+496 "Scientists state that drowning is the least painful way to die." Well, that's very nice and all but how in god's name do they come up with that research? Do they study people who are drowning and just nod curiously and go, "right, well they look happier than the man who was burning to a crisp last time we checked, so it mustn't hurt too badly," amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

They buy cute little puppies from the pound, and kill them in different way to see what's the least painful way. And then they find the most painful way, and do it over and over.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Is this assuming the person is not sleeping? That's how I'd want to go.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

How on earth are you planning on sleeping through that?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I meant excluding people who die in their sleep. I wanna die in my sleep.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ahhh, I see what you mean now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

64% of dead people surveyed said......

by Anonymous 14 years ago

They could measure brain activity in mice and compare?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It must be an incredible mental pain. You see it coming and you try to fight it,

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Drowning seems terrifying, tbh. You keep gasping for breath, hoping you can somehow escape inevitable death...flailing... I'd probably get an anxiety attack.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think they ask people who are resuscitated after drowning. Apparently it's quite peaceful after you stop fighting it...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I thought dying of old age was pretty painless.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It would be, if it happened overnight, usually you just get worse and worse and have to suffer for weeks if not months before welcoming death. Wow, arent I just charmingly positive today.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, I'm not too sure about this fact and whether it's true, maybe it is if they were comparing natural causes i.e. starvation or overheating. But they CAN measure pain is what I'm arguing. It's not only straight-forward literal experimenting the question -- killing people in this case -- that they can use to find the answer. There are all sorts of creative theories and quite a few technologies that make simple experiments nearly never used. To test an apple falling from a tree, they haven't got to drop it and time it anymore. They can find its weight plus its height and then use formulas to find the exact time without any human error in the timing or anything of the sort.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I feel drowning is like being suffocated. No fun. I'd rather die faster, preferably by jumping/pushed off a really pretty cliff, and then land on my head so my skull is crushed and I'm instantly dead on impact.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Chances are you'll die from a heart attack. Most people die before hitting the ground

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I feel like I'm suffocating just reading some of these comments

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Apparently you have a natural high a little while before you die from drowning, so I guess it could be quite peacefull after you stop struggling.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Given a choice of how I'd like to die, I'd like to be assassinated. After all, regular people are murdered but only really powerful and important people are assassinated. It's kind of status symbol.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Theres... NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

by Anonymous 13 years ago