The Worst Way to Die

This is one of my first few debates and I just want to get my feet wet with a topic that keeps me up at night. That topic is what the worst way to die would actually be…. The following scenario is what I consider the worst way to die. It is important to keep in mind that there is more than one element essential to a horrible death. The two I will be exploring are the physical and the psychological. With the preliminaries out of the way, I want to get to the meat of the discussion. I implore the audience to imagine the following… You wake up, strapped upright and naked to a chair, in the middle of a room. A large clock that is counting down from one hour is looming large on the wall in front of you, seven or eight feet in the air. Directly underneath the clock, standing against the wall, is your loved ones and your family. Your children are watching on in abject terror. On your immediate right is a glucose drip and what you can only assume, given your heart rate, an amphetamine drip [1]. One your immediate left is an individual who you learn has been tasked with performing the gruesome tasks ahead. The individual informs you that, in addition to the amphetamines, he has dosed you with a significant amount of a hallucinogen named Datura [2]. The individual points to the clock on the wall and informs you that you will be dead at the end of the hour. At this point you realize that you are breathing rapidly and that your heart is beating so forcefully that you fear that it’s going to explode. Your vision is slightly blurry as you stare at your helpless family. Tears are streaming down your child’s face and although he is only ten feet or so away from you, you cannot make out what he is saying. Thoughts are uncontrollably streaming through your head as panic settles in. You hadn’t noticed it before, but whether it’s the drugs or another sadistic improvisation from your torturer, you have become aware that music is playing. It’s Justin Bieber’s chart busting song “Baby”, which under normal circumstances would curdle your stomach. Your voice quivering you question your executioner. Why is he doing this? In response he comes closer to you, a grotesque instrument in his hand. This instrument appears to be similar to cutting shears that one would trim their bushes with. The man brings these shears to crotch level and then pauses for a moment, perhaps to let what is about to unfold sink in. Your mind races, you blubber that you will give the man anything he wishes if only he’d stop right at this moment. Before you are able to get the last syllables of your defense out the terrible ‘snip’ takes place. Pain shoots throughout all of your extremities as unbearable agony fills the deepest recesses of your being. The man’s visage warps into that of a terrible demon and you are not concerned in the slightest whether this is a result of the drugs or the immense pain you are in. Picking up the useless flop of skin, the man tosses your manhood towards your family with a sick, perverse smile on his face. You can see your family gasp and turn from the horror of the flap of flesh now resting a few feet from them. The man turns towards you and bends down, picking something up that lay just off to the side of your now trembling foot. You discover that your tormenter has just picked up what appears to be a large paint bucket. It is no ordinary bucket though and you soon discover to your misery that it is completely filled with sulfuric acid. Your tormentor slowly and methodically pours the acid all over your body, from your chest to the tops of your legs. The acid eats away at your skin, dissolving your innards slowly. Your blood vessels are cauterized and once the acid has gotten through enough of your layers, it begins to eat through your organs [3]. Time seems to dilate as you shake with pain. The smell pervades your nostrils and the agony is unending. At this point, you are just a useless blob of flesh. The pain is immense as the torture comes over to you. You glance up at the clock, there are less than ten minutes left. You welcome death. Your torturer shows you his latest tool; it is a metal rod with a blunted end. He slowly raises it to your eyes and then even more slowly pushes the rod in and then through your right eye. The pain is intense and you cannot control your bellowing. Your left eye follows. What seems like an eternity follows. The music abruptly stops. All you can hear is your family begging for your life. The clock has got to be almost finished you reason. The sounds of a struggle and then of someone gasping for air fill your ears. You hear members of your family pleading with the sick executioner not to strangle your child, to no avail. You hear your family cry out when the deed has finished. As they are crying you hear the executioner’s footsteps as he comes closer to you. Your last moments of life are filled with a blunt pounding of some object (likely a hammer) to your head as you expire. . http://en.wikipedia.org... Amphetamines are useful in promoting a wakeful state and focus and are used in this scenario to prevent the victim (you) from passing out. . http://en.wikipedia.org... This is a heavy hallucination agent that produces profound detachment from reality. This hallucinogen does not typically lesson pain and in combination with amphetamines will usually produce a psychotic train wreck – according to Wikipedia: “No other psychoactive substance has received as many "train wreck" (that is, severely negative experience) reports as has Datura. The overwhelming majority of those who describe their use of Datura find their experiences extremely mentally and physically unpleasant and often physically dangerous. ” . http://health.howstuffworks.com...: “A physician we interviewed recounts the story of a laborer in Africa who worked around vats of sulfuric acid -- one of the most caustic forms of acid. The man fell in one day. He quickly leapt out, but was covered in sulfuric acid, which immediately began to burn him chemically. In a panic and excruciating pain, the man ran outside. By the time his coworkers caught up to him, the man had essentially dissolved. The acid burned the man to death, searing through skin, cauterizing blood vessels, and eating through organs until he died. The pain would be unbearable, and the circumstances irreversible. This is unquestionably a really bad way to die. ”