If you could choose the method of your death, what would you choose?

[biteme]

Wait until it is extremely cold in the winter and go out into the woods, miles away from civilization and just sit under some trees while wearing summer clothes (T-shirt and jeans) and meditate until I freeze to death.

Failing that, no idea really. I believe in an afterlife so the how of death isn't too important.

Dying of old age in a used hospital bed that other people have died in, desperately clinging onto life with all 10 fingers doesn't really appeal to me. Some ex-racecar driver was working on his farm when he ran over a bee's nest. He got stung hundreds of times and when the paramedics showed up he said 'I'm not going to the hospital. If I die I'm dying out here under these pretty trees, not in a hospital'. I could see his point.

Absolutely. I fucking hate hospitals. I know a woman whose husband had lung cancer. He never told anyone and didn't seek treatment. He died at home and didn't suffer nearly as much as he would have if they had prolonged his life artificially. She said he just slipped away quietly.

 

[hamstershaver]

sex then fall asleep with the remote in my hand while sportscenter is on and pass away quietly

 

[Delinquent]

I would like to die alone in a mountain cabin at an old age in my sleep. You now kind of like I new it was coming so I went off by myself, made the peace and went to bed.

This is a weird analogy to such a thing but one of my cats who lived outside all the time and probably had 5 litters of kittens was found at the very corner of my parents 5 acre property under a tree dead. She always hung out around the house so for her to go all the way under this tree told us she knew she was dying and wanted to do so in a nice secluded place. She was one of the best cats I ever knew.

 

[seizer]

sex then fall asleep with the remote in my hand while sportscenter is on and pass away quietly

dude, that could happen tonight.

Here's a pre-emptive R.I.P goin out to the shaver.

 

[hamstershaver]

dude, that could happen tonight.

Here's a pre-emptive R.I.P goin out to the shaver.

2 of those are going to happen for sure tonight

 

[KA-BAR]

I would like to get hit by a very large beer truck and die instant from a broken neck. Quick and painless. It seems many of us must suffer for some reason first though. Maybe purification or something. Who knows? I sure as hell do not want a slow painful death I have seen a few times. Guy is screaming from a broken back and a million other problems and he could not take narcotics because he would just get sick. He would just sit there and suffer while the whole family watched. Horrible.

He fought diabetes and had kidney failure. Had to do years of dialysis. At first he almost decided not to do dialysis but then changed his mind. It was nice having him around for a few more years but the end was hell. I do not want my family to ever have to go through that.

I think about this often. lol Here is another question. If you know you are going to die for sure and it would probably be ugly would you kill yourself? I feel we are meant to suffer for a reason so I think I would just take it but I know many people who would just check themselves out before they got stuck in a hospital. Buddy of mine told me if he starts to have the same problem as his dad did he will go visit the grand canyon. LoL.

 

[biteme]

I would like to get hit by a very large beer truck and die instant from a broken neck. Quick and painless. It seems many of us must suffer for some reason first though. Maybe purification or something. Who knows? I sure as hell do not want a slow painful death I have seen a few times. Guy is screaming from a broken back and a million other problems and he could not take narcotics because he would just get sick. He would just sit there and suffer while the whole family watched. Horrible.

He fought diabetes and had kidney failure. Had to do years of dialysis. At first he almost decided not to do dialysis but then changed his mind. It was nice having him around for a few more years but the end was hell. I do not want my family to ever have to go through that.

I think about this often. lol Here is another question. If you know you are going to die for sure and it would probably be ugly would you kill yourself? I feel we are meant to suffer for a reason so I think I would just take it but I know many people who would just check themselves out before they got stuck in a hospital. Buddy of mine told me if he starts to have the same problem as his dad did he will go visit the grand canyon. LoL.

Fuck yes I'd kill myself if it came down to that.

 

[harmonica]

I'm not in the medical profession so it would be interesting to hear their choice. I've seen 3 people die; one of old age, one from cancer and one of head trauma. None were appealing. Death is wayy creapy.

 

[MikeMartial]

I'm not in the medical profession so it would be interesting to hear their choice. I've seen 3 people die; one of old age, one from cancer and one of head trauma. None were appealing. Death is wayy creapy.

I am in the medical profession, and I've seen more than I care to remember.

In my sleep would be my #1 choice.

Sleep aside, whatever the cause, it had better be fast. The worst death is a long, slow one. For the patient and, more so, everyone around.

 

[HumorMe]

I think about this often. lol Here is another question. If you know you are going to die for sure and it would probably be ugly would you kill yourself? I feel we are meant to suffer for a reason so I think I would just take it but I know many people who would just check themselves out before they got stuck in a hospital. Buddy of mine told me if he starts to have the same problem as his dad did he will go visit the grand canyon. LoL.

Recently, I had a friend who was 48 years old and had developed a cough. He went to the doctor and they put him through a series of tests. Results came back that he had lung cancer and liver cancer.

Doctors told him he had four months to live. He lived three weeks.

There is one way I do not want to die and that is how my father died. He choked on a piece of meat sitting at the dinner table about a year and half ago.