How would you rather die?
 

it's a poll.

Woo! First vote!

Damn, where is the overdose of sleeping pills option?

Bit by a rattlesnake sounds the least painful. Yikes!

chased down by wolfs , I want to fight them !!!! AHHHHHHHHH !!!

i went rattlesnake too....

seems like it would be a quick shock, and then a slow slide into the abyss.


i guess i've been watching to much Animal Planet Tv

Where's the option of being decapitated on a Greyhound bus?

:lol2:

asleep in my bed at age 100.

definitely NOT burnt at the stake.

Shot in bed by a jealous husband at the age of 115.

The fishy death sounds fastest.

I voted for the slow death by disease, since I am anyway.

Definitely wolves. That would be the most aesthetically pleasing and we'd put on a good show.

In the way that we all are or did I miss some bad news?

I went for the lion. It'd glamorous in a way and implies you've been doing something interesting and adventurous. Or incredibly stupid, like climbing into the lion pen at the zoo to retrieve your camera.
At least I'd be giving a good meal to a charismatic animal as I went, it shouldn't take terribly long, and it would be a great story for the family to tell the future generations ... "now old uncle Zengum, colourful chap he was, got eaten by lions while up to some kind of neo-colonial hijinks in Africa somewhere, overthrowing Mugabe or something..."

That sounds like the kind of sentence my Grandfather might have said lol.

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. I'll just take mine as it comes.

Is it a lesson in opposites? These are all so vicious so to die slowly would be better?

I choose hypothermia. To lie down in the snow and fall asleep I hear isn't so bad. Although who came back to report the ease of it?

I didn't see the "Being fucked to death by Jessica Alba" option, so I took the slow diseased route. Can you make sure that gets into the next poll, LJ? I'm pretty sure all the guys, and probably even some of the ladies, would take that one. Um hum.

I like the Pihrrahas option.

Rah Has!! That sounds like fun, whatever it is.
:p

Wolves

And I wouldn't be going alone.

And you left pie off the list.

Shark, cause there would probably be some amount of drowning involved and that would speed it up. You also wouldn't see it coming. So there would be a moment of terrified panic and confusion, followed by a brief fight and then giving up.

Burnt at the stake would be by far the worst.

I vote for being screwed to death by the Victoria Secret models.

None would be my choice, so I picked lion by default. It seems to me that I read somewhere that they usually break the neck of their prey first. That would probably be fairly painless as such things go. Plus, I am an avid feline fan from Felis sylvestrus to Felis concolor and all brands inbetween. So, I would be giving a furry friend a needed snack, and a part of me would continue on as a snow leopard or something.

BTW, why wasn't there a shredded by dinoaurs option?:eyebrow:

Unless they had fricken lazer beams. ;)

A few years ago I read a book of true stories about people being attacked by various animals. A doctor wrote about his experience when he was bitten by a rattlesnake. It was not pleasant and he was seriously close to death for several days (or longer, I don't remember). Here's one story about a kid bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake.

The story also includes photographs, which are pretty graphic.

Here's a better article from a man who survived a rattlesnake bite, complete with details of the physical sensations and effects.

It's OLD news. I am afflicted with Crohn's Disease, as is our Dar512. It won't kill me by itself, but the side effects and concurrent infections, weight loss and organ failure suck ass.

I want to go like John Entwhistle of "the Who"

With enough coke in me to stun a horse after being shagged by a blonde 28 year old hooker :D

Always so altruistic. ZenGum, the gift that keeps on giving. :D

I'm going for the snake, fast but not so fast, and better than slow.

I said shark, even though the tips of the seal's flippers dangling from the mouth of the shark in Discovery Channel's Boom di ah dah commercials freak. me. out. Still, I must have been in the ocean from when we all came, and it would be give just a moment for a "whee!" before the gurgling blackness took over.

Another vote for rattlesnake. Relatively quick, no one has to watch me suffer. (Because I imagine myself on a hike alone and there's no one there to rescue me and/or watch me die.) Death by poison means there will be less blood and gore to clean up, and my family will probably be able to get my body back in one piece which would make me easier to bury.

Hmm, I've long said if I knew I had to die and could pick my own way, it would be falling from a huge height (think canyon or skyscraper) because right before I died I would know what it's like to fly and I would pass out before I hit the ground.

Plus my spatter would probably make some good performance art.

Given these choices I would probably say pirahnas because hey, who doesn't want to look good enough to eat and I know I would be in the ocean where I lived when I was a mermaid.

C'mon, the cool kids are going with wolves.

I had heard somewhere that a suitably smokey fire would actually suffocate you before any burning, but I don't trust LJ to build it proper.

No fire. Anyone see that episode of Criminal Minds about the family trapped in the house fire? It was one of the hardest moments of "fiction" TV that I've ever watched. No no no fire. EVAH!

yeah, but with your luck you'd get hit by a bus right before the ground and you'd spend your last second thinking, "WTF?!? I can't even die the way I want???"

Well, tongue in cheek or not, that's probably true. :D

My dad told me two years ago that if my luck ever changes "think how good it will be." I'm saving up my luck for a biggie, I think.

Not to say I don't bring some bad luck to myself...but I really am not a lucky person, if there is such a thing.

I was already burned at the stake.

I pick wolves. I hope they howl a lot and it's a full moon...

Hokay.

Joan?

No, I think as the town hussie. :) Nothing so noble as Joan.

I think some voters are intimidated by the first option because Eaten alive a shark is italicized and it looks scarier.

And the "Pihrrahas devouring you" doesn't say whether you are dead first or not. It's implied by the title of the thread, but it could mean that you are already dead, and the fish are disposing of your corpse.
"Eaten alive by Piranhas" would have been more fair.

Did you vote for that option? It will appear italicized to you if you did. Maybe you knew that and were kidding...

Pirraharras, or whatever it is, is italicized for me. ;)

I did not know that. I'm not that smart... no wait, I can blame the pain pills for my gray matter not mattering much these days. Pain pills, yes, I'll blame them. But brain death by pain pills was not an option, was it? :o

Not to mention the drugs. I've been informed recently that the treatment that works best for me (Remicaid and Imuran combination) has been found to cause a nasty form of cancer in a small percentage of those taking it. I tried going with other options, but then the usual Crohn's symptoms flared and I was back to being sick and tired of being sick and tired. I've gone back to the original set and will take the gamble.

It seems like rather a lot of people have Crohn's. A dude from AG that was here briefly before being banned also has Crohn's. And my ex-brother-in-law's ex-girlfriend also. I mean, it doesn't seem very rare, unless I just coincedentally know all these people.

It's the new "in" disease.

Actually, it was only "discovered" in 1932 by an Israeli doctor, Dr. Burrill B. Crohn. Since then, diseases that went under the general term gastroenteritis have been properly diagnosed.

Totally wolves.
"I know two things: One, I'm going down. Two, I'm taking a bunch of you with me."

Plus, I could use the exercise.

It figures that you above all others would want to die with your boots on.

How would you rather die?
 

Figuratively. ;)

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I need a none of the above option, man.

These are the stuff my bad dreams are made of.

Although the burning at the stake may actually be a past life recall ...

Pack of wolves sounded intriguing. Running for your life with a pack of these carnivous canines on you heels just sounded... really cool!

Damn near gave me an erection!

:eyebrow: ???

Wolf, please report to admissions. There is someone for you to see.

No, she probably WAS burned at the stake. I can believe it. Do I have to report to admissions, too? :)

Before you decide, I suggest you read this. :eyebrow:

I'm one of those go not gentle into that good night people ...

just a few thoughts on death being the Ultimate Pleasure:

Freud believed that humans were driven by two conflicting central desires: the life drive (libido) (survival, propagation, hunger, thirst, and sex) and the death drive (Thanatos). Freud's description of Cathexis, whose energy is known as libido, included all creative, life-producing drives. The death drive (or death instinct), whose energy is known as anticathexis, represented an urge inherent in all living things to return to a state of calm: in other words, an inorganic or dead state. Freud recognized Thanatos only in his later years and developed his theory on the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Freud approached the paradox between the life drives and the death drives by defining pleasure and unpleasure. According to Freud, unpleasure refers to stimulus that the body receives. (For example, excessive friction on the skin's surface produces a burning sensation; or, the bombardment of visual stimuli amidst rush hour traffic produces anxiety.) Conversely, pleasure is a result of a decrease in stimuli (for example, a calm environment the body enters after having been subjected to a hectic environment). If pleasure increases as stimuli decreases, then the ultimate experience of pleasure for Freud would be zero stimulus, or death.

Interesting at least.

Yeah, first they had to catch you and off you went on your magic broomstick
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