# Hypothetical Suicide **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 3, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848 "2008-11-03T11:23:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/1 "2008-11-03T11:23:44Z")
Okay, here you are walking alone down the street and God suddenly pops out of nowhere and says briefly “Your time has come. Choose your fate” At this point you’re practically dead, but how would you want to go out? And sorry if this offends anyone but I couldn’t think of a better scenario on which to ask the question. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/2 "2008-11-03T11:36:57Z")
Has the prize for most appropriate username been given out yet? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/3 "2008-11-03T11:45:16Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Has the prize for most appropriate username been given out yet? 🙂 Damn, now you got me wondering the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/4 "2008-11-03T12:33:12Z")
I understand this is not the easiest question to answer, so I will give my reasoning for asking, as well as my option. Whenever I’m watching a movie with someone, or watching/reading the news, and someone happens to die, I sometimes hear “Wow, I’d hate to go out like that”. There is usually never any explanation behind it. So I always wondered if people would rather be given a choice on how they go out. Of course some people will say they just want to go out naturally and unknowingly, but some people would rather take the bullet, than be burned alive, should that be the case. For myself, since I’ve never been to space or in a spacecraft, I think it would be interesting to be hop into a spacecraft and be shot into space. Then once I had taken it all in I could push the “little red button” and be blown to smithereens. That’s what I’d call going out with a bang. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/5 "2008-11-03T13:49:52Z")
I’d be pissed, and I’d say “Hey dickhead, if you’re so all powerful, you should already know this, so you just go ahead and make it happen your own damn self; don’t ask me for $hit”. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/6 "2008-11-03T13:59:47Z")
Stock answer: Old age. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/7 "2008-11-03T14:06:28Z")
I’d like to go in my sleep after perfect sex. I’d like to be about 100 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/8 "2008-11-03T14:52:03Z")
Some equipment failure connected with the Y10K bug would be near the top of the list. Torn apart by hyenas would be near the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/9 "2008-11-03T15:06:21Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > Stock answer: Old age. So God ages you 100 years in 3 seconds. > [@jali](#): > > I’d like to go in my sleep after perfect sex. > > I’d like to be about 100 or so. So God gives you the perfect orgasm and then ages you to 100 in 3 seconds. > [@Mangetout](#): > > Some equipment failure connected with the Y10K bug would be near the top of the list. So God recalculate our ways of counting the time and it’s now three seconds to the year 10,000. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/10 "2008-11-03T15:12:15Z")
I’m going to assume that my scenario would ensure that no bystandes are going to be injured by my demise. Having said that… I’d like to drive a fast car - Ferarri or Lambourghini or somesuch - at a high rate of speed, on the Autobahn or similar twisty road, and then run right off the edge of a cliff high enough that I wouldn’t stand any chance at all of living through the impact. Perhaps I’ll fill the passenger compartment with gas cans to give any witnesses the standard fireball explosion that comes with movie crashes. Great question, **Epic**! And I agree with **ivan** ; your username is a fitting one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/11 "2008-11-03T15:17:40Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Some equipment failure connected with the Y10K bug would be near the top of the list. And the bad news is the 10 is binary. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/12 "2008-11-03T15:27:21Z")
It’d be cool if an alien spacecraft landed on me. I’m pretty sure I’d be the first to die that way. Either that or skydiving. I’d aim at something. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/13 "2008-11-03T15:34:42Z")
I could only ask my tentacled master to devour me first. ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/14 "2008-11-03T15:49:49Z")
Total annihilation by antimatter. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/15 "2008-11-03T17:27:59Z")
At age 93, shot to death by a jealous husband. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/16 "2008-11-03T17:29:41Z")
Snu-snu. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/17 "2008-11-03T17:30:27Z")
say “Sorry, not my God” and walk on by. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/18 "2008-11-03T21:54:20Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > At age 93, shot to death by a jealous husband. God ages you to 93 and gets you shot to death by a jealous (gay) husband becaue you’re in bed with his (gay) husband, all in three seconds. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/19 "2008-11-03T22:00:06Z")
Falling safe. And I wouldn’t call it suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848/20 "2008-11-03T22:04:43Z")
Instant unexpected (as in not an execution situation) decapitation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-suicide/470848.md?page=2)