So yesterday a quarter-inch splinter decided to make a cozy home in my palm. Naturally, this turned my mind to macabre thoughts. What if I was covered in these? Maybe not enough to kill me, but probably enough to make me kill myself.
Now I turn this question to you. What do you think would be an interesting way to die? Just one request. Detail is good, but no five paragraph scenarios please.
I want to be force fed silica gel.
Fish Hooks and bungie cord.
Actually I’ve always thought we should use them for capital punishment. Get one big enough that it wouldn’t even slow down, running at a high RPM, it should be painless and yet terrifyingly gory. You want to talk about deterrence… (not just for perpetrators of crime but for society doing this to people without a really damn good compelling reason)…
Being pulled slowly through the gears of a massive machine of some sort.
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Actually I’ve always thought we should use them for capital punishment./QUOTE]
The late and unlamented Qusay Hussein used a platic chipper (quite similiar to a tree chipper) for capital punishment. Evidently, feet first vs. head first makes a big difference.
As to the OP: Having something heavy dropped on me with a crane.
It would have to be a grand piano or a 100 ton weight for the best comic effect. Actually that would be rather cool to die at an elderly age from the sort of thing that only hapens in cartoons.
I don’t know exactly, but I do know the two criteria:
At some time after the age of 90, I plan to wreck my Harley at Bike Week. Finding a way to ensure the gas tank explodes would be a nice touch, I think.
Getting eaten by a lion. I think it would be nice (for the lion, not so much for me) if it were at the zoo, because a lion in the zoo probably has less opportunity to hunt live game, and would thus enjoy it more. It might actually be more grisly in the zoo, because the lion could be out of practice and not so efficient. Also, bonus points for horrified zoo patrons witnessing the event.
Oh, I would want to make sure that there was some sort of dispensation in place for the lion so that he wouldn’t be penalized after the incident.
So we only get one death? That’s kind of selfish. :dubious:
For me, the ole gut shot by a jealous husband when I’m 90.
I want to be put into an accelerator and hurled at an anti-SPOOFE. Death is too pedestrian… I want my entire conglomerate of matter obliterated in a single huge explosive release of energy.
I can’t take credit for this one, but found it many many years ago in my early wanderings on the 'net. A particularly gruesome suicide method, requiring a few lengths of rope and several lengths of piano wire, one piece of rope being longer than the wires. Secure longest rope around torso. Secure varying lengths of wire and same length rope to appendages. Secure other ends of wire and rope to bridge. Jump off bridge. The idea being that the piano wire slices off your limbs and leaves them hanging around and different heights, torso at the bottom. Voila! You have made Art! Take that, “The Gates!”
Grisly enough for you?
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It really brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?
That’s always been mine, but I want the jealous husband to catch me in the act.
Drive into the back of a flatbed truck that has a long piece of rebar hanging off the back. The rebar comes through the windshield and hits me right between the eyes and goes completely through my head. At least 5 feed is sticking out the back of my head. While still consious and staring down the length of rebar, the flatbed truck pulls away, slowly pulling the rebar back through my head. The last thing I see before I die is bits of my brains being scraped off the rebar by the windshield.
racer72, you’re my kind of people.
The suspension bridge at Cornell University has an anti-suicide fence of an unusual design: It consists of vertical bars, angled out, and bevelled, so that the end comes to a point at the top. So, climb out over the fence, hold one’s chin above the bevel, and let go. the body’s mass should be enough to pull the head down onto the bevel, causing instant, and relatively painless, death. And the after-effects, when the head can no longer be pulled down the pole, leaves either a decapitated head on the fence, or, if one’s REALLY lucky, the spine, too. Nice and gory.
Design it? Like, the worst?
I am struck by a Pepsi-Cola delivery truck. One of those large thingies with the rolling vertical doors up and down both sides. I am dragged underneath the truck for more than 2 blocks, aware that my legs are being torn away as I struggle. Then, I slip and am crushed cranially but don’t die of the crushing.
For 10 minutes. Then I die. Aware that my brain was crushed.
My, but that’s gory. 
And, of course, the knowledge that it’s Imitation Elixer that killed you is the worst part. <nodnodnodnodnodnodnod>
