Which is more cruel desert or sea

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Definitely desert. The only way you can survive a desert is to keep going until wherever safe it takes you or by some miracle, someone will find you. Chances like that are slim. If you end up dying there, you’ll be food for predators until your bones are left. There are better chances surviving at sea and somehow, you pray someone will found you floating and rescues you before it’s too late or your dead body can somehow makes it way to the shore
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Life and n a desert is much better than in a sea. So long as u have entered in sea many water animals will be there waiting to celebrate u
your fresh considered to the desert where someone can climb a tree to escape wild animals or even fight them back
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I have been in both places..must say sea is very dangerous. You can't predict any move and do not known what could happen anytime in the sea.
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None of these places is a thing to toy with. But, like others have said, the sea will be my preferred option for two reasons: when conditions become unfavorable, you have a quicker way to end it all; and you can manoeuvre to get some food when starving. As for water, you have it in abundance. But the desert lacks all if these.
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meteku4 wrote:None of these places is a thing to toy with. But, like others have said, the sea will be my preferred option for two reasons: when conditions become unfavorable, you have a quicker way to end it all; and you can manoeuvre to get some food when starving. As for water, you have it in abundance. But the desert lacks all if these.
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BoyLazy wrote:
meteku4 wrote:None of these places is a thing to toy with. But, like others have said, the sea will be my preferred option for two reasons: when conditions become unfavorable, you have a quicker way to end it all; and you can manoeuvre to get some food when starving. As for water, you have it in abundance. But the desert lacks all if these.
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While both of them can prove difficult and will kill you. I'm thinking starving in a dessert would be more cruel because it prolongs your death and you'll suffer. Not to say that the sea is any safer but after a few struggles you're gone.
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Both leads to death without assistance but the sea kills faster with little or no pain while the desert kills in a painful and cruel way.
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I’d imagine the desert. At least on the sea, you have hopes of food and water. Deserts are just miles of nothingness and sand, lots of sand.
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Yaaaa I agree with RegularGuy3, you can't drink and yet you are surrounded by water, but in the desert you are just not as tormented
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I think you have a little bit better chance of surviving on the water. There's more to work with as long as you're inventive. Although not very injured.
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This is definitely a hard one but I think the sea, because if your drowning and you have nothing to grab your dead. In the dessert at least you can walk until you find somewhere to hide from the elements.
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I think the sea is more cruel because at least with the desert you have something to stand on. When you are at sea, not only are you trying to stay afloat, you are also trying to stay away from the creatures of the deep, and in many cases shelter yourself from the elements. Granted, a desert has the added effect that the very ground you stand on is not helping you in any way (perhaps even making your journey more difficult).

Having said that, I think it is possible to stay alive longer at sea than you can in a desert.
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Being in the desert would be a slow death. The extreme heat and the lack of drinking water would be worse for me than in the sea.
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Both can be incredibly dangerous, of that there is no question. But I would have to say the desert is crueler. As many have said, death by sea is almost always much quicker than death in the desert.
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