# When I die, I want to be \[...\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834 "2015-09-28T13:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/1 "2015-09-28T13:12:53Z")
I know you guys can fill in the blank in lots of fun ways. So please do. For me, seriously I just want to be brave. Or be in the middle of sex with Eddie Vedder. Sorry Eddie. ---
**Author:** ![brovolone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brovolone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brovolone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/2 "2015-09-28T13:15:56Z")
clothed ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/3 "2015-09-28T13:49:37Z")
“…blown up!” - George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/4 "2015-09-28T14:12:58Z")
Wrong about there being no heavenly afterlife. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/5 "2015-09-28T14:18:04Z")
Sleeping peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/6 "2015-09-28T14:20:07Z")
Calm. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/7 "2015-09-28T14:21:16Z")
Wrong about the first part of the statement. But failing that, having drinks with my wife, family, and friends. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/8 "2015-09-28T19:39:43Z")
Thrown into a bog. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/9 "2015-09-28T19:55:23Z")
…witnessing the death of our universe and the birth of the next one. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/10 "2015-09-28T20:11:53Z")
My first thought was “a ghost!” I’d have a lot of fun as a ghost. I’m sure eventually I could choose to stop being a ghost, all that “passing on” stuff. Sounds ideal to me. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/11 "2015-09-28T21:54:16Z")
So, my recently deceased family members provided instructions that they be cremated and that there be no special funeral events. It seems they shared a desire to “not be a bother to anyone”. I must admit, I seem to have inherited that gene, and live my life so as to generally “not be a bother to anyone”. However, I also enjoy saying things that make me laugh, and hopefully make other people laugh. So, in discussing my desires for when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I have told people that I want to be laid out like Lenin, in a glass case in a public place, with a web-cam running, broadcasting to a permanent feed to whatever app is used for those things. In addition, I want 7 uniformed guards that blow brass trumpets when they change every 4 hours. And a snack table, for visitors. So, like my relatives, nothing special. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/12 "2015-09-28T21:56:21Z")
Revived. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/13 "2015-09-28T21:56:57Z")
…tossed in a ditch. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/14 "2015-09-28T22:44:09Z")
…placed in stasis and displayed in the front hall with my wife’s other husbands. As long as she dusts us once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/15 "2015-09-28T23:02:06Z")
Ideally? I think I’d like to be one of those cadavers that gets cut into thin slices and displayed in a science museum. Though really, I’d be fine with any educational or scientific use of my body. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/16 "2015-09-28T23:02:08Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > When I die, I want to be […] Cremated. So I have a head start on my way to Hell. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/17 "2015-09-28T23:31:02Z")
When I die, I want to be…unaware death was coming. I don’t want to be in a burning building, or on a plane that is going down. See, I’m not afraid of being dead, I’m afraid of dying. There’s a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/18 "2015-09-29T00:06:04Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > When I die, I want to be…unaware death was coming. I don’t want to be in a burning building, or on a plane that is going down. > > See, I’m not afraid of being dead, I’m afraid of dying. There’s a big difference. ITA - Too many of my family members have died long, hard deaths. I don’t want to know it is coming and I don’t want it to be painful. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/19 "2015-09-29T00:17:31Z")
On this side of the Divide: Surprised - which seems to be what the previous folks have intimated. On the other side: Just Plain Dead. None of this Eternal crap - I’m already bored - I’ve lived long enough to see the ‘news just repeats itself’ - I don’t want this to last for friggin’ _ **ever** _. Pain-free, at the very least. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/20 "2015-09-29T00:25:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > …witnessing the death of our universe and the birth of the next one. That’s awesome :). Me, I think I would want to be asleep. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834.md?page=2)