Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-148.253.184.233-20200128130653/@comment-27144409-20200220224041

ChishioKunrin wrote: Sentry 616 wrote: Ironically while drawn out deaths from radiation are one of the worst ways to go, death by nuclear blast could be one of the least painless, especially if you're at ground zero, and don't notice it going off behind you. Your nerves probably wouldn't have time to process the pain before you were nothing more than a shadow burned into imminent shrapnel. You likely wouldn't even be aware of the explosion happening, even if you were looking right at the bomb when it fell, to be honest. You'd be alive one moment, and then the very next instant, gone.

I once read an interview of someone who survived one of the atomic bombs that was dropped on Japan, and she said that she and her classmates looked out the window and saw something falling from the sky, and then next thing she knew, she was waking up on the floor. Atomic bombs are a lot more powerful these days. We don't even have atomics anymore, aside from nations new to the nuclear club.

The main reason I specified not seeing it coming is to avoid emotional pain from the dread if certain doom.