Another Morbid Topic: What's the Best (Least Unpleasant) Way to Die?

Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
edited April 2009 in Debate and/or Discourse
I know my threads are starting to take on a pattern, but I wanted to ask this question after reading this response to my other thread:
Starcross wrote: »
dispatch.o wrote: »

If you live long enough, you will die of cancer.

This. In general increased cancer rates are a good thing. They mean that people aren't dying of anything else before they get cancer.

How would you want to go out? Personally I think that a sudden, unexpected heart attack, preferably one suffered while asleep, would be one of the least unpleasant ways to die.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Assisted suicide, probably. The pain of death and the fear of death are pretty unpleasant, and a painless procedure that you've fully consented to at least seems to take care of both issues.

    Just don't suffer any last minute regrets, or you'll embarrass yourself in from of Dr. Kevorkian.

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  • CorbiusCorbius Shepard Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Whenever this topic comes up, I always remember my mother's answer:

    "When the meteor/atomic bomb drops, I want to be a ground zero." Boom, instant death.

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  • Ethan SmithEthan Smith Origin name: Beart4to Arlington, VARegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    If you're a man?

    With a million naked ladies.

    And if you're a woman?

    With a million naked ladies.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    gun, back of the head

    that funeral ain't gonna be open casket, but it's over right quick

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    If you're a man?

    With a million naked ladies.

    And if you're a woman?

    With a million naked ladies.

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/4476/futurama-death-by-snoo-snoo

    NSFW Monty Python

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  • QliphothQliphoth Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A heroin overdose has always seemed like a pretty pleasant way to go out.

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  • DrakeonDrakeon Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    How about just dieing in your sleep? Doesn't seem like it'd be painful to me.

    Oh, looks like that's what you listed in the OP, in which case, I agree.

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A gunfight that consists of me vs a 100 James Bond type henchman in a very large warehouse full of different sodas with generic action techno playing over the announcement speaker. And I'm fighting to save all the orphan children that will go on to grow up and make the human race enter a Utopian society. And I die because I forgot to disarm the the nuke in the building cause I was having victory sex with Natalie Portman and right at my orgasm I am vaporized.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Is it really possible to sleep through a heart attack?

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I was having victory sex with Natalie Portman

    This isn't the worst ways to die thread.

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  • Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..." a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    "You're asleep, quick jerk of the neck, never feel a thing."
    "You've thought about this."
    "Yes, I have."
    I had always thought an OD on sleeping medication would be the best way.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Is there a way to avoid that whole pooping yourself when you die thing?

    Like maybe you don't eat on the day before?

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  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Is there a way to avoid that whole pooping yourself when you die thing?

    Like maybe you don't eat on the day before?

    a) doesn't always happen, as anyone who's been to med school will tell you (don't ask what you have to do when you get one of these cadavers)
    b) why does it matter anyway?

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I've said it before and I'll say it again.

    Jump off the magic tower in a Mickey Mouse suit. Quickly kill not only myself, but the childhoods of hundreds, if not thousands thanks to youtube.

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Quid wrote: »
    I've said it before and I'll say it again.

    Jump off the magic tower in a Mickey Mouse suit. Quickly kill not only myself, but the childhoods of hundreds, if not thousands thanks to youtube.

    Yes. Yes.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I want to go out in George Takei's arms, with his baritone voice in my ear as I fade away.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Duffel wrote: »
    Is there a way to avoid that whole pooping yourself when you die thing?

    Like maybe you don't eat on the day before?

    a) doesn't always happen, as anyone who's been to med school will tell you (don't ask what you have to do when you get one of these cadavers)
    b) why does it matter anyway?

    If I was old and planning to kill myself, I'd want to either spare whomever picks me up the trouble or at least write a note of apology at the end of my suicide note.

    Robos A Go Go on
  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Trench-coat packed to the brim with fun-size candy: $60.00
    Hourly parking in a tall building in the metropolitan area: $5.00

    Being a human pinata: Priceless.

    "Oh god! The horror! Why did he do thi... Oooh! Twix!"

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  • OhtsamOhtsam Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Die of old age in a bed with my family around me content with what I've accomplished
    I think that would be fairly ideal

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ruptured aortic aneurysm "my chest hurts" and three seconds later you're gone. Seen it and believe me, that's the best way to go out.

    edit: By contrast heart attacks are terrifying traumatic events that may not actually kill you, you run out of breath, your heart is slowly dying as you suffocate from lack of oxygen for 10+ minutes.

    No thank you.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Duffel wrote: »
    Is there a way to avoid that whole pooping yourself when you die thing?

    Like maybe you don't eat on the day before?

    a) doesn't always happen, as anyone who's been to med school will tell you (don't ask what you have to do when you get one of these cadavers)
    b) why does it matter anyway?

    If I was old and planning to kill myself, I'd want to either spare whomever picks me up the trouble or at least write a note of apology at the end of my suicide note.
    I've lived a long life of full of joy, sorrow, adventure, accomplishment, and not a single ounce of regret. I end it knowing my wealth will be distributed appropriately, my grandchildren are safe and happy, and all is well within my family. I can only hope for your continued prosperous lives as you pick up where I leave off in this wonderful game of life. Do not mourn my passing for too long, dear children, as it's simply a part of life we must all eventually succumb to. I've merely chosen to do so on my terms. I love you all dearly and shall miss you.

    Love,

    Great Grandfather Robos

    P.S. I would like to apologize to the paramedics, I had several tacos from Big Mike's Taqueria and my corduroys are likely covered in feces.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    How would you want to go out? Personally I think that a sudden, unexpected heart attack, preferably one suffered while asleep, would be one of the least unpleasant ways to die.

    Overrated. Your brain still has enough oxygen and nutrients to keep ticking for a little while. Presumably similar to being chocked out, so about 20 seconds. All the while you're experiencing a heart attack and are conscious of dying.

    I figure you'd want to go for maximum brain damage in minimum time. So I think 8 Gauge (bigger if it can be found) straight to the forehead.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Trench-coat packed to the brim with fun-size candy: $60.00
    Hourly parking in a tall building in the metropolitan area: $5.00

    Being a human pinata: Priceless.

    "Oh god! The horror! Why did he do thi... Oooh! Twix!"

    You should add that to the old " piano wire around the neck and hands super glued to head " and have epic mega death.

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    enc0re wrote: »
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    How would you want to go out? Personally I think that a sudden, unexpected heart attack, preferably one suffered while asleep, would be one of the least unpleasant ways to die.

    Overrated. Your brain still has enough oxygen and nutrients to keep ticking for a little while. Presumably similar to being chocked out, so about 20 seconds. All the while you're experiencing a heart attack and are conscious of dying.

    I figure you'd want to go for maximum brain damage in minimum time. So I think 8 Gauge (bigger if it can be found) straight to the forehead.

    20 seconds or several minutes. A heart attack is just a blockage, part of your heart can die and you can just lay there slowly suffocating with less and less oxygen, gasping for breath that isn't going to help a bit.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    dispatch.o wrote: »
    enc0re wrote: »
    Overrated. Your brain still has enough oxygen and nutrients to keep ticking for a little while. Presumably similar to being chocked out, so about 20 seconds. All the while you're experiencing a heart attack and are conscious of dying.

    I figure you'd want to go for maximum brain damage in minimum time. So I think 8 Gauge (bigger if it can be found) straight to the forehead.

    20 seconds or several minutes. A heart attack is just a blockage, part of your heart can die and you can just lay there slowly suffocating with less and less oxygen, gasping for breath that isn't going to help a bit.

    I was thinking "best case." As in, heart stops immediately and completely.

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    enc0re wrote: »
    dispatch.o wrote: »
    enc0re wrote: »
    Overrated. Your brain still has enough oxygen and nutrients to keep ticking for a little while. Presumably similar to being chocked out, so about 20 seconds. All the while you're experiencing a heart attack and are conscious of dying.

    I figure you'd want to go for maximum brain damage in minimum time. So I think 8 Gauge (bigger if it can be found) straight to the forehead.

    20 seconds or several minutes. A heart attack is just a blockage, part of your heart can die and you can just lay there slowly suffocating with less and less oxygen, gasping for breath that isn't going to help a bit.

    I was thinking "best case." As in, heart stops immediately and completely.

    Doesn't happen. A heart attack isn't like being shocked so your heart just stops. It's like a clogged pipe and a lump of crap that goes into one of the vessels and slowly chokes that part of the heart.

    Whereas an aneurysm in the aorta essentially ends all blood supply the the brain instantly. As well as dropping your blood pressure to zero in the same fraction of a second. You pass out and die before you even know you've got anything other than some heartburn or gas. Also aortic aneurysms are almost completely asymptomatic, so you wouldn't even know it was coming.

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  • QinguQingu Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I don't plan on dying. ...

    But if I had to go, I'd prefer to jump/be dumped out of an airplane at high altitude without a parachute. Pretty awesome last few minutes and I don't think there's any way to not end up instantly, painlessly dead.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    dispatch.o wrote: »
    Doesn't happen. A heart attack isn't like being shocked so your heart just stops. It's like a clogged pipe and a lump of crap that goes into one of the vessels and slowly chokes that part of the heart.

    There's too many nasty ways to go out. I'm gonna have to look into having a suicide button installed when I retire.

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Qingu wrote: »
    I don't plan on dying. ...

    But if I had to go, I'd prefer to jump/be dumped out of an airplane at high altitude without a parachute. Pretty awesome last few minutes and I don't think there's any way to not end up instantly, painlessly dead.

    Fill your pockets full of ink vials and become a human rorschach.

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    enc0re wrote: »
    dispatch.o wrote: »
    Doesn't happen. A heart attack isn't like being shocked so your heart just stops. It's like a clogged pipe and a lump of crap that goes into one of the vessels and slowly chokes that part of the heart.

    There's too many nasty ways to go out. I'm gonna have to look into having a suicide button installed when I retire.

    You get a harkonen heartplug installed. Then just pull it when it seems terribly inappropriate like during someones really boring speech.

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  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    If I was old and planning to kill myself, I'd want to either spare whomever picks me up the trouble or at least write a note of apology at the end of my suicide note.
    Dude, paramedics deal with this stuff all the time. Like, several times a day. They don't mind.

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Any way that is quick. The last thing I want to do is die in a hospital bed slowly and knowing it.

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  • darthmixdarthmix Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I've heard that freezing to death is supposed to be fairly pleasant. Supposedly near the end you don't feel cold at all, but warm and comfortable.

    I've also heard that drowning is supposed to be alright, but that makes no sense to me. Drowning sounds horrifying.

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  • NeadenNeaden Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I would like to die in a way that is odd enough that I at least get some mention in the news paper. Run over by bulls or die of some extremely odd disease or something.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    darthmix wrote: »
    I've heard that freezing to death is supposed to be fairly pleasant. Supposedly near the end you don't feel cold at all, but warm and comfortable.

    I've also heard that drowning is supposed to be alright, but that makes no sense to me. Drowning sounds horrifying.

    I heard drowning is one of the worst ways to die.

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  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I can't imagine anything a whole lot worse than drowning, barring crazy stuff like getting tortured to death.

    If I suddenly had the option between being burned at the stake and drowning to death I'd have to sit down and think it over.

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  • CorbiusCorbius Shepard Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Me personally, powerful handgun/high powered rifle shot to a head from a distance so I don't know its coming.

    Instant brain death, no head left so no one tries to keep me alive with only a brain stem.

    Also, I recently decided the way I least want to day (worst way) would be to be buried alive. Building collapse, anything like that. Being stuck and slowly suffocating sounds like the worst thing ever.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Duffel wrote: »
    I can't imagine anything a whole lot worse than drowning, barring crazy stuff like getting tortured to death.

    If I suddenly had the option between being burned at the stake and drowning to death I'd have to sit down and think it over.

    Drowning is far superior to immolation.

    Drowning is simple asphyxia, its not the torture of your nerve endings catching fire and your body fat rendering away while your eyes boil WHILE asphyxiating due to inability to breath the hot air.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Yeah, I never saw drowning being so terrible if you actually wanted to die. Not the best way mind you, but after the initial pain of water filling your lungs, not so bad.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Neaden wrote: »
    I would like to die in a way that is odd enough that I at least get some mention in the news paper. Run over by bulls or die of some extremely odd disease or something.

    Dancing to death like in Rite of Spring would be interesting.

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