What is more frightening to you: drowning (flood, water, confined spaces) or burning in a fire?

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WTF? Anyway, the answer for me is definitely burning. I love being in water and while I’m sure drowning is scarey it doesn’t seem as actively painful as burning would be. Burning to death terrifies me.

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