How would you like to die?

Preferably no pain/fear. In my sleep.

Either in my sleep or I would be happy to just feel dizzy and collapse. And I do not care where I collapse. It could be at the counter at Macy’s or in line at the grocery store. But please, God, not in pain . This would be great!

In my sleep

On the upstroke so that I can get one more coming back down.

In my sleep after having had a grand family and friends dinner at a very old age.

I would like to die knowing that having lived, I had made a small difference in the world. (preferably for the better, but if bad, I’m not greedy)

Fainting and then going brain dead from low blood sugar would probably be pretty peaceful. I’ve been close to fainting more than a couple times, and the lowered fuel in my brain made me very calm and apathetic.
I’ve already lived beyond the limits set by nature, and have accomplished more than many people my age. I have also had experiences that I thought I could never have. Anything else that happens before I die is a nice bonus.
Interesting question, @sophisticatedfool, and welcome to Fluther.

Suddenly and not too soon.

In glourious battle

Awake

With my papers in order and my house clean. Not likely, but that’s what I’d like.

With dignity.

Laughing. I want to die laughing.

I’d like to hit a hole in one on the golf course, then be struck by lightning, and go out laughing.

Not in a room with a crapload of tubing hooked to me.

One uncle died at a party dancing with his wife, another on the golf course driving a ball. Either way would be fine with me, but as I have neither a wife nor an interest in golf, passing away in my sleep would be my choice.

Naked trampoline wrestling with a cross-eyed bear who suffers from motion sickness & lacks the social structure essential for good sportsmanship.

Fire. I would like to die on fire.
Or in an explosion.
Just- BOOM!- and I’m dead.

note to self: don’t share the best jokes with @Jeruba.

I don’t really care how I die, I just want it to be in some really random, strange way.

I want it to be something really badass. Like wrestling a large animal. But I would need to get a few good ones in there first, it’s gotta look like a good fight. Or I want to die by swinging on a rope from an exploding temple, holding babies that I rescued. Or right after I discover the cure for cancer.

Just dropping dead from a heart attack or stroke would be nice. Death by firing squad even better.

Suddenly! No prolonged illnesses please.

I have already almost died once. I have been dreaming about doing it the same way, it was by pills and it was quick and painless, until I woke up. Luckily, something is stopping me.

That’s right it could have something to do with the almost 200mg of anti-psychotics I take :/

@gondwanalon: If by firing squad, would you want a blindfold or no?

I want to die of dehydration while in bed with Natalie Portman.

@filmfann: I hope that some day, I find something to love as much as you love Natalie…

painlessly

I have to die in battle, or Odin will laugh at me, and cast me out of Valhalla. Fuck that.

Sleep is clearly the #1 preference, duh! lol
Sadly I know of a young guy that just DID, die in his sleep last week.
He was 25 and a college student going for his teaching credentials, had a great girlfriend and he went to bed after dinner and never woke up. The coroner said that 3 or 4 times a year young, tall, skinny, white guys die like this.

Something with the diaphram and breathing like a S.I.D.‘s thing.
He leaves a devastated girlfriend and her family that were really looking forward to grand babies.
Me?
I am 53, lived through the 70’s, sex, drugs and rock-n-roll and damn it all, I am now outliving my money.
Life sucks sometimes. haha

I wished I would have died in 2009 in my hot tub under the stars with 130k in the bank.
No such luck! lol

@Coloma – outliving our money is the worry of almost all of my age group. You seem too young to start. But what the hell, retirement sounds boring and really, I know I would get fat and lazy if I didn’t have structure to my life. So start your own business and get on with it.

@bookish1 No blindfold. I want to see the shooter’s eyes. Just before they shoot I’d yell “Shoot straight, you bastards. – Don’t make a mess of it!” (Harry Morant).

@gondwanalon – Lieutenant Henry Harboard (Harry) ‘The Breaker’ Morant, the original horse whisperer!

At the helm of a spaceship.

Having sex.

No straw-death for @Symbeline, that goes without saying.

@gondwanalon: Cool. I think I would want to look them in the eyes too… but I’d definitely need to be chiefing on that last cigarette.

@rooeytoo Thanks for the life coaching, however, not everyone wants structure. I am a free spirited type and entrepreneur at heart, I like my life to be flexible and I would re-frame ” fat & lazy ” to relaxed and flexible. Different strokes you know.
Structure is for those that are not creative enough to follow their own path. I’ll do just fine, thank you.

@Coloma – jeesh, apparently you are losing your sense of humor in the process. Not one lol in your entire post. I wasn’t being smart ass, I meant that sincerely. If it doesn’t fit your idea of the good life I am sorry I meant no offence. (I thought entrepreneurs were in business for themselves???) Better go eat or smoke one of your happy brownies! Now I’m going to go cry because the structure of my life must be inhibiting my creativity.

@rooeytoo Sorry, I am experiencing a very difficult time, for the the first time in years. Even us eternal optimists have a shitty day. Peace.