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someone was alive and died the most painful way possible
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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Well, the topic is horrible but since we are already at it why not just get it done with?
Would a too prolonged suffering count as a painful death if the person is not dying for most of it? Many people live with chronic pains but I wouldn't count that.
If you're intentionally torturing them to death the entire time, I think it'd count.
But for that they would need to be increasingly weakened without the chance to recover, and there is only so far that can be pushed. If it's just prolonged torture that doesn't make the person any closer to death, then it's just torture.
Who's to say they couldn't be allowed to partially recover? What is somebody sanded off 2mm of skin, rotating locations such that they only hit the same spot every 3 days, for instance? This type of permanently damaging long-term torture could be made to drag on for years and steadily march the victim towards death.
Feels like that going against the spirit of the thing. If they are recovering, it isn't a dying process.