Is it normal that i find gory deaths more disturbing when they're underwater

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Whenever I see or even hear of a gory and violent death that happens underwater, I feel disturbed by it for days. For example, I even cringed when I heard about that acid scene from the film Untraceable when I never even watched it. I get afraid when I see sharks feeding underwater. But when I see them on dry land I feel less disturbed. I even watched tons of incredibly gory shows and they didn't really disturb me. But when I think of graphic deaths underwater it really disturbs me. Is this normal?

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago | pl

    Wait a minute,

    "sharks are scary when they're feeding underwater but not scary on land"

    No kidding.

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  • Allistalla
    11 years ago | pl

    Well , it is not as bloody so I think it would be less dramatice as you can not see their blood and guts flying everywere .

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  • janetsauce
    11 years ago | pl

    You were most likely traumatized at a young age or something like that--but completely normal

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  • mae94
    11 years ago | pl

    underwater is scary :)

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  • thinkingaboutit
    11 years ago | pl

    well since too little water = death and too much water = death, i think it's pretty natural that you would be unnerved by water. many people are.

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  • ebulliance
    11 years ago | pl

    I get where you're coming from!

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  • BlackDays
    11 years ago | pl

    I certainly would not want to die underwater. No one can hear you scream and when you try, you just suck in water, so ya

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago | pl

    oh how annoying! of course we want to know now dappled, to OP but doesnt the water wash the blood away and make it less gory?

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    • dappled
      11 years ago | pl

      In retrospect, maybe it isn't so bad. It's just something that disturbs me. I was reading about the building of huge dams (like the Hoover Dam) and they were talking about the massive machines which mixed concrete to a certain consistency.

      It was reasonably common for men to fall into them and they died by simultaneously being:

      (a) drowned in concrete
      (b) threshed by blades chopping through their body and limbs
      (c) crushed between rollers

      I just didn't like it. :/

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago | pl

        Ya that would suck a lot!

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago | pl

        aah pretty nasty

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      • BlackDays
        11 years ago | pl

        Ahh I have heard of such things happening. Awful way to go. And to think what structures worldwide could have bodies buried in them :/

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago | pl

      You see the blood floating around the scene.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago | pl

    To an extent, me too. And out of courtesy to you (and perhaps other people here), I'm not going to type about something largely unknown and which I wish to hell I hadn't ever have found out.

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    • BlackDays
      11 years ago | pl

      Is it normal that i'm intrigued? I guess we wont find out this disturbing thing. I'll be wondering all day what it could be

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      • dappled
        11 years ago | pl

        I'll tell you in private but I don't want to say it in public because it's pretty disturbing. If I were you, though, I'd choose not to know.

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