# You don't answer the knocks on the door and they find you dead. How'd you like to be... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621 "2010-12-18T11:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/1 "2010-12-18T11:41:53Z")
For me, sitting at the computer with my Sennheisers on and the amp up to 5. Bet I was having fun. I think I’d be happy dying while listening to music I like. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/2 "2010-12-18T11:55:43Z")
Probably rotting. No one would check on me for several weeks if not months. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/3 "2010-12-18T12:03:45Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Probably rotting. No one would check on me for several weeks if not months. **mookieblaylock** you’ve changed your name. ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/4 "2010-12-18T12:33:45Z")
Knowing my luck, in bed with a trashy “erotica” novel in one hand and my Rampant Rabbit in the other. Which would be quite a fun way to go, really. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/5 "2010-12-18T12:38:52Z")
Gee this thread is going 100% bad. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/6 "2010-12-18T13:09:25Z")
90 years old, at the same time as my husband, lying in his arms because we fell asleep that way. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/7 "2010-12-18T13:11:43Z")
If I’m not lying next to my wife, there should be a guitar on my lap. ---
**Author:** ![Yarster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7c8e57/32.png) [@Yarster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yarster)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/8 "2010-12-18T21:05:53Z")
In a chair with a scrap of paper in my lap that has the cure for cancer, the world’s greatest song, or some other great contribution to society on it. Oh, and a dead supermodel should be found attached to my junk… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/9 "2010-12-18T21:08:26Z")
Holding a spent double barrel in one hand, an M16 on fullauto with an empty clip in the other, surrounded by hundreds of zombie velociraptor corpses, most of which seem to have died due to blunt trauma to the head. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/10 "2010-12-18T22:06:57Z")
Undead and hiding in ambush for you to come through the door. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/11 "2010-12-18T22:36:04Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Holding a spent double barrel in one hand, an M16 on fullauto with an empty clip in the other, surrounded by hundreds of zombie velociraptor corpses, most of which seem to have died due to blunt trauma to the head. In that scenario, I’m probably gonna be too busy to come looking for you for a while. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/12 "2010-12-19T03:40:20Z")
I don’t care “how,” but “when.” Hopefully before my body has become cat food. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/13 "2010-12-19T23:46:17Z")
Why do I care – I’ll be dead. THEY’RE the ones who have to deal with it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/14 "2010-12-19T23:53:55Z")
In 5 neatly severed pieces, one of which is pinned to the wall by an umbrella, and with a REALLY surprised look on my face. And minimal mess. Just so everybody wonders what in the world happened. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/15 "2010-12-20T03:10:21Z")
Hanging from the ceiling in some kind of macabre autoerotic asphyxiation scene. Perhaps with a blowup doll strapped to me. May as well give people something interesting to remember me for. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/16 "2010-12-21T16:03:25Z")
In front of my computer, finger on the F5 key. On the screen, a database error for the Dope. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-answer-the-knocks-on-the-door-and-they-find-you-dead-howd-you-like-to-be/564621/17 "2010-12-21T16:17:43Z")
Enjoying a warm bath. See also; soup.