Death is a topic most normal people don't think about often. Sure, when we've had a close call in traffic, a medical emergency or just attended a funeral you may think about death but it isn't in most people's top ten obsessions.
How you will die isn't exactly party conversation but I'm sure that more people than just myself have discussed with friends how you'd rather die. In the past, I've stated that I'd prefer to leave the world in a hail of gunfire doing something stupid like running from the cops after a bungled hold-up. I don't know where to begin with how unlikely that scenario is but you have to admit, a hail of gunfire is at least mildly dramatic.
Realistically speaking, I can think of a few ways I'd rather not die. Undiagnosed toenail fungus. Chronic indigestion. Reverse folicular strangulation (your hair grows down and strangles your brain). Explosive diarrhea (the kind that actually blows you to tiny bits). These are rather unsavory ways to leave the world. Not to mention both depressing and embarrassing.
Think about it for a minute, in which way would you prefer to die? Which way would you prefer not to die?
14 comments:
Not in a commercial shredder. Ewww
I would not like to die drowning that would be horrible, or get pushed through the intake of a jet engine that would be messy.
I would probably shy away from being trapped under ice.
This is not a topic I dwell on except to the extent I hope it's fast and (relatively) painless. Can't see myself being downed by gunfire but these days, who knows?
Woodchipper...definitely a woodchipper. I watched a Forensic Files about some man that killed his wife via a woodchipper. I was haunted for days.
I don't want to die so suddenly that I don't know what hits me. I'd rather die slowly and painfully so I have time to prepare my soul and such. I saw some really graphic pictures of a car accident once, of a woman who drove into a concrete wall that sheered her right in half. Half of her was gore, the other half looked like a sleeping princess. Her long blonde hair even looked like it had just been brushed. What freaked me out about it wasn't the gore, but the fact that she never knew, that she was probably singing along to Gwen Stefani or something and her eyes just glazed over and that was it. That would be the worst for me.
Shot in bed by a jealous husband at the ripe old age of 90.
I don't want to die of asphyixiation (did I spell that right?) - wait now I ruined it. Let me start again.
I don't want to die of asphyixiation in a dutch oven.
I told my kids I wanted to die in my sleep. They said that would be horrible, you would know you died then. I said exactly. I'd just end up getting up not knowing I was dead and go on with the day. I then told then that perhaps that had already happened and I didn't know it. That hurt their head...
I am sure I am highly unique in my wishes to die obliviously, in my sleep. But how NOT to die? Cancer. Sickness. In a hospital, being poked and prodded by strangers covered with staph. Choking on my own vomit. In a fire, drowning, car accident, being stabbed. Stingray barb to the heart. Snakebite. Leprosy. Lobotomy. Bear attack, robbery gone terribly wrong, choking. Pretty much anything where I am aware of it.
I guess you can see I've thought about this before!
I guess in my sleep at a very, very, very old age. But I do want somebody to find me before I start to bloat. And young...maybe that is the best way I don't want to die.
I want to die like my grandfather..in my sleep, not screaming like the passengers in his car.
Honestly I hope I die before I get really old, being old is creepy.
There is a way you can die while pooping. I know because I saw pics of a dead guy at work, he literally plopped over dead while taking a shit. He was ass up with his body draped over the bathtub and a big toilet full of poo. I guess if you strain and it hits a certain nerve, it cuts off your blood supply and you go belly up, or in this case ass up.
Since we were just talking about it, I wanted to share this article from New Scientist about death:
http://tinyurl.com/0
Weird, I just tested that link and it's not working. Here it is:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626252.800
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