# If you HAD to be executed, how would you want to go?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 12, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541 "2014-03-12T15:25:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/1 "2014-03-12T15:25:26Z")
Let’s say that you’re going to be executed. There’s no way for you to get out of it, no new evidence that could overturn your case, no last minute rescues by the governor or the legislature coming your way. By this time next month, you are GOING to be dead, period.
But, you get to choose how they end your life.
What would you choose?
For me, I would choose … HIGH EXPLOSIVES! Strap a whole bunch of explosives to my body, and set them all off at once. Make sure they use enough C4 that not only will there be zero chance of my survival, there won’t be much left of me _at all_ after the fact. And they have to film it with high-speed cameras, like they do on _Mythbusters_, and make the video available for the whole world to see. It will be AWESOME!!
Oh, and if any pieces of me survive which are large enough to still look like body parts, they have to take pictures of those as well and let the world see _them_. Might as well leave my mark, eh?
---
### Author:  [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/2 "2014-03-12T15:34:08Z")
Death by snu-snu.
---
### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/3 "2014-03-12T15:43:30Z")
Snu-snu sounds like fun … at first. Kinda like death by pizza overdose. Near the end, it _will_ become torture.
---
### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/4 "2014-03-12T15:49:40Z")
1. real answer, lethal injection.
2. fantasy answer, snu-snu for sure. Bring on that line of 18 year old boys and let the fun…I mean execution commence!
---
### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/5 "2014-03-12T15:53:58Z")
Crucifixion.
On the off chance that the Christian faith is real, I don’t want Jesus lording his suffering over me. Oh, boo hoo, you willingly died a horrific death for all mankind’s sins; I did it out of spite.
---
### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/6 "2014-03-12T16:00:54Z")
I’d go with the explosives too
---
### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/7 "2014-03-12T16:00:56Z")
Either shotgun to the head or some sort of explosive. Something quick and painless.
Maybe I could be strapped to a nuclear bomb? That might be cool.
---
### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/8 "2014-03-12T16:02:25Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#):
>
> Crucifixion.
>
> On the off chance that the Christian faith is real, I don’t want Jesus lording his suffering over me. Oh, boo hoo, you willingly died a horrific death for all mankind’s sins; I did it out of spite.
From what I’ve read, Crucifixion is one of the worse ways to die. Incredibly painful and not quick.
Scaphism would probably be worse, IMO.
---
### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/9 "2014-03-12T16:02:31Z")
Heat death of the universe.
---
### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/10 "2014-03-12T16:03:22Z")
I’m good with a gunshot or a guillotine if we’re talking about methods of execution that have actually been used. I don’t really see how you can die any more quickly than that (assuming it’s done right).
I also have no problem with some kind of anesthesia applied to excess, though I’m not sure that the current procedures for lethal injection fit what I’d want.
---
### Author:  [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/11 "2014-03-12T16:07:34Z")
Sarcasm.
---
### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/12 "2014-03-12T16:10:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
>
> Heat death of the universe.
Only if it happens in the next month! You know the rules!
---
### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/13 "2014-03-12T16:28:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
>
> Heat death of the universe.
> [@tracer](#):
>
> Only if it happens in the next month! You know the rules!
I’ll leave the details to the executioner. I would never presume to tell him/her how to do his job!
---
### Author:  [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/14 "2014-03-12T16:38:32Z")
Not safe for work:
[I should imagine being chased off a cliff by a squad of beautiful naked women would be a fine way to go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ)
---
### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/15 "2014-03-12T16:39:32Z")
Whatever the method I just want it to happen suddenly, none of this watching the clock tick down to zero guff.
Ideally they will get a ninja to creep up behind me and put a bullet in my head the night before the scheduled execution time, just as I’m finishing my last meal.
---
### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/16 "2014-03-12T16:45:59Z")
Old age. Preferably as the last person on earth.
---
### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/17 "2014-03-12T17:08:18Z")
Sticking to “modern” execution methods: Hanging. Firing squad second choice. Electrocution and gas chamber would be horrible. And lethal injection would also be very bad if it doesn’t go right (which happens all too often).
There are occasional screwups with hanging, but it’s quite unlikely with a careful hangman.
For more old-timey methods, the uncertainty of consciousness after beheading makes me wary of that one. But probably the best compared to burning at the stake and all those.
---
### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/18 "2014-03-12T17:12:27Z")
Changed my mind; I’ll go with cannabis overdose.
---
### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/19 "2014-03-12T17:23:24Z")
Always wondered about the beheading thing.
If I got to go, at least it would give me something to focus on which I am curious about.
Or maybe dropped from 12,000 ft AGL with no parachute. Gives time for some thought but relatively painless I would think.
**Y** our **D** eath **M** ay **V** ary.
---
### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/20 "2014-03-12T17:23:46Z")
[Had this discussion just over a year ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=677271&highlight=asphyxiation)
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541.md?page=2)