re: What is the most painful/horrible way to die?

The answer is the boats. Let me walk you through it. First you get a guy in a small boat with his head, hands, and feet sticking out and you nail another boat on top of him leaving only those three exposed to the outside elements. Then they nearly drown you in milk and honey, your outside with honey as well, and then they put you in the middle of a hot swamp and let you bask in the sun all day while flies come and consume you laying eggs all over you. Those will eventually get into your gut and start eating you alive from the inside out. And it takes days for this to kill you since your captors try to keep you alive for as long as possible, repeatedly drowning you in milk and honey. One guy lived up to 17 days through this apparently, I’d rather be crucified 10 times over than do the boats once.

The way Kevin Spacey kiled the child molester in SE7EN couldn't have been fun.

Trapped in a tiny space with little breathing room.

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I'm claustrophobic, so for me it is being buried alive. I can't even think about it without it stressing me. What you got?

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What happened to that dude in the Nutty Putty Cave incident.

Prion disease is the scariest thing on the planet.

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Who the hell comes up with this medieval shite?

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Some sick mother fricker had to come up with the Boats. That is a very creatively sick punishment where you have to be really fricked in the head and quite frankly also a genius to come up with.

Eaten by a pack of wild Hyenas.

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Being slowly eaten in the wild.

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Acquaintance of mine was attacked by a brown bear. To hear his story, this is probably far up the chain.

Acute radiation sickness.

Radiation destroys DNA, so it hits the fast replicating cells the hardest. They require a lot of turnover and regeneration to stay together. Once the DNA is gone, they can't regenerate and the tissues just die. These are things like white blood cells, bone marrow, epithelial tissue, and reproductive tissues. Minutes to hours after exposure, your white blood cells are all gone and your bone marrow becomes a watery mush instead of the spongy pinkish red it should be. All your epithelial tissue begins to rot, both inside and out. It can't replicate itself and your white cells are toast, so as it degrades, there are no white cells to clean it away and it just sits there. Rotting. Epithelium lines many organs and pathways in the body, like the lining of your lungs, your digestive tract, your skin, your hair, etc. You cough up the lining of your respiratory system. You vomit and shite out the lining of your digestive tract. Your hair falls out. After a few days, your skin rots and starts to turn black. After a few more days, it rots enough that its connection to your body breaks down and it slides off your body in great big sheets. Your man berries were gone the instant you were irradiated, but that's of no concern because you really don't feel like fricking and, in your state, even Plank Rd. hookers would tell you to take a hike. You ultimately die after days to weeks of agony from one of three main causes. First, there's dehydration because there's nothing to keep fluids in once your skin falls off; You leak to death. Second, you might die from infection because you are literally a living rotting carcass with no white cells to fight off the things that are making you rot. Or third, you might die from organ failure. Even though they don't replicate as fast as epithelial tissue and don't degrade as fast, they DO degrade and eventually, they will die enough to kill you. There are other pleasant immediate causes, too, but those are the fun ones.

Oh, you think you'll just get morphine and be kept comfortable or unconscious the whole time? frickING NOPE! You see, your blood vessels are lined with epithelium and get stupid leaky once that all breaks down, so when you're in the thick of the most fun and gruesome parts of it, there is literally no way to get painkillers into you (unless they're made of lead); Your digestive tract doesn't work anymore because you ejected its lining out of both ends and your blood vessels are so leaky that they won't really deliver enough medication across the blood-brain barrier to help. You'd think that maybe the damage would destroy your nerves so you are spared feeling some of this? frickING NOPE! The slowest reproducing tissue in your body is nervous tissue, so it is the last type of tissue to degenerate. You'll die before it really does, so you'll be aware and feeling in some manner the whole time until the very end where you'll mercifully slip into a coma after experiencing all the horror. If you're REALLY lucky, you'll get hit with a dose so high that it shuts your CNS down forever, instantly. As far as I know, the only people who got hit with that kind of dose got blow'd up in the explosion too.

So, yeah. I'm going with Acute Radiation Sickness.

Remember the guy from HBO's "Chernobyl"? That was very accurate. The last time the woman from the Belarus Atomic Energy agency went to interview him, you were supposed to see him as he was just before he died, but what aired was re-edited so you never saw him directly. Because it was too gruesome. For HBO. And it was accurate.

If you really want to see what massive radiation doses large enough to kill, but not to shut down the CNS immediately can do to a person, read up on a guy named Hisashi Ouchi. Very NSFL if you're at all squeamish.

Fire or drowning for me.