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Originally posted by techweenie
EDIT: one other comment. This 'died doing what he loved' thing irks me. When a guy burns to death in a race car, is having his flesh burned off "what he loved?" When a guy convulses and suffocates from a neurotoxin, is that "what he loves?" I think this phrase really applies best when death is instantaneous and not immediately anticipated.
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it's not about the last 3 minutes of agony , i'm sure it hurts like a mf to be stabbed in the heart with a toxic payload...
but look at it this way, he didn't wake up in the morning feeling miserable, coughing up blood , puking or wired up with tubes and whatnot in a hospital that couldn't do anything anyway...
right up to the moment where he got done, he was more alive then any of us sitting here at our keyboard, and yeah , the dying part was probably horrible, but or having a 2 ton weight dropped onto your head without you even knowing it, i say there are worse things...
but off course, death is that one leap we will al have to make
and in that split second in time, however it maybe , violent, nasty or peacefull , in that split second alone we will find out what it is like, what else there is... or not, maybe it is just like getting knocked out , or going to sleep
personally , i think it's the latter, in which case the things to avoid are
chronic illness
prolonged agony
beeing a plant
mental degeneration
beeing alone
beeing depressed
not having any control of what you are doing
...
just beeing alive, active, doing what you like doing with people you choose to work with
and beeing done in 10 minute or less is none of that...