You discover you'll be dead in less than two decades. How would you guess it happens?

[QUOTE=Oakminster]
Nah. I’m the aging cynic riding a jackass and tilting at windmills. When the bastards finally win, you’ll turn me into Don Quixote in one of your books. Please describe me as taller, slimmer, and getting laid more often. :smiley:
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So…at least once a year? :wink:
Ahem, I would now like to change my answer to being hunted down and taken out by Oakminster.

[QUOTE=Antinor01]

Ahem, I would now like to change my answer to being hunted down and taken out by Oakminster.
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No worries. Unless you happen to be a windmill, in which case, shit be on, biotch. :smiley:

[QUOTE=Oakminster]
No worries. Unless you happen to be a windmill, in which case, shit be on, biotch. :smiley:
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Meh. Back to heart attack then. :slight_smile:

Most likely in November of 2007 when CERN turns on their Large Hadron Collider ( link )

Accident or Illness (though I would really to my best not to think about it too much beyond that).

Probably either starvation, or some freaky disease contracted from a tree anteater. Or else cumulative chromosome damage and kidney failure from drinking two liters of generic pop every damn day for decades.
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried]
Most likely in November of 2007 when CERN turns on their Large Hadron Collider ( link )
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…Oh, Large Hadron Collider. Yeah, that sounds like a much more comfortable way to go.

I had a friend that said I’d die at the age of 26 in a skydiving accident. I’m 26, and also have a friend that skydives for a living and is always bugging me about going. :eek: If I make it another 20 years though I’d say I probably end up dead of a heart attack.

Suicide or a car accident.

[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried]
Most likely in November of 2007 when CERN turns on their Large Hadron Collider ( link )
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Can you blame me if, after reading Oakminster’s lament about laidlessness, I read that as Large Hardon? (and you know those scientists have a blast with that).

20 years? Damn, I’d be only 51. Most likely car accident.

(Aside: Where ya been, Skaldy? Missed ya.)

[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
Can you blame me if, after reading Oakminster’s lament about laidlessness, I read that as Large Hardon?
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Thank you. :wink:

Autoerotic asphyxiation :wink:

Well, since I live in NYC, and since our president is actively cultivating global jihad… yeah, don’t wanna think about it.

Car accident probably, I am on the road quite a bit…

I’m pretty healthy so I can’t imagine that I’d be dropping dead of a heart attack or anything.

Cancer, probably.

Either cancer or heart disease, both of which are fairly common in my family.

[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Cerebral hemmorage, cause by tripping and cracking my head on the oracle’s front stoop while he sits in the background, snickering to himself and saying “Well, three minutes is less than twenty years…”
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This is likely how I’ll go, sans oracle. I came a mite too close to this fate last summer - tripped on a crack in the sidewalk in front of my house, and fell headlong and fast. When I finally coordinated my movements enough to get my hands out in front of me, I was MILLIMETERS from having cracked my skull open on a cement ledge. I’ve been terrified of massive head injuries all my life, and I’m pretty sure it’s because somehow I KNOW that’s how I’m checking out.

I’ll probably die in traffic on my bicycle. Or heart disease.

In 20 I’ll be 63; I’m guessing that a motorcycle accident will take me before natural causes, if I don’t take care of it myself first.

Complications from obesity: heart disease, diabetes, or something similar.

And twenty years seems a long time, at the moment.