# So if you had to die, what funny way would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619 "2006-09-14T00:01:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/41 "2006-09-15T11:19:11Z")
My long time wish has been to die in a Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/42 "2006-09-15T11:29:34Z")
Can I change my mind? Beaten to death by clowns; that’s the _definition_ of a funny way to die. ---
**Author:** ![FrantzJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7c8e57/32.png) [@FrantzJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrantzJ)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/43 "2006-09-15T11:40:07Z")
I’d like to be stabbed to death with an ice axe in a climate devoid of ice, on the opposite side of the globe from where I was born. Is this taken? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FrantzJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7c8e57/32.png) [@FrantzJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrantzJ)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/44 "2006-09-15T11:43:16Z")
Wait, damn. Trotsky was actually born in NYC. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/45 "2006-09-15T14:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Beaten to death by clowns; that’s the _definition_ of a funny way to die. [/QUOTE] Especially if they’re _sad_ clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/46 "2006-09-15T14:46:05Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Especially if they’re _sad_ clowns. [/QUOTE] No, that would be _ironic_. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/47 "2006-09-16T13:58:39Z")
At first I read that as “Eaten to death by clowns”… which was certainly an odd twist… ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/48 "2006-09-16T14:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] While blowing a clown baloon, I trip over my own feet. This causes me to inhale the balloon. I try mightily to get the thing out of my throat, or convey that I am choking. But, the kids just think I’m doing a hilarious shtick. I turn various colors, thrash like crazy, emit weird sounds, and expire. A minute later, the balloon pops and my tensed muscles cause my corpse to projectile vomit. Several parents are covered in my last meal. [/QUOTE] But if the balloon _didn’t_ pop… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/49 "2006-09-16T15:10:49Z")
I’m not sure if this counts, but: People who have seen and heard me sleep tell me I must have some form of sleep apnea. I do the whole stop and start breathing thing, snore/snort horribly, etc. They tell me I should see a doctor and get it treated because I could, well… die in my sleep. I say, “No, that’s how I **want** to die, in my sleep. Why would I want to reduce the chance of that?” You don’t need to explaiin to me the shortcomings in that logic. I just don’t want to sleep with one of those **Pulp Fiction** torture masks with a rubber dildo stuck in my mouth to keep my air passages open. Well. maybe I do, but I want to be paying a classy whore to spank me while I wear it. I just can’t afford that on a nightly basis. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/50 "2006-09-16T16:00:44Z")
[Something like this](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14412952/) would work for me. (Variations on the pudding theme.) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/51 "2006-09-16T16:37:21Z")
Ripped from today’s headlines: [Marshmallow-stuffing contest at Ontario fair kills woman](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060915.wxchoke16/BNStory/National/home) Sadly, the story isn’t as funny as the headline, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/52 "2006-09-16T16:50:52Z")
I’ve always wanted to die by getting so angry my head actually exploded. Complete with hysterical high-speed rant, turning bright red, and steam coming out of my ears and everything. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619/53 "2006-09-16T20:54:48Z")
It’s my partner’s opinion that we should aspire to die of e. coli while eating [healthful organic spinach.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=388242) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-you-had-to-die-what-funny-way-would-it-be/372619.md?page=2)