re: What, in your opinion, would be the worst way to die?

For those of you who do laboratory work, death by autoclave (large pressure cooker device for sterilizing biohazardous materials) would be the absolute worst way to die IMO

Hospitals usually have a large walk-in autoclave to sterilize large volumes of waste, and I remember hearing an awful story once of a worker somehow getting trapped in one after the sterilization cycle became activated.

Here's a story from the UK from last year about a similar death:

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