No I am not talking about killing yourself and no I don’t want to die. I am wondering what people would choose for the way to go out if they had the opportunity?
I would want to be put on a space pod and sent into a black hole. Just to see what is inside. I always wondered exactly what is in a black hole. Maybe the secret of life or something. Who knows.
Or maybe put on a missile shot straight at Mars and crash land there. At least I would hopefully see something cool before I died. Not that I would survive the landing, but I would see SOMETHING. Or better yet Saturn. I would like to see the rings from on the planet. That would be cool. Can’t even imagine it really.
Well, I’m a Christian and I have to say that I would like to go surrounded by my Family and Loved ones and Friends (with a party going on in background) the party’s because I will be going to somewhere better than where I am now. (although hopefully not just to stand around singing all day long, I’d like to explore the universe )
tis a boring sort of passing, but it’d be what I’d want.
Drowning? Shit, that’s on par with burning to death. I would rather drink rusty nails that die that way.
I guess I was asking more along the lines of “If it was the last thing you could do and didn’t have to fear death, because you know its coming at that moment, what would you do?”
I don’t really care as long as it is instantaneous. The worst way has to be a long, painful death like Cancer, Aids, drowning, buried alive or burned alive
Another “peacefully in my sleep” guy here. Actually, dying in the arms of a lover/spouse would be my prefered way. For someone terrified of dying alone, being held by the person you hold most dear as you slip away seems very…I don’t know…nice.
Or, I’d like to die doing something heroic. Saving a loved one or family, stopping a bomb from killing others…something that in that last moment before the lights go out, I can say to myself “Eh, at least it’s worth it.”
My aunt died in a car accident while driving her neighbor, who had sliced off the first joint of two of her fingers playing with the lawn mower, to the emergency room of the local hospital. Death was instantaneous for my aunt since she was hit by one of the local oil/gas trucks. That’s the way I would like it to be. Doing something to save another, but death being fast and non painful. BTW, the woman’s fingers were sown back on, but the guy that was driving the gas/oil truck never drove again.
Being shot at by carrots fired out of a purple and green crossbow by a little furry creature named Zorb. It would have to take place on a small, volcanic planet in an eccentric orbit around a binary star system in the opposite spiral arm of the galaxy.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, but not when I’m really old. Between 65 and 75 would be ideal. I’m afraid of growing old, and would rather not.
What freaks me out is the fact that people are going to be looking at my naked body after I die, so if I could die in my sleep, but then have a fire destroy my body before anyone can look at it - that’s the ticket.
Anyone else have an unhealthy fear of people doing things to your body (just the normal funeral stuff) after you die?
When I read about that chaplain who died while giving a firefighter last rites at ground zero I decided I’d like to go doing something similar. Oh shit, now my eyes are tearing up.
I’d like my personality/memories to be digitized and uploaded onto the internet, while my body is harvested for usable organs.
Imagine the fun I could have as a sentient AI while being legally dead…
the party’s because I will be going to somewhere better than where I am now. (although hopefully not just to stand around singing all day long, I’d like to explore the universe 