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Is it more painful to freeze or burn alive?

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Faraz
Mar 29, 2024
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At first glance, I would tell you that it hurts more to burn alive. If only it weren't for a disturbing and absurd phenomenon that occurs when you freeze to death: the paradoxical striptease.

This is a very particular condition in which the person who is about to freeze strips

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