This isn’t a masochism thing by any means.
Personally I’d like to spend my last moments as a conscious being feeling EVERYTHING that’s going on cranked up on max.
Consider it a final hurrah of being a human.
Not knowing what happens after life is enough of a reason for it imo
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You’re not gonna be enjoying that in the moment
Interesting that’s kinda understandable I suppose
What’s the worst thing you’ve experienced so far in life? Physical and otherwise
OK, Karma, Jest-a-clown ordered one death by bear mauling.
Tell me you’ve never felt immense amount of pain before. Life’s not an anime
Spoken like someone who hasn’t considered being folded in half in a 50 gal oil drum.
You have clearly never had pain at level 11.
I’m glad your life has been so cushy thus far, but be careful what you wish for 😬
You’re not going to remember the agony, appreciate the feeling of truly being alive, take pleasure in the way you went out.
Hope for more peace and less pain.
Hmm interesting opinion I guess. You’ve probably never experienced intense pain before so why not experience it when nothing is going to matter soon after? Fair enough.
Someone has never had food poisoning and kidney stones at the same time.
Easy to say when it’s not happening to you and you are safe and ok. I guarantee you would be regretting it in the moment. You would be begging for the pain to end and wishing it wasn’t horrible.
This is one of the first unpopular opinions where I’ve genuinely been like yeah.. that’s going to be an unpopular opinion.
Good job on that and for giving me probably the only opportunity in my life to wish someone a painful death without feeling like an AH.
Nah, I would wanna go out in a final last stand, a blaze of glory where I slowly bleed out as I take on swarms of terminids. I’d hold them off as my fellow Hell divers evacuate. I would then crawl and lay under a tree and take a drag of my cigarette as I slowly lose consciousness from blood loose and die.
I would be happy to die knowing I sacrificed myself for freedom, liberty and democracy!
I was just scrolling past real quick, and I gotta say I read masochist as misogynist. I was like
I have had this exact thought.
Theoretically, you want as much out of life as you can. Philosophically or whatever.
If that means extending your painful death to experience the full spectrum of pain, then yes, that is getting more experience out of life than not to do so.
On paper it seems preferable to experience CBT for all eternity rather than nothing at all. In theory or whatever.
Then I burn myself on a pan or stub my toe and abandon the idea entirely, lol.
If you’ve ever watched a human die of cancer you would change your mind.
I sort of agree with your post title but not everything you said afterwards. If I were going to be shot with a gun, I’d rather be shot in the chest than the head. I want just enough time to experience it, and I figure anything that causes instant lack of consciousness is going to take that from me. I certainly wouldn’t want to burn alive or anything like that though. I just want to be aware of my own death, preferably in a not too terribly painful way.
Depends on the death.
Did the cartel catch you and are flaying your face off, while simultaneously pumping drugs in your system to stop anaphylactic shock, and make sure you feel everything?
Or are you dying a natural death?
If it’s a natural death I’m with you, it is what it is. I’m with it for the long haul. If it involves unnecessary torture and inconceivable pain for no reason then no I don’t want that “human experience”. I’ll do my best to make it out alive of whatever situation as most would, but at a certain point the damage becomes fatal regardless, might as well go out sooner than later.
If all there is on the other side is nothing anyways might as well get there sooner, you won’t regret it after all. If you’re religious then you have hope, and that’s fine too maybe you’re right and you cross into an afterlife. The fact there is a life at all atleast supports the idea something else is possible.
Thought provoking post, I like it.
You could’ve chose death by Snu Snu and you’d prefer being burned alive?
“I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD… I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it”
(77m) Jesus, what a crock of shit!
I guess you’ve never had to watch someone die slowly, inch by inch, from terminal cancer? Or gasping for every last breath as they suffocate to death from COPD? Or losing every last vestige of pride or sense of self as dementia eats away at their brain.
I have.
Take it from me. Once you get old enough that you’ve seen many of your friends die horribly? A quick death is at the very top of the menu of end of life preferences.
When my time comes? I want quick and painless. The last thing I want is for my loved ones to watch me suffer and linger.
I remember somebody telling me they’d want to pass away in their sleep and I was like what?
Someone: has a genuine unpopular opinion that isn’t a trendy subject
Everyone: “yeah okay buddy how dare you feel that way”
Would you rather have your skull crushed instantly by a collapsing building, or slowly and excruciatingly crushed by a slowly collapsing building?
Would you rather pass out during a housefire, or lay pinned in agony as your skin bubbles and your fat boils and each breath burns your lungs?
Torture was specialized in drawing out the agony for as long as possible. Go look up the “Bellowing Bull” torture method and have a read.
Still want to stick around for all that appreciating you’d be doing? I think you’d be a little too caught up in the experience of dying to be able to kick back and reflect on it.
Well this IS certainly unpopular lol
Brah I wanna be devoured by an animal. I wanna really really experience death.
As a paramedic believe me..you do not. At all.
You might think you do. But you really, really don’t.
Check out the song Slow Slow Death by Los Campesinos.
I’m actually pretty with you on this. Slow death as you reminisce and make closure with loved ones is the best case scenario.
I remember being 14
Just to be clear, there isn’t always honor in a painful death
It ain’t always like the great movies, dawg
Lol this one is getting an interesting reaction. I kinda get what you mean, life is kind of like collecting experiences you can only have with a living body, I get the idea of wanting your last experience to be something with some intensity. As far as we know you’re about to never feel anything ever again, might as well find out what it feels like to burn to death or something.
I’m exactly the same. We don’t know if we’ll ever be conscious of anything again. I’ll take the agony over the instant lights out.
You give yourself away as someone that hasn’t experienced pain. If you have, you won’t want any more.
I agree with this. It’s kinda fucked but I think it would be an experience like no other. I don’t care if it’s painful or scary. Life is painful and scary. I’ve been through excruciating pain like no other a handful of times so I don’t think it would be too bad. Plus those yummy pre-death brain chemicals make it easier.
I don’t mean the option of a good death or bad death. Just death. Pain or painless since I assumed people would jump to extremes here
Like, not the whole “you have 1 month left, what is it you wanna do” then I do meth and go out on a high type beat
If your goal is to “feel” everything cranked to the max then take some drugs. How does pain = “feeling everything”? You’re only feeling one aspect of what makes you human. Why not pick an aspect that you can actually enjoy
What an awful opinion lmao
I mean feel everything going on in the moment silly billy
careful what you wish for
Drugs? Spoken like a coward mate. Experience things for what they are.
I agree with the spirit of the post. I’m not asking for the most painful end but as long as my mind is still working properly I’d be fine with seeing the end come slowly even if painful. And I’ve watched a lot of people die without it changing that sentiment.
I’m afraid of dementia, TBI, massive stroke, etc than a completely lucid, painful, slow death.
I have a non existent immune system with a skin disease that leaves me unable to walk for weeks sometimes months 🥰
I actually agree. It would be ideal to not unnecessarily suffer, but I don’t want to die quickly or in my sleep. I want to see it coming and know that I’m going to die.
Have you heard of Ivan the Impaler? I guess that’s the kind of death you want if you want to experience it to the max.
Naw man. I wanna pass in my sleep. Peacefully, painlessly.
you got hammered in the comments but I think i understand and agree with your perspective. I fear death a lot but only because I don’t want to quit living. I will give it my all to survive and appreciate the struggle and uncomfortable feelings with enviable death when my time comes.
I don’t agree exactly personally, but I fully respect your logic and have the same reasoning in many situations, but just less extreme. Don’t think the comments judging you for it so heavily are justified, I think its very respectable to want to truly experience life and not just the good parts.
The only way women get thru the pain of childbirth is knowing there’s a baby at the end. There are some deaths that are exponentially worse, and there’s no baby. I think in theory your desire to feel is deeply human, but your (all of our) misunderstanding of how painful pain can be is detached from reality.
A truly unpopular opinion lol
This shows me you’ve never experienced excruciating pain.
but I will say that I understand what your saying in the sense you would rather the time to self reflect on your humanity as you die opposed to the instant boom Gone.
I can honestly see where you’re coming from. I’ve had similar thoughts about “bad trip” drugs like Salvia. We have one opportunity to experience consciousness, why not experience everything there is to offer?
But physical pain is where I’d draw the line, although it would make a death a lot more remarkable
Wow, really??
I agree with the sentiment but not your reasoning.
After seeing way too many long drawn out battles, with Cancer, to the death and the trauma it causes, I thought quick and painless was the way to go.
Then a friend of mines Dad had a massive heart attack one day in the pub and died on the spot. No known history at the time, no clue it was going to happen, not an inclination. Went to watch a football match, then have a pint with the boys and his son after, like any normal Saturday. Then bang, drops. The trauma that caused was so much worse than what I’d experienced.
OP, go have a watch of “Diving into the unknown” just the first half hour of the doco will do it.
Or there are a number of good written accounts.
They might help you change your mind.
If you have to qualify your statement by “it’s not…” then it definitely is
There’s something to this from a processing death perspective. You would at least have the opportunity to come to terms with your death and meet it head on. You would have the opportunity to say the goodbyes you need to say, and get your affairs in order.
Also Near Death Experiences are reported around the world and have scientific documentation. As people die, they report to see departed loved ones and they are filled with a feeling of acceptance. You can attribute that to whatever you want but it happens.
A quick and painless death is what I want every day. Likely gonna have to be neither quick nor painless, unfortunately
Oh we have an edge lord today. Tell me you never seen death without telling me. When my dad was dying from cancer I assure you I was not thinking “please just suffer a little longer” while holding his hand. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Why are people actually falling for this ragebait
Ok sure, not quick and painless. So slow and max pain? Like how slow? Slowly chopping you down? Letting it rot and sepsis setting in? Delusions from so much pain? Getting torn apart but kept alive since you want to feel it? Slow roasted? Broiled? Air fried?
Like how far we going with this?
No thanks nope.
If you’re into horror/thriller, you’d probably enjoy the movie “These Final Hours”.
Brutal and raw Australian apocalyptic movie. It discusses this subject extensively. It’s definitely an emotional hard hitter.
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I feel like you’d change your mind like halfway through the experience lol
I watched my uncle die from congestive heart failure.
He was pretty rough then got an LVAD machine, and that kept him alive and mostly healthy and able to enjoy life for almost a decade.
When the LVAD machine stopped working and the congestive heart failure came back in full force, he was in hospice and his legs were swollen with water he couldn’t walk, he was in pain, he was scared and sad and anxious, unless the morphine was working, in which case he wasn’t experiencing it anyway.
For context, my uncle and my dad were(is for my dad, he’s still here) Ron Swansons. Just what you think of when you think of manly men, warm with the people they love, but I’d only ever seen them cry on two occasions: when my grandma, their mom, died and when my uncle was dying. There’s maybe a couple of other times where I could tell they sad… but they lived their lives as very stoic men.
I wouldn’t wish the person I hate most in the world to go through what my uncle went through in his final days, and I certainly wish the people who love that person to experience what we all went through during his final days.
Fighting cancer, or age, or some disease with a bad prognosis is all well and good if you can still find some enjoyment in life while you’re doing it.
But, once you enter the hospice phase where it’s a sure thing and you’re just painfully and anxiously waiting for your body to give out, and your loved are wiping your ass and giving you sponge baths while holding back tears… yeah, give me quick and painless at that point.
Ok. I have a tiny buzz, but I think I know what you mean. Even if I disagree. Like, if that’s going to be the last thing you’re ever going to feel consciously, and you’re truly never going to feel anything after that, why not throw it all to the wind.
Or maybe Pinot Grigio is talking. Who knows
Edit for missing a word
I don’t think you’ll be that lucky. You’re the evolutionary result of a billion years of death. If there’s one thing that life knows, it’s how to die. From accounts that I’ve run across, it appears the body goes into shock, unconsciousness, or other disassociated states that would render a crystal-clear experience unlikely.
no no i see your point . i wouldn’t want it personally because im a huge wimp and i never want to experience pain like that at all, but i see the appeal of getting to experience the ultimate apex of human pain. and then never having to deal with that or remember it because you’ll be dead. its like scientific curiosity no?
No you don’t. You think you do. But you don’t. Cause your brain turns things off for you during death so you can’t feel everything.
I get it, I want to know when it happens just for the sake of the knowledge, even if it’s actually gone after. I don’t want it to be long, though, or particularly painful.
Good, now go do some community work at chernobyl
As someone who’s experienced true heartbreak, I agree.
“Welcome to the afterlife, where we take the last moment you experienced, usually being surrounded by loved ones, and make you experience it for the rest of eternity… let’s take a look at your file…
..oh dude you’re gonna hate what I’m about to tell you.”
I want to go out like my parents. Like everything they faced in their lives they did it with courage and humor. My Dad was a Marine in WWII and Mom was an Army nurse. After the war they married and ran a farm for over 50 years. Only time I ever saw them upset about anything is after a hail storm when they lost what would have been a bumper crop. Dad made it to 88, Mom 92.
You do not.
I have a theory that reincarnation is a thing, and the more painful or traumatic your end is, the more of your old self you retain in your new life.
you.. are definitely a masochist.. don’t even deny ts.
Bro’s life is all sunshine and rainbows. Be careful what you wish for lol
I have been so consistent since I was a child I wanna die being attacked by a massive animal. The weirder the animal the more fun it will be.
I’m under no illusions it will be nice, I’d be submitting myself to undo pain and medical bullshit because a water Buffalo stomped my kidney or something but that’s what I want. Return me to the earth let me get devoured
I would absolutely regret saying this while getting eaten alive because that’s a massive horror but on a fundamental level.., devour me nature
This is truly unpopular!
Bruh, id rather die from heroin. And i don’t want to die from heroin.
I just want to say that I feel that the OP has defended themself well in their responses. I don’t agree with them, but I don’t think the downvotes they’re getting for their opinions are warranted. If anything, this is a truly unpopular opinion and I appreciate the success of it.
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read
Just wait until you get a serious injury or something internally fails. You have no idea the amount of pain you can be in and still be conscious and the doctors tell you you’re fine.
I could be wrong here and I haven’t read everything but I think OP may be misunderstood or poorly communicating.
I feel like OP is trying to articulate that dying instantly is a waste. Aka a head shot.
Compared to being shot multiple times in different areas, then being put down.
I’ve never been shot or stabbed, but most testimonials describe it as a burning feeling, and it’s almost not even registered as you’re in shock. One could consider it a “high” if they didn’t have to experience the pain that was about to be unleashed.
I had a lung collapse from profuse pulmonary embolisms. The pain…I wanted to die for the hour or so I wasn’t on pain medicine. Just extreme misery, and the pain is the only thing you can think about.
You wouldn’t say that if you were on fire.
All you have to do is watch the FunkyTown™️ video to know this is not what you want
This is like when women say they want a natural birth then they are screaming for the epidural at the 11th hour
I feel somewhat similar, though not as extreme. I can pass on the pain, but I want to be cognizant that I am about to die and have an opportunity to accept that. Sure, in the moment, I would probably feel very differently, even if I am not actively panicking… but the idea that I exist, and then I dont, specifically without seeing it coming, really jeeves me out. I can’t really explain it. It could be because I don’t believe in an afterlife, and if this is all that I get, then not having that final moment makes me feel “unfinished”. At the end of the day, it’s irrelevant either way once I am dead.
What does any of it actually matter?
I take it you’ve never watched someone die much less die slow. It fucking sucks. I’m also guessing you haven’t felt anything above a medium amount of pain. I’m not sure where dry socket on top of a tooth infection ranks but I didn’t know I was able to hurt that much. I shocked my body didn’t just shutdown from it. I was hoping at some point I’d find some kind of zen balance with it but no, just excruciating pain that didn’t stop but went up and down from “how am I still conscious” to “I’d rather be on fire.”
ok these are the kind of opinions i come on this subreddit to read
That’s unpopular to me. I’d love to die in my sleep. No clue anything happened. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
You have clearly never experienced true pain before, and most people haven’t, but there is a reason pain is a built-in fear.
What……upvote
This is a very young person statement to make. Heard it a lot in my early twenties. Never hear anything like it in my early forties.
OP thinks he’s a tough guy
Unless someone is purposely making your death painful, most near death experiencers report that they felt very calm and at peace. Before we die our brain releases a huge hit of dmt which means most people should be in a state of euphoria just before death. Either way, I wish you the best of luck OP.
Op, what is the most intense pain you have ever experienced in your life?
28 y/o cancer survivor here; it must be nice to have lived such a sheltered life free of struggle or strife. Hope u got the attention u wanted kiddo
Man I had a really bad ear infection once and that was PLENTY 😭
You should watch Martyrs!
Fuck that. I want to go as quickly as possible. Ever see the aftermath of that airport worker who got sucked into a jet engine? It looked like someone throw 100 lbs of ground beef everywhere. That’s the kind of quick I want, just enough time to think ‘Oh fuc..’ *dead*.
This is a great take.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you probably haven’t experienced a lot of pain, so it’s this romantic idea to you. I’ve had the misfortune of encountering too many gruesome death videos of cartels and stuff, and I can guarantee, there’s nothing “hurrah” to being dismembered, or burned, or any of the other extremely painful methods.
Why would I want to experience extreme trauma right before dying if I could just… Not
This is a funny post because it isnt one of those things you need to experience to understand. When death is imminent and the pain has you screaming and crying, you’d wish it would be over with sooner rather than later. Somehow, op cannot mentally grasp this concept
I’m of the popular opinion on this. Once got choked out while sparring in martial arts – one moment I was aware, the next moment the lights were off and nobody was home. That’s how I want to go out in the end.
When you finally experience pain in your life I want you to think back about this post and have yourself a chuckle
Long and excruciating painful death it is. No take backs.
If you see it coming, you want it to be instant, but being instantly snuffed out with no time to realize what happened to you randomly while going about your day is an incredibly cruel way to die in my opinion. No mental preparation or reflection on your life. Just take one last breath that you don’t even know is your last. No thanks.
From someone who has had a natural childbirth, and kidney stones… I don’t think you understand the amount of pain the human body is capable of experiencing.
I understand the impulse, but the main issue with your logic is that the pain and bodily degradation part of the experience is going to distract from actual conscious slip from the mortal realm. You’ll either go into shock and die in a stupor or be so overwhelmed with pain and terror that you won’t have those precious moments to lucidly reflect on that “final hurrah”. Incidentally, these are all things you can experience without actually dying, so the whole thing is moot.
i personally disagree but i totally get what you’re saying
My mom passed away from Cancer this month, after living in agony every moment of her day for 3 and a half years. In the final weeks, the doctors explained to me the way that she could die, and there were some possibilities that involved alot of bleeding, which would have been very traumatic for any family who were present at the time.
Thankfully, in the end, she went peacefully, and I was with her as she passed over. You have no idea what a rare gift it is to be with your parent in that moment and for it to be calm and gentle.
I understand the sentiment in your opinion, but the reality of death is not always such a clean cut thing, especially when long term illness and suffering is involved. Just giving you another perspective to consider…
As a doctor I congratulate you on achieving a truly silly opinion…
You’re not going to be enjoying that in the moment, are you?
Upvoted for the unpopular opinion, but also you clearly haven’t experienced pain that won’t go away before.
There is a reason chronic pain sufferers become drug addicts or kill themselves to end the pain, because it’s absolute torture. You will 100% change your mind if you are actually dying with no hope of recovery and the pain is drawn out instead of quick.
Good lord I’ve had a slow and painful life, just kill me now when it’s my time. Preferably with euphoria inducing drugs.
Purple sparkle butterfly angel kisses and then fade to peaceful black I swear I would just take a nap that promising.
Be careful what you wish for.