Mine would probably be Rabies.

  • @Thavron@lemmy.ca
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    51 year ago

    There are a few prion diseases that are absolutely horrible. I believe one of them causes you to be unable to sleep until you go mad.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    There are so many things that would be fighting for last place honestly. Idk, being stuck deep in a cave Nutty Putty style for days, barely able to breathe, arms pinned totally by my side, legs all twisted, total darkness. Slowly suffocating as the blood pools in my head and I become delirous.

    That terrifies me so much. But idk, there are so many horrific ways to die. There are many cases of people being tortured to death over weeks or even months if they somehow survive that long.

    There are also a bunch of diseases that are all around awful and terrifying. That syndrome where you are trapped inside your own body, total unable to move anything but you are aware of everything around you, maybe would be the most horrific.

    Idk, too many horrible ways to suffer and die in this world…

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        21 year ago

        Every time I watch a video or read about that incident I feel myself start to almost panic. And I’m not prone to panic attacks or anything, but that scenario just makes me freak out.

        Imagining the feeling of trying to move and feeling literal hundreds of feet of totally immovable rock encasing your limbs, not a milimeter of give or flex.

        Ugg, literally making my heart rate go up as I type this :S

  • @31415926535@lemm.ee
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    21 year ago

    My biggest fear, given mental health issues, wondering through out life if I’m going insane, seeing things, hallucinating, etc…

    I’m terrified that the moment of death, I won’t be able to tell if it’s real or not. So it will be an infinitely protracted moment, and right now, I may already be in that moment.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    21 year ago

    Milk and honeyed to death, if you know it, you know that shits barbaric.

    If we talking in the realm of realistic and probable, probably Alzheimer’s, or maybe being trapped in a vegetative state but concious and lucid.

  • NevelioKrejall
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    21 year ago

    I think I may be an outlier here. I really don’t want to die in a sudden ‘didn’t-see-it-coming’ kind of way, like getting hit by a semi or a freak accident with heavy machinery kind of way. The idea of going from living, thinking, feeling, person to chunk(s) of meat in an instant terrifies the shit out of me. Especially if it’s caught on video and people watch it for laughs or whatever possesses them to watch that kind of thing.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to die in some slow, painful way either, but something I had some agency in would be worlds better. Like taking a bullet to save a loved one, or punching my own ticket after getting a terminal diagnosis, or even just taking a deliberate, calculated risk.

  • @philpo@feddit.de
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    41 year ago

    Radiation illness is one of them, there are certain yields that make it rather nasty. Rabies is also pretty high up the list.

    Mechanically wise I remember the OSHA case of the worker getting trapped in a walk-in autoclave and literally steamed to death. because that actually takes a long time.

    Prion diseases and locked-in-syndrome are also pure horror.

  • Toes♀
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    41 year ago

    Anything that makes you aware that you’re slowly losing touch with reality and control of your body or causes you to mistreat the people who love you.

    • blivet
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      11 year ago

      causes you to mistreat the people who love you

      I’ve told my wife that she doesn’t have to spend time with me if I end up with dementia and I start behaving that way. Both of my parents were more or less all there well into their 90s, but you never know.

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    Leprosy. Nobody recognises how horrific it is, that nobody will ever be able to physically touch you, hug or hold your hands again. The damage happens to nerves, lungs, skin and eyes, and symptoms take upto 20 years to appear.