the reason for the "slashed by a thousand knives" is cause theres a torture method that is called something, and that something means death by a thousand knives, though i forgot what its called.... actually its death by a thousand cuts, lingchi or Leng Tch'e thats it!, sorry i forgot i remember there was a death metal band named that. anyways thats why they said it, imperial china used it so since this was from korea or whatever about the baby being boiled that would be why.
if you look into it, nazi germany use to freeze people to see how cold the human body could with stand being frozen, these i think, are the only studies that are still looked at by people today for research. I remember reading about that a long time ago, somewhere.
anyways, id rather be frozen if it was going to freeze me quick, but if it was a slow freeze then idk, just cold water sound better than hot water, cause water can only get so cold, where as boiling just blows.
but someone tell me this, since idk how cold 28f water would be, but how could is lets say and ice chest full of ice then water added to it and left for 30 minutes. cause when i get a drink out of an ice chest im like hmmmm wonder how cold that is.... any guess from anyone