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8	When [[Series/OneThousandWaysToDie a show]] deals with various deaths, [[NightmareFuel it is bound to enter]] [[NauseaFuel gruesome territory]], and is also one of the most violent TV shows ever created.
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12	* Generally speaking, most slow deaths qualify. While many of the deaths on the show are gruesome, they're usually fairly quick (as a general rule of thumb, if a death isn't instant, it usually takes no more than a few seconds from start to finish, and no more than a minute or two at most). Many of the deaths that take longer than that have the victims usually blissfully unconscious within seconds, or at the very least impaired by drugs or alcohol, reducing their suffering somewhat and not always externally visible. However, some of the victims of the longest deaths aren't nearly as lucky, enduring minutes, hours, days, weeks, or on at least one occasion '''months''' of agony before merciful death sets in. Plus there isn’t a single GoryDiscretionShot.
13	* It's often shown how mundane things can kill you. It does not pull back at showing how ''easily'' can a person sign their own death warrant, often from unexpected causes. Especially when it comes to foods.
14	** "USSR-Dead" has an especially gruesome example. A small group of Russian mafia mobsters are celebrating the newcomer's initiation into the band, so they drink what they presume to be vodka... only for it to turn out to be ''acid'' that was used earlier to burn off the newcomer's fingertips. The reason? [[ScatterbrainedSenior The bartender was senile]], and he didn't realize he had picked up the wrong bottle. [[ToThePain We get to hear the description of what happens to the mobsters]]: their innards dissolve and they die in extreme agony.
15	** In another unexpected example, "Spastic Surgery", a women who had recently undergone gastric bypass dies because of the surgical forceps the surgeon accidentally left inside her. Makes you want to double check yourself at the doctor's don't it?
16	* Any death by asphyxiation qualifies, be it from choking on marshmallows, trying to do tricks with a pool ball or even having a fish jam itself down your throat - even with people around you, there is no guarantee you might be able to survive this.
17	* Any example that has to do with dying to acid. The show really loves diving into [[CruelAndUnusualDeath how slow and painful being drowned in a vat of acid is]] and does not skimp out on the details.
18	* The very first death of the series, "Semi-cide", involves the story of a man who got his lower half separated from his body by a semi while doing repairs to his car at a gas station. The poor man could have lived if the ambulances had not gotten mixed up and sent both halves to the wrong hospitals. And the narrator even says that the poor couple who witnessed this event will be haunted by nightmares of a man being cut in half for the rest of their lives.
19	* "Drunk Die-er": A drunk driver gets into a car accident and is pronounced dead on the scene. Since he registered as an organ donor, he's taken back to the hospital and has his organs removed. The kicker here is that the drunk was never dead; [[AndIMustScream he was alive and just barely conscious enough to watch as his organs were removed from his body]] before finally, ''really'' dying when the doctors remove his heart. ([[FridgeLogic Supposedly.]])
20	* "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead": The story of the insomniac who committed a hit-and-run after months of sleeping problems. He began seeing his victim in his sleep-deprived hallucinations, which in turn made his sleep disorder worse. The cause of his insomnia? An incurable, impossible-to-treat genetic condition called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where the thalamus (the part of the brain responsible for regulating sleep) begins to atrophy and shut down, eventually resulting in the complete loss of the ability to sleep and, inevitably, death. After two months of complete sleeplessness, in which his hallucinations only got worse as time went on, his torment is finally ended by a massive stroke.
21	* "Frightmare" concerns itself with ''literal'' NightmareFuel - a woman suffering from repeated nightmares of a monstrous dwarf who strangles her in her sleep dies from SUNDS[[note]]'''S'''udden '''U'''nexpected '''N'''octurnal '''D'''eath '''S'''yndrome[[/note]], where the heart basically burns itself out over a frightening dream.
22	** The ending is even worse: The dead woman lies there. There is silence making it look like it's all over... but then [[JumpScare the dwarf suddenly jumps up]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and roars at the viewer]], making it [[AmbiguousSituation unclear]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane if the dwarf was actually real or not]]. Good luck sleeping after this one.
23	* "Gasketball" tells the story of two teens who decide it's a good idea to play in a giant helium-filled basketball. At first, it's funny listening to their voices being high-pitched and squeaky...until they begin to suffocate. That's when you're treated to high-pitched choking sounds as the two teens struggle to get out of the ball only to fail since the helium-filled atmosphere has made them disoriented and confused.
24	* "Steward-Death" had a cranky stewardess ''sucked'' out of an airplane. Not only was she still alive as she was falling, but she ''froze'' to death from how high up she was. Her death is shown with one of those [=CGI=] models, but if you listen closely while it shows her falling, you can hear her scream. What's worse is that [[BasedOnATrueStory it really happened]]. In 1988, there was a flight on a now-defunct airline called Aloha Airlines (Flight 243) that suffered extensive damage from explosive decompression while in flight but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui. The only reported fatality was of a stewardess named C.B. Lansing, who died the same way the stewardess in that story did[[note]]though if it's any consolation, analyses of damage and bloodstains on the real-life accident plane imply that when she was sucked out, Lansing's skull was struck hard enough to kill or at least KO her, so she likely wasn't alive[=/=]awake to suffer the terror and freezing-to-death that the fictional stewardess did[[/note]].
25	* "SP-Effed": Word of advice -- [[SchmuckBait don't put on psoriasis cream and then get in a tanning bed for several hours]] (especially if you're a mooch who likes to borrow things from people without asking). The results are not pretty. In the digital recreation, you can hear the girl's skin ''crackling like bacon'' as it burns off.
26	* "Me So Hornet" features a man dying of an allergic reaction to a bee sting. What makes it different from the other victim to die of a bee sting was that he got bumped off by an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet Asian giant hornet]], and those monsters are HUGE! Not an easy death to sit through, especially if you're entomophobic.
27	* "Contact Die": A teenage girl flirts up a science geek into doing her school work. Since the nerd is focusing on the attractive girl chatting him up, he fails to pay adequate attention to the chemistry experiment he is currently working on. The chemicals inside the beaker become so strong that when they waft up, they ''[[EyeScream fuse the girl's contact lenses to her eyeballs]]'' [[EyeScream and make her go blind]]. [[note]]She didn't die from that; she died when she broke her neck after slipping on the school hallway's freshly waxed floor.[[/note]]
28	* "Vats All Folks" has a psychotic cemetery owner who digs up dead bodies and dissolves them in hydrofluoric acid, but tonight he makes two ex-cons do his dirty work. When they realize his intentions, [[EvenEvilHasStandards they say "Hell no!" and bail]]. Here's the scary part, he tries to drag the body in, but trips and falls in the vat himself. As seen in the image above, he gets out, partially melted, and roams around in agony before collapsing and dying (complete with the sound of his skin sizzling as he dies). To make matters worse, one scream in particular sounds like he is ''laughing''.
29	* "Squirreled Away": A taxidermist who enjoys stuffing himself with the animals he stuffs for a living eats the meat of a squirrel that had rabies and contracts it when he eats it raw. For the next four days, he goes insane, screaming, foaming at the mouth, and writhing in bed in pure agony. What's creepier are the shots of the stuffed animals watching the guy die in such a horrific fashion. [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct The actor's performance in particular deserves mention]] as he manages to make what's already a terrifying death even ''more'' horrific and tragic.
30	** And watching the opening for this segment will make you think twice before you visit a taxidermy shop. You will never know what kind of service you're going to get.
31	* "Radioactive-Dead": A Russian spy betrayed his country by selling secrets to the U.S. His former employers kill him by giving him a fatal dose (like 1 teaspoon) of Polonium 210 in his coffee. One month later, he's seen with all his hair gone, his skin green, his body atrophied, and he hardly looks human anymore. He eventually dies of radiation poisoning and his killers get away with it. Probably based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko the Litvinenko case in Great Britain]], only with the effects being sensationalized, as they were in the media at the time.
32	* "Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy" has a nerdy man named Egon with an extreme hatred for bugs who tried turning a wall of his house into a flytrap using a super-strong adhesive he created. Just as Egon finishes turning his wall into a flytrap, a mosquito flies by and annoys him. He began swatting the mosquito only to trip over an adhesive bucket and fall victim to his own trap, leaving him completely immobilized. Two days later, Egon becomes weak, losing his bodily functions, his body beginning to decay, and he cries for help as the beetles he collected to kill and flies make a meal out of his body. A week later, he was nothing more than a rotting, maggot-infested skeleton.
33	* "Vermin-ated" involves a fugitive who escapes some cops by crawling into a pipe. He gets stuck, and [[AintTooProudToBeg eventually starts crying, apologizing, and begging to be taken back to jail]]. He encounters a bunch of rats that ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath eat their way through his brain]], entering it [[EyeScream through his eye]]''. The interviewee even mentions that this is possibly one of the most gruesome deaths there is.
34	* "De-Faced" features an obnoxious husband and father who is warming up his new snowblower in his garage while also getting himself plastered. The hours of letting the machine run, prevention of any fresh air due to keeping the garage door closed, and his own heavy intoxication lead to a dangerous combination that causes the man to pass out into the snow-blower ''face-first'' and ripping it to shreds, complete with a [[GrossUpCloseUp horrifying close up]] of the aftermath.
35	* "Catch and Decease" has a Portuguese man who abused the Brazilians he hired to look for gold in the Amazon ends up with the notorious Candiru Fish swimming into his urethra after he goes into a river to relieve himself. Unfortunately, he decides to rip it out -- [[GroinAttack and his penis along with it]] -- and the massive blood loss attracts piranhas [[StrippedToTheBone that eat him alive.]]
36	* The meth addict having his entire lower jaw blasted off after accidentally chewing red phosphorus in "Jaw Boned" looks like something straight out of a zombie first-person shooter. They even show his jawbone falling to the floor. What’s even worse is that this was [[https://abcnews.go.com/International/chewing-gum-explodes-killing-student-ukraine/story?id=9290557 based on a true event.]]
37	* “Lac-Toasted” has a flasher die from a peanut allergy. But that’s not the scary part, nor was the scene where the moms beat him to a pulp. The most traumatizing thing about this is that one of the people he flashed was a BABY. It’s a good thing the human memory isn’t fully developed that early, otherwise, that baby would grow up to have serious psychological problems. This likely isn’t the first underage person he’s flashed, either...
38	* "Dead Light Green Light". Imagine you’re walking along a crosswalk, but you’re unaware that the car next to you has a green light because the traffic lights malfunctioned thanks to a slug who simply slithered inside and messed the circuits up. You then get run over. %%ZCE If you weren’t afraid of slugs before, you will be after watching this. Talk about paranoia fuel...%%
39	* "Chef Boy-R-Dead" features a young chef deciding to steal her boss's recipes when she tries to hide from him in the dishwasher (i.e., the industrial-sized one used in restaurants that deep clean dishes and with a locking chamber). Unfortunately for her, since the door was closed, a coworker assumed that there were only dishes inside and turns on the machine. Trapped inside, she boils alive from the scalding hot water (to the point of one of the interviewees comparing her experience to that of a lobster being cooked in a pot) and sure enough, the next morning her body is discovered DiesWideOpen and with red, burned skin.
40	* "Chippin' Dale". Two men are loading branches through a wood chipper when, wouldn't you know it, the wood chipper jams. What now? Turn it off and try to take the branch out? Nah, that's for suckers. Dale ''climbs into the active wood chipper'' and ''tries to dislodge the branch '''with his feet'''.'' The poor stupid bastard is immediately pulped by the machine, and you get a good 5 minutes at least of him screaming in agony and for his partner to "turn it off", which, while being showered in mulched bits of Dale, he's in too much of a horrified state of shock to do anything other than scream "What are you doing?!" and can only watch as Dale is eaten by the machinery. Do not watch it if you ever intend on a good night's rest again. Oh. And this one was also based on a real-life case, in fact, [[https://www.safetynewsalert.com/14-year-old-killed-in-wood-chipper-incident/ multiple people]] [[https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/in-house/full200021.html have died this way]]. Use your head, not your feet.
41	* "Gone Fission" features two Yemenese men who are building a nuke. What they didn't know is that the plutonium nuclear core is nicknamed "The Demon Core". As one of the men drops the last tungsten carbide brick for a test on the plutonium core, he burps after eating a camel burger, which caused him to fumble the brick as it made brief contact with the core and it also exposed the two men to a massive surge of radiation, causing both of them to fall unconscious and start vomiting. Within a few hours, the surge destroys their immune systems, and both men are overcome with extreme nausea and become bedridden, leaving them extremely fatigued and their muscles wasting away, and eventually, they are dying of bacterial pneumonia and asphyxiation as their lungs fill with fluid, causing the two terrorists to die within 48 hours as we see the men's corpses on their beds in a dirty hospital. This is another one that was based on a real-life case, though with American nuclear researchers, and it was the lesser of ''two'' supercriticality accidents involving [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core the real Demon Core]].
42	* "Crate and Buried" features two members of a rogue militia group in Sudan that would often steal supply crates needed for refugees. One day, they celebrate after antagonizing a few of the unfortunate, and suddenly a two-ton supply crate that had a faulty parachute crushes them to death as we get to see the bloody corpse of one of the two men.
43	* "Arriva-deadci". A mobster named Carmine on parole is granted permission to be on a work-release program, but slacks off and orders his co-workers to do his work for him. When his parole officer visits him, Carmine tricks her into thinking that he is doing as he's told and moves a dumpster. However, he gets distracted when he sees his co-worker talking to his parole officer about his job performance and forgets to lock the wheels on the dumpster, which ends up rolling down the hill and pinning him against a second dumpster. Carmine is killed when the sharp end of the first dumpster punctures his abdomen, slicing his stomach open as his guts spill out of his body.
44	* "Re-Coiled". Jake is a hunter who walks around his forest and has to go to the bathroom. He puts down his rifle with the barrel facing upwards but fails to notice a snake curling around his trigger. When he finishes, he goes to pick up his rifle but when he picks it up, (with the barrel being aimed at his heart), the snake squeezes the trigger causing the gun to fire at his heart, killing him instantly as we see the snake slithering around his corpse.
45	* "Par-Gore" features a traceur named Dick who challenges a group of free runners to a race. The race leads up to the top of a building. Shooting off the wall like a cannon, Dick didn't realize that he was about to be impaled in the neck by an exposed pipe until it's too late. The pipe is then driven into his spinal cord through the trachea, killing him instantly. The traceurs behind him are understandably shocked and disgusted.
46	* "Lesboned" features a lesbian couple, with one named Jasmine and one named Janine. After a tour of the house, pool, and eventually the laundry room, they strip and have sex on top of the dryer. Jasmine and Janine's movements cause its improperly connected fuel line to come loose and unhook, causing the room to fill with highly flammable natural gas. Janine noticed the smell, but it was too late. When the water heater turns on, it ignites the gas and sets off an explosion that kills both women instantly as we are treated to a horrifying shot of their charred corpses.
47	* "Fire In The Hole": Casper was the leader of a Neo-Nazi party known as "The Brotherhood". He hears a rumor that his fellow prisoners would make an attempt on his life. This makes his attempt to break out of prison. He calls his subordinate from the party and another member to get arrested and help him break out. What the guards did not know was that when Darren arrived, he had a grenade deep up his anal canal, which he was going to use to threaten the guards and escape, but unfortunately for him and Casper, he isn't able to push it out his anus. So Casper put on some prostate gloves and reached deep into Darren's rectum. However, he accidentally pulls out just the pin, which causes the grenade to ''explode inside Darren's ass,'' expelling all of Darren's intestines, tearing his blood vessels apart, and shattering all pelvic bones. Casper also dies from being in the blast radius. In the end, we get to see an unnerving shot of Darren's exposed intestines and Casper's bloody corpse.
48	* In "Hi-Jack Offed" there is a hijacker who is pushed into an air brake hose by the woman riding shotgun to the truck he's trying to hijack. He inflates while screaming painfully, and his entire body [[PopGoesTheHuman explodes]] and ''all of his internal organs [[LudicrousGibs splatter everywhere]].'' The driver and woman who pushed him are understandably horrified.
49	* "Killdo": A woman uses a carrot as a substitute for a dildo and dies of an embolism when she ''cut herself from the inside'' and didn't know she was dying until she neared orgasm. This will likely make you want to put off masturbation for a long period of time.
50	* "Easy Slider": Two pool hoppers named Trudy and Dennis break into a pool of a house under construction. They nearly get killed by a loose plug in the water but narrowly avoid electrocution. Dennis gets drunk and tries to slide on a piece of plastic into the pool despite Trudy's warnings. However, he is so drunk that he fails to notice a nail sticking out of the plastic. As he slides onto it, the nail cuts open Dennis's stomach and he gets disemboweled, causing massive bleeding, sending him into hypovolemic shock and he dies as Trudy screams in absolute horror.
51	* "Face Offed": Tracey, a Las Vegas showgirl, accidentally cuts herself while shaving her leg. Little did she know that her razor was infected with Group A Streptococcus. A few days later, Tracey has a look in the mirror and saw that her face has contracted necrotizing fasciitis, to be less-blunt, "flesh-eating bacteria" that surfaces in a pimple. It's really disturbing to see. By the time she gets into a hospital bed, the infection causes septic shock, and you are treated to the sight of her death as she flatlines while staring straight into the camera.
52	* "Little Chop Of Horrors": Sal, a chop shop owner, attempts to blowtorch an engine from a stolen car. However, the chain holding the engine up breaks and causes the engine to fall and crush his chest, puncturing his lungs and heart and making him spew blood from his mouth. And while it isn't shown in the live-action bit as he was wearing a mask to protect his eyes, the digital recreation also shows his eyes popping out of his head.
53	* "Tone-Death": An i-Dose dealer gets his hands on some military subsonic equipment and uses it to try to amplify the hallucinogenic effects of his music for a new i-Dose file called "Satan's Jackhammer" by bringing the audio frequency down to below 20 Hz. He ends up suffering from [[BrownNote sonoporation]] caused by the sonic pressure from the low sound frequency that [[EarAche destroys the eardrums]] and his organs liquify and he vomits blood and wets his own pants. He dies from shock and total organ failure, alongside involuntary pant soiling, loss of balance and even heart attacks. Think about it: this dude defecated and urinated himself, puked blood, had a heart attack, AND a seizure all at once, all while being exposed to deafening low frequency sounds.
54	* "Dead Meat-Eorite": The deaths shown in the series so far; the circumstances leading up to the victims' death are shown to be cases of CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot with many of them attributed to usual levels of human error on the victims' part through their own ego, behavior, or were caused by other individuals acting or reacting to the victim in some capacity that winds up killing the victims. With all that being said, Stan was simply an InnocentBystander that was completely harmless if a bit of a kill-joy at a party late one night, when suddenly without any provocation by other partygoers or individuals in the neighborhood or by any earthly cause: [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere a meteorite by pure chance slams right into Stans' chest and instantly killing him]]. The really scary thing is: as [[PrecisionCrash incredibly unlikely]][[note]]Space is a huge place, and so is the Earth, and there are also billions of humans walking around; the fact several instances exist of people being hit by meteorites or experiencing near misses at all is a remarkable feat of chance in and of itself[[/note]] as it is for it to actually happen to a person, [[ParanoiaFuel a death by meteorite impact can literally happen to]] '''''[[AnyoneCanDie anyone]]'''''...
55	* "Bot-ily Harm": A young man named Alex decides to put his intelligence into making a Roomba with power saws all over it so he could use it to destroy things in his parents' basement, where he spent most of his time. His literal fatal flaw? Not making a proper detection system, because the robot will attack anything in its path so long as it detects motion. After it destroys another one of Alex's bots, a screw that fell in the killer robot's path triggers its attack mode, and it makes a beeline straight for him, slicing apart his ankle and then his midsection until he dies. The worst part about it is that we're shown the gorefest as it's happening, and the camera holds on it for an uncomfortably long time. This is one of those deaths you can vicariously ''feel'' every second of.
56	* In "Botoxicated" a 30-something former beauty queen woman named Debbie gets a Botox injection from a doctor. Only problem was the doctor was a quack and he injected illegal black-market botulism toxin into her head. As it spreads throughout her nerves and her bloodstream and her lungs, Debbie relaxes inside a hot tub to try to relieve the pain, which turns out to be a bad idea as her body becomes completely paralyzed and she slips underwater and drowns. Imagine being totally aware as you slip underwater AND not being able to get out because you're completely paralyzed.
57	* "Jersey Gore": A stereotypical Guido is working on his car in preparation for the summer. We're shown him wearing a dangling gold chain over a spinning fanbelt and smoking while working on the fuel system, but neither kill him. Instead, when his girlfriend demands he turn his music down, he pushes himself out from under the car to mock her... and is ''dragged feet-first into a streetsweeper, reducing him to mulch''. [[NotEnoughToBury All that's left when it passes is an arm, some intestines, and a long red smear on the pavement.]]
58	* "Dead On Arrival": A drug dealer tried to smuggle his LSD by making a tie-dye shirt soaked in ''massive'' amounts of the stuff enough to blow the minds of everyone in the state of Oregon and ''puts it on'' to avoid detection at the airport. This turns out to be a huge mistake, as his nervous sweating causes him to absorb ''100,000 times'' the recommended dose into his skin and makes a scene as he unwittingly goes into an acid trip. Right when he was about to pass the checkpoint, he started hallucinating a pig's face in the checkpoint guard's head. When he tried to flee, two guards sent to detain him became an elderly-looking person with a sorrowful expression and a ''MonsterClown'' in his tripped-out eyes. Furthermore, the poor bastard's heart beat so fast from the scare, his mind shut down as he died from a stroke, heart attack, and fatal hypothermia ''at the same time''. To make matters worse, the guest expert explains that '''''the victim's entire circulatory system exploded and his brain basically boiled inside his skull'''''.
59	* "Wet Dream": A crossdressing man wakes up chained to his waterbed by his dates the night prior, left trapped there when they left. He struggles to escape, but ends up puncturing so many holes in his waterbed that he sinks into it and ends up drowning. The genuine, raw panic the man displays as he thrashes desperately and calls out for help is hard to watch, and it even looks like he's [[TearsOfFear crying in fear]] at one point.

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