# Tell me your ideal death.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-ideal-death/420300>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-ideal-death/420300 "2007-09-24T14:03:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-ideal-death/420300/81 "2007-09-26T16:17:38Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Runs With Scissors]  
This went 'round the 'net years ago:

“I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.”  
[/QUOTE]

See posts 8 and 24.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-ideal-death/420300/82 "2007-09-27T06:11:38Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
See posts 8 and 24.  
[/QUOTE]

Or post 39, for that matter.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-ideal-death/420300/83 "2007-09-27T07:09:45Z")

</div>

I haven’t read the whole thread, I imagine this has been covered… At ground zero of a nuclear blast. You’re vapor within a nanosecond. If you believe in heaven and such, you’d end up there and not even realize why. “I died??? When? How?”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-ideal-death/420300/84 "2007-09-27T07:50:34Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Sunspace]  
But the part before the final illusion of warmth, when your skin is freezing, is excruciatingly painful. About six months ago, someone here linked to a description of death by hypothermia. It was horrifying.  
[/QUOTE]  
After actually reading the whole thread…  
I don’t know. In _The Shining_, Jack was chasing his son thru the maze, and lost him, and tired out, and just sat down for a secon **BAM!** Frozen Jacksicle. Seems pretty painless to me.  
It was in the movies, it must be true. Right?

Seriously, a lot of posters talk of having time. To put their affairs in order. That really speaks to my (strong) anal-retentive side. But on thinking of my death, I always revert to “I’ll be dead. What do I care? I’ll be on to the next thing.”

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-ideal-death/420300.md?page=4)