Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Immolation: Slow Painful

I've read that people say the stench of a burned victim is awful. Those fire victims. It makes me wonder when a human is burnt to death, he/she gives out an awful stench. Does it only smell awful to other humans as well? Exclusively to human beings? Or do animals feel the same way?

If animal meat was burnt, we wouldn't normally say its give a haunting stench. We would just say it smells "cooked", "overcooked" or "burnt". Maybe its our perception of death. An animal's, for example: poultry, death means that food is being prepared. A man burning to death is man's death. Another hypothesis I've came up with is the bowels and organs. Based on my readings, dead bodies are preserved for funeral by removing the bowels and organs. Removing them slows down the decomposition process because our stomach and bowels stores fermented food and bacterium while organs contains blood and bile which decomposes quickly. Animals that are cooked usually have been gutted and have their bowels removed which explains the presence of the "awful" stench.

Death by immolation is the most painful way to die I can imagine. Compared to drowning and asphyxiation. Think about: Hell is depicted to be full of flames. Flames so divinely hot that they could be burning black in colour. Death by heat: can be explained through how a man could die from being stranded in the middle of a desert. The hypothalamus regulates body functions including body temperature. When the heat is extreme and we start running out of bodily fluids (water and sweat) to cool the body, our bodily functions starts to go haywire - we start seeing things (this can be further explained in hallucinations caused by the brain shutting down to conserve energy@resources). The hypothalamus gets fucked up. Temperature gets out of control. The brain boils. You die. Death by immolation is almost similar, except that it is faster and far more painful. I've burned my finger accidentally with a matchstick when I was 8. It was awfully painful. Imagine a burn on your finger, multiply the pain by a hundred- to a thousand-fold and then, imagine that pain is felt on every inch of your skin. However, that is just an approximation.....



This is horrible. I should stop. I'm going watch some Pixar or Disney movies. If this had occurred when i was ten years younger, I could be a potential serial killer. Thank god for my parents...Oh, dear God. Rid me of these thoughts...

2 comments:

Amanda Christine Wong said...

potential arsonist, don't you think burnt meat smells goood? that's why we have barbeques? but perhaps it doesnt apply to humans...probably only to the cannibals...

Zen said...

If you remember to drain the blood and have a good marinade. Some fish just smell awful when cooked.


Human flesh? Remove guts, drain, marinade - you could hardly notice it was the girl next door.