Suffocated

He suffocated, smothered in smoke.

She suffocated him with a pillow.

By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense.

Tom suffocated Mary with a feather pillow.

Many of the victims either burnt to death or suffocated.

Smoke enveloped him, and he suffocated.

Dan suffocated Linda with a bag.

Tom suffocated Mary with a plastic bag.

The witch and her daughter carried the weakly Queen into the bath-room, and put her into the bath; then they shut the door and ran away. But in the bath-room they had made a fire of such deadly heat that the beautiful young Queen was soon suffocated.

I don't know what's worse: being dismembered or suffocated.