how do you want die? how do you not?

Question

I don’t want it to be an accident like tripping on a banana or choking on a peanut thinking that’s so typical, or for some one else, like a mates psychotic boyfriend.
Id like to die heroically or out of passion (like a lover) or falling from a real height I mean if you fell for 15 minutes after you’d got over the Sh!t I am going to die what would you think about? your loved ones where you going or would you accept it and enjoy the ride, the air, the excitement, would you die instantly with no pain but no chance to say good bye or do the things you wanted to, or slowly so you could say good bye do the things but have the pain and fear?

Answer 1

I would like to die in my sleep of a sudden heart attack. Actually, no, I wouldn't, it would feel like my death had no meaning, and I wouldn't get to tell my loved ones that I loved them one last time. But I still wouldn't want my death to be drawn out, since I really don't like dread, pain, or feeling ill, so no sick-bed stuff, and definately no death by torture. So, my death will be fairly quick, but with enough forwarning that I can say goodbye, and with enough significance that I'd have known I died for a reason instead of simply as the end result of life.

After a lot of thought, I would want to die in a fight, either protecting someone important to me or in service to something important. I envision a gunfight. I'd still feel kinda cheated when I die, and if the shot wasn't immediately lethal as I bled I'd be imagining ways I could have done it better, and it would be painful but it would be over quick. I don't know if I'd want to die by a lethal shot without being allowed to think about it or still be able to think about dying for a minute or so before I go. I'd really want to die only after whoever I was protecting could escape danger or after I did something worthwhile in forwarding my cause; the success would make my death much more bearable for however long I can think about it. Actually, I think I'd rather be able to stick around for a few moments to think about it. Anyway, this means that I hope I die relatively young, since old folks can't fight so well and aren't suited to following a specific cause with such passion, so maybe around mid-40s at the latest.

Probably a typical male response, but whatever.

Answer 2

I want to die honorably, knowing that I had done a lot, if not some, good on earth. I'd like to leave behind some knowledge that people won't discover until I'm dead, a bit like Spy Game, where they don't realise what actually happened until the guy has left for good and there's nothing they could do about it but really they know it was the right thing to do. I want to die knowing that I got at least one bad guy, if not them all.

Answer 3

I would like to die for a good reason. If i was to commit suicide I would jump off a building because you're brain shuts down before you hit the ground. I would hate to die in my sleep because I'm not going to die without making a scene at least. I would also hate to get a terminal illness because I've been through the pain it causes a family.

Answer 4

When I die I want to be the arms of my (by then) husband I would like to be old and grey and him fat and bald.

I worry about dying on my motorbike because car/truck drivers are so lame and don't see us bikers. I just know that if I die on my bike I was doing something that I loved at the time. Dying is the last thing that I want to do...

Answer 5

1) I am a complete nature freak.
2) Life (and death) is about max experience.

That said, I've thought for some time now that I'd quite like to go be being ripped to bits by crocodiles or great white sharks - fully conscious.

It really is one of the most awesome spectacles in the natural world, watching crocodiles in a feeding frenzy. And it would be instant recycling of my nutrients - none of this lock me up in a box to rot slowly nonsense.

Answer 6

I have almost been killed twice and I thought about my children and never seeing them again. I don't want to die a painful death. But, I do know I want to die having done all I was meant to do on this earth. Make sure you know Jesus before you die so you can spend eternity with him in heaven instead of an eternity suffering in hell. If you die without Christ it won't matter how you died

Answer 7

I'd love to die in my bed knowing that I made everything I could for the world, my parents and my future children. I don't wanna be killed by someone as noone has the right to take one's life.

Answer 8

Yes - peacefully, in my sleep as an old person (but having had the time to say my goodbyes to my loved ones).

No - painful, drawn-out way at a young age.

Answer 9

If I could pick my choice of how and what time I would die I would want it to go like this:

I would want to see all my family, tell everyone how much I loved them and would always be there with them...Give them a lil somthing special of myself. Then I would go to bed and die peacefully in my sleep

Answer 10

I want to die in a non-painful way but a way that will get me on the evening news.

I don't want to die of drowning or choking or a way that is extermly painful