# Which is more insulting: To be killed by wildlife or weather? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 1, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943 "2010-05-01T04:38:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/21 "2010-05-02T22:00:05Z")
Wildlife. I think it’s pretty insulting to become another animals poo. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/22 "2010-05-03T16:01:28Z")
My grandfather was killed after being struck in the head with an O’possum made airborne by Hurricane Sylvia, so I’m not sure where I stand on this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/23 "2010-05-03T16:09:12Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > I nominate a new, fusion category: to be killed by a tree or tree branch which was destabilized by inclement weather. Heh. I lived in the Marshall Islands for a year when I was a kid - I clearly remember the police patrolling the streets during a tropical storm, telling people to stay the hell indoors for fear of ballistic coconuts. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/24 "2010-05-03T16:18:01Z")
Choking to death on a chicken drumstick is the stupidiest way I can think of to die, so I guess you could call that wildlife. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/25 "2010-05-03T17:45:19Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I picked meteorite because the chance is abysmally small and so stupidly random. I guess, though, it’d depend on the size. If it was a tiny one that bonked me in just the wrong spot on the side of the head, and led to a brain bleed or something, that’d suck. If it was **huge** and pretty much splatted me on the spot, not only would that be kind of awesome, but that’d be a record meteorite. Please name it after me! This was exactly my thought process as well. Killed by a meteorite? The odds are so fantastic and completely unforeseeable, it would be like the Universe was totally cheating. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/26 "2010-05-03T17:57:27Z")
Meteorite. Especially if it travells down the telescope you were using to look at it with like a Hathcock sniper shot. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/27 "2010-05-03T20:05:03Z")
Well, really “dead is dead”, but I chose “meteorite”… as in “The universe is SO done with you that it threw a rock at YOU AND NOBODY ELSE, from a million miles away. Now _that_ is a hearty middle finger pointed RIGHT at you”. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/28 "2010-05-04T00:38:50Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Now _that_ is a hearty middle finger pointed RIGHT at you". Index We Trust. The middle… not so much. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943/29 "2010-05-06T00:13:19Z")
I put weather as #1. As most insulting. Though I see it as most embarrassing. Probably because of where I live. I hear about plenty of folks that die in avalanches. Or they simply get lost or are not prepared. And most of them know the danger they are putting themselves (and their rescuers in). I think it’s easier to prepare for weather. I put wildlife as #2. You can also be prepared for that. At least to an extent. I do worry about my Wife when she runs around here. She takes our dogs and pepper spray. IMHO, if you get hit by a meteorite, ‘God’ had your zip code and home address. Nothing you can do about it. If the OP means insulting as in being ‘smote’ “you’re out of here”, I would reverse the order. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-more-insulting-to-be-killed-by-wildlife-or-weather/537943.md?page=1)