#WorstInjury #BetterOffDead #InjuryStories
Have you ever come across a news story or article that made you shudder at the thought of what some people have gone through? 🤕 Unfortunately, there are countless incidents of injuries and accidents that leave us wondering how anyone could survive such traumatic events. In this article, we will delve into some of the most chilling and gruesome “better off dead” injuries/incidents that have been reported.
What is a “better off dead” injury/incident?
Before we jump into the stories, let’s first define what exactly a “better off dead” injury/incident is. This term is often used to describe a catastrophic event that leaves a person with severe injuries or trauma that may make them wish they had not survived at all. These types of injuries or incidents are often life-changing and can have long-lasting physical and emotional effects on the individual.
The Worst “Better Off Dead” Injury/Incident Stories
1. The Chainsaw Accident
In 2016, there was a horrifying incident where a man in Oregon accidentally cut off his own leg with a chainsaw. This unimaginable and gruesome accident left the man in critical condition and fighting for his life. Doctors were amazed at his survival, but his life would never be the same again.
2. The Surfer Attacked by a Shark
One of the most feared scenarios for any surfer is being attacked by a shark. In 2015, a young woman from Australia was surfing when a shark bit off her arm. Despite the swift actions of fellow surfers and emergency responders, the woman suffered extensive injuries and had to undergo multiple surgeries to survive.
3. The Fall from a High-Rise Building
In 2018, a construction worker in New York City fell from a high-rise building and miraculously survived the 30-story plunge. The man suffered multiple broken bones and internal injuries, but against all odds, he managed to pull through. His recovery was long and arduous, but his story of survival is nothing short of miraculous.
4. The Skydiving Accident
Skydiving is an exhilarating but risky activity, and accidents can happen in an instant. In 2017, a skydiver in California experienced a parachute malfunction while attempting a jump. The man plummeted to the ground at high speeds and suffered multiple injuries, including a broken spine. Despite the grave prognosis, the skydiver defied the odds and eventually regained mobility.
5. The Car Crash Survivor
Car accidents are unfortunately all too common, but some are more devastating than others. In 2019, a young woman in Texas was involved in a horrific car crash that left her with life-threatening injuries. She endured multiple surgeries and months of rehabilitation, but she ultimately survived and is now sharing her story to inspire others.
How to Cope with the Aftermath of a “Better Off Dead” Incident
If you or someone you know has experienced a “better off dead” injury or incident, it’s important to seek help and support during the recovery process. Here are some tips on how to cope with the aftermath:
1. Seek professional help from a therapist or counselor to address any emotional trauma or PTSD.
2. Lean on friends and family for support and encouragement during difficult times.
3. Engage in physical therapy and rehabilitation to regain strength and mobility.
4. Join a support group for individuals who have survived similar traumatic incidents.
5. Practice self-care activities such as meditation, yoga, or journaling to promote healing and relaxation.
In conclusion, the stories of individuals who have survived “better off dead” injuries or incidents serve as a reminder of the resilience and strength of the human spirit. Despite facing unimaginable odds, these survivors have defied expectations and forged ahead with courage and determination. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, remember that there is always hope and support available to help you through the darkest times. Stay strong, and never give up on yourself. 🌟
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Being paralyzed from the neck down is one of those.
Any open-book fracture seems like hell to recover from
JFK
Hisashi Ouchi – a worker at a nuclear fuel plant who was standing next to a uranium oxide criticality incident and received the worst known case of radiation poisoning, worse than folks at Chernobyl. The radiation destroyed his DNA but it took him 83 days to die. His skin fell off and all of his organs slowly failed.
Nothing specific but I have seen agreement amongst healthcare professionals that individuals who survive extreme burns suffer a LOT and it’s agonizing pain because the Dr. Has to peel away the burnt tissue to expose the good skin (and nerves?). I sunburn easily and I hate those. I certainly agree that a burn to that degree would likely have me wishing I was dead
Anybody who survived a Darwin Award
Be interesting to see what ambulance crews would respond to this with, there is an acronym for this: FUBARBUNDY
“F***ed up beyond all recognition but unfortunately not dead yet”
Something I’m not sure many will mention on this thread though: mental health… Been through the wringer myself and honestly wouldn’t want that for anyone.
Skiing the K12
Um does anyone remember seeing the family on TikTok where the girls fiance/husband had an accident and is now basically a vegetable (sorry idk what else to call it)
Anyways, she literally takes care of him still even tho she married to ANOTHER MAN and had the other man’s babies.. all while taking care of her first fiance & the first fiance is just watching what was supposed to be his life play out right Infront of him. Shit is sad
There is this famous court case/person Dax Cowart.
Him and his Dad were checking out a plot of land to buy and were returning to their car.
Anyways. Somehow, I think through a leak in an underground pipe or something? The air was just…Full of flammable propane right?
And when they started the Car. They set the entire creek bed up in a real life God forsaken fireball.
Cowarts Dad died, and Cowart… having had all of his skin and outward organs melted off, **wanted to die**. The man had no hands left. Lots of Grafting and plastic surgeries, and amputation over several years basically keeping him together. By the end I think he actually looked….Normalish?
Doctors said nope. Can’t die.
Man became a Professor and lawyer and fought for his damn right to die. He has a documentary somewhere if I recall.
And until just recently I do believe he passed away …within the last Decade.
Man said he knew nothing but pain. And was basically kept up and attem outside his will for a good couple of decades.
Laika the dog
There’s a kid in the U.S. (he’s probably around 23yrs old now) who’s body was chopped in half in a forklift accident.. they amputated from the waist down.
He was still living the last time I looked him up.
Probably when Ricky’s mom blew herself up by thinking paint thinner was high quality liquor…
That poor bastard that got tortured by the Cartel on video.
Injected with meth to keep him alive and conscious while they peeled off his entire face and chainsawed off his hands.
He brought his stumps up to his face and started screaming, and one of the torturers says to the other “I told you we should have cut off his tongue.”
Then they cut off his tongue with a box cutter and then decapitate him I think with the same boxcutter?
Just next level evil.
That guy that spent 80 years in the iron lung machine. I believe he recently passed.
Had a patient who had cardiac arrest, brought back from CPR for a long time, the lack of oxygen to their brain meant they had strokes and brain damage. They ended up blind and paralyzed on both sides of their body. They could talk and hear, but couldn’t even feed themselves, push a wheelchair, etc.
I remember watching a TV programme years ago about accidents, and this guy was cutting wood with a handheld circular saw.
He finished the cut and put it on the floor, but it was faulty and some random crap had wedged the safety edge open. It span on the floor, snagged his boot and trousers, then ran up his leg and buried itself in his groin, still spinning.
Here’s a story where I was not personally present but heard it from multiple sides.
A guy walks with his coworker at work and suddenly collapses by cardiac arrest. Co-worker, trained in CPR, does an excellent job at resuscitation. Almost too excellent.
Ambulance come and take over the heart massage via a ‘Lukas’ (don’t know if the name is universal but it’s a machine that massages the heart).
The guy that’s ‘dead’ wakes up, screams, hits the paramedics, is in total agony. Paramedic stops the machine, guy dies again. Medic start the machine, guy wakes up, screams, hits everyone around him, is in absolute agony. Medics stop the machine, cycle repeats.
It takes 4 medics and 3 cops to hold the guy down while the cycle goes on. Eventually the guy dies completely in the ambulance. The cycles between starting and stopping CPR lasted for about 20 to 30 minutes.
Leading doctors and higher ups had a meeting about this guy and what could have caused this event. They all came to the conclusion that his heart imploded and was unable to be saved. However, because of the perfect CPR of the co-worker, the blood flow of the guy went on without interruption to his brains. The guy was dead but was kept alive by the heart massage, the moment the massaging stopped he would die again. His body didn’t realise the critical failure of the heart which caused him not to go in to shock.
They also concluded he would have been fully conscience while this all happened. Which explains the screaming and hitting and pure agony.
Basically the guy died repeatedly and could feel everything while they kept him from dying.
Fournier’s gangrene. Not really an injury but my patients who come in with this go through the most.
[Locked-in syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome) is pretty fucked up. It’s basically when you get some sort of brain damage from stroke, poison, overdose etc. in the lower parts of the brain and brain stem causing you to have no cognitive loss but almost no control over your body. Most commonly the patient can blink and move their eyes which is the only way they can communicate. I’d probably prefer that the stroke killed me.
Girl who finished her finals and went to chiro to get adjusted. Ended up quadrapelegic.
Maybe not as bad as some of these but there is a video(cctv) around where a man jumped/fell off a building (not 100% sure it was suicide) and fell onto what we call an “Amsterdammertje”. It’s a post about a meter tall they put around sidewalks.
So he got impaled from ass to shoulder by this post without dying. You could see a big bulge from the post around his neck/shoulder. EMTs had to grind away the post at the base because they couldn’t remove him and got him to the hospital that way.
He either died in the ambulance or hospital but I can’t imagine that ride was fun
Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish man who became paralyzed from his neck down after an accident. He spent 30 years like that, asking for euthanasia, and he finally managed to commit suicide with the assistance of some close people by drinking cyanide.
The process was filmed and shown on TV.
Having your gf leave you for the captain of the ski team and then using the French foreign exchange girl to boost your ego so you can challenge the captain of the ski team to a race down K-12, all while being pursued by the mafia for not paying $2 for a newspaper.
The guy locally who fell head first into a vat of boiling oil at a Sunday fish fry and survived. he somehow kept the majority of his face up and out of the oil, but it got the side of his head, ear, and entire chest and arm, and torso. His injuries were extensive enough that he was inpatient for weeks and then rehab, and then home with one metric fuck ton of equipment. Death would have been kinder.
David Jordan Robinson – In 1983, His father gave him sleeping pills, covered his in kerosene and then set him on fire. He was six years old at the time and he ended up having third-degree burns over 90% of his body. His parents were fighting over custody and his father planned on it being a murder-suicide but I guess he decided not to kill himself. I know there is a book and I believe it was a made for tv movie out there about the story.
While not the worst it was in the news quite a bit a number of years back.
Guy sued San Francisco for like 10m for being hit in the head by a pinecone from one of their trees.
Then when you read down through the article and there was a video interview with the guy. Missing half his skull and much of his brain, severely impaired but somewhat functioning. It was one of those giant ass pine cones that weigh like 20lbs.
Too many stroke or brain injury sufferers whose families were unwilling to allow their family to pass peacefully. But “luckily” they survive and are now bedridden, unresponsive, incontinent and tube fed and will end up in a care home until they eventually die of aspiration or UTI-sepsis.
A friend of mine was an EMT. They got called to the scene of an *attempted* suicide. The person put a shotgun below their chin, was looking up and pulled the trigger only the shotgun was pointed to far out from under his chin and only succeeded in blowing his jaw off (tilt your head back an put your finger under your chin. Notice how everything above there is “nice to have”, it’s not going to kill you right away if you blow it off with a shotgun. So they arrive to the scene and this poor bloody man is attempting to find another shot gun shell and reload with half his face gone.
Suicide by consuming loads of paracetamol/ibuprofen. If the person fails, aka is resuscitated at the hospital, its liver is destroyed, causing extreme pain and lots of other problems. In addition, I think the individual is unable to get a liver transplant because of the attempted suicide.
The guy who just died after spending 70 years in an iron lung. Just kill me already
Chinese student participating in illegal Kong Fu tournament in Vancouver. Got beaten badly. Now he is in a vegetative state.
I read a story about a trucker disconnecting his air brakes and the hose got loose from his grip and lodged inside him, the air pushed through his body separating his skin from his whole body.
He had his entire body degloved.
The women whose face was ripped off/eaten by her friends chimpanzee. The 911 call is horrible.
That woman who was attacked by the chimp like a decade ago is a pretty good example of this. No face, no eyes, you’re horribly disfigured, and I believe she lost both hands too
What Katie Stubblefield has had to go through since surviving her suicide attempt. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/issue/september-2018
I work in healthcare and a poor little three-year-old child was in the PICU with severe burns on his entire body. I have never ever seen anything so horrific in my life. Nobody deserves this. My heart broke for this child. Every time I’d see him, a little bit more of him was gone. Fingers, then toes, then hands, etc. All had to be amputated.
He’s still here in the hospital recovering and he only has upper arms and thighs left.
Both of his parents are addicts.
I shed a tear just thinking about this poor child.
Worked with a dude in a stamping plant for a while before he moved on to another shop. He was about 45, diabetic with a bunch of other chronic illnesses. Hated his wife and kid with a passion. Lost both his arms in a stamping press.