re: What’s the worst way someone you knew died?

Friend sleeping in the back of a truck got a load of grain dumped on him in HS. He was at his grandparents farm in Nebraska

Plane crash, trapped inside and burned to death. You could hear them screaming

A house burned down near me two years ago (Xmas eve actually) and the neighbor kicked the door down to go help but couldn’t reach him so an old man ended up burning to death and you could hear him screaming.

Very surreal night, it was Christmas and we just watched a guy die. There was a little girl going around handing cups of water to people as they watched.

Heard of a guy who recently was driving around with a pistol on his lap. The gun went off, shot himself in the leg, shattered his femur, hit a tree and that was all she wrote

A guy I was friends with in middle and high school is set to be executed in February. He arranged the murder of his family for insurance money.

Lot of these are instant death. Slowly dieing for years sucks waaaayyyy worst.


Cancer
Alzheimers
Heart Disease
Parapalegics that have to have someone care for them

I'd have to say my mother. She was killed in a car accident along with my father and uncle. The three of them were traveling down Whitney Mountain in north Alabama when they had a blow out, lost control, and went over the side which was several hundred feet down. My uncle was driving. He was killed instantly when the roof crushed down on top of him. My father was in the front passenger seat. He was killed when he was thrown halfway out and the car landed on top of him. Basically his entire body above the waste was crushed and ripped apart. He likewise died almost instantaneously. My mother on the other hand, sitting in the back seat was not killed instantly or even on the way down as the car tumbled to the bottom. Instead she was trapped in the car bleeding to death from internal injuries. The accident happened around 1:00 AM and they were not found until the next moring about 7:00 AM. She was still warm when they found her so she had to sit in that car for like six hours with the mutilated corpses of her husband and only brother waiting for her own turn to die.

I've always wondered what was going through her mind during those hours. That's always haunted me.

That's a tough one fella - sorry for your loss.

Ed Truck?

I knew an ambulance driver (EMT) who worked next to a hospital and saw an elderly lady walking towards her car from the hospital. It was an extremely windy day, and she was struggling to walk in it.

He went out to meet her to escort her to her car, which was parked next to a metal portable building. Right after she got in her car, the metal building tipped over off its blocks, pinning him against the car. He lived until they got the building off of him, and he died seconds afterwards.

Nice guy. In high school, I dated a sweet girl that would become his wife. Still bothers me that she has to live with that incident.