# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Roman\_Caudle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Roman\_Caudle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roman_Caudle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/41 "2000-10-30T05:06:23Z")
I’m hoping to become just senile enough that people wait on me, but not enough that they stop taking me out. Then I’ll die by falling into a wishing well, just like Pa and Uncle Andis and Gramps and Aunt Lissie, and … ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/42 "2000-10-30T23:29:42Z")
Doesn’t matter to me how I die, so long as I die with a hard on. This the blessing bestowed upon me by my girlfriend of course. I wouldn’t mind not dying at all though… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/43 "2000-10-31T02:11:17Z")
Baker wrote: > [@](#): > > 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. Where did you get the Spoo? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/44 "2000-10-31T02:27:01Z")
Tracer, fresh spoo was sort of hard to find, as I’m not sure if it is animal or vegetable(there was once mention of a “spoo ranch”. So I had to leave it off the menu. But I did have “breen” aka Swedish meatballs. Since, like G’kar, I couldn’t get the real ingredients, I substituted lean beef and emu meat, the latter for a touch of the exotic. The bagna cauda turned out fine, and I had the fruits mentioned by Sheridan when he arrived on the station. No real brivari to drink, but certain Earth liquors are a tasty substitute. A Crown Royal bottle sure looks like a bottle of brivari, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Badge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Badge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badge)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/45 "2000-10-31T05:15:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BigGiantHead \* > \*\*Tie rope to tree, and around neck. Board vehicle (ensure safety devices are de-activated/unused). Place business end of handgun against temple. Accelerate rapidly towards far end of road. Right before arriving, pull trigger. If you miss, rope will still jerk your head clean off. \*\* I’ve actually seen photos of a guy who committed suicide in much the same way. Tied a rope to a tree, gunned the engine and off he went. The head was 35 feet from the car (BTW, I don’t think they could ever get the vehicle interior clean). Pretty creative. The first deputy on scene actually knew the guy. His words to the second deputy were, “I think I know that guy. But he was a lot taller the last time I saw him”. Back to the thread, I’d prefer to go out in a blazing gunfight. My wife, however, prefers I don’t follow through on this. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729/46 "2000-10-31T11:17:43Z")
Just old enough to have had a full life, but not so old as to have begun to fall apart. …Maybe while reading. I’d just like one of those tidy old-people deaths where you just slump over and pff, that’s it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-want-to-die/38729.md?page=2)