# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lupin\_the\_3rd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lupin\_the\_3rd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lupin_the_3rd)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/41 "2003-06-09T00:05:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tastycorn \* > \*\*The question is, if you could choose what you were doing when you breathed your last breath, what would it be? > \*\* I guess I’d like to die saving the lives of others. Going out as a hero. That would be kinda neat. Or Live on television during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Under the Garfield balloon. Trampled by clowns… Either or. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/42 "2003-06-09T01:04:06Z")
I don’t plan on dying. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/43 "2003-06-09T01:34:51Z")
I want to die before i become the imbittered old woman I have convinced myself I will become if I live too long. Given my druthers I’d die in the MiddleEast where Zorostrans can dispose of my body in the most sensable way possibe, but I probly won’t have a pyre either No showing of my body. No weeping in a Funeral home. Have dinner in my honour and spread just a little bit of me in Candlestick Park. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/44 "2003-06-09T01:37:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by av8rmike \* > \*\*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:: \*\* Now see, if you hadn’t said that extra is you could have told the hero who the agent was. ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6bbea6/32.png) [@Yersinia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/45 "2003-06-09T01:54:10Z")
Painlessly, and after I’ve cleared my apartment of everything I wouldn’t want people to find when I’m dead. IOW I’d hope to be able to destroy the contents of my file cabinet and my night-table drawers, then erase my hard drive. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/46 "2003-06-09T01:55:22Z")
Here’s a whacked-out fantasy: The band I’m in has a huge cult following and we’re playing our last gig at a small club in Nowhere, USA. Just as I finish the final bass solo, my brain just shuts off for no reason. The fans cheer my death and tell tales about it for years to come. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/47 "2003-06-09T04:18:29Z")
Reaching top speed in my car and violently flipping over multiple times, on a Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/48 "2003-06-09T04:38:47Z")
In my sleep, after a fun and exciting 270th birthday party, replete with lots of family, lots of friends, lots of goofy fun, and lots of sweaty snugglebunnies. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/49 "2003-06-09T05:03:18Z")
In my nineties, in bed, after having been shot by a jealous husband after I’ve made love to his wife all night. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/50 "2003-06-09T05:13:27Z")
I’d like to be shot to death by John Wesley Harding for snoring too loud. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_B.Goode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Johnny\_B.Goode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_B.Goode)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/51 "2003-06-09T06:06:54Z")
OD on tranquilisers after parents have died, after any children I may have raised are grown up, probably in my old age but before people look at me with pain and pity, and definitely before I lose control of my bowels in a nursing home somewhere. mmmm…suicide… ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/52 "2003-06-09T06:25:52Z")
On top of Winona Ryder (she stole my heart). ---
**Author:** ![Alereon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alereon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alereon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/53 "2003-06-09T07:16:24Z")
I hope to die either instantly while taking a lot of my enemies with me, or after being shot, gasping: “OMFG AIMBOT!!@#$%&!1” Mainly, I want to either accomplish something via my death or have some REALLY nifty last words. ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401/54 "2003-06-09T11:42:17Z")
I’d like to die: in my sleep, of old age OR from ODing on sleeping pills Either way, I’d be sleeping. Just seems better that way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-would-you-like-to-die/180401.md?page=2)