matters of death and dying
 

what would be the worst way to die, according to you? how long do you want to live? does the inevitable end influence the way you live ( depending on whether or not you're religious of course )?

Worst way to die? In a fire or drowing I would think. And I will probably die in an accident sooner or later, I'd say around 25/30.

yeah, i was thinking drowning too....

I think dying of a long-term disease would be worst. Something like aids or cancer.

Something like fire/drowning is over quick, and you won't feel a lot. Because your body doesn't send pain signals when in such heavy shock. Expecially drowning is said to be a very peacefull death...

I want to die before my body gets all old and un-useable. I'd say around 50 you start going down.

you're bored marjiran arnt yuo?


I wish not to die
but having no religous beleifs i live as i want to.

Worst way to die: To have my penis cut off, and then be raped repeatedly by a group of fat middle aged men as I slowly bled to death.

How long to live: I'd be happy to live a very long time. I'd like to be old enough to have grandchildren who I could piss off, and beyond that... I've already experienced some nasty diseases in my life involving poor control of bodily functions, dizziness and general physical incompitance and they never really got me down. So I think I'd be quite happy to be an old senile. I can die at 110.

Death doesn't really influence how I live. Except I don't tend to do things that will probably kill me (drunk driving, knife-fighting, smoking). If I really wanted to do something, I'd do it. The idea of death looming doesn't really stimulate or deter me.

Worst way to die would have to be Alzhiemers, you can live for 40 more years with that one

I will probably die at the ripe old age of 75 with my penis stuck in a cheap hooker in a seedy hotel room

buried alive is probably the worst for me. edgar poe wrote a short named that, my friend says its cool. part in kill bill when uma's in the coffin made me so clostrephobic (wrong spelling). rape is also horrible.

wouldn't like to be a feeble old guy, in a nursing home. id probably die before 40. mid 30s perhaps.

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yeah, I think either being buried alive or suffering from a disease that made me unable to do anything, but I stayed alive through it for ages would be the worst. the inevitability and helplessness of it would be terrible. I intend on living till around 90 or so If I'm lucky, and not slowing down too much. You can keep going as long as you keep excercising up until then. after that.. I don't think I'd want to live longer.

Okay. The worst way to die I think would be burning or drowning. Both are just torcherous and I don't wish it on even my worst of enemy's...then again in a different context, the absolute worst way to die would be alone and unloved.

The inevitable, as you put it, does kind of effect the way I live...I'm not religious at all and don't think there's a heaven or hell...So I don't think anything really matters, pre se...It's an awful thought but in my eyes it's true. And so I just have as much fun as I can and do whatever I want.

And I really don't care how long I live as I won't know the difference anyway, according to me. But I would like a long while (how about 80something?) to have my fun with the one I love. And me and him also have plans to die having sex together...

worst way to die, as has been said before, would be burning or drowning
id like to live to a reasonably good age, not really too too old cuz then id probably just suffer for the rest of my life with crap ailments & such

I would say extreme old age like in your 90s or your 100s.

Your hearings gone , your eyesight is gone , you can`t do anything for yourself & all of your friends your own age are dead.

they say that drowning in the most un painful death to die, well aside of ramdomly dying in your sleep. Look at it this way.. your in your mothers belly around waters, and blood and whatever else.. so..

I the worst would be falling to your death.. cause you have time to think about it (which sucks) and you don't know if you'll die as soon as you hit the ground or if your just suffer for a bit then die.

As of right now I don't want to get any older then 65 years old.. but if I have kids and then they grow up and then I'll have grand kids.. it would be a different story.

I think if I knew I was gonna die (soon), i'd try and fit more into each day, becasue you'd know that you only have a limited amount of time left, but an infinite amount of things that you could do. if there were things that I've wanted to do, but had never done them, I would do them, etc. Impending death is a wonderful stimulator...

That and being buried alive.

In a house fire wouldn't be so bad, you would die from smoke inhalation as opposed to being burned.
&Drowning you pass out before you die.

I agree, I would not like falling to my death, or being in a horrific car accident and bleeding all over the place at three in the morning so no one could come rescue me, and basically die slowly and painfully.

Suffocating and drowning would be the most horrible ways.
And to all those who say that drowning is not a painful death :usehead:

You are unable to catch your breath, and if something is preventing you from reaching air (you're being held under the water) then you suffer in complete agony for about 11 minutes.

Yeah, any death which is prolonged, and you know what's happening to you. They seem to be the worst.

I think its actually 7 or 4 minutes before you pass out, (if I remember right), either one is a fucking long time when ya think about it.

i'm sure there's far worse ways to die than being without breath for 11 minutes ( it can't be that long by the way ), but i was watching Amistad the other day ( the inspiration for this thread ), and there was a scene where they threw the slaves overboard tied to each other with chains...and they showed them slowly going down in the deep dark water....and i just shuddered at the thought of slowly dissapearing in the dark,looking up at the diminishing light...grasping for air where there is none....it blew my mind....i know in the end, everyone is alone...but that just seemed like the loneliest way to die....

After about 10 minutes without oxygen you loose consciousness.
So yes, it can be that long. And imagine what you feel like after being without breath for 2 minutes.

I heard it like five years ago I don't remember if it was right, but yeah it would suck. I mean like, at a pool going underwater and losing breath there sucks enough. That for like even double the time would be awful.

Being called Gacy style would suck also.

anything that pretty much means knowing I'm going to die within the next five minutes, and it will be painful and cause suffering would be worse then anything.. and leaves so many doors open for a million ways to die.

Well, it actually depends on what you are doing, if you are flailing and swinging around in 100% panic under tha water, you use up the oxygen much quicker.
If you calmly look for a way out, and are somehwhat calm you will passout within 10 minutes.

Being tortured (four quarter horse treatment, ECT, Lobotomy, having individual limbs cut off one by one) or
Alzheimers, that is horrible.

But how aware of it are you when you have Alzheimers?

worst way to die is drowning I would imagine.

I imagine the worst way for me to die for me thogh is to die by fire.

I wouldn't mind dying at the age of 96.
I think most women in my family lie to be in their 90's anyhow so i probably won't be any different.

and to an extent my faith/religious beliefs does effect the way i live my life.

I'm not sure.
My kum had alzheimer's for 35 years and he died on my birthday last year.
His wife had seen him in the hospital every day for the past 35 years and the day before he died the doctors said he "miraculously recovered".
He got out of his chair and walked with a cane and looked into his wife's eyes and everything and hugged her, then the next day he died.
That's why that would be horrible.

That is so sad Snickers =[

Death is one of the few things that is assured. from the second tou're born it's happening so either way no one is is going to live forever.
I'm not the least concerned how I will die, I'm just not so sure I want to be there when it happens.

i'm sure i heard that somewhere before....

I think a bad way to die is if someone is there who can save you, but for some reason doesn't. Like they are looking the other way, but if they turned around they could just pull you to safety. Or being burned slowly while you are trapped and unable to do anything about it. Having someone cut your stomach open and start ****ing around with your organs... until you die...having a sharp object slowly enter your brain through your eye... ughhhh. Drowning over those anyday.

I also would like to live a long time. I do believe in an afterlife merely because life itself is such a miracle... to think that random "time" could create such perfection through the "PERFECT" series of events is more outrageous than the idea of a great being. I mean, ****, one group of atoms slips off to the right of a star instead of the left and well, we don't exist. In my opinion, of course. Nevertheless, death scares me into paralysis sometimes... thinking that everything is just gone makes me sick to my stomach.

That ****s pathetic, How about having your intestans nailed to a pole, and being forced to walk umtil they were fully out, then walking in a circle around the pole until the instestines were wrapped around it completley :). Or have ing your side slit and your ribs being ripped upwards out your body. Having Mercury poured down yout throat. Acid dips? Having your skin peeled of, then haveing acid thrown on the raw flesh underneath, Have burning hot needles stuck into your eyes until they reached your brain ? yeah fun fun.

quite indicative that most people focused on thinking about the worst way to die....
and crowe, i know what you mean, sometimes i'm quite amazed how the world functions at all...i think it's because we don't really have the mental capacity to fully grasp death...or there's some protective mechanism that prevents us from truly understanding it....

taking pills after pills, and cuting your wrist.. mean while thinking this whole time.. then having the guilt and the pain go through your vains.. then realizing you will more then liking live.. then having to live with the fact that everyone around you will be disapointed in you, and never truly trsut you again. So then you go on to think its better to die, not just knowing and feeling all the pain you felt the first time, but added on to the thoughts peopel have placed on you this time.. that you really do kill yourself.. having more pain this time around.

I think the worst way to die would maybe be freezing to death!

I concur, for the most part.

Burning to death.

I think I must be one of the few people that really doesnt consider death. I am aware that someday I will die, but it doesnt really cross my mind much. maybe it's because i've become incapable of thinking about anything past the next week, or maybe i just dwell on it indirectly. I'm a very impulsive person, and tend to take more than a few risks. maybe the fact that i'm impulsive and can't plan ahead too far in the future is a manifestation of a fear of death.