How Would You Choose To Die?

[phee]

If you had a choice about how you would like to die, what would you choose?

[JaneDead]

i would actually choose to die when i am old. in my sleep. wimpy maybe, but happy and peaceful for sure. i want to die knowing my kids grew up and were happy in life, that my family was happy to see me go cuz i was old and it was my time rather than it being something tragic.

[Fierce Critter]

My story wouldn't be much different from Dyno's.

Old age, still with my full facilities, in my sleep.

But if things could be really perfect, my husband and I would go at the same time, so neither of us would have to grieve. But I don't know how many couples die in their sleep at the same time.

More than likely, it'll be a Johnny/June Cash situation. One of us will go, and the other just won't be willing/able to go on long without him/her, and will follow within months at the most.

God, this is making me cry...

[JaneDead]

yep it happens like that often ^ when you are with someone for so long one of you dies and the other goes soon after. sad but something i think that for them it must be the best way.

[The_Dark]

In a Blaze of Glory. I want it to mean soemthing.

[DisturbedMania]

in my sleep.......

[Shade Everdark]

I have to go with TheDark on this one; I want my death to be for something. It sounds rather melodramatic and puerile, but I'd always hoped that my death would mean the continued life for a sizable group.

Call it, "The Martyr fantasy"....

[JaneDead]

all i want my death to mean is that i lived a full happy life.

[The_Dark]

Oh yeah "Local man saves a whole busload of of children but dies in the process..." Yeah.. like that.

[Jarodaka]

The way Blue died in Old School was pretty sweet.

[LuthienTheFallen]

right on i agree with jarod

[Darque Knight]

As long as it's quick and painless I'm ok with however it happens in the distant distant future.

[Soulrev]

I want to be slowly torn apart as I watch my executioner use a spoon to rip out my internal organs and throw them on my face. No morphine please.

[phee]

That sounds a little expensive Soulrev,

[torn asunder]

my death will come as it will - since i have no choice in it, i try not to entertain a preference, as this would eventually cause resentment/anger when it didn't happen the way i wanted it to...

[JaneDead]

^^ good point

[Proscrire]

So long as it doesn't put me up for a Darwin Award, I'm cool.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

[Daniel]

I'd rather just... not die!

[Scary Guy]

When the universe ends, if at all. I'd just rather go with never.

[nodrew]

I would prefer to die of a massive heart attack on May 17, 2010 at the age of 32. Oh wait, that's WHEN I'm going to die, not HOW.

[phee]

Do any of you have a "feeling" of how you might actually end up dying? sort of a sixth sense of how?

[Shade Everdark]

Ha ha, you mean other than dying cold and alone?

Not really.

[ManicQueen]

I would NOT like to die in the first place. But if I had to chose, I'd want it as painless as possible and fast... I think. So I guess to die in my sleep would work for me even tho most people that die while "sleeping" are really awake. I hate when people say that cuz ya gotta think about it. If someone is having a heart attack.. believe me, they DO wake up when it's happening.

So actually I don't wanna die that way. I just want it to be fast, painless and clean

B~

[Fierce Critter]

Do any of you have a "feeling" of how you might actually end up dying? sort of a sixth sense of how?

Not exactly... But I worry something happening to me and my husband having to deal with my sudden loss.

Not that he's helpless. But I handle an awful lot of the "behind the scenes" things in our lives, and we've never bothered to put our heads together and even introduce him to ANY of it. I keep meaning to sit him down and show him stuff like how to pay the bills, vet checkup schedules for the pets, how to keep the budget, etc. He doesn't even know where any of the record keeping files are on the computer.

I don't dwell on it. But I sometimes picture myself in the hospital, or even dead, and what a crappy position it would put him in - on top of having to handle burial and all that.

Even worse, both of us ending up in a fatal accident down here, and family not finding out right away and being 700 miles away - what would happen to the pets?

Yuck. Stuff that needs to be dealt with, but SO unpleasant to act on.

[torn asunder]

perhaps because i have noone special in my life, i take a somewhat different view of that... 1st, why worry about what you leave behind? you'll be dead, and the others will manage, or won't - nothing you can do about it... 2nd, if both die, how would that differ from #1? life goes on, and life is hard - who's to say if your advanced planning is helping or hurting? maybe your significant other needs things to deal with, to occupy theri time so they don't dwell on your death? you pre-paln and take all that away, it might hurt them more... i guess what i'm getting at, is live your life - the details will work themselves out on their own...