Children and death

[Heartlock]

What’s the worst way to kill a child in a war setting? See I’m writing a book and I wanna know the worst way a kid could die. I may or may not implement any of the suggestions I receive

 

[Seaspecter]

Just read this.

Oskar Dirlewanger - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[LilRora]

There's a lot of ways to interpret this, and much more to answer. Do you want the most painful death? The most miserable from emotional standpoint? From whose perspective, the child's or the reader's?

As a rule of thumb, the longer and more painful a death is, the worse it'll be, but there's a lot more that factors into this, such as publicity, separation or presence of loved ones as well as other people, past experiences, or social standing.

 

[Jocelyn_Uasal]

I mean I don't see why the most gruesome death for a child would be different for an adult tbh Though for children specifically, not much would disturb a reader more than sexual violence. You run the risk of going too far with that though, and you'll get people asking what in the world is wrong with you. I don't recommend that.

Other than that, I'd imagine a slow, systematic dismemberment would be the worst.

 

[Rhaps]

Do whatever the Japanese did in WWII, they where so bad the Nazi went "wtf dude, chill down a bit."

 

[Heartlock]

I’m

I mean I don't see why the most gruesome death for a child would be different for an adult tbh Though for children specifically, not much would disturb a reader more than sexual violence. You run the risk of going too far with that though, and you'll get people asking what in the world is wrong with you. I don't recommend that.

Other than that, I'd imagine a slow, systematic dismemberment would be the worst.

Thank you for the dismemberment suggestion

 

[SRB]

Burning alive is the first on the official scale of most painful deaths, if you're aiming for that. But some may think that death isn't something that bad, it releases you from suffering. If you're aiming for shock actor - leave the children alive, but wishing they were dead.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

I wouldn't know, no way.

 

[SRB]

I wouldn't know, no way.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

What, I am the last person anybody would think of when thinking about children's gruesome, painful, terrorizing and traumatizing deaths for the sake of someone's financial or otherwise material interests.

 

[Alski]

I wouldn't know, no way.

hehe

 

[SRB]

What, I am the last person anybody would think of when thinking about children's gruesome, painful, terrorizing and traumatizing deaths for the sake of someone's financial or otherwise material interests.

Well. You at the very least know how to cook them.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Well. You at the very least know how to cook them.

What bizarre allegations. I would never *chomp, crunch, nomnomnom* cook children with vinegar and sugar and soy sauce and panko bread.

 

[Heartlock]

Burning alive is the first on the official scale of most painful deaths, if you're aiming for that. But some may think that death isn't something that bad, it releases you from suffering. If you're aiming for shock actor - leave the children alive, but wishing they were dead.

Omg this is perfect!

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

You can go the opposite way and show how nonchalance the process is. Like throwing the kids into the path of a flamethrower.

 

[Bartun]

Some things are better left to the imagination. I don't think many people would like to read the details of how some children got blown to bits or how the lowest of humankind got their way with them.

Sometimes, children witnessing the horrors of war is far more shocking than them dying, I've read a real story once about how a child volunteered for WW1 and worked as a messenger from one unit to another, doing the best he could to send letters and stuff. He grew closer to the soldiers and made friends with all of them. One day they came under attack and they relied on him to send one important message, which he did. Later the kid realized the content of that message: their position was being overrun and the commanding officer requested artillery over their own position. Nobody survived.

 

[cabbag3]

You can go the opposite way and show how nonchalance the process is. Like throwing the kids into the path of a flamethrower.

Reminds me of a film I watched when I was young. The bad guys would release POW and tell them they're free if they can escape. Soldiers would compete who could shoot the most escapees in their "firing range". The casualness of everything was kinda unsettling. I bet if there were children among the escapees, they'd probably add bonus points since they're smaller targets.

 

[Anonjohn20]

The bad guys would release POW and tell them they're free if they can escape. Soldiers would compete who could shoot the most escapees in their "firing range".

"Rambo 3" did this, so did Mel Gibson's "Apokalypto" and even "Schindler's List" had a scene where this happened. In the first two films I mentioned, it was to make the viewer's heart start pumping as you wish that they succeed in escaping; in the last film, it was used to make the viewer sad as the captive accepted his hopeless fate and let it happen.

 

[TreasureHouse]

Just have a facility full of children mutant monsters that can barely talk and making all these moaning sounds. The process is cannot be undone. Have one of the monsters recognize the mc and mutter their name. Then MC has to do a bunch of mercy killings.....

 

[Heartlock]

You can go the opposite way and show how nonchalance the process is. Like throwing the kids into the path of a flamethrower.

I’ll consider that