Nice. 
I wonder what the equivalent is for women. Cause I don’t want to die at 80 with some dude’s head between my legs. I guess with three hot studs bringing me the wine?
Since you’re referencing the Bible specifically, you might want to check what Jesus says about people who pray without really believing, or pray to appear more pious than they really are. See Matthew 23, and Mark 12:40.
I only want to die at the moment when I want to die–when I’ve intentionally got all my business squared away, left behind instructions, and I’ve come to terms with everything.
As long as I’ve got all that going for me, I’m fine with being taken out while I’m asleep. But I don’t want my last moment on Earth to be spent in sheer terror, watching others get their heads blown off. I don’t want the worst day of my life to be the day I die.
Considering how I feel about religion right now, losing my life in a church would totally piss me off. I’d spend all of my heathen afterlife haunting the person who had dragged me to bible study against my wishes.
“OK, Sarge. CSI is guessing she died of a heart-attack after beheading the victim and shoving the head between her legs.”
Hey, he could be your last Will.
That would be embarrassing. I don’t want to be associated with prostitution, especially at 80!
Sure, it would be nice to be able to pick, but it probably would be the worst day of one’s life. Getting shot at least eliminates the dragged-out cancer option.
I think that is most churchgoers though. I don’t think even the Pope really buys all these claims.
Oh, fuuuuuck. That is gross. What was that 80s zombie movie wherein they actually did that. Reanimator!
There is a reason why people used to be buried or entombed in the grounds of their churches, back in times when life was more dear.
Although the final coup is a bit contradictory, is it not?
So, and since this is speculative, maybe lying on the floor of the altar, facing the cupula and the sky as sleep falls down permanently.
*Adds to netflix queue 
(It’s actually a pretty enjoyable movie. I liked it.)
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
–Jack Handey, maybe?
Actually, the internet says it was Will Rogers.
If the church is the only place you pray, then yes. But a prayer said in church is no better than a prayer said anywhere.
I would rather die at home with my family praying.
Am I being whooshed here? Is this thread not somehow a veiled reference to the victims of the SC church shooting? If so…Holy shit. I just can’t.
As an atheist, I can begin to agree with the principle of the OP.
There are certainly worse ways to die.
However, when put in the context of the Charleston shootings, note that there was a great deal of terror, confusion, panic, and horror. Fountains of blood, bodies falling about, etc.
If you put it in a different context – Hamlet coming up behind Polonius and shooting him once in the head – it’s less hellish.
The OP is slightly fallacious in inviting the latter, but in a day, time, and place where the former is very fresh in everyone’s memory.
Then your best bet is to become an old-Western-style gunslinger.
Well, compared to what? Let’s compare it to the death of Ronald Reagan.
Old and weak? Well, if nothing else gets you first, that is what is going to get you, no real shame in that.
But Ronald Reagan started the war on drugs during a time of declining drug crime. The United States’ prison population jumped from ~350,000 in 1982 to ~2 million today, thanks largely to Reagan’s crime policies. Many of those incarcerated are minorities- some would say the numbers prove there is some kind of discrimination going on.
Millions of black and brown people have criminal records, and it is legal to discriminate against people with criminal records. Reagan died having arranged for the disordering of the lives of millions of minority citizens. That’s terrible.
I’d rather just get shot at church.
ETA: America incarcerates a higher percentage of its black population than South Africa did during the height of apartheid!
Pretty much my stance also.
It reminds me of the story of Mary Bellows.
And, because this is just bugging me, I think the OP has missed the meaning of word aesthetic
"adjective concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
“the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure”
There is nothing aesthetically pleasing about getting shot in the head.
“Roof did good work, sending his fellow church goers to Jesus” is one interpretation.