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Some friends and I we're discussing this during another tediously long english class.

Would you rather burn to death or freeze to death?

I'd go for burn to death as I have a feeling the pain wouldn't last as long and **** that shit you call cold.

If you froze while in deep sleep it wouldn't be painful I would think. You can't sleep through being on fire.

No doubt freezing would be less "painful", it might take longer depending on either situation, but still less excruciating pain. Burning to death is pretty nasty. I'm a part time fire fighter and I've went into houses where the occupants had fallen asleep and got cooked by the flames... It's disgusting..

I've heard that extreme cold makes you feel like you're burning. I'd go for freeze to death none the less.

Freeze obviously. You'll be unconscious way before you die, burning has fun side effects like the fire creating a low pressure system surrounding your body and the air in your lungs is relatively high pressure, so as your screaming the high pressure system wants to get out and your lungs explode. Of course you can stay conscious with an exploded lung for almost a full minute. If your lucky the shock from your lung exploding will put you out though.

@above Temperature censors on your skin doesn't actually know the difference between hot and cold, just magnitude. Your brain assigns hot or cold depending on context. It's why sometimes getting burned feels like your hand is freezing and putting your hand in ice for a full minute has a burning sensation.

With extreme cold you would get tired and fall asleep, then die in your sleep.

I would expect it to be similar to having a high fever or going to bed drunk.

Freeze. Then again, it depends how quickly your body dips into hypothermia. I can simply fall asleep and die right there. Burning is much more agonizing and a whole 2 minutes burning would feel more like hours.

I'd go with being frozen. So then I could be thawed.

lol @ OP.

Yeah, Freezing makes all your body sleep until the point you don't feel anything and then puts you to "sleep".

Goddamn, in what world is burning to death less painful than freezing to death?? I've read stories about how old inuit people just walk away into the icy plains and keep walking until they're tired, then sit down and die peacefully instead of rotting away in their camps. The way they spoke about it it seemed pretty ok actually.

Although suicide rates among Inuit seem high, I can't seem to find a website backing up my story at the moment, so I guess you can take it with a grain of salt.

How bout getting frozen like this?

Frozen. Burning to death has to be one of the worst ways to die.

Seriously how would you put yourself in such a situation anyway ?

I'd rather die of natural causes!.. lulz

I'd choose Lightning. That's way faster and not much pain.
But I think Elecricution>Freeze>Burn.

This thread has some serious emo potential btw..

Here some other choices:
- bleed to death
- rotten (by virus) to death
- starving

More:
-Drowning
-Eaten by a zombie
-Long periods of time on Crocodile drug

- Having your blood sucked out

Zulu impalement

^ What the hell? That Is "Absolutely Insane"

Maybe u should discuss topics like living in a hot place or a cold place instead of thinking how u would die.

Make a topic about it then.

It's not really the same.

I'd rather die cold, heat annoys me.