# If you HAD to be executed, how would you want to go? **URL:** \ **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:** 4
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/61 "2014-03-13T16:45:34Z")
Asphyxiation. While on the Moon. At least you wouldn’t need to engineer a return trip. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/62 "2014-03-13T19:15:13Z")
Drop a safe on me. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/63 "2014-03-14T02:34:10Z")
Multiple organ harvest, for transplantation. While in an induced coma. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vegetable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Space\_Vegetable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vegetable)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/64 "2014-03-14T07:11:32Z")
Blowgun from orbit. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/65 "2014-03-14T09:24:52Z")
> [@Space\_Vegetable](#): > > Blowgun from orbit. Blowjob in orbit ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/66 "2014-03-14T13:50:53Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > 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. Yeah, this is pretty much me too, and in particular the “by surprise” part. I wanna be switched off like a light, and I don’t want to think about it while it’s about to happen. It’d be ok if someone behind me in the courtroom did it a second or two after the judge read my sentence. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/67 "2014-03-14T14:06:51Z")
Put me in an open limo and drive me through Dealy Plaza. Let someone use a rifle identical to Oswald’s and blow my head off just where JFK got his. Film the whole thing at high speed and prove once and for all that my head would quite naturally go back and to the left. ---
**Author:** ![CrimeThink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CrimeThink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrimeThink)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/68 "2014-03-14T14:59:43Z")
Felix Baumgartner style jump with no parachute. I can’t think of where I would like to land yet, but I would want it to interrupt an important televised event just for kicks. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/69 "2014-03-14T15:41:50Z")
I was going to say Nitrogen asphyxiation, but for the greater good of the SDMB, I’ll opt for beheading by guillotine. Beforehand, we will establish a foolproof protocol that will enable me to signal whether I remain conscious. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/70 "2014-03-14T16:06:14Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > …Beforehand, we will establish a foolproof protocol that will enable me to signal whether I remain conscious. I’m curious as to what this might be. Conceivably every muscle in your head will be paralyzed and immobile whether you’re conscious or not. Oh, and I forgot to mention – thanks for this generous offer! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/71 "2014-03-14T18:43:09Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Drop a safe on me. Sorry, that’s only for cartoon characters. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/72 "2014-03-14T19:10:57Z")
Guillotine. Chop chop! Even if I remain conscious for a few seconds, that would actually be kinda cool – you know? ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/73 "2014-03-14T19:25:35Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Put me in an open limo and drive me through Dealy Plaza. Let someone use a rifle identical to Oswald’s and blow my head off just where JFK got his. Film the whole thing at high speed and prove once and for all that my head would quite naturally go back and to the left. Yeah, but _yours_ could have been a conspiracy too. Just the kind of thing the government would do, you know? 😃 Having an astronaut who didn’t have to come back to Earth would make a trip to Mars quite a lot easier. If I had to die, I might contact NASA . . . ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/74 "2014-03-14T19:49:00Z")
The governor’s sworn not to pardon me, huh? Okay, fine. I want to be clubbed to death–instant head pulverization. The business end of the club should be a 50-pound weight of lead inside the governor’s preserved skull. Your move, guv. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/75 "2014-03-14T23:55:45Z")
Guillotine or firing squad. Short and to the point. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/76 "2014-03-15T00:03:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m curious as to what this might be. Conceivably every muscle in your head will be paralyzed and immobile whether you’re conscious or not. Why? The cranial nerves would not be severed. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/77 "2014-03-15T06:37:27Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Can I hold my breath longer in a vacuum then the supposed 15 seconds of useful consciousness. (I assume panic and adrenaline is the main factor) If you **HOLD** your breath in a vacuum, your lungs will rupture. Ask any SCUBA diver what the effect would be if you swam down to 30.5 feet depth, took a nice deep breath of air from your tanks, and then shot to the surface while holding your breath. \ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/78 "2014-03-15T08:03:06Z")
On second thought . . . I’d love to be the first human on Mars. No return trip necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/79 "2014-03-15T09:26:20Z")
Death by nuclear explosion. (I’m kind of torn if I’d rather be standing right next to the thing when it went off, or just far enough away that I could see the flash, but close enough to still be quickly ripped apart by the shockwave) Realistic choice: Firing squad. Standing, no blindfold. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Merton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Frank\_Merton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_Merton)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541/80 "2014-03-15T10:46:51Z")
Does the manner really matter? I guess I would want it short and quick and painless but the main issue is they gonna kill me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-executed-how-would-you-want-to-go/683541.md?page=5)