# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/21 "2015-09-29T00:35:09Z")
I want to know when death is imminent, because I’d like to have some final peaceful time with friends and family to share stories, laugh, and tell them how much I love them. I don’t want to die suddenly without that final goodbye. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/22 "2015-09-29T01:02:16Z")
alone with a case of gin and a fistful of really good drugs ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/23 "2015-09-29T01:21:54Z")
Harvested…as in any organs others can still use are all theirs; if I have no further need of them. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/24 "2015-09-29T03:47:43Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > 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. I want it to be painless, but I think I’d want to know that it’s coming. I would like to say goodbye, give my family some time to prepare and ask questions, and I’d like to be able to reflect on what’s happening. Though I might not feel the same when the time comes and death is actually staring me in the eyes. Afterwards, I’d like someone to give me all the answers to life, the universe and everything. There is so much I would like to know the real answers to. No, not 42. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/25 "2015-09-29T04:18:25Z")
When I die I want it to be very soon ! ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/26 "2015-09-29T04:20:38Z")
When I die I want to be…old. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/27 "2015-09-29T05:30:42Z")
Fondly remembered. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/28 "2015-09-29T06:30:34Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Thrown into a bog. I want to be mummified and left as a human time capsule fit for archeologists 2,000-5,000 years hence. The tricky part is not the preservation (a peat bog would be perfect), but future humans are bound to fuck up almost any conditions that would last that long. ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/29 "2015-09-29T07:04:21Z")
When I die, now don’t think I’m a nut. Don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like ol’ King Tut! ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/30 "2015-09-29T07:37:49Z")
Cremated, burned on a pyre, viking funeral, whatever just destroy my body. I have a I dunno if it would be called a phobia but a creeped out by the western world style of putting a dead body in a hermetically sealed coffin in a concrete lined hole to slowly decay into a pool of its own juices and embalming fluid way of getting rid of the dead. I’m done with the body, get rid of it. Keeping it well preserved for decades while it decomposes in a sealed container grosses me out. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/31 "2015-09-29T09:33:40Z")
… composing a post on a messagebo ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/32 "2015-09-29T12:08:43Z")
Reincarnated as L and P’s dog. A couple I used to pet sit for. They had some seriously spoiled dogs. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/33 "2015-09-29T12:15:00Z")
Resurrected. By a super advanced technology wielding alien, so that my atheism can remain intact. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/34 "2015-09-29T12:29:45Z")
I kind of like the path [Hunter S. Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson) took. Have my ashes shot out of a cannon while some old rock-and-roll tunes are played. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/35 "2015-09-29T12:30:24Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Resurrected. > > By a super advanced technology wielding alien, so that my atheism can remain intact. 😃 Because eternal bliss would not be worth having to choke down the fact that you were _wrong_. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/36 "2015-09-29T13:09:04Z")
…in the arms of a lusty peasant girl. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/37 "2015-09-29T13:09:49Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > Because eternal bliss would not be worth having to choke down the fact that you were _wrong_. 😛 No, I’m just playing with the idea of a sufficiently advanced culture’s technology being indistinguishable from magic. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/38 "2015-09-29T13:18:12Z")
Asleep, dreaming of a pleasant sunny day. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/39 "2015-09-30T03:39:35Z")
. . . eaten by my loved ones. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/40 "2015-09-30T09:04:21Z")
…advancing scientific progress, particularly involving man-machine integration, or [transhumanism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834.md?page=3)