[Closed] Morbid one this but worth pondering / discussing

I'd like to think that I'll get ill then take up wingsuit base jumping 🙂

I don't think it is worth pondering/discussing how you prefer to die

😕

Depends on the illness and if pain or care requirements by others was involved but on balance quick would very much be my preference.

Quick and painless, preferably asleep, after a long and healthy life. Bit of a no brainer for me; if only we actually could specify! (without resorting to one way tickets to Switzerland...)

i never think about it.
if i go tomorrow, then i go. that's that.
but i never think about "how" or anything like that; not worth wasting brain time on.

"We're all going to expire at some point"

I'm not going to expire, I'm going to die, be dead end of.

My wife is a hospital doctor and she says that everytime you would want to go quickly rather than have a drawn out death. Death is rarely a pleasent experience especially if you end up in a hospital.

Why should it matter if you die quickly any how?

"chance to say your goodbyes, do stuff and put your house in order?"

Surely you do this everyday? ie do the stuff now that you want to do, and make sure things are set out as good as they can be for if your not their. If you die slowly its very rare that you get to do the above stuff as your ill and dying...

Hopefully at a time of my choosing surrounded by my loved ones - if not then quickly. Drop down dead quickly

Statistically most of us will die in hospital, and vast majority of the heath care we'll receive throughout our whole lifetime will be received in the weeks before we die. There. Are you miserable now? Are you? Well there it is.

However I'd like to die in joke that has the punchline "not like the passengers on his bus."

Lots of blood and mess and as instant as possible. Preferably utterly pointless too.

I want to be so old that I just don't care any more.

I think, anyway.

[url= http://theweekly.co.uk/4001/44_deaths/ ]44 Deaths[/url]

Although its on the 'Bad Death" side of the chart I'm quite drawn to:

Jumping thirteen floors from a burning building into what you assume is a rubberised blanket held by a ring of firemen, but which actually turns out to be a group of people on their way to a fancy dress party carrying a harp

I don't think it is worth pondering/discussing how you prefer to die

Unfortunately, very few people do, until it comes to it, when it is often too late. Society's last great taboo...

Me, I'm getting 'DNR' tattooed to my chest for my 75th birthday, if I reach it...

I thought the OP was going to be a series of pictures of dead women, with starship asking "Well, would you?"

Would you prefer to go quickly - i.e. sudden death from cardiac / neurological malfunction or would you prefer to be ill for a bit to give you chance to say your goodbyes, do stuff and put your house in order?

Blow out not fizzle out thanks.

heroin overdose is meant to be the ultimate high isnt it?

if i dont get wiped out quickly in some kinda of amazing accident or sacrifice myself to save a puppy or disabled child then its a heroin overdose whilst being entertained by the finest ladies the money i just got off a loanshark can buy.

I thought the OP was going to be a series of pictures of dead women, with starship asking "Well, would you?"

I can see that being Derek's regular friday thread, taking over from Flash's A&A

I thought the OP was going to be a series of pictures of dead women, with starship asking "Well, would you?"

Vimto / screen inteface - pffftttt - very funny dd!

With as little impact on everyone else as possible.

My father and my father in law took ages dying. The stress on the families for both was immense and what you get left with is a series of bad memories which are very intense clouding out the good memories.

Stuff that. I just want me to be fine one day, gone the next. If I missed out on a chance to say goodbye (which I think is a very odd thing to want to do to be honest), or didn't get my house in order normally, then I've messed things up anyway.

I may feel differently once I get there but right now, if I get to about 80-85 I'll be pleased. That's a good innings. All I need to do then is accidentally fall off a cliff or get driven over by an errant hovercar.

As long as I had a chance to dispose of my collection of fetish wear and animal pron before I go...

Blow out not fizzle out thanks.

Le Grande Bouffe

I'd like to die in slow motion in a barrage of gunfire, possibly culminating in a freeze frame.

Quick and unexpected please. I'd rather not be sat around for too long thinking about it.

Wrestling a burning lion while bicycling into a volcano on a tandem, with your arch-nemesis glued to the other saddle playing the accordion

That'll do me.

+1 Samuri

"worth pondering / discussing" - Is it? Is it really?

"worth pondering / discussing" - Is it? Is it really?

Good god yes! (IMHO/experience, anyway). So much heartache, confusion, fear, pain, stress etc could be avoided if people had a good understanding and acceptance of the issues around both their and their loved ones mortality. I have lost count of the number of old chests I've bounced up and down on pointlessly which is traumatic and upsetting for all involved.

I have lost count of the number of old chests I've bounced up and down on pointlessly which is traumatic and upsetting for all involved.

You're a lap dancer?

Would you prefer to waste time discussing how to die, or stem lengths?

Would you prefer to be poked in the eye with a cocktail stick....or in the willy with a compass?

Maybe we should have a separate forum for these threads...

Personally, I'd rather ponder / discuss living, thanks all the same.
"I have lost count of the number of old chests I've bounced up and down on pointlessly" I really, really hope you're a nurse or medic

Quick and spectacular for me please.
If I end up a dribbling mess, I hope someone will put me in a plane and throw/wheel me out. If I still have my facilities I shall go quietly to a very secluded and quiet forest somewhere in the world and put a bullet through my head and hope that nobody ever finds me so that I can rest in nature.

Although, to be fair, not particularly worth discussing on here, granted. Try relaxed evenings, with loved ones, with humour, and maybe beer.

Yep, lapdancer, quite ugly, hence pain and suffering etc...

Was thinking about a slight tangent of this just yesterday. My Grandad is 98 and has spent the last four years of his life in a care home. Before he went into care, he was quite 'with it' - he had plenty stories to tell, had the odd visitor and enjoyed the occasional shamble round his massive garden. Sure, his short term memory was pretty shot and he had all the day to day problems you'd expect someone that age to have, but he still enjoyed a reasonable quality of life, mainly thanks to my Dad living in.

Whilst the care home was absolutely necessary (he was no longer able to care for himself, and my Dad was worn out by trying to be a 24 hour carer), it strikes me that these places exist solely to keep their cash-cows alive, in an un-natural, zombified state. He's now almost completely cut off, partly through deafness / blindness and partly through being pumped full of drugs all day every day. He rarely leaves his bed except for a quick wheelchair safari in the garden of the home.

I suppose that before care homes existed, people would just die through neglect, which might be even worse....

Quick and unexpected for me please Big Man!

A parachute not opening - that's the way to die, getting caught in a combine, having your nuts bit off by a Laplander. That's the way I want to go.

I'd like to go while I'm coming, I think, preferably with someone athletic and female and pretty.

Either that or a heroin overdose, which is supposed to be pleasurable & painless. It's the NHS preferred exit, anyway.

Drug fuelled sex heart attack.

I want to go in a proper Wil-e Coyote way.

I want a grand piano to land on my head as I wizz down the road on my Acme Rocket Propelled Roller skates

I'd like to go while I'm coming, I think, preferably with someone athletic and female and pretty.

Another customer for V8Ninety

Binners wins!

"Some poor men die in wars
Some get shot with pistols.
I want to die in a big girls' arms
And get smothered to death by her Bristols".

Les Dawson.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep, like my granddad.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers".

Bob Monkhouse.

Quick I think. I watched my Nan and uncle do the long lingering death thing and its not good for all party's involved. On the other hand my mates old man retired at 70 on the Friday, went to the doctors on the Monday for a check up and dropped dead in the waiting room.! Come in number 5 your time is up.

I suppose that before care homes existed, people would just die through neglect, which might be even worse....

My thoughts are, that people did not generally die from neglect (I'm talking in recent times) but rather had come to the natural end of their life, and it is the prolonging of life through advances in medicine, to the point of necessitating care for [b]every[/b] function, which is unnatural.

and it is the prolonging of life through advances in medicine, to the point of necessitating care for every function, which is unnatural.

You can theorise that there are people alive today who could expect to live for 1000 years. That over the next few decades we'll develop care and medicine that would extend life expectancy by 30 years. But in those following 30 years developments would add another 30 years, and so on, and so on. But by a 1000 years old the chances of dying form accidents or illness exceed the ability of medicine to stave off old age

The sensible answer is either;

Suddenly and unknowingly the day before being diagnosed with something degenerative.

OR

If very old and dying anyway, by doing something useful like the Japanese pensioners volunteering to help at Fukushima.

BUT

At the point of orgasm on my 100th birthday as Nigella Lawson rides me to death seems way more appealing.

Crushes you to death more like...

I try to make sure that I make my peace with people every day, so a sudden exit from this mortal coil should not leave me feeling too sorry, but all told, I'd like to go out doing something monumentally heroic and to be remembered for that.

Rather than for doing something amazingly stupid, which seems to have been the story of most of my adventures so far.

At the point of orgasm on my 100th birthday as Nigella Lawson rides me to death seems way more appealing.

And on what grounds would you have her exhumed?

From what ive personal experience from the sudden death of my mum, and a good freind, and the long and prolonged death of my dad and an aunty,ansd a freinds mum where they where just left in a care home room, with management who just saw them as a cash cow, to bring profits to the buissness,with staff who couldnt speak english, but where cheap to employ,where everything had to be paid for,as an extra, despite paying 450 per week plus a state handout.

I would just want to die suddenly, one day im here, next im not,and hopefully someone will miss me.or probably not.

At the point of orgasm on my 100th birthday as Nigella Lawson rides me to death seems way more appealing.

You are Charles Saatchi and I claim my £5

it IS worth pondering, especially for the people you will leave behind e.g. kids/partners. My parents are elderly, I've got (I'm a single child) all the details on the funeral, invites, who gets what etc etc and what solicitor it's all registerd with, it was (IMHO) a very hard and emotional conversation, however having seen the crap caused (and my mum was a nurse as well and she saw lots) where that's not fully decided or undocumented I think it's a great idea.

I hope my parents go from lucid and happy to dead (and I hope the same for me), they were both incredibly active and outdoory and I hate to think of them hurting and not enjoying life.

Gusamc +1. my point zigzactly.

At the point of orgasm on my 100th birthday as Nigella Lawson rides me to death seems way more appealing.

An important question is: How old will she be then?

"If you only had 5 minutes to live....

Who would you call ?

What would you say ?

And why on earth havent you said it 🙄 "

I keep my affairs in order by remembering that ^
Life is too short and can be taken at anytime, I dont want anyone left wondering how I felt about them.

I`d want to go without pain and at peace with the world

want to die when im still young whitest high on drugs riding my bike

Woody, "....and it is the prolonging of life through advances in medicine, to the point of necessitating care for every function, which is unnatural".

Yup - that's exactly what I was trying (and failing) to put my finger on. I see little value in keeping folk alive just for the sake of a pulse (and £800 a week...). Lots of pain, zero pleasure (my Grandad in his rare moments of lucidity tells me he's, "Not at all happy", and does it with a smile on his face as if he's embarrassed by this state of affairs).

Thanks, you have reminded me to clear my browser history before I ride home tonight. You never know 🙁

preferably doing something i enjoy.

-spectacular crash whilst on the bike, eg. falling off a cliff, so long as it's a quick death. in fact, i always carry paracetemol/iburoprofen when riding. i think ~10 is enough to overdose so if it's a bad crash i could OD.
-sex
-drugs
-lion/shark attack
-hit by a speeding road safety campaigner.
-in my sleep.

Whatever, nevermind.

I'm just not going to die. Easier that way for everyone. I'm going to get on one of those spaceships that the scientologists bang on about and live up there with the cocoon aliens.

Seriously though, why think about dying, unless you commit suicide you can't really do much to avoid it/get a choice on how you go so don't think about it, it'll make you mega depressed 🙁

This being the interweb and not real life, Nigella will be besotted with me and will forever look like this.
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It's a great question. I am in the "making people live longer" business and I know lots of people who have useful and happy lives into their 80s and 90s and then die suddenly. I have also seen some great deaths of younger people. But I do see a lot of people - mainly women - get older and more bored with life and suffering from FTD - Failure to Die - and they actually say they aren't depressed but would rather not wake up tomorrow..

For me, I'd like to have recently seen my kids and hopefully their kids too, and then die suddenly skiing.

Or be shot aged 80 in flagrante post orgasm by a jealous husband.

Post orgasm?
Would pre orgasm or on the cusp not be better?
At least you'd still be enjoying yourself!

Fair point. Two secs after.

Reappearing a good 45 minutes after you'd been left for dead and saving the day by calmly and with great precision piloting your hot-air balloon over the rocket silo, holding yourself erect and shielding your eyes wistfully from the dazzlingly glorious rising sun as blood trickles down your gripping knuckles over the weave of the basket, and grey-jumpsuited minions run around sharp and angular corridors in panic and the foaming mastermind tries to stop the automated launch sequence, and the brass section sweeps in on the soundtrack

Although this sounds awesome, my favourite is..

2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.[191]

Or doing anything that is preceded by the words, "Hey guys, watch this..!"

Or both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Really isn't worth considering to be honest. Both have their benefits, neither is something I'd want so why waste time thinking about it?

Seriously though, why think about dying, unless you commit suicide you can't really do much to avoid it/get a choice on how you go so don't think about it, it'll make you mega depressed

Errr you can, you can make sure you don't die doing anything stupid like driving too fast or MTBing too fast or any sort of dangerous sports, or eating too much etc. You have an aweful lot of control over how you die and when, it's just that you might get a surprise before you expect. However since generally I feel more alive when doing stupid/dangerous stuff - I'd rather enjoy the feeling alive and risk the death than fend off the death at the risk of being bored TO death.

Maybe a heart attack, doing the long downhill part of the Taos South Boundary trail in a big ring, full crank, hair on fire kind of ride--completely believing that Olivia Wilde is waiting for me at the bottom!!!!

As Neil Young sang "better to burn out than to fade away"

Maybe a heart attack, doing the long downhill part of the Taos South Boundary trail in a big ring, full crank, hair on fire kind of ride--completely believing that Olivia Wilde is waiting for me at the bottom!!!!

You'd better get taking the mind altering drugs then 🙂

With my luck, just as I expired as they were carrying me away, I would see Olivia Wilde really was waiting for me!!

I think to go quickly and unexpectedly must be awful for the family left behind. Long and lingering is not nice either. The grief of families saying goodbye to their loved ones is probably the most awful thing I've ever heard though.

i think like anyone,to die quickly/painlessly as possible.have heard that there is a gas that some terminally ill people (i think) can take to end their suffering.it's like nitrous oxide or something.anyway by all accounts,if you breath a quantity of it,you go to a high euphoric state,before dying painlessly.i'd like some of that when my time was up.p.s did not mean this to sound cold,just being direct/to the point.

Post orgasm?
Would pre orgasm or on the cusp not be better?
At least you'd still be enjoying yourself!

A friend of mine had a call in her old job to say her manager had died; while on top of his wife, mid thrust. It was his wife who rang my friend to pass on the news and bless my friend, she is awesome - she actually had the balls to reply 'at least he died happy'. I was very proud of her 8)

Wasn't there some story about a young woman who died mid 'self exploration' with her toy by her side? That is definatley the best way to go I reckon so I'd probably bagsy that if I had to choose. Then you die happy but don't have to distress someone by flopping out on them mid way through 😀

I see more people die than anyone else on here, unfortunately or fortunately, and my take on it is to get on with the living stuff and let the dying happen when and how it will.

i am having a procedure on my heart in october.
it carries the risk of four things that you do not want to go wrong.
one of the things, if it happens causes certain death.......... 🙁

i hope i live to rot into old old age.

Having lost my Mum to cancer earlier this year, I'd have to vote for a quick death.

Yes, it is a bit morbid talking about it, but as others have noted, it's best to make sure your affairs are always in order.

On a lighter note, I'd vote for the Nigella option too!

I'm not really fussed how I go, but I am very curious. Old age, an accident, murder, illness...all very exciting.

I'd like to go like my grandad, in his sleep, suddenly and instantly. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Old age, an accident, murder, illness...all very exciting.

Post of the thread so far.

"I see more people die than anyone else on here"
Serial killer eh?