Morbid thread, but what would be your choices of how to die?

[Bouncy Ball]

And what would be your least favorite ways?

I'll start with my least favorite:

1. Falling to my death. Absolutely my worst nightmare and I literally DO have nightmares about it.

2. Being crushed to death (I'm claustrophobic).

3. Basically anything that is long and drawn out and involves huge amounts of pain. Any s-l-o-w death. (I know that's a cop-out putting everything else slow and painful into one item, but I can't think of anything else.)

The ways I'd be ok with:

1. Drowning. I've always thought of water as being friendly, so even in death I wouldn't begrudge it.

2. Burning to death as LONG as it was really fast!

3. Being shot, again as long as it was fast and I was mortally hit. This is not absolutely my favorite, as it's got to be horribly painful at first and quite shocking, but I'd take it over anything on my other list.

4. The best one: in my bed with a great view and my family all around and me being 103 years old. :-)

[mopinko]

1. i was sorry i wasn't on the plane that crashed in everglades

about 10+ years ago. i flew on that airline shortly there after, and i wasn't bothered. i thought that a fast death, followed by being eaten by gators, and recycled into the everglades just could not be beat.

[Bouncy Ball]

2. Hmm you have a point.

And oddly, though my very worst fear is falling to my death, the idea dying in a plane crash actually doesn't bother me. I think it's because I'd be IN something, not just freefalling ALONE. Does that make sense?

And especially if the plane hit the ground really really fast, it wouldn't be so bad. The only bad part would be the horrible fear you'd feel in your last moments. I mean, you'd KNOW. But I'd hope I could calm myself, talk to my Higher Power, say goodbye to earth, etc.

[mopinko]

7. i guess just waking up dead one day

is really the way to go. but you usually have to be sick for that.
and, yeah, i would like to see it coming. just not for too long.

[brainshrub]

3. Gah!

You would be okay with burning or drowning? Those are my nightmares!

Least:

1) Terminal, painful illness
2) Burning
3) Drowning
4) Falling
5) Getting killed in a useless war. (Like Iraq or Vietnam.)

Favored:

1) For my country/community/family.
2) Having sex at the age of 115.

[Bouncy Ball]

5. #2 on your favored list is FANTASTIC!!!

:rofl: What a way to go!

[WindRavenX]

4. falling to death-

Oh GOD that is one of my nightmares too x(

[Deja Q]

6. Best:

Lethal injection

[Bouncy Ball]

11. You mean like they do to prisoners on death row?

That's actually a pretty painful death. It's just that the first injection paralyzes all your muscles so it LOOKS peaceful to everyone watching. But apparently it's pretty horrible for the person experiencing it.

But that may not be what you are talking about.

[LizW]

8. Like my Grandfather

He had a heart attack while cooking breakfast one morning. He was 92. The paramedics told us he was probably gone before he hit the floor.

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Yeah my grandmother had the BEST death ever.

She was 88, had just had her favorite snack of cornbread crumbled into a glass with milk. She got on her couch and curled up under her favorite afghan and was watching some preacher on TV (she loved that stuff).

And she just fell asleep. My uncle found her and said she was SMILING for crying out loud.

What a great way to go, eh? And your grandfather, 92? Now that's sweet, too. He probably enjoyed cooking, right?

[LizW]

18. He did love cooking

He was cooking for his wife (second) that he married the day before his 90th birthday. She was a young thing, only in her sixties! ;)

[hickman1937]

9. I grew up on a lake. Drowning would be a panicked death.

Number 4 is the best.

[maveric]

10. I want to die like my parents did. In my sleep.

[Bouncy Ball]

13. I agree. Fingers crossed.

And I want to be SUPER damn old, too. I just want to see as much of history as possible. I wish I could live to be 150.

[Toby109]

14. When I die

I'd like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my gradfather did. Not yelling and scraming like the passengers in his car.

:-) Thanks Jack Handey

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I have always been terrified of drowning

That would be the worst to me.

My husband's grandmother died laughing. She was in the hospital, his mom said something funny, she laughed and her heart stopped. I always thought that would be a neat way to die.

I used to say I wanted to go quickly. But I have seen the effect a sudden death has on surviving family and I changed my mind. My bro in law had a heart attack at 43. He was jogging and dropped. They said he died instantly. He was in great health, a fitness freak, and his death shocked us beyond description. It has been nearly 10 years and his kids are still in shock over losing their dad like that. So I don't want to go quickly anymore. I would want my family to have a chance to say goodbye to me.

[loudestchick]

16. morbidity rules the lounge.

preferred: 1. stroke while sleeping
2. shot in head defending family
3. struck by lightning

most feared: 1. drowning
2. anything long and painful (stomach cancer in particular)
3. fire
4. choking

[Bouncy Ball]

19. I didn't think about lightning.

That would be on my ok list.

I also didn't think about choking. That would be on my NOT ok list. Talk about total fear. Ick. I nearly choked to death when I was seven and I still remember it vividly. When you are truly choking, you can't even make a SOUND. I had inhaled a pea and had to frantically wake my mother up, who was napping. I couldn't speak or make a sound. God, I was panicked.

[yurbud]

17. hot, cold, nurse, nuke

worst:

anything where you lose your mental abilities before your body

alone

vomitting and diarrhea to the end (interferes with last words)

male nurses

burning slowly


best:

hypothermia (you just fall asleep)

ground zero of nuke attack

@ 115, sponge bath, hot nurse

[Maestro]

20. In a wierd mood, eh BB?

I would choose number 4 in your second group without question.

[Bouncy Ball]

25. Yes, very. LOL

[Radical Activist]

21. Assasination by the government because I became too dangerous.

That's my goal in life. That's what happens to all the best mass movement leaders.

[Bouncy Ball]

26. LOL, good one.

Martyrdom, maybe?

[Radical Activist]

28. Exactly

I want to be remembered as a martyr to the cause. I want people on internet message boards talking conspiracy theories about my death, which will be revealed as a government assassination 50 years later when nobody cares anymore. hehe :)

[BigMcLargehuge]

22. Like this

[BeFree]

23. NOT

In a nursing home in Florida after 15 years of being tube fed and all of a sudden the whole damned world is sticking their cameras in my window!

Myself's (sic) fav? Leaning up against an old oak tree way back in the woods.

[Arkana]

24. Peacefully, of old age, with family around me.

[Redstone]

27. 86 years old, coronary while driving the Ferrari

at 112 mph with Social Distortion's "Story of my Life" on the CD player.

The 25-year-old black-haired waitresss who was with me would escape unharmed, though; she'd grab the wheel and bring the car to a safe stop.

Redstone

[Technowitch]

29. One word: "Never"

:D

[realisticphish]

30. to not

:D

but, i would say, either in my sleep, or a quick gunshot to the head; basically, anything quick

[libodem]

31. Either in my sleep

or just drop dead. I'm a nurse in an old folks home and I've seen a lot of death. The quicker the better. If it is one of those lingering things...plenty of Morphine, seems to ease them over gently.