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.
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?
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.
Young.
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.
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.
YEAH but I’d want Johnny the Homicidal Maniac to do it…cause everytime I hear “Spork” I think of him:)
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!”
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.
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
fantom:
It ain’t necessarily so. 
I think that getting wiped out by a massive supernova would be the most spectacular way to go.
I’m willing to wait! 
Death by orgasm
I think I’d like to die while eating.
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.
I want to be dropped on George W. Bush from 7000 feet.
Or Pauly Shore. Maybe both?
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“You might think I’m Emilo Estevez. Well, I’m not. I’m his vastly more talented but less apriciated brother.”
I’ve always liked the idea of being sucked into a jet engine. Nice and dramatic, with flames and stuff as well.
What, you mean like choking to death or something?
I’d like to die consumed by our bloated sun as it engulfs the earth.
So I’m a patient kind of guy.
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.