• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At some point it will probably reach a limit where one needs to be unusually susceptible to pain to die an even more painful death.

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      That’s assuming all the pain happens within a given span of time. As long as we can keep lengthening human lifespans, the length of a painful death can keep stretching out.

      To be clear, I’m not happy about this thought, I’ve just thought about the worst ways to die a lot more than is healthy.

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        1 year ago

        Well, the topic is horrible but since we are already at it why not just get it done with?

        Would a too prolonged suffering count as a painful death if the person is not dying for most of it? Many people live with chronic pains but I wouldn’t count that.

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            But for that they would need to be increasingly weakened without the chance to recover, and there is only so far that can be pushed. If it’s just prolonged torture that doesn’t make the person any closer to death, then it’s just torture.

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              Who’s to say they couldn’t be allowed to partially recover? What is somebody sanded off 2mm of skin, rotating locations such that they only hit the same spot every 3 days, for instance? This type of permanently damaging long-term torture could be made to drag on for years and steadily march the victim towards death.