Die from sickness?

[Thatdude]

I'm feeling horrible, and I am starting to get a mild fever. Is there a way I can encourage this to go into overdrive and take me out?

 

[S1mpleme]

I'm feeling horrible, and I am starting to get a mild fever. Is there a way I can encourage this to go into overdrive and take me out?

Probably not, didn't work for me. I've never had a day off, and work even when I'm sick and at the same I don't take any meds, and still alive. Such a luck.

 

[Thatdude]

Probably not, didn't work for me. I've never had a day off, and work even when I'm sick and at the same I don't take any meds, and still alive. Such a luck.

I went fallen alseep, and gotten so hot my sheets were soaked. But after waking up this morning I feel more than less normal.
I wonder what would've happen if I forced myself to stay awake.

 

[Flippy]

Probably you would have fallen asleep through exhaustion. Sounds like your immune system did it's work hence the sweats. The only way a virus could finish you off as far as I know would be if you were immune compromised. Or something like the Corona virus. It would likely be a thoroughly miserable way to go. :-/

 

[Girobatol]

Add some alcohol to it.

 

[Thatdude]

It would likely be a thoroughly miserable way to go

I agree. Like I'm not going out of my way to get sick. But if I am, then I hope.

 

[Flippy]

I agree. Like I'm not going out of my way to get sick. But if I am, then I hope.

It's quite funny isn't it that all the normies in the world hate getting sick but we are like... "Bring it on! Might get lucky this time!" :-)

 

[bananabear]

Right now you could try to catch the coronavirus while being sick with something else, double whammy might do some damage. the coronavirus alone shouldnt kill but if you combine it with other sickness.. dont think the suffering would be worth it though

 

[TAW122]

I don't think this would really work (maybe in the days when modern medicine wasn't around) as likely as you'd survive with a lot of suffering. Even in the older days when modern medicine wasn't around and people died from illnesses and diseases, it is a really painful way to go (imagine organs shutting down, slowly losing conscious and in a lot of pain and discomfort, not a way to go..)

 

[departing]

If I could turn a sickness into death, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[Backwood_tilt]

dont think the suffering would be worth it though

story of my life

 

[Throwmyselfaway]

A couple of weeks ago I was walking around in the cold and rain hoping for pneumonia. Nope not a thing.

 

[squirtsoda]

Wish we could go raid the cabinets at the CDC

 

[Ghost2211]

Unlikely unless you're a little kid, elderly, immune compromised, or have respiratory problems like asthma. Generally our bodies can handle a virus.

 

[faust]

I was thinking about that too.
Once I had a fever and we were planning to swim in cold October water before.
That was a surprise, but in a few hours I was not sick anymore.
There is some medication which weaken immune system. But I assume for a mere cold it will be useless.

 

[HopeDiesLast]

A few years back I felt incredibly sick and had horrible abdominal pain. I wasn't suicidal at the time, but medical care is so expensive here that I swore up and down that I'd rather die than go to the hospital. I took a bunch of sleeping pills and was hoping I'd feel better in the morning. I woke up a couple of hours later in the most excruciating pain, sweating and shaking uncontrollably. At that point I would have paid ANY money to make the pain and nausea stop. Called my neighbor who took me to the hospital. I had a temperature of 104.2, my appendix had ruptured, and I was septic. Needed emergency surgery and ended up with a hospital bill exceeding 150K (I "only" had to pay $6,500 of it).

Point of the story is that once you reach a certain level of sickness and pain you ARE going to want to make it stop no matter what. Maybe there are some people who can withstand it, but that's probably rare. It's definitely not a pleasant way to go, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

A couple of weeks ago I was walking around in the cold and rain hoping for pneumonia. Nope not a thing.

I'd like to do that in winter.

 

[k75]

Some medications weaken your immune system. I'm on Prednisone, and that's one of the side effects.

Still, it's probably not going to happen unless you're otherwise compromised in some way. Definitely not going to die from a cold. Even pneumonia rarely gets to that point. It's just really, really miserable.