Duality

So... wouldn't that just mean the whole process o' gettin' stretched out would last longer? Therefore, a longer period of dying and likely, gravitational pain?

...Y'ain't got no plans ta toss yerself into no Black Hole, eh?

@Widdershins Yes. The  long and short of it is this: the event horizon is not responsible for stretching you out. That’s an effect of the singularity, located in the middle of the horizon. Because it’s gravitational pull is so intense it’s tidal forces are vicious. The closer you get the more difference in gravity is present. So the pull at your feet is stronger than the pull at your head and you’re stretched out. This is called spaghettification, or the noodle effect.

In a smaller black hole, like a stellar mass one, the event horizon forms closer to the singularity. Therefore in most of those instances you’re ripped apart before you cross the event horizon. But in a supermassive black hole, there’s more distance between the start of the event horizon and the singularity, so you can in theory survive the stretching for some time. Your journey would end a fraction of a second before you cross the central singularity though. 

Of course, this is all assuming you don’t faint from shock or injuries or pre existing conditions. 

 I actually just got back from Sagittarius A*. I hit the singularity with a chair shot and won the interstellar belt off of it.

@Stone Cold Steve Tuna

I will accept your $5000 payment in terms of toilet paper. By my calculations that should equate to about four rolls and seventeen squares.

If you could move faster than light you could definitely escape a black hole. The event horizon is just the point after which getting out of the hole would require superluminal speed. All directions lead to the singularity after the horizon only for subluminal objects.

You're very much correct about potentially being able to survive going past the event horizon of large black holes but getting torn apart much further from the horizon for small black holes, though. I had to do a bit of research on this since I thought the opposite would have been true, but you proved reliable once again.