Philosophers would argue that death is the biggest truth of life. While digesting that statement might be daunting for most of us, it doesn’t take away the element of truth. Moreover, what adds more grimness to the concoction, some ways of dying make it way harder. However, as science reveals – there is a spectrum in which some deaths are deemed worse than others.
Whether it is from a nasty accident, or suffering from a wretched illness – there are a plethora of ghastly ways of dying. But, according to science, these three deaths are the absolute worst.
Being buried alive:
One of the ones that make it to the top of the list, is being buried alive.
There’s a mixed review on how long a human could survive if being buried alive as some say 10 minutes, whilst others say as long as 36 hours. Unsurprisingly, few people would be willing to put this to the test, further suggesting that this isn’t the best option.
Being buried alive would prove a struggle as not only would you have to claw your way out of a coffin, but also somehow manage to rummage through the soil you’ve been surrounded by.
Unless you somehow happen to have a shovel to hand, this would be difficult. But it has been done before – though with a lot of risk involved.
Whilst this may initially sound like a situation you could find your way out of, scientists suggest that it is much harder than it may seem. One daredevil tried to escape from being buried alive and managed to make it four feet before almost dying and needing to be rescued.
Radiation sickness:
With much scientific evidence to support it, dying from radiation sickness is awful.
Victims of nuclear weapons are a testament to the ways that radiation can be deadly – in a very slow and painful process too. A horrific example of this is Hisashi Ouchi after an accident at a power plant in Japan.
After a week of doctors trying to save him, he was begging them to stop, and at one point his heart stopped three times but was restarted after his family requested they keep trying to save him. In the end, it took him 83 days to die as he ‘cried blood’ and his skin melted off. He eventually died of multiple organ failure.
Pyroclastic flow:
A pyroclastic flow is the most deadly part of a volcanic eruption.
It’s the fast-moving cloud of gas and volcanic matter that spreads out following an eruption.
The pace of the flow is so quick that you can’t unrun it and it destroys more or less everything in its path with temperatures being able to reach temperatures of around 1,000°C.
The heat would quickly kill but the final moments would be horrifying as your skin would be cooked.
