# If you had to choose the method of your death, what would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 4, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970 "2009-12-04T08:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/1 "2009-12-04T08:49:00Z")
Leaving Las Vegas for me, all the way. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/2 "2009-12-04T09:12:05Z")
Death by orgasm. Oh Yeah!! ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/3 "2009-12-04T09:20:15Z")
Killing spree. ---
**Author:** ![Peg\_Leg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@Peg\_Leg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg_Leg)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/4 "2009-12-04T09:33:42Z")
Eaten alive by bugs. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/5 "2009-12-04T10:03:06Z")
Fight with a tiger! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/6 "2009-12-04T10:54:04Z")
I’m a traditionalist: in my sleep and having Advanced Age and Being Alive as my main medical conditions. I even have a good shoot at it, given the family’s medical history. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/7 "2009-12-04T12:15:46Z")
Being chased off a cliff by a team of topless roller derby girls. Not really. I’d like to die in my sleep, in the midst of a wonderfully warm and pleasant dream. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/8 "2009-12-04T12:30:34Z")
Well, I’d like to know somehow ahead of time when I’m going to die. And then before I die naturally, kill myself; sort of a way to spite fate or nature as it were. Assert my own choice. As to how; I’d prefer it to be by jumping off a cliff…wired with explosives…shooting myself in the head…into a huge pool of flaming gasoline. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/9 "2009-12-04T12:47:00Z")
Parachute failure while having sex in free fall. On my 125th birthday ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/10 "2009-12-04T12:51:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Parachute failure while having sex in free fall. > > On my 125th birthday Yeah, but what are going to do for the last half of the free fall ? 🙂 Bll “trigger finger” fish ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/11 "2009-12-04T12:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah, but what are going to do for the last half of the free fall ? That’s when I’d drink the bottle of 125 year old Mouton Rothschild I brought along to celebrate. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/12 "2009-12-04T13:30:29Z")
Killed by absorption into the Omega Point. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/13 "2009-12-04T14:05:04Z")
Acute alcoholism at age 100! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/14 "2009-12-04T14:51:03Z")
Killed in action by the jealous-with-cause husband of a 25-year-old supermodel at age 105. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/15 "2009-12-04T14:57:28Z")
Assimilated by the Borg. ---
**Author:** ![superdenseprotohippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@superdenseprotohippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superdenseprotohippy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/16 "2009-12-04T15:07:19Z")
Snu-snu. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/17 "2009-12-04T15:29:23Z")
Peacefully in my sleep at the ripe old age of 318. Not screaming in terror like my passengers. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/18 "2009-12-04T15:32:31Z")
Something quick. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/19 "2009-12-04T15:39:04Z")
Old age. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/20 "2009-12-04T15:54:20Z")
This might sound weird, but bear with me. . . I’d like to die of systemic sepsis, in a hospital, with morphine. WTF? Let me explain: About 12 years ago, I had a particularly bad kidney stone attack. I went to the ER on Sunday night, they sent me home with Percocet (for pain) and Phenergan (for nausea) and told me to come back if I developed a fever. By Monday morning, I had a fever. But I was too sick to _find my thermometer_. And I didn’t give a fuck. I felt like if I could just be left alone to sleep, I’d be fine (and I would’ve been. . .because I’d have been dead). My MIL, though, interfering bitch she is, eventually _insisted_ I go to the hospital. By the time I got there, my temp was 104.7 and my blood pressure was 70/30. See, the stone had blocked the ureter completely, and there was _urine backing up into my blood stream_, causing a systemic infection. They removed the stone _immediately_, via 'scope. Started me on IV antibiotics. But I’d had so many antibiotics over the year, and was _so_ resistant to so many of them, that for a week, my temp was still spiking as high as 105.2 at night, not getting lower than 102 or so during the day. Finally, my urologist called in a nephrologist for a consult. The neph changed one of my antibiotics and added another. Worked within two days. By the time the antibiotics were _working_, I though “Holy fuck, that could have _killed_ me”. Later, I discovered that the urologist had told my hubby if I lived through the first three days, my chances were good. But my odds of living through those first three days were 50/50 at _best_. The whole time, they kept shooting me up with morphine, and I was too damned sick to realize how sick I was. I could have drifted off any time during that time, and not minded at all. In retrospect, I’m really glad I didn’t die, because I actually cried six months later when my husband told me he’d spent two days trying to figure out how to tell our daughters that “Mommy’s dead”. My kids needed me. I’m glad I lived. (It was also the only time in his entire atheist life that he ever went to a chapel and _prayed_. He didn’t get anything out of praying, but the fact that he _did it_. . .that made me cry, too; hey, what can I say? I’m a wuss). But when it’s my time to go, there are worse ways to bow out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970.md?page=2)