r/interestingasfuck • u/ThugLeeVoguee • 1d ago

The implosion of the Titan submarine (OceanGate) was so rapid that the pain wasn't even registered by the brain. They didn't feel anything at all. Utterly instantaneous.

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u/makina323 1d ago edited 1d ago

The implosion happened in less than 5 milliseconds, it takes a brain 300 milliseconds for the brain hardware to register and process a conscious reaction to it. They literally just stopped existing with zero knowledge that it happened.

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To those people disputing the time, this is an average human, yes you can lower your reaction times by training your reflexes, your brain can process visual stimulus in 13 to 16 ms, but you wont consciously comprehend it for another 100 ms at best and there is another 150-300 ms delay to physically react like saying oh shit or blink, and even still in this scenario the last image your eyes picked up when the sub imploded 3 milliseconds ago is still being formed in your retina.

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u/Ok-Break1985 1d ago

Seems better than pain or the long drawn out process of dying from disease. 

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u/RedditAppSuxAsss 1d ago edited 23h ago

This, any one who has had a near death or witness multiple loved ones die from a disease knows it's terrible.

Fuck cancer, fuck pneumonia, fuck strokes, Alzheimer's, and fuck encephalitis

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u/Phytanic 23h ago

My mom died from ALS and there's very little if anything worse than it. Cancer at least typically has some possibility of early detection and recovery. If I get a terminal diagnosis of something, I'm traveling and making peace before I go out my way

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u/biptybopty 21h ago

My dad had ALS, he ended up taking his own life....I don't blame him, it's a terrible disease.

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u/Hercusleaze 18h ago

Yep. Watched my wife's mother slowly degrade over about a year from ALS. It's pretty awful.

I think I'd quit my job, try to travel as much as possible, and before I was too far gone, go out on my own terms as well. I definitely wouldn't want to put my wife through the worst of it again, not after she lost her mother that way.

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u/princenag25 16h ago

Fuck Parkinson's + too

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u/SoulReaper42 19h ago

My great grandmother died from bowel cancer over a few months and she was hopped up on morphine the last few weeks of her life. Dad died from a freak cardiac arrest and was gone within half an hour. I'm glad he went pretty quickly instead of being drawn out.

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u/throw_way_340 22h ago

Seconding this, FUCK all of those.

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u/Automatic_Pen8494 1d ago

Agree. Theres nothing crueler than cancer

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u/WranglerSilver6451 1d ago

That’s a tough one when you take Alzheimer’s/dementia into account.

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u/RedditAppSuxAsss 23h ago

There was times where he'd believe he is being held captive by his current wife that he does not know or remembers and he would cry out at night for his ex-wife that has passed decades beforehand.

Was absolutely heartbreaking for my great grandmother.

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u/WranglerSilver6451 23h ago

We got a fella in church and his wife has really taken a turn. The cops were there at 3 am to remove him from the house because she was in the front yard screaming that he was an intruder. They’ve been together for 50 years or more.

I’m not discounting cancer and the toll it takes. However, I believe dementia is crueler on all levels and harder to care for a person with it.

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u/RedditAppSuxAsss 23h ago

My great-grandfather died from Alzheimer's and it was the worst one. The horribly sad stories I could tell that just are just awful awful for everyone around

And I fear so badly that my grandfather inherited it.

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u/burf 23h ago

There are a lot of neurological diseases that would like a word on that. But either way, it's trying to pick the worst of a pile of shit. There are many truly awful ways to die in this world.