10 Video Game Fates Worse Than Death (Commenter's Edition)
5. Ghoulification - Fallout
Those poor, poor Ghouls. As monstrous as they might look, Ghouls are actually fully sentient humans who have been ravaged by the effects of radiation exposure, causing huge damage to their skin and bodies.
Though they still retain most of their mental faculties and can live for potentially hundreds of years, they're also in never-ending pain, are rendered sterile, can turn irreversibly feral at the drop of a hat, and are basically viewed as pariahs by society at large.
The most horrifying potential of the Ghoul's life is realised in the Fallout 4 side quest "Kid in a Fridge," where a Ghoul child named Billy Peabody is discovered in a fridge, having hid there 200 years prior when the Great War started.
Unable to free himself or even die, he had no choice but to just hang out until rescued.
As if trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic hellhole isn't hard enough, most people hate Ghouls simply for how they look. It all adds up to an eked-out existence that's absolutely not worth it.