An undertaker has revealed one of the worst ways to die and you’ve probably never heard of it.
It’s likely you don’t think about dying regularly but you may have considered the way you’d like to exit life.
One YouTuber has gone viral after sharing her expertise on all things macabre and she’s listed some of the most brutal ways to go.
Undertaker Caitlin Doughty, who runs the YouTube channel Ask a Mortician, delved into the ‘worst’ ways to die in a Q&A session.
She references tragedies, unexpected things like homicide or horrific accidents, and also mentions the cases where a body is never found.
For example, Richard Rose met a gruesome fate in 1531 for trying to poison the Bishop of Rochester, John Fisher.
King Henry VIII had ruled that poisoning equated to treason, and the punishment for this crime was just as brutal as you can imagine.
It involved the person being dragged through the streets, being hung, their manhood being chopped off, and then being gutted like a fish.
But for Roose, things took an even more horrifying turn.
He was boiled alive in a massive cauldron of scalding water at Smithfield in London.
But a contender for the worst death of all is those killed by scaphism – an ancient torture method little know of.
Scaphing involved the executioner stripping the person of their clothes and stuffing them between two hollowed-out logs with the head and limbs sticking out.
The person was then drenched in honey and force-fed the sweet substance, attracting hundreds of insects.
They were then left in a stagnant pond, to be slowly eaten alive.
But the torture didn’t stop there – executioners would continuously come back and provide the person with more milk and honey, to make the process drag out even longer.
Eventually, the person would succumb to exposure, dehydration, shock, and delirium.
So next time you feel down, just remember you’ll never face a boiling cauldron or ancient scathing.
