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[Frumple]

It's about dying from the feet up. Y'know, losing sensation from the extremities and it working its way inward then upward.

... if it makes you feel any better, siru, that's actually how a fair amount of deaths work. You lose sensation in the outer bits first, and then it works its way in before you die.

Which probably doesn't make you feel any better but eh.

[Eric Blank]

Spoiler: a very bad reason (click to show/hide)

Because you want to imagine what it feels like to be fed into a woodchipper feet first?

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler: a very bad reason (click to show/hide)

Because you want to imagine what it feels like to be fed into a woodchipper feet first?

Hmm, it you did it fast enough, it wouldn't hurt very much and would likely be fairly comical.

[Orange Wizard]

How the hell is someone going through a wood chipper in any way comical?

I mean, sure, it's fairly absurd, and could certainly work as a punchline in some circumstance that I have yet to imagine, but on its own? What are you, a sadist?

[BlackFlyme]

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Could be worse. At least it would be over quicker than some other ways.

[Eric Blank]

Hmm, it you did it fast enough, it wouldn't hurt very much and would likely be fairly comical.

I... No, sorry, even I can't find the comedy in that. Probably because reality beat you to the punchline, and it sucks.

And it would probably be horrendously painful regardless. If its not instantaneous, its every nerve in your body firing off the OH FUCK signals in rapid succession.

[hops]

Now I wonder what being vaporized would feel like.

[Harry Baldman]

Now I wonder what being vaporized would feel like.

It probably depends on how quick it happens and whether your neurons have time to let loose a signal that something is wrong. It'd probably be less painful than being dissolved, all things considered. Bits of you would just go missing at a certain rate.

[Amperzand]

I mean, the most obvious example, a direct nuclear strike, would kill you within microseconds of detonation. Your conscious mind couldn't react fast enough to notice what was happening before you, and every solid thing within a large area, became high-velocity vapor heated to several times the sun's surface temperature. You'd probably see the flash, though.

[Loud Whispers]

I have a new fear now 

Isn't that just a regular fear of death?

[Lord Shonus]

I mean, the most obvious example, a direct nuclear strike, would kill you within microseconds of detonation. Your conscious mind couldn't react fast enough to notice what was happening before you, and every solid thing within a large area, became high-velocity vapor heated to several times the sun's surface temperature. You'd probably see the flash, though.

Nanoseconds, not microseconds. You wouldn't see the flash, because the thermal pulse would hit you at the same time the flash did, and you'd be ash before the signal would have time to travel from your eyes to your brain.

[Calidovi]

I mean, the most obvious example, a direct nuclear strike, would kill you within microseconds of detonation. Your conscious mind couldn't react fast enough to notice what was happening before you, and every solid thing within a large area, became high-velocity vapor heated to several times the sun's surface temperature. You'd probably see the flash, though.

Anywhere outside that direct radius, you die slowly. Perhaps even melting.

[Arx]

I mean, the most obvious example, a direct nuclear strike, would kill you within microseconds of detonation. Your conscious mind couldn't react fast enough to notice what was happening before you, and every solid thing within a large area, became high-velocity vapor heated to several times the sun's surface temperature. You'd probably see the flash, though.

Anywhere outside that direct radius, you die slowly. Perhaps even melting.

You are melting!
You are melting!
You are melting!
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I think those are the colours DF uses, anyway.

[Loud Whispers]

Nanoseconds, not microseconds. You wouldn't see the flash, because the thermal pulse would hit you at the same time the flash did, and you'd be ash before the signal would have time to travel from your eyes to your brain.

Not quite ash, the ones killed by the flash turn into these weird carbon statues of the people they once were.

I mean, the most obvious example, a direct nuclear strike, would kill you within microseconds of detonation. Your conscious mind couldn't react fast enough to notice what was happening before you, and every solid thing within a large area, became high-velocity vapor heated to several times the sun's surface temperature. You'd probably see the flash, though.

Anywhere outside that direct radius, you die slowly. Perhaps even melting.

Immediate radiation death would be tolerably quick

[Tawa]

Now I wonder what being vaporized would feel like.

"TOO LATE" and the isotope hit quarterlife and teh room was slowly become vaporize.

I have a new fear now 

Doesn't seem particularly horrifying to me.