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What is the best way to die?
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Lunch conversation led to this today, and I don't know why, but it was kind of fun to think about--albeit morbid. So...
Other than while you're sleeping, what would be the best way to go (by someone else's hand or nature's, or something along those lines)?
A cause-of-death, not a specific instance, thus, if you say a heart attack or something, you don't get to decide what kind of excitement brought it on
I think I have a great one, I can't think of anything that tops it. But I'll listen to your ways first. So, what would it be?
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Most likely a brain tumour rupturing. It would be fast and I assume painless.
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Heroin OD, just nodding off into Eternity.
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Originally posted by amsalpemkcus:
At high point of an earth-shattering big O ever!
that wouldn't be cause-of-death, that would be an instance.
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Originally posted by malvolio:
Heroin OD, just nodding off into Eternity.
That's good, but can you have a bad heroin trip?
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Originally posted by ghost_flash:
Extreme old age?
You can't die from old age, though (you die from complications that become more prominent in old age, like cancer). Maybe I should limit this to something that could happen any time.
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
You can't die from old age, though (you die from complications that become more prominent in old age, like cancer). Maybe I should limit this to something that could happen any time.
yes you can...it's called natural causes.
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
You can't die from old age, though (you die from complications that become more prominent in old age, like cancer). Maybe I should limit this to something that could happen any time.
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You DON'T want to die in a hospital for sure.
If I find out I had a terminal illness, I would make a trek to the Alaskan wilderness. Die in the snow covered mountains in a tent somewhere.
Serene. Peaceful. Dignified.
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The best, I would think, would be what I've heard called "a clean death". You know, quick and painless and all that.
If I had to choose between quick or painless, I think I'd probably choose painless, because even though that means a slow death, hopefully that would be enough time to see to those things which need seen to.
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Translation (aka God just takes you up to heaven - I believe Elijah was translated).
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I would say during sex with a large breasted woman, but that's so cliche.
I guess the best way to go would be good old fashioned dying in your sleep. Dreaming of large breasted women, of course.
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I'd rather die a painful death but not a slow one. Um.. because I'd like to feel alive before I die and what a better way to feel alive then to feel pain.
If i didn't know death was comming then oh well, stuff happens. If I knew death was comming as in a few days in advance then I would do something extreme in service of humanity like assisinate the N. Korean dictator.
Ok im getting off topic, to the point, I want to see it comming, I want to feel it hard when it happens and my final thoughts would probably something dumb like, " I wonder if my dead carcus will serve as good fertalizer for where I lay".
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Originally posted by PJW:
I would say during sex with a large breasted woman, but that's so cliche.
I guess the best way to go would be good old fashioned dying in your sleep. Dreaming of large breasted women, of course.
did you even read the first post?
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Originally posted by quandarry:
yes you can...it's called natural causes.
eh? but I thought natural causes meant something, whether the heart just stopping, or attacking, or something else.
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Hmm, that's hard to answer, because it begs for that whole self-fulfilling prophesy to happen.
But the Monty Python way wouldn't be too bad
No wait, didn't he jump off a cliff? I've been skiing, so I shouldn't pick that one.
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Originally posted by disectamac:
I'd rather die a painful death but not a slow one. Um.. because I'd like to feel alive before I die and what a better way to feel alive then to feel pain.
I think getting hit by a meteor might fit this criteria...although it might be so quick that you don't have time to feel the pain, would that be better or worse?
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Head trauma, or just a brain shut-down. I'd rather not have the rupturing brain tumor, but more of an instant death from something I didn't know that I had. No pain, no worries. Not sure if a bullet to the head fits this category though.
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
I think getting hit by a meteor might fit this criteria...although it might be so quick that you don't have time to feel the pain, would that be better or worse?
Better or worse? i don't think it would matter with your example. Just to think that if someone caught this death on video and it was played on all the news channels over and over again would be a cool deal.
I would be brought up at dinner conversations all over the world for decades to come. "remember whats his face? ", "Yeah thats the guy who got slammed by a meteor in 2004, poor bastard"
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Drowning wasn't bad, was clinically dead for 5-6 minutes by physician estimates. It happened at the local pool when I was 12 (first time I ever went off the high dive). Just a couple seconds of panic and I blacked out. It's one of the most, if not THE most, important events in my life so far.
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the best way to go out is the way you came in: screaming, bloody and naked...
i still remember the SNL "Deep Thoughts" bit. "i want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. not screaming like the passengers in his car."
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Being shot by a jealous husband, at the age of 101
Realistically, I'd like it to be either doing something vigorous rather than dying quietly in bed, or if I found I had a terminal illness, I'd spend some time visiting those that I love and then probably head out somewhere beautiful in the mountains and quietly overdose. My decision, my hand, my timing.
If there was someone else trying to end it for me against my will, I'd go kicking, screaming and fighting to the last to protect my loved ones.
If I ever ended up hooked on a machine to keep me going, my wife knows to just pull the plug and let me go.
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This threads reminds me of a quote, a doctor once said (Paraphrased):
"Despite the dramatic advances of Medical science and Medicine over time, the death rate reloutely stays at 100%"
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Originally posted by nonhuman:
Honorably in battle?
Looks like someone's recently been to see the Last Samurai That is how I would like to go, except that honourable battles don't come around that often (the last just war being, IMO, probably WWII).
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Originally posted by MacNStein:
Drowning wasn't bad, was clinically dead for 5-6 minutes by physician estimates. It happened at the local pool when I was 12 (first time I ever went off the high dive). Just a couple seconds of panic and I blacked out. It's one of the most, if not THE most, important events in my life so far.
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
did you even read the first post?
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Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died on the same day. Cocteau, chivalrous at the last, obeyed the rule of ladies first. "Ah, la Piaf est morte," he said on the morning of October 11 1963. "Je peux mourir aussi." [Ah, Piaf's dead. I can die too."] And then he promptly died of a heart attack. Or so legend has it.
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dying when you are pushing limits. like driving a rocket-car breaking the land speed record.
many terminal cancer patients drive on those salty plains (uhh somewhere in the USA). That must be cool. Being a testpilot must be very rewarding too. I would never accept plain suicide as a way to die. Better risk your life for a shitload of fame and fortune than giving your life away for free
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Originally posted by benign:
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Still banging that same drum? Get a life, or better yet get a clue, since your life seems to be pretty worthless anyway. Unless you have something constructive to add to a conversation, instead of your idiotic drivel, just shut the f*** up. Dimwit.
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I'm most LIKELY to die of pique from reading too many of the latest crop of lounge threads.
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Originally posted by MacNStein:
Still banging that same drum? Get a life, or better yet get a clue, since your life seems to be pretty worthless anyway. Unless you have something constructive to add to a conversation, instead of your idiotic drivel, just shut the f*** up. Dimwit.
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I already died once for christ sake, went to hell and came back, and nothing has changed, it's still hell. WTF.
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Originally posted by benign:
Welcome to the enchanting
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Damn, you're such a putz. Just give it all a rest, loser.
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Originally posted by MacNStein:
Damn, you're such a putz. Just give it all a rest, loser.
Always a pool of drool from you.
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Originally posted by benign:
Always a pool of drool from you.
is there some reason why merely taking prose and chopping it up makes your insults not trip the moderator's red flags?
Essentially, you're flaming but try to badly frame the flames in meter.
not sure why you haven't been banned yet.
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Originally posted by Lerkfish:
is there some reason why merely taking prose and chopping it up makes your insults not trip the moderator's red flags?
Essentially, you're flaming but try to badly frame the flames in meter.
not sure why you haven't been banned yet.
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I have noticed that since my critique
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Asking for a banning of a member
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Originally posted by MacNStein:
Drowning wasn't bad, was clinically dead for 5-6 minutes by physician estimates. It happened at the local pool when I was 12 (first time I ever went off the high dive). Just a couple seconds of panic and I blacked out. It's one of the most, if not THE most, important events in my life so far.
Been there too. When I was a kid, I had an operation (one of many) on my hips, and my heart stopped during the operation. I can remember leaving my body feeling extremely peaceful, looking down at the theater staff trying to restart my heart, sort of one of those out of body experiences, and then a sharp shock, I suppose as they used the defibrillators.
I couldn't say today if that was a hallucination, but other people I have met have had similar experiences, so perhaps it was real.
As for the dying itself, I'm quite a coward and have had more than my share of pain in my life, and I think that an OD of medical anasthetic would probably be the least painful, although peacefully dying of heart failure in my sleep in old age doesn't sound to bad either.
For the moment though, I think I'll concentrate on living. Death comes to us all whether we want it or not.
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i have never seen a thread go so off topic in my life. oh wait. i have.
quick and painless would be how i want to die. gun shot to the head. driving my car under a semi at like 80mph (while not looking. i dont want to be scared).
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Originally posted by benign:
I have actually replied to the
topics thread title - have you ?
I have noticed that since my critique
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hands you have been incessantly on
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Asking for a banning of a member
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go to such extremes - Cry baby.
case in point.
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I'd have to say a heart attack while having sex. That way the last thing you remember was probably the best thing you could have been doing.
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Still dying in your sleep would be best. Second a quick massive heart attack.
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