# Design Your Grisly Death

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-grisly-death/296078>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 24, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-grisly-death/296078 "2005-03-24T19:28:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Sinek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Sinek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinek)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-grisly-death/296078/41 "2005-03-26T20:26:13Z")

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> [@domenico555](#):
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> Suicide is truly not a joking matter, folks. There is more pain behind that than most of us are capable of contemplating…

That’s absolutely true. I really meant for this to be a lighthearted thread. I guess it is pretty morbid, and a little callous, but I find that gallows humor is a good way of coping with life’s occasional awfulness. Sorry for any offense this has caused.

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**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-grisly-death/296078/42 "2005-03-27T06:19:56Z")

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> [@Maladopteryx](#):
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> What do you think would be an interesting way to die?

…being mauled to death by a pack of wiener dogs.

no offense to dog maul victims

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-grisly-death/296078/43 "2005-03-27T06:26:15Z")

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> [@Maladopteryx](#):
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> I find that gallows humor is a good way of coping with life’s occasional awfulness.

I’ll agree with and support you on that.

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**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-grisly-death/296078/44 "2005-03-27T06:35:56Z")

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> [@Maladopteryx](#):
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> That’s absolutely true. I really meant for this to be a lighthearted thread. I guess it is pretty morbid, and a little callous, but I find that gallows humor is a good way of coping with life’s occasional awfulness. Sorry for any offense this has caused.

Journalists do this a lot as a coping mechanism after reading/writing of human horrors and tragedies day after day.

Jokes about gruesome crimes are not uncommon in the newsroom.

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-grisly-death/296078/45 "2005-03-27T21:45:04Z")

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Agreed. It is also a coping mechanism in the world of EMS. The reporters who watch the EMT guys pile a traumatic death victim into the ambulance are copin’ as best as they can.

The EMT guys deal, after they drop the patient off at the hospital.

It is healthier sometimes to laugh than to scream.

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