Where/How would you want to die?

[Zeinland]

Well, Im asking YOU a question. Where/How would you want to die?

I would like to die in WWIII, While Flying an F-18 Hornet, and im the last of my squadron. And I go Insane, and Kamikaze the Enemy's Leader... Yes I know, quite interesting. Yes?

[Rei]

That's a cool way to die.

I'm not sure how I want to die. I just know I don't want to die in an accident or of sickness.

[bikerscars]

of extreme healthy old age in my sleep after having sex

[vulcan]

falling from space

edit:

while ODing on heroin

[OneBadMother]

Relatively Realistic: Old age in my sleep.

Unrealistic: Never die! Haha!

Very Unrealistic: Doing something cool or heroic, like saving a busful of orphans from certain death.

HIGHLY Unrealistic: Drift away peacefully with my head cradled in the lap of my INTJ friend. Maybe even get a last kiss out of the deal. :P Told you it was unrealistic.

[Rei]

of extreme healthy old age in my sleep after having sex

LOL, from OD-ing on viagra?

[ShaiGar]

I want to die in my throne room, of advanced age.

[aude]

Isnt it kinda morbid to talk about your death? I thought it was weird when i came up with ways to commit suicide that made no sense. Those being ' leaving a pair of show on a bridge with a note stating i couldnt live with my self anymore. And then watching the coggers look for my body. And another would be trying hang my self with a elastic band'. Theres more but its late and i cant think of such. :)

[klokpsykl]

I think there are three main factors in what constitutes either a poor or pleasant death.

-Time taken
Obviously a slower death would be more uncomfortable, although I think there is a threshold at which point it's taken so long as for one to become indifferent. The ultimate worst death according to this time variable would be one that occured at the maximum peak of suffering, right before suffering turned to apathy and or numbness.

-Physical pain
This one combined with the above is rather obviously unpleasant

-Emotional pain
I thought about how the emotional pain of death could be exacerbated. I think having to watch a loved one die in combination with the above two factors would be the most awful. Possibly multiple loved ones and also with no means of making physical contact or communicating with them, though still being in visual contact. Thus circumventing closure and maximising feelings of frustration and helplessness.

[deicruxified]

on a mountain peak with these sceneries i see as my last

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[snoogit]

I fully expect someone to figure out how we can live forever.

[Max T]

I fully expect someone to figure out how we can live forever.
Yes but when! ;D
You could imagine that over the next 50 yrs we'll find more effective ways to increase longevity to say 110yrs at ever decreasing financial cost individually (and at increasing societal cost?).

Trouble is would you want to. I look after my 97yr grandmother part time and she often says "never live to my age"! The mind works but the body fails her, friends have died and she thinks she's a burden.

I just want to die with a loving final thought, not a "if I could only release my hand from this electrical unit [smiley=irked.gif]" thought...
or a "why the hell didn't I see the bus [smiley=faint.gif]" thought.

[OneBadMother]

Isnt it kinda morbid to talk about your death?

Morbid, but it doesn't strike me as all that weird for some reason. It's one of those things I think about from time to time.

I hope they do figure out a way to make people live forever, with cell turnover staying the same and thus no aging. With the side effect of sterility. <_<

[rwyatt365]

I want to die as a result of a horrific accident while leading a motor race.

Something like 180MPH at Eau Rouge on the Spa track while dicing for the World Driver's Championship lead. Pushed wide onto the grass and then tumbling end-over-end for 100 yards or so.

Killed instantly, of course.

[Max T]

If it's a bullet, I don't want to hear the gunshot... ;)

[aude]

Isnt it kinda morbid to talk about your death?

Morbid, but it doesn't strike me as all that weird for some reason. It's one of those things I think about from time to time.

I hope they do figure out a way to make people live forever, with cell turnover staying the same and thus no aging. With the side effect of sterility. <_<
I think that living endlessly is not that great. Already there is a decline in children due to people becoming older. So to live for ever would mean that we would never have enough room to allow children. Its catch 22(what ever the 'ell that means :-p ), we want to live for every but are we willing to sacrifice the right to bare children for it?

[OneBadMother]

Well no, I figure people could have a choice. They could choose either to do whatever it is that makes them live forever and never be able to bear children, or have to die sometime and be able to have kids. I'd choose the former myself. Death with kids is cold comfort.

[aude]

I am a male but my choice would be not live for ever, i couldnt handle seeing every thing so many times. It would drive me to the loony bin.

[rwyatt365]

I am a male but my choice would be not live for ever, i couldnt handle seeing every thing so many times. It would drive me to the loony bin. *
Same here. I think that immortality would be eternally boring. Besides...give someone else a chance!

[Firelie]

of extreme healthy old age in my sleep after having sex


Ditto. But it would have to be great sex.

[GOD]

of extreme healthy old age in my sleep after having sex

LOL, from OD-ing on viagra?

LOL... probably from a very serious reaction to latex dolls...

[Iannus Quirinus]

I wouldn't want to die! :)
And to all those people that say life would be boring, it wouldn't, even if you're stuck on Earth alone, theres just sooooooo many things to see/do/learn. Plus if you actually pull out infinite life spawn, you'd be able to do all sorts of other things medically, like preventing boredom, getting high withouth any consequences, or erasing a part of memory. xD

Realistically:
I don't want to die, really.
No, really.
Ok, I guess I'd like to die in my bed, peacefully, of old age.

[Epicurus]

To die when you're sleeping would most likely be nice if you would just fall into it without much of pain, falling from like way up in the sky and just hitting the ground would be nice (you might as mentioned combine it with heroin), a nuclear bomb would be nice to just get caught in the wave of To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. doesn't it look peacefully except getting burned lol.

Oh and there should be like a few nice views or toughts before I would be dying, doesn't matter what really.

[Evalind]

I was actually talking about this with my husband a while ago. I'd want to die in a nuclear explosion... I just want enough time to see the mushroom cloud, say "Holy Sh*t" and then die instantly. If I was far enough away that I'd have to suffer radiation poisoning for a while before death, then forget it.

[jtskinner]

Falling in space sorta death reminds me of a Ray Bradbury short story: Kaleidoscope. If I had to chose a way of going out I'd rather die in my sleep, or quickly and painlessly. I'd rather not die an heroic death lol.

[Rei]

Well no, I figure people could have a choice. They could choose either to do whatever it is that makes them live forever and never be able to bear children, or have to die sometime and be able to have kids. I'd choose the former myself. Death with kids is cold comfort.
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I wouldn't want to live forever. I'd probably just die of boredom anyway.

but... What's the point in having children if everyone can live forever?

[OneBadMother]

There is none. Thus why there'd be that convenient side-effect.

I don't think I'd get bored, especially if there were other people around who also chose to live forever. Even if I lived forever, there would always be something new to learn or learn how to do or experience or observe, and eventually I figure I'd get interested in everything. I feel like having less than a minute to eighty years as a time frame for everything is just too short of a time. And I'll admit I fear nothingness, too. I don't like the thought of having my consciousness abruptly cut off. Though, maybe I'll change my mind in fifty years or so.

[ShaiGar]

To die when you're sleeping would most likely be nice if you would just fall into it without much of pain, falling from like way up in the sky and just hitting the ground would be nice (you might as mentioned combine it with heroin), a nuclear bomb would be nice to just get caught in the wave of To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. doesn't it look peacefully except getting burned lol.

Oh and there should be like a few nice views or toughts before I would be dying, doesn't matter what really.
My grandfather had the best death.

He came home after winning the lawn bowls championship again, went to sleep and never woke up.

[Bossy Mom]

I have often told people that I want to die in a bookstore next to the Jane Austen books. I also want to be buried in a white lace nightgown with my favorite books - Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit and Dune. I hope they don't need a special crane to lower all the weight from the coffin and books into the grave. I also want to be buried next to my mom and dad in that lovely valley in Missouri. What a view!

[Naokohiro]

I just don't want to feel like so many things in my life are still left un-done when I die...
(And hopefully nothing painful...)

[Nomad]

I want to go down fighting, and biting the ankles of my enemies with my last breath, or die in bed at the age of 100, surrounded by loved ones, shot dead by their jealous husbands.

-Nomad

[anara]

sleeping in my bedroom in my family's home when i'm in my hundreds (longevity) because of "old age".

[logan235711]

I don't care where I die as long as I feel that I have explored everything I want to--that would be enough, but we don't have that much.

[timewarpson]

I fully expect someone to figure out how we can live forever.
Yes but when! *;D
You could imagine that over the next 50 yrs we'll find more effective ways to increase longevity to say 110yrs at ever decreasing financial cost individually (and at increasing societal cost?).

Trouble is would you want to. I look after my 97yr grandmother part time and she often says "never live to my age"! * *The mind works but the body fails her, friends have died and she thinks she's a burden.

I just want to die with a loving final thought, not a "if I could only release my hand from this electrical unit [smiley=irked.gif]" thought...
or a "why the hell didn't I see the bus [smiley=faint.gif]" thought.

Gene therapy will likely be perfected before we ever reach that age. I know I don't want to go out the way my grandmothers did, or looking and feeling as they. In the near future nanomachines will replenish our innards until we can trade up to carbon nanotubes. I think that once nanotech, genetics and robotics advance sufficiently money will be a moot point as well, seen as primitive like the bartering systems of bygone times.

When we get to the point where we can build and manipulate matter, anything can be made out of anything - something akin to replicators. And we may be superseded from an evolutionary standpoint, even sooner than most people think. Once the robots start producing yet better models at an exponential pace, space might not be an issue.

Perhaps I extrapolated a little further than this thread indicated - but I don't want to die! Omniscience = Omni Science! If I can figure out how to join the Q Continuum prior to this post-human evolutionary bonanza, then I will.

[TruorTupnm]

My dream death: Spontaneous combustion while surrounded by my enemies. They'd be really freaked out, and I'd be on the news and everything. ::) Either that, or no death because I got a nice robot body.

[cielo market]

Anything's fine as long as my last emotion isn't fear :scared:
Although dying in my sleep sounds cool, like in mid-dream or something

[Motor Jax]

how about tied to the front of a nuclear warhead?

you'll be first on the scene

[Homini Lupus]

Understanding all the knowledgeable and unknowledgeable for a moment but burning my brain in the process.

[Motor Jax]

oh, being the first to be experimented on by transfer of all nuerotic processes to a machine, being the first soulless cyborg while having the capacity of human thought

but then everything goes wrong and the lab blows up...

[PHS Philip]

Well, in my fantasy world where we achieve this in my lifetime: while having my brain uploaded onto the internet :evil:

Alternately, dying after being the first human to set foot on a planet other than Earth. Send me out to the nearest extrasolar planet alone, fast enough for relativity to keep me young enough to do it. I don't care if I'm the only one out there. It's still (in my opinion) going to be the single greatest achievement of humanity, ever.

About on the same level of likelihood as those, the idea of going down fighting for a truly hopeless cause has an odd appeal to me. It's part of the reason I find the Norse so fascinating: their entire religion and way of thinking was based upon that principle.

More likely, I think it'll have to be suicide. Once my body starts to really go, it just wouldn't be worth it I don't think.





PHSphilip added to this post, 4 minutes and 7 seconds later...

Gene therapy will likely be perfected before we ever reach that age. I know I don't want to go out the way my grandmothers did, or looking and feeling as they. In the near future nanomachines will replenish our innards until we can trade up to carbon nanotubes. I think that once nanotech, genetics and robotics advance sufficiently money will be a moot point as well, seen as primitive like the bartering systems of bygone times.

When we get to the point where we can build and manipulate matter, anything can be made out of anything - something akin to replicators. And we may be superseded from an evolutionary standpoint, even sooner than most people think. Once the robots start producing yet better models at an exponential pace, space might not be an issue.

Perhaps I extrapolated a little further than this thread indicated - but I don't want to die! Omniscience = Omni Science! If I can figure out how to join the Q Continuum prior to this post-human evolutionary bonanza, then I will.

Hm, the technological singularity...

That reminds me, once I upload myself to the internet my plan is to become the singularity! :evil:

Remember, if we start uploading ourselves to technology, replacement by robots may not become an issue because we will upgrade ourselves. Humanity as we know it will die off, but it will still be what was once human, rather than what was once created by humans. Although I think that that is actually a much worse fate than replacement. But now I'm very offtopic, so I'll shut up.

[PortInStorm]

Drowning after my georgeous sailboat overturned, or after being swept overboard in a storm. Need to make sure my body would be found so my family had closure.

[MysString]

It's fun to imagine myself ending up as an awesome old lady, but for some reason, I have this feeling that I'm going to die young.
:faint: --> :dead: --> :skull:
Hehe, that's a fun illustration, but seriously, it's sort of a creepy feeling.

[Jesseh]

I want to go out with a bang. A fireworks factory would please me. Or I dunno, saving a child by pushing it out from infront of a moving vehicle.

[Snowdragon]

Preferably not screaming at some idiot (who's driving a road blocking Hummer) who cut me off.

[zibber]

LOL, from OD-ing on viagra?

Hahah, how would that go, blunt force trauma to the head?

[Seppuku Savant]

In the comfort of my own home. Painlessly in my sleep.

[MichaelH]

deicruxified, those photos are gorgeous! I'll take the mountain scene before I go.

Peacefully, in my sleep. Possibly after bashing someone evil person's head in.

[cRyPT]

Falling from some old-growth tree after saving a kitty from it.

Or nailed to a cross, dieing a heoric death. My memory would be worshipped and sensationalized by the ignorance of our race for milleniums thereafter :)