05-20-2005, 09:45 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: The Cosmos
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How do you want to leave this world?
Sometimes I think about how I'd like to die. So many angles one may consider. I don't see death as a negative, or an end. I see it more as part of living a wonderful life.
Die in private or in the public eye? Probably private. Ive always been a private person. Do I want it to make a big change and inevitably have controversy over my death? (biggest example of that type of death would be jesus) Oddly enough I don't think I care if my death will make a big splash or even be noticed (..well hopefully my loved ones will notice ) Violent or peaceful? I have a minor theory that one is most alive right before death. So fighting for one's life against a large predatory cat would be the most "livingful" moment before one dies. But then again I love the idea of going like some monks go, suicide with major style. They basically stop their hearts and die because they willed it so, talk about will power! A sub category of private would be do I want any loved ones around? I do and I don't. I wouldn't want to cause grief, but I'd want my last moments to be filled with love. Die doing something I love? Or in a sick bed when I'm really old? This one is a tough one, and one I'm glad I don't actually have to decide! I just don't know if I want watch/feel myslef grow old and feeble (and I'm talkin 70+ here, not like 40 or something ) Recorded in history? This could be anything from being mentioned as part of a death toll in a war to being an assasinated president. I don't really care, if it helps change for the better then that would be good but I really don't care about any fame my corpse would receive. As for what to do with my remains, I don't care too much. Ill be dead and see no attatchment to my physical body to my soul. But if I had a choice, I'd want to be cremated. I have this fear that I will still be able to feel my body getting burned when I'm dead, but then again if that happens I'd rather have a relatively fast destruction from fire than a slow one burried in a coffin. After cremation if any monument is to be had, I'd want to be mixed with very rich fertilizer and a tree planted in me. So how would you like to die? And can anyone think of any new angles? |
05-20-2005, 10:15 PM | #2 (permalink) | |
Brooding.
Location: CA-USA
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05-20-2005, 10:22 PM | #3 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: Southern California
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As easy as possible, that's how I'd like to die.
I don't see any practical importance in wondering how I will die, I spend time thinking about how to live my life, now that has purpose. Last edited by MsNobody; 05-21-2005 at 01:32 AM.. |
05-20-2005, 10:43 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
Banned
Location: The Cosmos
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05-20-2005, 10:48 PM | #5 (permalink) |
whosoever
Location: New England
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i daydream of a big finale, the heroic firefight, LOTR style stuff, or whatever. i think i'm hollywood all the way on that count.
when i really stop to think...i just want to be near family and friends when i say goodbye. the rest really doesn't matter.
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05-21-2005, 01:56 AM | #8 (permalink) | |
Adequate
Location: In my angry-dome.
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I'm not sure where it comes from, and I'm not entirely comfortable saying it, but I've always expected to go out in a ball of fire. No romanticism or fantasy of glory involved. I've been burned enough to know better. It's just an image that has persisted since my reckless automotive exploits. I'd choose something more pleasant. Cardiac arrest banging a beautiful woman. Skydiving with a faulty chute, and enough time to get a grip and enjoy the rest. Anything fulfilling. Just not something that'd make loved ones think I'd regret it. You don't have to get very old to realize most of the pain of death remains with the people left behind.
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05-21-2005, 04:24 AM | #9 (permalink) |
Getting Clearer
Location: with spirit
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I think I would like a quiet death.. probably at home or in a hospital with friends and family. I wouldn't mind if I were bed ridden.. I would have time to reflect on some wonderful things in my life.
I can't see how I'd be recorded in history.. that is something I don't think I'd have any control over. I have no desire to be famous or to cause any controversy. I'd like to go in a pine box, buried. None of this expensive casket drama. The idea of a burial is appealing to me, organic. Worms crawling through my remains is a thought that appeals to me.. I would like everybody to savour what I meant and be comforted that I had a great life and appreciated everbody for who they were. I don't want everyone I knew to be mourning my passing. There is also something that I'm looking forward to, regarding my passing. I do have a curiosity about what may happen, though if it doesn't then it wont hardly matter When my father came back from Vietnam, an expression when someone was killed was "That lucky bastard got an early pass".. Sometimes I can relate to that expression..
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05-21-2005, 09:03 AM | #11 (permalink) |
“Wrong is right.”
Location: toronto
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When I die I want them to bury me face down so the world can KISS MY ASS!!!
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05-21-2005, 09:26 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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Location: Chicago
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I was asked this in the hotseat - -and my answer is the same.. .
When I was younger, my answer to this question was I wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, go out in such a way it would be talked about for years. It was a way to never be forgotton. Later years, I just want to leave quietly, no fanfare, just quietly disapear, that I don't have to be remembered, and I don't want to be remembered. But the mark that I want to leave on this world I take from the poem, Success, that has always been incorrectly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson... I want to leave the world knowing that just one life has breathed easier because I have lived. I'm just waiting to find that one life...
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05-21-2005, 09:53 AM | #13 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Just got into town about an hour ago.
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Free fall. The anticipation of the plane taking off, watching the land leave through the window. On a clear day, flying to a place high over the ocean where there is no land in sight. Surrounded by shades of blue, deep and light. And then the shining of the sun, burning through the eyes, leaving no room for thoughts of what is about to happen.
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05-21-2005, 12:23 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
big damn hero
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So simple...and so very true. My only addendum to this would be, I would like to leave my friends and family a little better than how they found me and vice versa.
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05-21-2005, 02:01 PM | #15 (permalink) |
has a plan
Location: middle of Whywouldanyonebethere
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Well how I want to leave this world... in a space craft of own design!
That is what I hope to do before I die, gallivant in microgravity. No matter what, space makes for interesting ways to die... all of them wouldn't change the fact that I am in space for a brief time.
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05-21-2005, 03:39 PM | #16 (permalink) |
The sky calls to us ...
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Location: CT
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If it's anything violent, I'd prefer to be getting between whoever's committing a violent act and etiher a loved one or innocent people. If it's quick and painless, I'm partial to a Dr. Strangelove-style bomb ride. If it's old age, I'll be perfectly happy going to sleep one night and not waking up the next morning. If it's political, I'd be satisfied with a public execution by a repressive government for revolutionary activities.
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05-21-2005, 04:14 PM | #17 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Southwest side of North America's mitten
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I'd like to just have a heart attack while I lay sleeping in post coital bliss. I used to think that mid orgasm would be best, but that would just be akward for whomever I was with.
I don't want people to mourn my passing. I want them to celebrate my life. In lieu of flowers, everyone bring a fifth and raise me a toast. Because I'm just a little strange and I want my final farewell to be memorable, and because It pays homage to my darker and more romantic side....the side of me that only those closest to me know....I want a candle light funeral at dusk in a very old cemetary. Hmmmm....twisted comic relief....I had a set of custom fangs made when I was in New Orleans a few years ago....to be laid out with a cocky grin and those sticking out of my mouth a tad....That could be fun.
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05-21-2005, 06:09 PM | #18 (permalink) |
32 flavors and then some
Location: Out on a wire.
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Heart attack induced by the adrenaline overdose of an hour long orgasm. Preceeded by oh, a hundred orgasms in the hour leading up to the hour long sustained orgasm.
Humorous as this may sound, I'm actually serious as a . . . I can't say it. This would, of course, be some 10 million years from now, during which I and my dearest loved ones will have stayed young and vital and involved in society and humanity.
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05-22-2005, 01:10 AM | #23 (permalink) |
lost and found
Location: Berkeley
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Although I would like to die peacefully, I feel that it is better to die in the service of the greater good. I have no interest to die sensationally, mind you, just in a way that has as much purpose as I hope my life will have.
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05-22-2005, 06:32 AM | #24 (permalink) |
peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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With no regrets, no second guessing and at least one person to say 'thank you' for me
being in their life. Physically, time enough to say goodbye, but quick enough as to not suffer.
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05-22-2005, 01:18 PM | #25 (permalink) | |
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Location: Hell if I know
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Yeah, I'd like to leave this earth in either a space craft or with the aid of a really big catapult. I wouldn't mind dying in a bed from old age, so long as my mind is still intact, I would rather be crucified than die in a state of dementia/confusion/fear/loss of self. So I would like to die either of a body failing from old age, or in some really abnormal way, say, if I die in a car crash I want at least 100 other vehicles in it and other people to join me in my journey into whatever lies beyond. Or going skydiving, having my shute fail, and me landing on the president's limo, while he/she is inside. Or spontanious combustion in a crowded area with plenty of high quality cameras rolling. Or being the first to be infected with a deadly disease that wipes out the human race. Just stuff like that. Least preferred method of death, losing my life trying to keep those I love safe, and failing to do so. First reason why: I would fail to keep those I love safe. Second: I would have failed to keep them out of that situation in the first place. Third: I would no longer be able to protect them in the future. Fourth: The people I love would have to go through the grief and loss of my death. But my number one, favorite way that I would like to die is: Pushing the button on an antimatter bomb that shatters the planet into a bazillion pieces, this of course would happen after everyone I know and love has already died, preferrebly in a peaceful and painless manner. Why? Because I would like to save people from the torturously boring existence that would occur after my death.
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05-22-2005, 07:30 PM | #26 (permalink) | |
Getting Clearer
Location: with spirit
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05-22-2005, 07:40 PM | #27 (permalink) | |
Junkie
Moderator Emeritus
Location: Chicago
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05-22-2005, 07:47 PM | #28 (permalink) | |
Getting Clearer
Location: with spirit
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05-23-2005, 12:24 PM | #29 (permalink) |
Registered User
Location: Right Here
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One word, fast. I don't really care about the method just the speed. I don't want to die in bed after a long drawn out illness. I would also like my wife to die at the same time, I don't want to spend years missing her and I wouldn't want her to go through that either.
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06-13-2005, 05:55 PM | #32 (permalink) |
who ever said streaking was a bad thing?
Location: Calgary
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I would want to die with my family around me, not mourning my death but celebrating it. Not because I was an ass, but because I left a legacy that would last through the ages. Dying with love... yes thats how I want to die.
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06-13-2005, 07:19 PM | #33 (permalink) |
Drifting
Administrator
Location: Windy City
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I want to die surrounded in love
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06-13-2005, 07:23 PM | #34 (permalink) |
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Love to die peacefully. heroism would be nice for the 15 mins ppl remember how you died, after that no one would remember or care because they'd be side tracked by some new scandal in the media. your mark on the world/good deed erased due to some lieing politician, murder, bank robbery, or pretty much everything else in this world.
and the more i think about it, the less i care about future generations remembering me. it doesn't matter if 100 years from now ppl remember my name, as they won't know who I was. Only the ppl who know me personally will know that... and in 10,000 years when ppl no longer inhabit this planet, will even that matter? I mean... sure we remember shakespear, but do you know what type of person was or only for his writting? When I die I just want those I've been close to or hopefully help remember me, not neccesarily for myself either... I just want my loved ones to hopefully learn what they could from me, my actions, way of life, ideas... then they spread what they've learned to other ppl. in that way at least who I am can be passed on to other generations and not some false image of me. (sorry, kind of a hard concept to put into words... :P ) after that, I want to be creamated and my ashes poured into some river. as for the funeral, I don't want it to be mournful... asking a lot, but yeah... i want ppl to be happy that I was a part of their life and a positive one at that. I don't want the loss to overshadow the gain... |
06-13-2005, 07:39 PM | #35 (permalink) |
pío pío
Location: on a branch about to break
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i've never been afraid to eat a rare hamburger - i've always said that dying from eating would be worth it. but now, after really thinking about the specifics... i don't think that some violent intestinal disruption is really what i'd choose. if it happens, so be it. but if i get to choose....
jumping out of an airplane over the middle of the ocean. i love both sky diving & scuba diving. this could be the ultimate combination, albeit super brief. i imagine i'd die instantly from impact on the water and my body would sink to the bottom of the deep blue sea to become fish food. if somehow i lived, i'd surely be too broken to swim, so i'd get to experience the horror of drowning, only it wouldn't be a horror. i'd just have to turn myself over to it completely. i'd have the chance to say goodbye to loved ones. to make sure they're properly cared for, etc. now surely this is suicide (and would void any life insurance claim! damn.) and maybe not what you had in mind. so maybe i'd just choose.... in my sleep. to dream for all eternity.
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06-13-2005, 07:56 PM | #36 (permalink) |
Heliotrope
Location: A warm room
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Sitting peacefully in a big armchair, with my journal on my lap, surrounded by pictures of my loved ones and great grandchildren... and a cup of tea cooling on the table next to me.
I want to leave happy and peacefully. I'm not saying that there aren't causes I wouldn't die for, but I'd rather not need to. |
06-18-2005, 11:38 PM | #37 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Various places in the Midwest, all depending on when I'm posting.
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[QUOTE=Gilda]Heart attack induced by the adrenaline overdose of an hour long orgasm. Preceeded by oh, a hundred orgasms in the hour leading up to the hour long sustained orgasm.QUOTE]
DEATH BY SNU SNU!!!
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07-08-2005, 10:17 AM | #40 (permalink) |
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Well, I wouldn't mind dying heroically or for a noble cause, but most importantly I want to have my "final death thoughts."
I don't know how much sense that makes, so I'll try and explain a but further. When I die, I want to experience it and accept it, I don't want to die panicked or without warning. I don't want a long, drawn out death, but I don't want to go so quick that I can't come to terms with it. I suppose if I had to choose, I would like to bleed to death. Burning or Drowning are two ways I'd like to avoid, and I think having a mental disorder where I am unaware of what is going on or who I am is the absolute worst way for me...
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