How do you want to die?

[Reluctantly]

Just wondering, if say you had some disease and you knew what day you were going to die from it, how would you choose to go? I'm not talking about how you spend the remaining days of your life, but how you want to actually die.

I want to drive a supercar full of explosives into a wall. Or fly a jet and explode it high up in the sky with lots of fireworks that people could see. Maybe get launched into the sun with a bunch of nukes, if it was even possible. Or maybe even halo jump with explosives that kill and burn my body while my bones softly land on the ground with my parachute...in the middle of times square or Shibuya Crossing.

 

[Sinny91]

I either want to die in my sleep , or in a mad car crash or summin (fast).

I'm always temptin fate.. I'm waitin for it to come get me.

Just would hate to burn to death.

 

[Pyropyro]

I'll probably kill myself/have myself killed Seven Pounds style.

That is poison myself while taking care that my body's organs are well preserved. Any disease ridden organs can be used to study on how to combat the disease in the future while useful ones will be donated to those that need them.

 

[Rook]

I'll probably be creative with my suicide once I am sufficiently bored with the general mishmash.

Hang myself over a highway from a bridge/steel bar...
Perhaps field a cavalry-offensive against the local police station, dressed in furs and armed with a wooden club.

Another option for the aging human is a more peaceful suicide. Jump from a majestic mountaintop, go to the vulture restaurant or just hang yourself from a baobab.

I don't know tbh, I am still young and a deliberate death is something for the far future, if the universe does not ambush me with mamba attacks, some or other silly war or an unforeseen jet engine killing me and the cats.

 

[crippli]

Would be a great opportunity to climb one of the more challenging routes of K2 alone. I'd time my death 5 hours after summeting. I'd change on the top into a a nice vintage farmers wife working dress, and send the picture out on the net. Then gently jump into a ravine, so that my body could be iced down and preserved.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I guess I'd want to go either riding the euthanasia coaster after dosing on hallucinogens to make my death as intense as possible or perhaps by being propelled towards a black hole to chalk one off the mysteries of the universe.

 

[PmjPmj]

I have several answers for this. Some mundane, some epic.

Scenario 1: Old age.

There's something strange about death. The family and friends that I have lost along the way seemed to know that their end was imminent, as daft as it sounds. Two quick examples:

- My grandad thanked my grandma for looking after him during his 7 years of illness, and told her that he loved her more than life itself etc. She brushed it off with a "Don't be silly, Harold" and then went to sleep. She woke up the next morning to find my grandad dead, right next to her in the bed. Which is shit times, thinking about it.

- A friend (mainly of my grandma's, but I ended up having a friendly relationship with the guy too: he had done it all, seen it all - awesome chap) actually saw his father, days before he died. He heard footsteps coming up the drive and, expecting my grandma, looked out of the window... only to be greeted with his own father (dead for at least 30 years or so!) looking in at him, smiling. He said "Well, I guess my time is up".

So, if in old age: I'd like some pleasant confirmation event, reflect on life, take a heroic dose of DMT and pass away peacefully in my sleep, having told everyone how much they mean to me.

Scenario 2: Terminal illness

Option 1 - fit bullbars to my car and take my frustrations out on cyclist cunts. I will run over as many as I can before driving off a motorway bridge or similar, as one final "Fuck you!" to the world.

Option 2 - Don't be a dick and seek out euthanasia... but before I take the pill or w/e, take a heroic dose of DMT so I'm already 'gone'.

Option 3 - 'fuck it, #YOLO' - purchase a superbike and proceed to accelerate up to or in excess of 200mph, then hit a tree so that my body turns to giblets. In this scenario, I'd have a single sheet of A4 paper on me, secured within a waterproof plastic wallet. It would simply say "Sorry for the mess, tits".

Oh, many more. I have thought about this quite a bit right now though, I'm busy. Maybe some more later.

 

[Cognisant]

Assuming I've got brain cancer or something, I don't particularly care.

No future, no meaning, no point.

 

[Redfire]

Doing a very large amount of heroin; enough to really enjoy it and then die.

I want to drive a supercar full of explosives into a wall. Or fly a jet and explode it high up in the sky with lots of fireworks that people could see. Maybe get launched into the sun with a bunch of nukes, if it was even possible. Or maybe even halo jump with explosives that kill and burn my body while my bones softly land on the ground with my parachute...in the middle of times square or Shibuya Crossing.

Are you sure? That sounds really painful.

 

[Turnevies]

I would prefer jumping from a plane without a parachute. Or maybe as an astronaut drifting too close to earth and burning in the Earth's atmosphere.

I absolutely don't want to die while lying in bed. I prefer burning, drowning or getting eaten by a lion. The dead will come as a relief then, and I heard your body gets large doses of endorphine at the very end. Drinking coke while having eaten too much mentos also sounds cool. In summary, I want a dead that is short, but heavy.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Dying by laughter seems like an interesting alternative. I think this would be fine if there isn't pain involved. Also while on the subject of laughter:

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usmQPBidMB8

THEY'RE REMAKING WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY WTF ITS BEEN LIKE 2 YEARS

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

Another option for the aging human is a more peaceful suicide. Jump from a majestic mountaintop

How many times does one bump into the mountain on the way down before actually dying though

 

[Rook]

How many times does one bump into the mountain on the way down before actually dying though

A sheer cliff is what I envision, as is common around my province's mounts.
(There is one such cliff, on the highest peak in this area about 30km away from me where some have jumped from)

It's not a wise thing to do, selecting any old pile of rocks based merely on convenience just to discover that you have now become a paralyzed organic being unable to afford a Hawking cyber-upgrade.

 

[Seteleechete]

Instantly and inevitably, but knowing it's about to happen(like jumping from a plane). Just so I can smile and think "fuck you world I am finally free from your bullshit" just before it happens. The ultimate feeling of freedom before the end.

 

[Brontosaurie]

War

 

[Jennywocky]

Probably in some way that would benefit our understanding of a phenomena, if I'm going to assume I'll probably die up front (someone mentioned the "black hole" thing). I've spent time in my life being my own personal guinea pig, with different kinds of experiences, so...

But I'm not really excited about prolonged burning. Nor do I want to do something where I end up not dying but permanently maimed/disabled. When I'm all in, I'm all in.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Something instant or exciting like a nuclear blast, supernova or with a sword in my hands.

If all fails I'll travel in time to find something interesting.

 

[Reluctantly]

Perhaps field a cavalry-offensive against the local police station, dressed in furs and armed with a wooden club.

Hah. That's perfect. Better yet, fire guns with blanks and when they shoot you and die, you explode your guts all over the place. Would be kind of funny to have your brains all over someone's face with a message laying around somewhere that says "Hah. Got you ". Wonder what the media would make out of that one.

I guess I'd want to go either riding the euthanasia coaster after dosing on hallucinogens to make my death as intense as possible or perhaps by being propelled towards a black hole to chalk one off the mysteries of the universe.

That coaster is pretty damn cool. I didn't know it was a real thing.

Option 1 - fit bullbars to my car and take my frustrations out on cyclist cunts. I will run over as many as I can before driving off a motorway bridge or similar, as one final "Fuck you!" to the world.

I've got this image of a British guy driving around calling everyone "wankers" and then driving off a bridge to his demise. Grand Theft Auto needs to up its game.

Are you sure? That sounds really painful.

Well, I was thinking I'd be dead before I'm actually completely burning, like an explosive that kills my brain and then attempts to burn my body. I just want something that people would remember.

 

[ummidk]

(someone mentioned the "black hole" thing).

I kinda figured this might be the worst way to go if time slowed down as you approached the center, stretching your death longer and longer to infinity. In practice it probably doesn't work that way, but doesn't seem like something I'd wanna find out.

 

[Yellow]

Q: How do I want to die?
A: Theoretically.

 

[OminoeseOmimoese]

Set ghetto blaster to the tune I want to die for, take some drugs and jump of a huge building when I feel like it