# How do you want to die? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2000, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729 "2000-10-28T09:02:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/21 "2000-10-28T20:19:57Z")
I would like to die while saving someone else’s life. In doing so, I ensure my own immortality by being remembered by everyone around me, especially the person I saved. If that doesn’t work out then I’d like to make an outrageous loan with a loan shark and spend it all in Vegas, then take part in a wild orgy and die of exhaustion in a carbon-monoxide filled bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/22 "2000-10-28T20:50:30Z")
I don’t really have anything specific in mind, as long as it’s something totally bizarre so that 100 years later, people are still talking about it. I could be a Jeopardy Question: “For $300, this SDMB poster died while skydiving after his parachute didn’t open, but he landed in an enormous hay stack which was being stacked for admittance into the Guiness Book of World Records and survived the fall, but the needle in the haystack poked him in the eye as he tried to get out and he stumbled blindly onto a rattlesnake which bit him in the ankle and as he hopped on one foot holding his swollen ankle, he fell through a weak spot in a cave ceiling that was underneath him and then fell into an underground stream which carried him 100 yards to an underground lake where the Underground Lake dwellers who call themselves “Janleperians” gave him a peaceful offering of some muchrooms which they consider a delicacy, but turned out to be extremely poisonous to surface-dwellers and he died instantly.” Um, what was that middle part again, Alex? ---
**Author:** ![WiredGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@WiredGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WiredGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/23 "2000-10-28T20:52:20Z")
I plan on dying when I’m 90 by jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. I get the greatest high doing free fall, it would be the best way to go. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/24 "2000-10-28T21:08:27Z")
Young. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/25 "2000-10-29T00:31:12Z")
Ummm I’d rather not, thank you. I’ll just have the soup. Okay, seriously, I’d like to die peacefully, sitting in a lawn chair, looking at the ocean. There should be some boats. Maybe even a whale or two. My grandchildren would be there, so as to carry my body back. They will be at peace with my ending, of course. I’d also like to be about 850, 'cause I enjoy this place too much, and I’m in no hurry to leave. You have a lovely planet here. I’m glad I came. Too bad about the infestation. ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/26 "2000-10-29T01:41:54Z")
I would like to die robbing a bank, in a wild shoot out with the police. It will be when I’m old, but not so old that people say “oh look at that pathetic old man trying to rob the bank.” I figure I will either be killed by the police, or I will survive and spend the rest of my life rich in Jamaica. Its a win-win situation. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/27 "2000-10-29T01:48:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > \*\*I want to be stabbed to death with a spork. \*\* YEAH but I’d want Johnny the Homicidal Maniac to do it…cause everytime I hear “Spork” I think of him:) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/28 "2000-10-29T03:00:43Z")
Definitely something dramatic…perhaps being sucked into a tornado. However I go, I don’t want it to be something mundane. I’d like even the most jaded of paramedics to say, “Woah! I’ve never seen anybody go like **that** before!” ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/29 "2000-10-29T03:29:02Z")
Bumbazine: Methuselah lived to 900 years. Yea Methuselah lived to 900 years. But what’s the use of livin’ If no gal is gonna give in To a guy who’s 900 years old? Seriously, in my sleep. Exhausted sleep, after 12 hours straight of sex with MGibson’s 20 year old. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/30 "2000-10-29T03:57:08Z")
Or as I said in a previous sig: * * * Voted “Most likely to die in a shootout with the Texas Rangers” by the Longview High School class of 2000 * * * ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/31 "2000-10-29T04:24:40Z")
**fantom:** It ain’t necessarily so. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/32 "2000-10-29T15:32:06Z")
I think that getting wiped out by a massive supernova would be the most spectacular way to go. I’m willing to wait! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/33 "2000-10-29T20:01:59Z")
Death by orgasm 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/34 "2000-10-29T20:16:22Z")
I think I’d like to die while eating. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/35 "2000-10-29T21:55:40Z")
How about finally getting everything paid off, having settled up with all your enemies, leaving your friends and family happy that you lived. Gently, quietly, with dignity and no tears. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/36 "2000-10-29T22:42:12Z")
I want to be dropped on George W. Bush from 7000 feet. Or Pauly Shore. Maybe both? – “You might think I’m Emilo Estevez. Well, I’m not. I’m his vastly more talented but less apriciated brother.” ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/37 "2000-10-29T23:07:27Z")
I’ve always liked the idea of being sucked into a jet engine. Nice and dramatic, with flames and stuff as well. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/38 "2000-10-30T00:37:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ThisYearsGirl \* > \*\*I think I’d like to die while eating. \*\* What, you mean like choking to death or something? ---
**Author:** ![sliv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sliv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sliv)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/39 "2000-10-30T03:15:58Z")
I’d like to die consumed by our bloated sun as it engulfs the earth. So I’m a patient kind of guy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/40 "2000-10-30T04:58:22Z")
ThisYearsGirl, I liked your post about dying while eating. I presume you didn’t mean dying as a RESULT of eating though. Seriously, that’s one I never thought of and it sounds good. I’m in food service for a living(look at my name) and I do love food and its comsumption. I like to plan theme dinners for friends, like the Babylon 5 dinner where almost everything on the menu had been mentioned, or at least visible, on the show. As an aside, you really have to like garlic and anchovies to eat bagna cauda. Anyway, your idea sounds good to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729.md?page=3)