Not any worse than what happened to my ancestors in Holland during the Spanish Regime in the 1500s, Hille. Some of them were drowned having stones tied about them in the Zuider Zee, some were burnt alive, others were torn limb from limb on a devilish machine called the rack. My direct ancestors were lucky, they moved accross the border into Germany.

No matter what happens, death is inevitable. The means is irrelevant.
Jim