Science Has Finally Determined The Most Gruesome Ways To Die
If you want to survive in a plummeting elevator, the standard advice is to lie down on your back flat on the floor. This action spreads the G-force out evenly across more of your body, making it more likely you'll live through the process. But let's say you didn't do this. What would happen?
The answer is nothing less than stomach-turning. If you are still standing at the moment of impact, your internal organs may try to keep moving, despite the rest of your body not following suit. Because of this, your organs could tear out from the bottom of your body all at once, and your limbs may break under the impact. Your head, however, would remain farthest away from the bottom of the elevator, meaning you may survive long enough to see your insides make their way outside (if your brain isn't destroyed by the fall, too).
If you've never heard of scaphism, then buckle in, because you're in for a spine-chilling ride. It was an intricate torture method once used by the Persians. First, they would stuff you in a hollowed-out tree trunk between a pair of boats, with your head and feet protruding from either end of the hollow log. Then they'd force-feed you milk and honey.
This doesn't sound so bad, but they'd do it until you're almost bursting - yes, it involved terrible diarrhea. Next, they would pour more milk and honey all over you, including into your eyes, mouth, and sometimes genitals. But this isn't what would kill you.
Instead, the milk and honey attracted insects, which would turn you into their home so they could lay eggs. And when the babies hatched, they'd need food - and, luckily for them, they'd have you right there as a readily available snack. The insects and larvae would then burrow into your skin and eat your flesh - and chances are you'd stay awake for a lot of it.
In the end, the lucky ones die from dehydration, starvation, or exhaustion; however, you also might die from septic shock, as your blood may become highly toxic to you.
One of many inventive forms of punishment doled out in Ancient Rome is the act of sewing the victim into a donkey and letting them roast in the hot sun. Roman authors Lucian and Apuleius describe the torment with Apuleius commenting that you would be sewn into the donkey with just your head free and placed in the open sunlight, allowing the animal to rot with you inside.
As a note, Lucian added that you would be deprived of food and water, attached to the scent of the rotting animal, and unable to end your own suffering.
Being Crucified
Crucifixion was formerly a common method of punishment and remains a painful way to die. Not only would you get nailed to a cross through your soft tissues, but you'd face the hot sun, naked, bleeding, and alone. But, no, this isn't what kills you.
Once your body has lost the strength to hold itself up, you'd end up hanging by your hands or wrists on the cross. This would hurt tremendously and begin to take a toll on your chest, shoulders, and lungs. Eventually, the weight of your hanging body would pull your arms out of their sockets and make it challenging to breathe.
It would continue as a slow, painful death, as you'd gradually build up carbon dioxide levels in your body. After a few days, you'd finally die from suffocation.
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