So how do you want to die?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

The "are you afraid of dying" thread got me thinking - someone made the point that it's perhaps fear of not knowing the manner of our passing, rather than the event itself that instills fear into most people. So that said, how do you want to go, if you had a choice?

I suppose dying in one's sleep would be the "best" way.

Either that or I think it'd be kind of neat to get killed by being hit by a hearse or an ambulance - just for the irony.

[HardDrive]

Not sure, but it would involve a transporter malfunction and a black hole somehow.....

[slodave]

On a pair of snow skis. Avalanche is fine. Couldn't die happier.

[Joeaksa]

75 to 80 years old and in bed with a couple of 22-24 year old Russian or Ukrainian ladies. Screwed to death and having a heart attack right at the "time of your life" so to speak...

Good friend of mine used to say he wanted to die "being shot by a jealous husband."

[thinkfloyd14]

I want to stand in the middle of the mulsanne straight, and have a 917 plow straight into me at 230 mph...i'm not even a masochist.

[pwd72s]

with as little pain as posssible...

[lisa_spyder]

Fast....and not just now thankyou - I am too busy and shall be for many years to come.

[pwd72s]

Originally posted by lisa_spyder
Fast....and not just now thankyou - I am too busy and shall be for many years to come.

Bravo! Lisa, Bravo!

[lisa_spyder]

Paul,

I thought that would tickle your fancy ...seriously; life is too damned short. I know Dad had plenty more to do and I'm sure that Mum was the same ...and friends that have lost their battles with the big C in their 40s and 50s sure had more living to do.

I intend to "leave my mark" whatever that turns out to be. I'm here for a good time (and hopefully do some good too)...and God willing that will be a long time yet.

[azasadny]

The same way my grandfather died, in his sleep with no pain, anxiety or fear... We talked until the end and he was at peace, it was a "good death" and that was what he deserved, he was a great man!

[VINMAN]

Hopefully sleeping in a lounge chair, on the deck of my beach house. Well into my late 90's....

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I have plans to hit 140, with good genes in the family, 100 should be easy. I've been bead blasting everything in sight recently, which is great for introspection. I've found that I'm more at ease when I'm tired yet still alert, my brain slows down and a certain tranquility comes over me.

This is what I imagine 100 to 140 will be like: I'll be able to take the time to think things through versus just jump in and push the momentum of the original idea.

I imagine dying sitting on a beach in the Mediterranean in the shade, thinking about my youth, what fun I had as a kid, missed opportunities with girls, and my friends and my family. I like remembering random memories in life, letting them drift over my mind, like getting creme de menthe on vanilla ice cream as a kid, my frog and turtle farms, kissing girls on the playground in 3rd grade, the day I met my first and only love, a dinner starting with the most wonderful foie gras ever and ending with a third bottle of a 1986 Spring Mountain cab and straddling a mountain in New Zealand.

18 years ago I was somewhat suicidal (broken heart in a big way) and had a tree picked out on the Merritt Parkway in CT. I figured anything over 80 in a Datsun 240Z would spell my end in an instant.

[berettafan]

Originally posted by Shaun 84 Targa
I've been bead blasting everything in sight recently, which is great for introspection. I've found that I'm more at ease when I'm tired yet still alert, my brain slows down and a certain tranquility comes over me.

This is from the nasty chemicals you are inhaling!

[widebody911]

I want to go quietly in my sleep like my grandfather... not yelling and screaming like the people in the tour bus he was driving...

[VINMAN]

Originally posted by Shaun 84 Targa
I've been bead blasting everything in sight recently, which is great for introspection.

New bead blaster?? When I got mine, about the only thing I didnt blast clean was my dog. (he would fit in the cabinet). Those things are addicting.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by VINMAN
New bead blaster?? When I got mine, about the only thing I didnt blast clean was my dog. (he would fit in the cabinet). Those things are addicting.

Yup, they sure are. I've been working with soda for soft metals, glass for suspension, etc. Don't know how I got along with out it, said the same of my Miller 135 years ago. there oughta be a list.

[ckissick]

I wouldn't mind going like a friend's grandfather actually did. He was 99 years old, in good health, walking to church one morning. A bus jumped the curb and killed him instantly.

[equality72521]

Originally posted by azasadny
The same way my grandfather died, in his sleep with no pain, anxiety or fear... We talked until the end and he was at peace, it was a "good death" and that was what he deserved, he was a great man!

+1

[TerryBPP]

My only preference is not to die in a plane crash. I dont want to have 30 secs of falling.

Other than that I'm good with anything. Almost died once already, it was a piece of cake.

[WolfeMacleod]

Die? Who said I'm going to die?