What would YOU say are fates 'worse than death'?

[Still-alive]

just toss out things you think are worse than just dying. sorry to get too dark but... yeah some people have a difficult imagination or suck at empathizing lets say...

[Zenpanda]

Permanent crippling pain.
Being in a vegetative state, but being conscious in your mind for the rest of your life, your loved ones never pulling the plug because they love you and have hope you might wake up.
Being a sex slave with no hope of being rescued, making it worse the younger you are taken.
And last but not least (that I can think off at the moment) in my mind I'd rather die than being a pedophile. I couldn't imagine only being attracted to children. Just the thought of going to like a public swimming pool and lusting after a child makes me feel sick to my stomach.

[Syntosi]

Probably the most scary thing I can image is immortality, or "the inability to die" as it is relevant to this question in particular.

I dont care if it is the Christian version of paradise or hell they are both equally terrifying because they are both granting you "immortality". Infinity is far more terrifying than anything quantifiable. 99999999 years in hell is infinitely better than an infinity in paradise.

Immortality is as such the worst fate I could possibly imagine and anything that happens to you, be it good or bad completely pales into insignificance to the sheer terror of "infinity".

[Rosexøxø]

It would either be (encountering/dealing with) any phobia,

the most annoying/aggravating thing, the most tiring thing, or the most painful/torturous thing.

I’m sure any or all of the above could depress a person and sour their spirits. Just something they’d wish to avoid.

[trickykiwi]

Getting a dangerous agonizing disease

Getting kidnapped and/or exploited

Seeing your loved ones suffer and die

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

These people who keep their comatose Mom on life support.

[IslaTheWitch]

being terminally ill... it gets the whole hope away...

or losing people close to you...

anything that will leave you in despair...

[purplepoppy]

Finding all your socks are in the wash apart from 2 odd ones.

Marrying a guy without trying him out only to discover he's only got 5 inches.

[OddBeMe]

1910 in Marrakech a serial killer was walled into the market square to die of…idk, what comes first starvation or thirst?

I’ve read harrowing ordeals in my Holocaust studies of children or babies being killed in front of parents. Some in brutal ways to save bullets.

[electromagnetic]

Hadj Mohammed? My mom told me about him as a kid to scare us from staying out late 😆

[electromagnetic]

https://youtu.be/QI-e21dfCpM?si=a3zSXBk18jjwwrTl

[OddBeMe]

@electromagnetic I do love lazy. I think so. He and his wife killed people i think.

[Caroline91]

Well, for me never getting to take off on flights of fancy again with my dear @FunkyMonkee or get grounded and talk about real life with him in the wee hours when he is won't to cook hamburgers!

[Caroline91]

*won't

[Caroline91]

Damn autocorrect I am sure he knows what word I am trying to type!

[electromagnetic]

Waking up early Monday morning and not seeing a million in your bank account and getting dressed for employment.

[DrPepper12]

Being bored, unchallenged, prohibited from growth or reflection. I would die. Same for no novelty, nothing left to sample the same buffet forever. Kill me now.

[diversethought]

Floating is space from your space station until you dehydrate

Going down on a woman who farts in your face and her JJ smells like a fish died in there

[llorando]

Solitary confinement in a tiny room with no lights or communication to the outside world.

[Cute_Miss_Laura]

Being tortured!