# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/41 "2009-12-05T07:01:25Z")
I’ve already [posted it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7778232&postcount=38), but I’ll repeat myself for vanity’s sake: Step One: Shave my head. Step Two: Tie myself to a 220 foot bridge by the ankles with 110 feet of rope. Step Three: Tie 90 feet of 400lbs fishing line around my neck and to the bridge. Step Four: Superglue my hands to my head. Step Five: Jump off the bridge. Unfortunately, this is not original, but it’s still my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/42 "2009-12-05T07:05:48Z")
Kidney failure. At the time James Michener died from it, experts were pointing out that that’s probably one of the most pleasant ways to go as far as discomfort goes. You just sort of gently drift off, they said. But I’m reminded of the old joke: “I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, and not screaming and yelling like his passengers.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/43 "2009-12-05T07:07:47Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Death by orgasm. > > Oh Yeah!! You’d hardly know if you were coming or going. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/44 "2009-12-05T10:57:52Z")
Driving off of a cliff on a nice sunny day a la Thelma & Louise. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/45 "2009-12-05T13:52:28Z")
If I can’t die in my sleep, without being in pain for days, I vote for assassination. One bullet. Either that, or getting disoriented and falling off of Mt. Everest. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/46 "2009-12-05T15:25:42Z")
Vacuum metastability event. The universe as we know it being annihilated at light speed. > [@MrDibble](#): > > Killed by absorption into the Omega Point. Aren’t you supposed to be reborn, at least in simulated form, at the Omega Point? ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/47 "2009-12-05T20:19:45Z")
> [@picker](#): > > I’d like to explode, just walking down the street. For some reason this really made me laugh when I read it. ---
**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 5, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/48 "2009-12-05T21:39:07Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Aren’t you supposed to be reborn, at least in simulated form, at the Omega Point? That’s kind of the point. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/49 "2009-12-05T21:59:32Z")
When I die, I’m taking you all with me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/50 "2009-12-05T22:05:39Z")
Being slowly crushed under a truck, with cold and dirty oil dripping from the crankcase on my face, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/51 "2009-12-05T22:46:04Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Being chased off a cliff by a team of topless roller derby girls. Better than live organ donation. ---
**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 6, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/52 "2009-12-06T04:22:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Being slowly crushed under a truck, with cold and dirty oil dripping from the crankcase on my face, actually Been readin’ your Stephen King again, huh? Whatsamatta, dying in bed after a super lay and some great vino not good enough for ya? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/53 "2009-12-06T05:27:59Z")
Since Star Trek answers are allowed: Death by Nexus. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/54 "2009-12-06T05:47:09Z")
I’m partial to the idea of being transfixed to the wall by a whaling harpoon, after a night of rum binging. Picturesque, what? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/55 "2009-12-06T06:00:58Z")
I would like to be called out on an untenable proposition, and vanish in a puff of logic. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/56 "2009-12-06T06:43:21Z")
Anything that happens fast, completely enough that they don’t try to bring me back, while I’m having fun, and while I’m still young. Drunkenly riding a motorcycle off a skyscraper could be cool. ---
**Author:** ![History\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b19c9b/32.png) [@History\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Geek)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/57 "2009-12-06T07:13:01Z")
Please, please, just don’t let it be one of those diseases they have on _House_. The half-dozen false-start treatments that make the actual illness much more painful and nigh-fatal would really be irritating. And then being in one of the episodes where they actually lose a patient would just be the cherry on that suck-sundae. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/58 "2009-12-06T08:52:48Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > You’d hardly know if you were coming or going. Believe me, I’d know;) ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/59 "2009-12-06T10:04:45Z")
One is white and the other is yellow. ---
**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 6, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970/60 "2009-12-06T12:32:13Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > One is white and the other is yellow. Yeah, but if you’re dying, either one could be any color. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose-the-method-of-your-death-what-would-it-be/519970.md?page=4)