# How are you going to die?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 19, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155 "2011-01-19T01:35:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**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:** [January 20, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155/61 "2011-01-20T01:20:34Z")

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Actually, there’s a significant chance that I’ll die at home, while my partner’s off on an extended business trip. The cats will have some great meals for a while . . . until the neighbors smell something terrible.

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155/62 "2011-01-20T04:15:27Z")

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Having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that’s the way I want to go.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155/63 "2011-01-20T04:35:22Z")

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Stroke, 2069 or thereabouts.

I think I’ll be ready.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155/64 "2011-01-20T05:01:45Z")

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> [@elbows](#):
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> Now getting hit with a durian is worth worrying about!

Just getting hit by the smell is enough to kill you!

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**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155/65 "2011-01-20T06:46:23Z")

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Will just lose the will to live, 2070.

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**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155/66 "2011-01-20T08:58:03Z")

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I’m immortal, which makes me worry about where I’m gonna move when the Sun burns up the Earth in 4.5 billion years!

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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-going-to-die/568155/67 "2011-01-20T09:30:02Z")

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I always figured I’d die at around 85 falling and breaking a hip…  
… falling from a 2nd story bedroom window because her husband came home early.

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