How are you going to die?

[Heisenberg]

If this isn't the forum to discuss it I don't know what is. I like to plan conservatively so I assume I'm going out slowly being tortured inquisition style. The more realistic scenario is probably heart disease or a bullet. So how do you guys think you'll go?

[FishbellykanakaDude]

If this isn't the forum to discuss it I don't know what is. I like to plan conservatively so I assume I'm going out slowly being tortured inquisition style. The more realistic scenario is probably heart disease or a bullet. So how do you guys think you'll go?

I shall drown.

The ocean is my home, and the non-me parts of me will feed my far weightless cousins with my compliments.

Every floating in water is my ecstatic exercise in letting go, and holding onto breath. When the time comes to let go the last time, which I shall fight but which I shall lose, the air will form my last and most profound laugh.

Then it will be dark. Then it will be elsewise, but not dark.

..and my laughing will never cease.


Aloha nui no īa ʻoukou! <shaka nui loa!>

[Trevor]

Well, I'm a millennial, so I'm likely going to be fighting on the front lines of this war. I'll probably end up dead at some point overseas.

[John]

The most important thing is to die quickly. One minute you're happy,
and then POOF the next minute you're dead. That's the greatest!
That's why I hope to die when the first Chinese nuclear missile lands
on Cambridge.

That absolute worst case scenario is what happened to my mother. She
suddenly needed an operation, and the global anesthetic they gave her
caused immediate alzheimers, and she was immediately sent to a nursing
home, which was very nice but even being alive was hell. It was a
relief and a blessing when she finally died (or, if you're religious,
when God blessed her with death).

It's also a good idea to keep some essential items around -- plastic
bags and related things. That way you're prepared if you run out of
money, or if the pain becomes unbearable.

As the old saying goes, death is just another part of life.

[FishbellykanakaDude]

The most important thing is to die quickly. One minute you're happy,
and then POOF the next minute you're dead. That's the greatest!
That's why I hope to die when the first Chinese nuclear missile lands
on Cambridge.

That absolute worst case scenario is what happened to my mother. She
suddenly needed an operation, and the global anesthetic they gave her
caused immediate alzheimers, and she was immediately sent to a nursing
home, which was very nice but even being alive was hell. It was a
relief and a blessing when she finally died (or, if you're religious,
when God blessed her with death).

It's also a good idea to keep some essential items around -- plastic
bags and related things. That way you're prepared if you run out of
money, or if the pain becomes unbearable.

As the old saying goes, death is just another part of life.

..yeah, falling off the boat (oopsie!), and having it sail off into the distance without me will prompt a couple of hours of abject bliss treading water and enjoying the motion of the ocean 'til that's not fun any longer and a quick swim toward the bottom moves things along to the next stage of life.

Or,.. I get swamped by a wave, or smooshed by a tanker, or someone gets VERY silly and wastes a missile on a 30ft "pleasure" boat, or I jump overboard to avoid the pirates, or I "take one last swim" after being stuck provisionless in the doldrums for FAR too long,.. which results in the same "swim for the bottom".

Yes indeed,.. quickness is definitely a high value asset to reserve for yourself. None of this lingering stuff...

Aloha gangies! Nā mahalo nui īa ʻoukou. A me nā pōmaikaʻi. <shaka!>

[John]

> ..yeah, falling off the boat (oopsie!), and having it sail off
> into the distance without me will prompt a couple of hours of
> abject bliss treading water and enjoying the motion of the ocean
> 'til that's not fun any longer and a quick swim toward the bottom
> moves things along to the next stage of life.

Officials say woman rescued 10 hours after falling overboard from
cruise ship in ‘excellent condition’

Did she jump? Crew question how British passenger who was rescued
after plunging from cruise ship in Adriatic could have gone overboard
accidentally – amid claims 'troubled woman' had 'all day' drunken row
with her boyfriend

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... oatia.html