re: What would be the worst way to die?

Being crucified.

I've read that after so long, your back begins to break with each breath.

Being eaten alive by anything

Anyone else think there's a remote chance she faked her own death? Did she have a big life insurance policy?

Mostly kidding..

Fire. No doubt.

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Molchanova once dove to a depth of 331 feet and held her breath underwater for more than nine minutes, which makes her disappearance all the more vexing.

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I have no desire to starve my brain of oxygen for this long.

Slow slicing.
Look it up.

I would not enjoy this.

I used a butterfly net to catch a bat that had taken up residence on my back porch, once. Didn't want to whack it for fear of catching something from the carnage and ruining my net, so I filled a five gallon bucket and drowned it.

It wasn't nearly as horrific as you'd think and only took seconds for him to stop moving.

Uptake - lots of worse ways to die than drowning...like lingchi.

Jesse Washington had a rough go of it in Waco, too.

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A chain was placed around his neck and he was dragged toward city hall ... he was stripped, stabbed, and repeatedly beaten with blunt objects. ...at city hall, a group had prepared wood for a bonfire next to a tree in front of the building. Washington...was doused with oil, hung from the tree by a chain, and then lowered to the ground. [The] crowd cut off his fingers, toes, and genitals. The fire was lit and [he] was repeatedly raised and lowered into the flames until he burned to death. ...Washington attempted to climb the chain, but was unable to, owing to his lack of fingers. The fire was extinguished after two hours, allowing bystanders to collect souvenirs from the site of the lynching, including Washington's bones... [and] kept part[s] of Washington's genitalia; ...children snapped the teeth out of Washington's head... By the time that the fire was extinguished, parts of Washington's arms and legs had been burned off and his torso and head were charred. His body was removed from the tree and dragged behind a horse throughout the town.

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And Sam Hose didn't fare much better in Newnan, GA.

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Newspapers reported that Hose's ears, fingers and genitals were severed. The skin from his face was removed and his body was doused with kerosene. He was tied to a tree and burned alive. Some members of the mob cut off pieces of his dead body as souvenirs.

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Wood chipper feet first