# Poll: How would you like to die? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401 "2003-06-08T04:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/21 "2003-06-08T07:23:06Z")
Something loud, public, and newsworthy! I want my dead face on the front pages of newspapers around the country! And if some person is responsible for my death… I want to take him with me! ---
**Author:** ![pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/22 "2003-06-08T11:58:10Z")
Bugger, if **Don’t Ask** hadn’t got to the joke I wanted to submit first, I still would have been too slow to beat **donkeyoatey**. That sucks. Back to the OP, I’d like to die in a suicide effort to save the world or a group of children so I’d have some kinda building named after me. That’s never going to happen though, I’ll die in a foolish motorbike stunt at 36 probably… ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/23 "2003-06-08T12:58:14Z")
In a hammock at night, looking up at the stars and treetops. Preferably painless, just drifting off and upwards. ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/24 "2003-06-08T13:15:26Z")
Doing something impossibly heroic and noble, like that “Go, tell the Spartans…” stuff. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/25 "2003-06-08T14:57:14Z")
In the middle of a sentence, when I’ve giving the hero vital information he needs. Me: “I know who the traitor in our midst is.” ::gunshot:: Him: “Who??” "The double agent is … is … " ::dies:: ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/26 "2003-06-08T15:16:59Z")
Freezing to death as the last weak energies of our sun are disipated into the dying reaches of our system. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/27 "2003-06-08T15:23:33Z")
And **Czarcasm** condemns the entire human race while he’s at it… I’d like to die in my sleep. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/28 "2003-06-08T15:31:19Z")
I’m the dead one here! its my last day on earth and I would like to be happy dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/29 "2003-06-08T15:31:55Z")
I really don’t care, so long as I’m very old and it wouldn’t earn me a Darwin Award. I imagine the funerals of Darwin Award winners must be very awkward. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/30 "2003-06-08T15:39:59Z")
Lying on the top deck of my luxury yacht\*, floating off in the middle of the night into the vast, endless reaches of the ocean. \*I don’t have one, but I just thought it’d be cool 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/31 "2003-06-08T16:34:22Z")
[sub]**Poll: How would you like to die?[/sub]** On the upstroke. That way you get the downstroke free. 😃 D & R ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/32 "2003-06-08T16:40:52Z")
I’d like to go by being hit by a Budweiser truck. That way, my family could sue the beer maker for assault or something and the sting of my demise is not so harsh with a nice big fat settlement helping them through a bad time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/33 "2003-06-08T16:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD… I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it. - Jim Morrison ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stranger\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@The\_Stranger\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stranger_1)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/34 "2003-06-08T17:03:03Z")
With my boots on. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/35 "2003-06-08T17:36:45Z")
**Mudshark** and I want to be crushed into a mutual glob by either a large safe, an anvil, or a grand piano. Preferably the anvil. I think it’s awfully romantic. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/36 "2003-06-08T22:24:08Z")
To fall into a black hole. I’d get to see the end of the universe, and all the laws of physics completely break down. It would probably be the most amazing sight possible. I just hope being torn apart by extreme gravity isn’t too painful… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/37 "2003-06-08T22:24:48Z")
Being a romantic, it’d be in bed with my wife/lover. Not necessarily after sex (during would just be too traumatic, even if the most fun way to go), but in a state of contentment and peace. Tacky maybe, but like I said, I’m a romantic. Hopefully, I’ll be a very OLD romantic. Or by being blown up reeeal good. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/38 "2003-06-08T22:54:56Z")
I don’t care. Just make it painless. ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/39 "2003-06-08T23:21:57Z")
On my first sky-diving lesson, my parachutes fail above a small town’s city hall, and I get impaled on the upraised sword of a bronze statue of some forgotten hero of the Turko-Mexican war, scaring the pigeons and waking up the drunks. News and pictures at 11:00. ---
**Author:** ![tastycorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@tastycorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tastycorn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/40 "2003-06-08T23:54:05Z")
**El Elvis Rojo** I hope she is going too, cause otherwise, eewwwww. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401.md?page=3)