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Fates Worse than Death
- Thread starter Yonowaru in Chaos
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PsychedelicJellyfish
formerly R. New
Any of the many tortures from Greek mythology, really. Being subjected to eternal pain, being held in water which is just too low for you to reach it and drink it and with food just out of your reach, repeatedly pushing a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down just before you reach the top, being eternally hungry but becoming thinner and hungrier the more you eat....Let's face it, those Ancient Greeks were a bunch of sick, twisted f*cks.
ForeverFlame
Well-Known Member
Living, and, above all, living without love.
foxyman1167
From Zero To Hero
When the hell has this happened?
Hmmm, not that bad for some, but for others, being barren/sterile may just be the worst thing.
As for me, any form of torture, being paralyzed (maybe I could live with no legs, but I'd never be able to live with no arms, let alone being a quadrepeligic - thats not spelled right.), severly deep in depression and on the verge of suicide, starvation, dehydration, and loneliness.
Cain Nightroad
Daydreaming
I agree with platypus. In the Dragonlance series, Weis and Hickman describe the concept of "Hell" as a place with scenery in the distance, in which you can run forever if you wish and never reach it. Even if you imagine someone there or hear a voice, you're completely alone.
Paralysis.
Not the status condition from the games, but just when none of your muscles work except your heart and your brain works perfectly fine, but you can't move your body so your fate no longer rests in your hands. And you have to eat through a tube. And you want to die so, so much but you can't tell anyone, even though everyone is discussing the ethics of it and you're so close to getting what you want but... in the end it's stated that killing you is technically murder, so you have to live the rest of your 'life' like a vegetable with people calling you a retard.
Not the status condition from the games, but just when none of your muscles work except your heart and your brain works perfectly fine, but you can't move your body so your fate no longer rests in your hands. And you have to eat through a tube. And you want to die so, so much but you can't tell anyone, even though everyone is discussing the ethics of it and you're so close to getting what you want but... in the end it's stated that killing you is technically murder, so you have to live the rest of your 'life' like a vegetable with people calling you a retard.
If that is your opinion of something worse than death then I'd advise you to stay away from elevators, thin floors, and small doorways.
I think watching someone be killed or tortured would be worse than death. I can stand pain, but I freak out when it happens to other people. I'm a little too empathetic.
Penguinist Trainer
Well-Known Member
Fate worse than death... I'd say being in a vegetative state. My friend and I already agreed to pull the plug if we were ever stuck on life support. The thought of being trapped in my own body without being able to interact with the world outside bothers me.
Trainmaster718
ORAS is here!
Being immortal. Sure, the first couple of centuries would be a blast! I would collect any and everything I've ever wanted. Maybe even end a few wars (shoot all you want, I'm still walking =D)
But eventually, I would go insane after seeing everybody I ever love or even come in contact with die. Not to mention, the extinction of the human race.
But eventually, I would go insane after seeing everybody I ever love or even come in contact with die. Not to mention, the extinction of the human race.
ZangooseLord
I'm a Chuckster!
A fate worse than death: To put a man behind bars for 28 years, only to discover that he was innocent. (This is based off an article I read today in the Washington Post.)
That's not completely true. There is suicide, remember. I've dealt with a loved one committing suicide... and in a horrible, excruciating way, too, so I can say for sure that some people will choose death over dealing with life. I can understand it. I mean, for me, death is scarier, even though I think we do have clues as to what happens from the supernatural (please, for your sake and mine, just accept that this is how I think and don't get me started arguing about it). But death can be so much easier than fighting. You don't have to deal with it anymore, you can just escape.
Anyway, I think never ending, excruciating pain is worse. And never ending nausea would be horrendous. Also, I'm pretty sure I'd prefer to die than go through that horrible period of anxiety I had. Well... that was so difficult, and I was so despairing. I'd never want to face that again. If I got over it... I know I'd rather die than have to exist like that permanantly. I couldn't live like that, anyway, only exist.
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SoulSilverMstr411
Hikikomori
Being in a coma would suck. Given that there's a hevean you can't go there 'cos you're technically still alive.
DaDonYordel
The Gazing Eye
what the characters goes through in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream