Short of death...

[MrScorpio]

If the worst thing in the world that would happen to you ACTUALLY happened, what would that thing be?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. To be captured and tortured for decades. That's about the worst thing I can think of.

Especially if the torture involves drilling into my teeth or cutting off my testicles, penis, or limbs with a chainsaw.

[MrScorpio]

2. I think death is inevitable after that ordeal

Can you think of something that's a little less Saw IV?

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. No, there are ways to torture people and keep them alive for a long, long time.

For whatever reason, that is one of my bigger fears - being helpless, alone, and forced to endure great pain just because one's capturer is a sadistic shitbag.

You asked what do I think is worth is death - this is one of them. Actually, many things are worse than death. Death is merely a doorway into another journey. But pain, loss of face or loss of name, illness, mindlessness, confinement, denial of happiness, even denial of the release of death; these are all far worse than death.

[siligut]

30. The old adage, "If it doesn't kill me, it can only make me stronger.", just doesn't work.

Some things can make life not worth living. People who have never experienced such a psychological or physical trauma, don't have any reference to pull from.

[Call Me Wesley]

6. Is it safe?

Is it safe?

[rug]

13. You've given this some thought.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Having dealt with human suffering for many years, as well as knowing a torture victim,

forced suffering is oft on my mind.

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. Or the capture and torture for decades of my loved ones. Especially if I had to watch.

[Ryano42]

3. Forced to live in a room...

perfect temp, food, whatever is needed to survive...

outside a record player set full volume has this 45 on it...and the arm on the record player is in CONTINUOUS PLAY MODE!!! :scared:

The 45 record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiljGtFlvM

In short order I would welcome death.

[MrScorpio]

4. For me, it was be Celine Dion

It happened at work and the CD was on my boss's CD player... While she was out of her office for most of the day.

it wasn't pretty.

[snagglepuss]

42. She'd be next on my list after Stefan Grapelli.

That guy drives me insane.

[Crystal Clarity]

16. Oh man...

That damn song has been an ever-present earworm for me ever since the "things you remember about 1979 thread" several weeks ago. It's only recently gone away. Until now. :spank:

I agree. That scenario would be torture! :scared:

[ChoralScholar]

21. Could be worse -

It could be that 'Istanbul and Constantinople" song....

[sakabatou]

26. Could be Barney's "I Love You" song

[HopeHoops]

5. Well, I would say "running out of beer" except for ONE minor detail.

I'M OUT OF FUCKING BEER!!!!!

[RandomThoughts]

9. LOL, I haven't had beer money in months.

It is pretty funny and still serious.

[HopeHoops]

12. Beer money? Look under the fucking sofa!

[RandomThoughts]

17. Why would there be beer money there?

[HopeHoops]

20. There's usually lost change in/under a sofa.

[The2ndWheel]

7. Clocks

Calendars. Directions on a map. Maps. Roads.

Frankly I don't know how I make it through the day.

[RandomThoughts]

8. Anything not acceptable is the same situation.

What is the worst? any situation not acceptable.

:shrug: so it can only get better.

[nolabear]

10. I'm having a totally superstitious response to this question.

I'm fascinated by how much I don't want to say, as if it can be called like a dog just by saying it. It's the oldest form of superstition, the Evil Eye, the jealous gods, etc. 'Scuse me while I go knock on wood.

[Chan790]

11. It's happened.

I'm being compelled under threat of suit for breach of contract to live in a crappy apartment with 2 squatters.

One of whom speaks no English, cooks stinky meat in my cookware (so I started hiding my cookware and she took some out of the drying rack and hid it right back on me so I can't deny her use of MY pots and pans), never leaves, walks around her bathrobe all the time, monopolizes the TV, stole my toothbrush and tells me off in her weird Slavic tongue.

The other is my landlord and he was supposed to move out when I moved in...never happened. He decided to stay in the US and bring his mom to visit for a few weeks...4 months ago.

[Amaril]

27. WTF?

Sounds to me like HE is the one who has breached the contract. Have you talked to a lawyer (or the local housing board) about this situation? No way is it acceptable for rent-paying tenant to be expected to live with such nonsense.

(I fucking hate landlords)

[Chan790]

32. He is a laywer...and a damned fine one.

That would be the problem. We have no contract, we have a verbal agreement and he's resident in the unit...ergo I'm a boarder and have no rights.

[Amaril]

33. Then how does he propose to sue you......

....for breach of contract if there is no written agreement?

[Chan790]

34. I am neither certain or willing to find out n/t

[jobycom]

39. He can't.

You have at best a month-to-month lease, by virtue of you living there and paying him money. That means each month you pay, a month long lease is created for the month you have paid for--that prevents him throwing you out once you've paid, and it prevents you asking for a portion of the rent back, but that's all it means. To break it, just give him a written notice that you are moving out, or just move out without paying for the next month, and there is no more lease. He won't sue if he's a good attorney because he'll lose and he'll look like an idiot. If he does, just show up and say "I never signed a lease." Say nothing else, and it will all be up to him to prove. And don't say anything in the note except "I am moving out on X date." Don't explain, because any explanation can be made to sound like you are breaking a lease. The only thing that would even demonstrate that you had a month to month lease would be your payments.

Every contract has to have an end to be valid. Since you have no signed document saying "I agree to stay until such and such a date," there is no contract, except an implied month-to-month contract, if that. He can't simply claim you must live there forever or until he decides to kick you out. If there is no document he can produce in court with your signature saying you cannot move out before a certain date, then there is just no contract. He's just bluffing you.

The only down side would be what to say to your next landlord, who will want a reference. I'd say just skip the current landlord altogether, and if asked about current conditions, say you have no current lease, and are staying with an acquaintance.

[Lyric]

14. Having to watch my little boy be tortured.

I'm pretty sure I'd either have a heart attack or just go insane.

[quakerboy]

15. Think

Cap'n Jack Harkness. Unable to die. Then buried under the city for centuries. Or later, to be entombed in concrete, though that did not last long.

Never ending lack of stimuli. That's right up at the top of my list. There are others as bad, but much more mundane.

[LeftinOH]

22. Imprisoned for something I (really) didn't do. n/t

[Bucky]

23. To be alone in a crowd; to be unloved, yet surrounded by people. Or to have my fingers cut off.

Kind of a toss up, really. Either no love or no fingers. I mean, if you don't have love, you still have fingers enough to love yourself. But if you don't have fingers, all the love in the world won't help you type an angry letter to President Palin next year.

[Arugula Latte]

24. To me, personally, it would be to be totally paralyzed.

I have a deep, deep fear of that.

[rrneck]

25. Blindness

[Bertha Venation]

28. homelessness

[Lucian]

29. This info is something I just don't share with anyone.

You never know when it can be used against you.

[Deep13]

31. Well that question let the air out of the room. nt

[Odin2005]

35. Alzheimers or Huntington's

[Tuesday Afternoon]

36. endless days of hopelessness.

oh wait.

[snagglepuss]

41. LOL

:thumbsup:

[kimi]

37. Seriously

Any of my 5 boys dying or suffering unto death.

It would devastate me. I've seen them suffer, as every parent has seen with their kids, with illness, injury, and such. But if one of them were killed, or murdered, or tortured, I don't know how I'd handle it.

Become a psychotic raging out-of-control vengeance-seeking murderer, ala-"Dexter", I suppose. Although I hate that thought, it's a dilemma. Hmmm.

But honestly, I could see it happening. Sarah Palin, you have NUTHIN on MY mama grizzly instincts, bee-yotch.

[In_The_Wind]

40. Being trapped in a disabled body,

unable to care for myself or leave my home.

I was very close to that for 7 years before I joined DU. x(