Talk:Ikuo Takabayashi/@comment-74.99.77.194-20120324052408/@comment-122.60.183.183-20131108184934

Hmm... I dunno. Didn't Junta Nakao effectively die because he hit his head and so he was long dead before he drowned/got minced by the speedboat... so it was like having an instantly lethal stroke? And since the injury didn't kill him for a while, he managed to have a good time before he died and he didn't even realise he was dying.

If you compare it to the other supposedly painless & 'quick' deaths:

Yes Yumi's brother probably had a reasonably painless death. If he had headphones like your standard hikkikomori then he probably wouldn't have even heard the escavator coming, and he was probably having as good of a time online as he usually does. So his death was more gory but just as 'painless' as Nakao's. Probably.

Yumi on the other hand... well she died from a cervical fracture, which I'm assuming stops every process below the neck... but since the heart can continue to beat without input from the brain, I suspect that she died actually died from suffocation... and that DOES take a little while... couple that with an inability to move and the knowledge that yes, you are going to die from slipping on a windowsill, that I'd say is one of the suckier deaths of the series.

With Ikuo... well our teacher described having a heart attack feeling something closer to 'being suffocated without anything over your mouth'. So that probably sucks too. At least he left behind a pretty corpse though >_<'

Who else was there... er. Maybe the nurse? Though the horror-suspense-sense of impending doom from KNOWING that you're about plummet to your death would be awful enough to probably make up for the lack of physical pain in being instantly brain-splattered on the floor...