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Helping power the Astronomican..

Having your soul extracted over time can't be comfy...

I'd say tortured by the chaos gods, i mean they get REAL creative with how to make eternity hell for you.

Being a human in 40k sucks, no matter where or how

Arguably, the "worst" way to die is in such a ignominious way that your very existence is purposefully wiped from all history: ala Legions II and XI. Causing thousands and thousands of people to wonder Who You Were and What You Did to earn such an ultimate end.

Being a krootox in 6th edition.
Who accidently ate some tyranid
and some sl. cultists were around

Eaten alive by orks while they count your toes as they pull them off "one little squiggy. Two little squiggy"

Losing hand to hand combat with a tau imagine the shame and embarrassment you would have before you die .

Why has nobody mentioned a Tessaseract Labrynth yet?

 Puretide1 wrote:
Losing hand to hand combat with a tau imagine the shame and embarrassment you would have before you die .

Had an enemy Chaos lord of freaking Khorne feel that shame one (on his charge, nothing less.)

I bet he got punished real hard for that!

Making an enemy of Slaanesh 'itself', then being captured and tortured by Slaaneshi cultists and soul-sacrificed to their deity.

Doesn't get worse than that.

 FearTheHappyChair wrote:
Why has nobody mentioned a Tessaseract Labrynth yet?

That'ss not really death though, is it?

No, but neither is the half the slaanesh stuff, but at the same time it is death because your body is gone and now you are just a soul endlessly wandering in nothing. It doesn't sound all that fun, to do that for an eternity.

I still say being a krootex, but change to eating some "groovy" sl. cultists, and sl. decides to get his/ her/its revenge in a horrible ways.

 BoomWolf wrote:

 Puretide1 wrote:
Losing hand to hand combat with a tau imagine the shame and embarrassment you would have before you die .

Had an enemy Chaos lord of freaking Khorne feel that shame one (on his charge, nothing less.)

I bet he got punished real hard for that!

My buddies tau made Abbadon feel that shame.

Being forced to gak on a massive throne for a million million years while really needing the bathroom.

I think the guardsman one had it right, everything thats been mentioned can (and probably will) happen to you (with the exception of sitting on the throne for to damn long)

My thought of the worst way to go is. An Astropath is blind and uses psychic senses to percieve the world, senses than come from it's brain, more or less.

The Astropath is attacked by a Tyranid Lictor which sucks out the Astropath's brain and swallows it (Lictors eat brains to absorb memories). The Astropath would then be fully aware of their existence as a disembodied brain in a Lictor's inards, the hopelessness of their situation and the psychic vision of their own lobotomised body on the floor and all the surrounding events as the living brain is digested.

 Puretide1 wrote:
Losing hand to hand combat with a tau imagine the shame and embarrassment you would have before you die .

Same thing happened to a squad of Khorne Berzerkers with Chaos Lord with DW in 5th edition!

As for the worst way to die . . .

That's really difficult, but I always thought being interred in the Golden Throne would be a pretty crappy way to die. You just sit there, your life force slowly drained from you as your realm is mismanaged by imbeciles - and you can't do a fething thing about it!

what are those?

Being a Craftworlder captured by Dark Eldar.

They will take out your Spirit Stone and torture you for however long they want. You can't hope for a quick end, because you know Slaanesh is waiting and it will be even worse.

 WhazzDakka Da 3rd wrote:
Be an Imperial guardsmen.

hahahahahaha! XD that was awesome.

Definatly DE. Getting caught by a talos

Being a Lamentor is no treat either; in fact, being a space marine in general wouldn't be pleasent. You don't hear of many of them dying of old age, and given the nature of their opponents, whatever likely gets you in the end will be particularly unpleasent.

Most guardsmen are merely shot, or BLAMed, but that's another matter entirely.

FoWPlayerDeathOfUS.TDs wrote:
what are those?

Cortex leeches. They take over your brain! Pretty good way to get tyranid allies if you ask me.

 Zande4 wrote:

FoWPlayerDeathOfUS.TDs wrote:
what are those?

Cortex leeches. They take over your brain! Pretty good way to get tyranid allies if you ask me.

who would put extra free biomass on tyranid planets?

Enduring Slaanesh's personal 'interest' for however long he/she/it chooses to prolong your life...

Teleporting into a wall (like those IF)....

I think they stole that idea from Donald Duck. It was a George Gearloose-theory. So they ended up at Stonehenge, meeting King Arthur, but it's far from the worst, unless you consider having a Lemmings like death the worst.

Having your mind reached into by the warp and used as a daemonic gateway.

Brother Captain Alexander wrote:My soul being forever tortured by the likes of Chaos Gods, no fate can be much worse than this - even being captured by Dark Eldar.

Fortunately, human souls don't actually register anything in this regard. They are not complex enough to retain a sense of personality and identity after death. At least that's what it said in the Eldar Codex...

Zande4 wrote:

There's a lesson to be learned about helmets somewhere in here ...

Anyhow, I'm gonna go with the cheap answer and say being captured alive by Dark Eldar. Seriously, not even Chaos Cultists, yes, not even the Gods of Chaos themselves would give you a nastier stay. With the latter, at least you're either a quick goner or you actually end up enjoying it. With the Dark Eldar, you just become a writhing mass of flesh and nerves as they do wagers on how long it takes before your mind shuts down permanently.

I just stumbled over this on GW's website, thought I should share:
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1520304a_TheTorturersTale.pdf