# You will be executed. Choose the method. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635 "2012-12-31T05:29:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/21 "2012-12-31T08:33:25Z")
> [@Mnemnosyne](#): > > Of course, my ideal respose to ‘how do you wish to die’ is ‘at the center of a nuclear explosion that can be seen from the Moon’. 😃 You. I like the way you think. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/22 "2012-12-31T09:00:34Z")
> [@For You](#): > > “Defrensation”? Do you mean “defenestration” (being thrown out a window)? > > Personally, given that snoo snoo is not a realistic option, I would choose to be blown up by a concussion bomb that would instantly vaporize my body. > [@Mnemnosyne](#): > > Pretty much this. I want an explosive powerful enough to instantly vaporize my brain. The rest of my body can stay or go but at minimum I want a charge placed on my head, powerful enough to completely obliterate my head within a few fractions of a second. > > Of course, my ideal respose to ‘how do you wish to die’ is ‘at the center of a nuclear explosion that can be seen from the Moon’. 😃 You two – the Secret Service **as well as** _Al Qaida_ would like a word with you. They have uses for people who want to carry a bomb, that explodes while on them… 😛 I’d choose a closed room, with the atmosphere gradually replaced by CO or Nitrogen. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/23 "2012-12-31T09:03:47Z")
Death by hypoxia ideally. But, practically death by hanging, specifically long drop seems the only quick way to go. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/24 "2012-12-31T09:04:00Z")
If we can work out a foolproof method of signalling whether I remain conscious immediately afterwards, I’ll volunteer for the guillotine - and maybe get a chance to answer that question definitively. I want a pillow in the head basket though - it would be kind of ironic if beheading were only painful because your head hits the deck/ Otherwise, I’ll go for nitrogen asphyxiation, or ride an atomic bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/25 "2012-12-31T11:47:28Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Pardon my dumbness…snoo snoo would be the same as boom boom?😕 It means death by the 75th Governor of New Hampshire. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/26 "2012-12-31T13:13:19Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > Death by snoo snoo, of course. Damn you. ---
**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 31, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/27 "2012-12-31T13:40:00Z")
Chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/28 "2012-12-31T13:44:16Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Uh, I think that that’s 50% of the problem with freezing to death… Interestingly enough, my bout with hypothermia did not include a I am cold as shit phase. And being a proper southern boy I HATE being cold. It involved conditions where hypothermia could occur and just massize amounts of exertion leading to exhaustion coupled with a severe lack of sleep. PSA time. Remember folks, the cold weather is upon us and hypothermia is deadly serious business. And it can happen in much milder conditions than many folks think. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/29 "2012-12-31T14:06:51Z")
Holy crap…reading the title of the thread made me remember a dream a had last night that I’ll bet I would neve have remembered otherwise. Anyway, in the dream for some reason I don’t remember, I was being executed. Bad guy stuck a patch of plastic explosive on my temple, and when the time came he was just going to press a button and mmbuh-bye now. Never got to that point in the dream, but it really doesn’t seem like a bad way to go. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/30 "2012-12-31T14:14:40Z")
> [@Stealth\_Potato](#): > > Artificially induced supernova, of course. If I don’t get to live I don’t see why anybody else should either! 😃 Naturally occurring supernova. I’m in no hurry. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/31 "2012-12-31T15:00:27Z")
A buddy of mine used to say if he had a terminal illness and was close to death, he’d grab a few scuba tanks and dive deep until he was narked. Then he’d just enjoy the show until he ran out of air. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/32 "2012-12-31T17:24:49Z")
Spoilered for the two-click, not-safe-for-work rule:[Other](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ). ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/33 "2012-12-31T17:52:11Z")
Ideally something like a nuclear blast or death via shotgun. I’d prefer not to leave a mess though, so I’m not entirely sure how that would work out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/34 "2012-12-31T17:58:13Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > It means death by the 75th Governor of New Hampshire. You actually owe me a keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/35 "2012-12-31T19:13:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Spoilered for the two-click, not-safe-for-work rule:[Other](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ). Beat me to it. Firing squad for me, then. If you wanna kill me then you gotta clean it up. I’d prefer a number of headshots, but I think I could deal with the high caliber round to the heart like they supposedly try to do. Actually, I guess it wouldn’t matter if I could deal with it, because I’d have to regardless. And no blindfold. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/36 "2012-12-31T19:23:49Z")
exsanguination femoral artery ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/37 "2012-12-31T19:26:31Z")
Old age. I think you get a headache with CO poisoning. Since I have chronic headaches, I’ll pass on that one. I’ll also (alas!) pass on death by chocolate, since THAT would probably give me a headache, too. I want something painless. Well, Hell, I guess that eliminates old age… ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/38 "2012-12-31T19:34:10Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Beat me to it. > > Firing squad for me, then. If you wanna kill me then you gotta clean it up. I’d prefer a number of headshots, but I think I could deal with the high caliber round to the heart like they supposedly try to do. Actually, I guess it wouldn’t matter if I could deal with it, because I’d have to regardless. And no blindfold. Yeah, I wanna make a mess. Hell, film it 60fps with a 4K video camera while I detonate a hand grenade under my chin while standing naked in a courtyard. Put it on liveleak, and I will be remembered forever. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/39 "2012-12-31T19:36:11Z")
39 posts, and nobody has stated a preference for ‘botched auto-erotic asphyxiation’?? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635/40 "2012-12-31T22:52:26Z")
Unrealistically I want to be suspended in a force bubble, dropped to the deepest part of the ocean, and the bubble instantly shut off. Realistically I’ll take death by exhaustion caused from continuous sex with beautiful Irish twins who are into my every kink. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-will-be-executed-choose-the-method/645635.md?page=3)