The pain of an animal who lingers with untreated illness or wounds, or without nourishment or shelter, can be tremendous-sometimes even more so than those who are victims of directly inflicted violence, because their suffering is so prolonged.
Still, information from the human case is better than nothing. Of course, different animals have different somatic physiology and neurophysiology, and this is especially true when comparing insects vs. This piece aims to illuminate the painfulness of starving and dehydrating to death, mainly based on accounts of these processes in the human case. But is this more or less painful than starving? (On the other hand, if it's already pregnant, keeping it inside may lead to many larvae that will then starve/dehydrate in your house.) Another option is to quickly squish the fly by placing it on a rough piece of paper, smashing a board against the paper, and dragging out the guts to make sure neural connectivity is destroyed throughout the fly's body. But if you do let it out, it may breed and create more fly suffering in the future. If you don't let it out, it may starve or dehydrate. More generally, how bad is death by starvation? One example where this information might be useful is if you find a fly trapped in your house. I once heard someone claim confidence that starvation is much more painful than being eaten alive. It's commonly said that predation is important because otherwise prey will overpopulate and starve. How painful is death from heart problems?.My experience with basically not eating for two months.
#Least painful ways to die free#
Feel free to use this article as a starting point for learning about VSED, but keep in mind that what I write here is amateur research. Based on anecdotal accounts, it seems that cardiac arrest may be among the better ways to die, while heart attacks are more protracted and can sometimes be intensely painful. A common way that starvation ends a person's life is by causing heart problems. Humans dying via VSED typically have access to pain killers, which means that the suffering endured during VSED probably understates the pain that a wild animal would experience. While many pro-hospice accounts of VSED are positive, most pro-life accounts are negative I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle. Since we know more about the subjective experiences of humans than non-human animals, I focus on accounts of human deaths from Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED).
This piece explores the question of how painful it is for wild animals to die of starvation or dehydration.