am 99.9% sure this picture is photo shopped ( I didn't bother to look it up ) it gives me the fucking creeps to look at it.
I'm torn between an alligator death roll and an anaconda slowly crushing me to death. These combine my worst fears; snakes (reptiles) and asphysiation (sp). Best way, over-excitement during sex, causing massive coronary and instant death. I told her she had a couple minutes, I was going to get mine and she better be able to get hers. I am of course half kidding, dying in my sleep would be alright too.
Being set on fire. There simply is not single way that is more agonizing or horrible, and the smell will never come out of your clothes, even with Spray n Wash.
Every time I pull over a car I play this scenario in my head. what if I get shot? what will I feel? I don't know these people.. Shotgun to the gut? I do this several times a day. Cops are uptight for good reason. Best way? From experience, I was in a house fire, and the carbon monoxide made me feel very sleepy. guess the burning part would come, but who cares then?
A family member I never met died last year by falling into a slurry container and drowning. For those who don't work on farms, slurry is cow shit and other things. Not sure exactly, but I know it contained cow shit, was an awkward wake...
You know, the first thing I thought of when I opened this thread was, "is is possible to die from fart inhalation?". I've got some of the worst gas I've ever had to deal with in my life right now, and my farts are smelling worse by the minute, to the point where I can taste them and have a hard time breathing for a few seconds after I let one go. (Thank you Sportsmans Pizza) Oh, why yes, it appears as though you can, thank you Google. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1035264/fact_of_fiction_man_dies_from_his_own.html?cat=9" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... html?cat=9</a>
Worst: Being left, perfectly healthy, in a desert with no supplies or chance of reaching civilization (but you don't know that). The time it would take to die would be awful. I don't know how long it would take you to die from dehydration, but I imagine you'd last a few days, and when death finally came, it would be drawn out over hours and be extremely painful. Best: Doing something heroic. I think the best way to die would be something like taking a bullet for someone, or parachuting into Thailand with a machine gun and rescuing child sex slaves. Basically, any situation where you have the mindset of "I'm already dead" and then have the freedom to do something really courageous.
I know they tested this on Myth Busters, and I can't remember the outcome for certain, but I have the feeling this turned out to just be an urban legend.
Worst way to die? I'd go with burning to death. I remember watching an oral history documentary about the Pacific front of WWII. One of the guys that was being interviewed talked about the time he spent working at an airfield. He said that one time he saw a plane that had just touched down burst into flames due to a mechanical failure and the pilot wasn't able to escape without also catching fire. The pilot ran clear of the plane but his suit was still on fire and when a friend of his grabbed him in order to pull him further away the skin on his arms came clean off. That, my friends, is the stuff of nightmares.
A friend of my parents worked as a paramedic for Lifeline, a private ambulance company back home. He told me the story of a fuel truck that flipped on the interstate and caught fire. The paramedics arrived on scene a few minutes after the crash but were told they couldn't go any closer until the fire department arrived for fear of the fuel catching fire and blowing everyone up. The truck driver was still inside the cabin and could be heard screaming for about 30 seconds when my parent's friend said "fuck it" and ran over to help. The guy had been splattered with fuel from the tank and was being burned alive and was yelling at the paramedic to "just kill me" before passing out from the shock and pain. The man later died at the hospital, not from burns or infection but from the trauma to the nervous system. I can't even imagine... Fuck that.
I can't remember the specifics of this death, but a while ago I was reading a book on sex crimes and neuroses and came across a story about some guy who dressed up in lingerie, stuffed himself into a garbage can in an alley with all kinds of belts and ropes then tied himself up and tried to fellate himself. Well something went awry in his grand scheme and he was unable to untie himself and wound up suffocating in the garbage can, which apparently took hours as passersby went on their way just out of earshot of his cries for help.
Another one that should be on the list is being drawn and quartered. Yuck. Being dragged to death would be a bad one too.