Can you think of a worse method of death than crucifixion?

Question

I'll bet you can....

Answer 1

Personally, I would think burning at the stake would be far worse.

Just imagine as that fire slowly heats up, and your toes start searing off, then the heat would slowly rise up your legs, etc...

But I suppose if it was done in the name of Jesus... that would make it okay.

Answer 2

The Romans chose crucifixion because it's a slow and very painful death. It wasnt uncommon for people to stay alive for days.

To give yourself a bit of an idea what it's like, try this exercise. Hold your arms out away from your body. After a short while you'll feel fatigue in your arms and have to drop them to your side. Well if you're crucified you dont want to drop your arms because you have a railroad spike through your wrist and the weight of your arms pulling on the nails would cause unspeakable pain.

Answer 3

My fave: IMPALEMENT!

"Impalement is an act of torture and/or execution whereby the victim is pierced by a long stake. The penetration can be through the sides, from the rectum, or possibly through the mouth. The stake would be usually planted in the ground, leaving the victim hanging to die.

In some forms of impalement, the stake would be inserted so as to avoid immediate death, and would function as a plug to prevent blood loss — thus extending the victim's agony for many hours. One way to achieve this gradual death is to insert the stake through the rectum deep into the body of the victim until it left the body near the right shoulder, thus avoiding damaging the heart."

Humans... Man we have this war / pain / killing thing down pretty well don't we!

Answer 4

Not the point. Jesus' death was humiliating and cruel, one of the worst forms of execution in its day. Of course, as "Saviour of the World", he inadvertently set the bar. Torture fans have had 2000 years of technological and psychological development to top it.

If the big guy had to do a refresher redemption, he'd probably have to study a raft of tough-guy Hollywood films before he'd learn how to impress anyone. Actually, the worst types of death, famine, disease, exposure and the like, are too boring to impress people using just one person. He did the best he could. He can't help it if time moves on.

Answer 5

Being burned at the stake, trapped six feet under in a coffin. Crucifixion still ranks pretty high though.

Answer 6

sure...all though at some point it all becomes relative.
They saddam hussein fed people into a wood chipper. That would suck.
Some babies are born with a skin condition in which their bare skin seems to blister and burn just by exposure to air. Probably nothing would be more painful than that, and they always die of overwhelming infection.
Of course, being eaten alive by an animal would really suck too, although hopefully that, at least, would be brief.

Answer 7

Death by booga booga. Or maybe you've heard it called unga bunga.

Two british adventurer’s were walking through a vast jungle in Africa. They get lost and soon find themselves captured by a tribe of natives. The leader of the tribe says to the tied up men "You have two options. Death, or unga bunga. Choose now." The first explorer says to the leader "I geuss..I’ll take unga bunga." So they untie the first explorer and strip him naked and bend him over. Then every man in the village gathers around and rapes him with their spears. This goes on for hours until he is quivering, lying in a pool of his own blood. The leader looks to the second explorer and says "Which do you choose, death or unga bunga?" The second explorer responds "I’m not stupid! I’ll take death!" So the tribe leader then says "OK! Death by unga bunga."

Answer 8

Being forced to sit through a Britney Spears concert. I would endure the agony for so long then take my own life.

Answer 9

The point of the crucifixion is not that it is the most horrendous death imaginable; the point is that in the Cross, God irrevocably identifies himself with human beings in their suffering.

Answer 10

Muslims believe in Flaying and boiling one in oil , while alive for being an infidel or beheading, which ever is more convenient. Flaying is the removal of ones skin while alive.