Worst Deaths

I think the worst death I known is that of Yuan Chonghuan in which he was sentence to death by what is known as the "death by a thousand cuts" thats basically slice over your limbs and muscle from your body as much as one may bare before dieing. It was said that the locals would all gather to his execution and buy his dead parts to eat. It was a cruel death for one of the most brilliant general in Chinese history.

His death was cause by corrupt officials in the government during a time when China was about to break down under the Ming Dynasty. At the time Yuan Chonghuan was the only person able to hold back the Manchus from taking over China and his prolonged war against the Manchus give the excuse of the officials in the government to denounce Yuan as a traitor to the emperor by using too much of their resources to fight against the Manchus and for alleged collaboration with the enemy. What a tragic story.

Originally posted by Kamikaze 738 I think the worst death I known is that of Yuan Chonghuan in which he was sentence to death by what is known as the "death by a thousand cuts" thats basically slice over your limbs and muscle from your body as much as one may bare before dieing. It was said that the locals would all gather to his execution and buy his dead parts to eat. It was a cruel death for one of the most brilliant general in Chinese history. His death was cause by corrupt officials in the government during a time when China was about to break down under the Ming Dynasty. At the time Yuan Chonghuan was the only person able to hold back the Manchus from taking over China and his prolonged war against the Manchus give the excuse of the officials in the government to denounce Yuan as a traitor to the emperor by using too much of their resources to fight against the Manchus and for alleged collaboration with the enemy. What a tragic story.

Originally posted by Penelope Wow, that one really freaked me out. Just to think that the audience ate him afterwards is extremely creepy.

Yea, its creepy and disgusting... imagine if someone ate the um.. part that guy use... sick And how did Eduard II died?


Edited by Kamikaze 738 - 19-Aug-2007 at 21:15

How about the apostle Paul in the Bible being sawn in half...starting at the feet!  OUCH!  Or some of the western homesteaders in America that had their skin peeled off by the Native tribes, covered in honey and them devoured by FIRE ANTS!  OUCH!!!

I would have to say that being hung by one's testicles would have to rank as one of the worst ways to die. Naturally one didn`t die right away, but once the individual became separated from their genitals death from blood loss did set in rather quickly.

I would go with Franz Reichelt, an Austrian aviation pioneer who had designed a kind of trenchcoat parachute, and decided to test it by jumping off the Eiffel Tower... with obvious results.

In Bosnia, I heard stories of men being used as landmines. The Croats, according to Anthony Loyd (My War Gone By, I Miss it So, and great-grandson of Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart, the most decorated of all British war heroes), used to capture Bosnian soldiers, strap them to claymore mines, and then tell them to walk back to their trenches, at gunpoint. The Bosnians in question had to face either the fact of being shot in the legs and arms repeatedly and killed with extreme pain, or to walk towards their comrades in hopes that they would recognize the threat and then kill them quickly. It seemed worst to me for the Bosnian (BiH) soldiers still in the trenches: to kill your comrades, or to wait for the enemy to detonate the claymores, blowing them to tiny pieces. Plus, the realization that even if they killed them quickly and painlessly, that the enemy still might detonate the bombs and blow their comrades' bodies to pieces unfit for burial... tragic; a death hat is worse on the living than it is on the dead.
Cheers.
BJC

In the history of Ottoman Empire, Othman II definetely.

I haven't heard anything about the gory deaths of the Indians. Do the Indians ever killed anyone ruthlessly (natives mind you)