# Are you ready to die? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895 "2012-06-21T22:19:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/41 "2012-06-22T15:15:48Z")
I’m the type of person who gets excited when the airplane hits turbulence. Maybe this will be the one! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/42 "2012-06-22T16:14:27Z")
I don’t think the poll options are adequate. I am ready to die in the sense that I am reconciled to the inevitability of my mortality and have taken steps to see that my family are taken care of if I do unexpectedly. And in fact there are things I consider worse than death But I’m not _ready_ to die. Partly because life is sweet, and partly because there are things I want to witness first. I want to see my baby grow up. I want to see my wife get her master’s degree. I want to see my favorite niece graduate from college and then medical school. I want to see my stepdaughter succeed as a photographer. I’d lose all that if I were to die soon. I don’t think worrying about death is a bad thing as long as it’s not taken to extremes. Knowledge of our mortality spurs us to seek, to strive, and not to yield. More importantly it shows us what is important and what is not. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/43 "2012-06-22T17:35:17Z")
Ask me next month, when they wheel me in for my open-heart surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/44 "2012-06-22T18:03:50Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’m comfortable with my own mortality, but am very uncomfortable with the idea of dying any time _soon_. We all go some day, but if I don’t make it to 85, I’m going to be pissed. Just make sure and change your user name to mean really old lady when you get there. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/45 "2012-06-22T22:18:40Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > If you’re fucking four at a hundred, you’ve obviously got plenty of life left in you. You misparsed the sentence. She will be fucking 4 different people at 100 years old. My father-in-law is 96 and in reasonably good shape - mentally even better than physically - so I’ve got something to shoot for. He has a 97 year old girlfriend also. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/46 "2012-06-22T22:24:24Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > My father-in-law is 96 and in reasonably good shape - mentally even better than physically - so I’ve got something to shoot for. He has a 97 year old girlfriend also. Goes for younger men, does she? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/47 "2012-06-22T22:30:40Z")
I’m a little uneasy about it because I think I’ll fuck it up somehow (insert “mostly dead” joke here). I mean, I’ve never died before. What if it’s not a straighforward process? I really wish this was me being silly. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/48 "2012-06-22T22:41:26Z")
> [@Confused dart cum](#): > > And I’m still pretty young too! ☹ Young, dumb and full of cum, huh? 😃 Bwahahahaha 😃 Maybe you just need to grow up a bit, get over the fact that like everyone else you are going to die, and pick a username that doesn’t make people think you might possibly have the mental age of a first-day Junior HS student. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/49 "2012-06-23T01:10:24Z")
I’m ready. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/50 "2012-06-23T01:57:46Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/51 "2012-06-23T02:26:50Z")
I’ve got 3 girls to raise to adulthood. One of my daughters is on the autism spectrum and I need to get her set before I kick the bucket… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/52 "2012-06-23T02:42:06Z")
OK, I’m ready now. Will someone be contacting me? ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/53 "2012-06-23T04:15:01Z")
right now is a good time, I’ll be outside in front of my building, just drive-by… ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/54 "2012-06-24T05:56:28Z")
absofuckinglutely. I’ve got some things to wrap up, but nothing essential. I know who will take my special little foster dog when I’m gone and know she’ll be okay. The other two foster dogs can and will easily adapt to a different foster home. They’re more resilient. I have no money left (no- I have $40 and an empty gas tank). I’m out of work now, so I don’t have to worry about it. The only thing I really still have to do is go to a concert with a friend of mine because I promised I would. After that, I’m absolutely ready and willing. My family is even pretty well wrapped up and most of my friends came from my job… nobody has contacted me at all since I was last at work, so I can assume they’ll be fine without me. And my girl… she’ll understand. She’ll be sad, but she’ll understand. I’m so, so ready. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895.md?page=2)