# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/21 "2009-12-04T16:01:22Z")
Calamity/misadventure? One of those straight-down plane crashes would do the trick nicely. Not a glancing-blow crash-landing kind of thing where some people survive with grievous injuries, but a vertical impact at several hundred MPH where there’s nothing left larger than a few inches. Once you’re past the fear over the ending of your life _(think Jeff Bridges in [Fearless](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_(1993_film)))_, the actual snuffing itself would be painless; your body and brain would be absolutely obliterated before you’d have any chance to perceive any pain signals. Self-termination? I’d go get a giant garbage bag full of argon (TIG welder in the garage); lie down in bed; insert head in bag, tape snugly to neck; and breathe normally. Pass out painlessly, die from asphyxia before CO2 builds up to uncomfortable levels. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/22 "2009-12-04T16:13:28Z")
I’d like to explode, just walking down the street. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/23 "2009-12-04T16:14:10Z")
At home, in bed, at an advanced age. I don’t like excitement. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/24 "2009-12-04T21:07:30Z")
Instantaniously and totally unexpectedly. ---
**Author:** ![There\_is\_no\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@There\_is\_no\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/There_is_no_God)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/25 "2009-12-04T21:15:18Z")
Decapitation. I want to experience, firsthand, how long the brain stays conscious after separation. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/26 "2009-12-04T21:40:20Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Peacefully in my sleep at the ripe old age of 318. > > Not screaming in terror like my passengers. Hahahaha! That was the laugh I needed. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/27 "2009-12-04T22:11:35Z")
> [@superdenseprotohippy](#): > > Snu-snu. Sorry, that will only get you a fractured pelvis. 😉 A long time ago my best friend and I agreed to die at 80 years old of carbon monoxide poisoning during a sleepover. This still seems like the best way to go, but I’ve agreed with my husband to live until 100, so I will modify the plan somewhat. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/28 "2009-12-04T22:35:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Killed in action by the jealous-with-cause husband of a 25-year-old supermodel at age 105. On an upstroke! That way, you get two more strokes in. One when you fall, the other when they pull you off. I cannot be the only one that’s heard this. But I was the first to post! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/29 "2009-12-04T22:56:04Z")
Benny Hill once told a story of a monarch of a country where the women were… BIG (said with appropriate hand gestures). The king had a whole bunch of wives - big ones, of course. He was a little withered up old thing, about thirty. One day, he got stuck in a revolving door with a couple of his wives - BIG ONES! - and he was massaged to death. It took the morticians days to get the smile off his face. \* (Hill’s pronunciation of “massaged”, with the emphasis on the first syllable, made this anecdote memorable.)\* Steven King once suggested that most of us would prefer to die at age 90, after a wonderful meal, a bottle of truly excellent _vino_, and a really super lay. _(He went on to observe that no one really wanted to experience being slowly crushed under a truck, with cold and dirty oil dripping from the crankcase on your face - but then that’s King for you)._ My dad always said he wanted to be shot at age 90 by a jealous husband - and to be guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/30 "2009-12-04T23:10:28Z")
I want to die due to the Earth exploding. I don’t think the world should get to keep on living after me. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/31 "2009-12-05T00:33:02Z")
[Here are some other answers…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=490916&highlight=%22hypothetical+suicide%22) Mine is included there… ---
**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:** [December 5, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/32 "2009-12-05T00:44:53Z")
Suicide . . . something quick and painless, and not involving fire or water. Seriously, I imagine at some point in my later years, my various medical problems will catch up with me, and life will no longer be worth living. Especially if I have mental impairment, I will live it up as long as I can, and then end it all. I saw Alzheimer’s turn my father into a vegetable, and what it to my mother. I wouldn’t want to put my partner through that. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/33 "2009-12-05T00:51:24Z")
Fighting the horde, singing and crying “Valhalla, I am coming”. What? You expected anything less from me? Seriously? Have you been paying attention? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/34 "2009-12-05T00:57:21Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Death by orgasm. > > Oh Yeah!! Personally, I want my brain fucked out, but yeah, this. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/35 "2009-12-05T01:01:01Z")
Flying beyond the event horizon of a black hole. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Mumble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Captain\_Mumble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Mumble)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/36 "2009-12-05T01:08:06Z")
I want to go out the say way I came in. Naked,screaming and covered in someone else’s blood. Or a heart attack on stage - guaranteed, people will think it’s part of the show. On the plus side, I won’t have to help with the lugout. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/37 "2009-12-05T01:30:35Z")
> [@Captain\_Mumble](#): > > On the plus side, I won’t have to help with the lugout. “What are you complaining about? _We_ have to walk back!” ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/38 "2009-12-05T04:12:13Z")
Driving a stolen Ferrari into a brick wall at 170 MPH in front of a crowd of terrified onlookers, laughing maniacally the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/39 "2009-12-05T05:04:11Z")
When I’m, say, ninety years old, and I’m flying home from Africa after establishing a hospital or doing something good like that, I want the plane to crash into the sea. I feel kind of bad about the other passengers, but meh. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/40 "2009-12-05T05:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=superdenseprotohippy] Snu-snu. [/QUOTE] What the hell is snu-snu??? 😕 OK I just Wikipedia’d it… Now I understand!! (No TV since the 90s, miss lots of cultural references!! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970.md?page=3)