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Worst disease to die from

What do you think would be the worst disease to die from?


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What do you think would be the worst disease to die from?
 
Cancer. Ugly, ugly way to die.

If I had to choose from the list, I'd say Smallpox, the bad version Variola Major. In extreme cases your guts come out your rectum, or your skin turns black and sloughs off. I saw some pics of people dying of late stage variola major, and the suffering on their faces was really horrifying.

On the bright side, I'll probably be shot or hung before I get a chance to die of natural causes...:mrgreen:

G.
 
I'd say ebola, your organs disintegrate and you bleed from your pores, yikes.:shock:
 
I'd say ebola, your organs disintegrate and you bleed from your pores, yikes.:shock:

At least it's quick. There are plenty of hereditary diseases which we have no cure which prolong large amounts of pain for years on end.

Personally, I'd rather suffer and die quickly then suffer for years on end and then die.
 
Leprosy....my body parts are falling off of me...

I'm half the man I used to be, oh I beleeeve in leprosy...

(sung to the tune of "Yesterday", by the Beatles)

(Actually, ALS is the worst)
 
The one that turns people into zombies. One should be able to get some rest when they die.
 
At least it's quick. There are plenty of hereditary diseases which we have no cure which prolong large amounts of pain for years on end.

Personally, I'd rather suffer and die quickly then suffer for years on end and then die.
I dunno, intense pain, even quickly is still pretty bad, I would think the agony alone would make time seem to pass much slower.
 
That disease that makes you think bugs are under your skin. I think scratching yourself to death would be pretty brutal.
 
A good friend of my brothers in Wausau Wisconsin who owns "Toxic Choppers" which is a custom motorcycle shop cut his foot swimming. He thought nothing of it and treated it like all his other cuts and wounds. (Not at all). While walking barefoot in the woods he got it infected with the first known case in Wis. A flesh eating disease started to eat its way from the wound and quickly up the leg! Soon the doctors who never seen an infection like this before were debating and actually arguing about how they better amputate his leg! Luckily for him one doctor did some quick research and made a command decision to cut the skin away. The flesh eating disease was only on the skin and a graph was all that ended up being needed! He almost lost his leg over this! kinda makes a person think.

Ever since seeing his scars, his personal photos of the wound and the newspaper headlines, etc. I now always clean and protect my cuts!.......
 
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I really haven't a clue (I've died from almost none of this diseases), but botulism is the most fun to say, so I chose that one.


Duke
 
Boredom is probably the worst.
 
"Ondine's Curse"

I was around in Nigeria during outbreaks of Ebola virus and from what I heard it is horrifically painful, it's like extreme torture except you just don't get desensitised to the pain until you die.

Ondine's Curse is a worse prospect for me to contemplate simply because you have to in the worst cases simply remind yourself to breath. At any moment your body is capable of forgetting to inhale, you can imagine brain death by slow interminable degrees as you continue throughout your life to starve your brain of oxygen.
 
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