Would you want to die in your sleep?

Question

If I could choose how to die I don't think I would choose to die in my sleep. You would go to bed and never realise your end was near. Never accept death. It would just happen. You wouldn't be able to think of all your loved ones or say goodbye to anyone. I think I want to die and realise when it is happening. It is one of the most final experiences of life. Would you want to miss it?

Answer 1

IT IS THE FINAL EXPERIENCE OF LIFE. i can understand your view. maybe it would be better to have a short illness in hospital or at home and have family around you when you go. dying in your sleep.......at least it is peaceful..

RIP amen

Answer 2

thats an absolutely brilliant question, wow, i really dont know, id be in a dilemma because
on the one hand, id be sleeping and therefore would not be scared to die and be peaceful
but on the other hand i would not have the chance to see my loved ones till the end, for the utmost last time, such difficult question but i think i'd only be able to decide of i was experiencing the situation at that point :)

Answer 3

My family discusses these things. I told my boys that I think we can choose. I want to die in my sleep after a very long and fruitful life. I want to go from old age. Just go to sleep one night, like my grandfather and not wake up up in the morning.

Answer 4

Well if it came between that and dying with something like cancer or that would cause me a ton of pain I would definitely choose sleeping. If I had to choose a way to die, since I am not very tolerant of pain, it would be in my sleep or freezing to death.

Answer 5

I think our love ones would be glad we died peacefully in our sleep, especially when there are such other horrible ways to go. I know that is what I wish for my loved ones...I'd rather hear they died sleeping peacefully than in an accident or of an illness and had to suffer. I think when we are dead, we won't worry about those we left behind, and we shouldn't, life is over, and so should all the worries and sadness the go with it.

Answer 6

To die in ones sleep surely would be the preferred way to go especially if you had said goodbye to loved ones. And for those living on their own what better way than to die in your sleep.

I would like to think that if I was ill I would die in my sleep, that way it would elevate the anguish and pain my loved ones would have to bear watching me die a painful death.

No! I would like to die sitting in the chair by the window watching the birds and looking at my own garden. I would like my dear old cat on my lap and for him to die with me as there would be no one to look after him once I was gone and he has been with me for years and he would pine away if I was not here.

Which ever way we say we prefer to depart this wonderful world of ours, it is all preordained and decided for us.

Just for now here's to lots of happy days ahead! Slange.

Answer 7

indeed a good question. just imagine waking up to find Jesus has made you a cup of tea! yes it would be sad not saying 'good bye' to your loved ones. but if you are in a great deal of pain it would be a relief. Some one once died laughing at the Goodies. Personally I wouldn't mind dying doing something heroic that saves many people.

Answer 8

I'd like to die in my sleep - peacefully, safe amd warm in my own bed. Not in any rush, mind you!
But I think it must be the least stressful way of going.
Do you want your relatives to face the ordeal of you dying in hospital, collapsing from a heart attack, dying in a car crash?

Answer 9

I'd like to die in the middle of a lucid dream, and I want it to be at the same moment my loved one dies, and I also want to spontaneously combust...

So my ideal death would be to spontaneously combust, while lying on my bed peacefully next to my loved one and in the middle of a lucid dream where we both stay together forever.

Answer 10

No, I surely wouldn´t, for something that happens once in a lifetime is too bad to sleep at the moment!! I want to "live" it till the end!