I’ve already posted it, 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.
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.”
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.
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.