How would you like to die?

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I wish to die fearlessly in the embrace of loved ones with the memory of a life well-spent. The event would be planned, so I would die via physician-assisted suicide when I'm old and already well on my way to dying. If possible, the death would take place in some place special to me, perhaps my house.

On the day I die, I will be surrounded by family and friends. At least one person very close to me will hold my hand as I say my last words. I'll probably begin by stating that I do not fear my death, knowing what it will bring. I'll reminsce about the good times I've had with loved ones and my achievements. Then I'll say my good byes, telling them to think fondly of me. The doctor would then anesthize me. Once I am sound asleep, the doctor would then administer a lethal injection and shut off all life-support.

As an atheist, I will have no religious rituals or clergymen there when I die, nor do I believe that when I die I will "survive" my death. My death will be videotaped so that I won't have to worry about people falsly claiming I converted on my death bed. I will also state in my last wishes that religion have nothing to do with my death or any memorial that comes afterwards.

Anyway, how would you like to die?

When I die I would like to die instantly so that I die with out knowing what is about to happen.

I'd rather not die suddenly, I want to know that I'm going, experience the handover. I've chosen my last words, and I wnat people to celebrate my life rather than mourn my passing.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx
US comedian (1922 - 1991)

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

NOT in my sleep. NOT of old age. NOT alone. NOT from any illness or disease. NOT without one hell of a fight.

I want to look death in the eyes and laugh as he comes for me; then give him a good kick in the yarbles and run off. I have no fear of death.

Short of that, I aim to die whilst engaged in an act of great heroism, defending or saving others, doing something of worth.

And because I follow the Old Ways, I wish to die with a sword in my hand, though the sword need not be a literal sword.

"I'm going out like I came in, screamin' and kickin'!" - Lister

Good fortune,

- Icarus will not be a trivial problem for death...

I am already dead.

"It takes great courage to abandon ones self, to give up "I" and "mine": but death happens only once, and what dies is really nothing at all."
- anonymous

"Be still prepared for death; and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter."
- Shakespeare

"Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."
- Epictetus

I'd like to die surrounded by nature.

Peacefully.

I already lived past the moment I wanted to die. In the arms of my greatest love after amazing sex.
Since I survived that I guess dying heroically is cool, but I'd rather die in a heroic but stupid way.

Like something from Dumb and Dumber.

Death is the one thing in life that you don't have to plan for in my view. It could happen when you least expect it and it rarely happens how you predect it would. I have no last words because the people who know me don't need them to understand me and who I am. -but thats just my point of view.

I am not scared of it but its unpleasant and i would rather not experience it, just like i would rather not experience having a tooth pulled. I don't fear death itself at all I fear dieng slowly.

I've thought that I was dead more than once in my life too, was very sure of it; I was wrong; I've mistaken numbness from the result of serious damage as death, the death of my spirit. But a small ember of life has always remained; and in time, I've learned how to fan that ember back into a flame of life. In fact, someone else inadvertently showed me how to do that, and though the end result was me being burned, the lessons learned were valuable and so I cherish them.

Fanning an ember of life back to a fire is not an easy thing to do, but it is possible. It is not a painless thing to do, for pain is one thing cloaked by numbness; but so too are other feelings. And I do not think pain is necessarily a bad thing; as others before me have said, pain is how you know you're still alive.

With endearing respect, I hope you are wrong something like I was. But I suppose we shall see.

Good fortune,

- Icarus talks to ghosts...

Hypothermia. On a snowy mountain, with a decent bottle of single malt, at a time of my choosing.

Shot by a jealous husband when I'm 98.

I'm with him haha

I want to die in the house I grew up in, surrounded by friends and family. I want to be able to look back upon my life and see that I live a good, sucessful one.

I simply cant die until I have kids and they grow up, after that I could die anyway, I could loose everything, and still die a happy man.