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How do you want to die?
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Unless something else happens first, I'm pretty sure some kind of cancer is going to get me. Nearly everyone that has died in my family has died from cancer, so it seems very likely. Genetics are a bitch, but there's nothing I can really do.
But as for my preferred death? Eh, maybe something quick like. I have no idea what is and isn't quick exactly, but maybe gun shot to the head or something... I don't know.
But as for my preferred death? Eh, maybe something quick like. I have no idea what is and isn't quick exactly, but maybe gun shot to the head or something... I don't know.
In the counterfactual, if at all possible. I may eventually compromise with nature and consent to the subjunctive mood, but not for a number of years.
Unfortunately, this is one activity that you can't pass one.
We all get to experience it.
You might be outta luck with that. If you believe in such things, then according to the Mayans, Nostradamus, and some other "predictions", the world is going to end within the next few years .. or at least the word as we know it.
Balancing that is the prediction of some Christians who believes in the concept of The Rapture, where they believe they will be assumed directly into Heaven without needing to experience death on Earth, occuring during 'The Last Days'.
Who knows...? We'll find out at some point for our individual circumstances, I'm sure.
Odds are good, though, that we'll figuratively end up as roadkill on Earth first.
I hope it's not painful. I would hope that it's something I could plan for rather than sudden. If I could plan it, I could go through the tunes I suppose. I'd want a party, playlist, and insurance money to go to the offspring with no hassle. Would be great to have a few months so I could plan out travel.
Interesting the number of people who want to die heroically saving someone. I was on a flight recently and was thinking about what would happen if we crashed (cheerful as always) and about a documentary I'd seen a few years ago that looked at survivors of major disasters and concluded that they were the people who single-mindedly did everything they could to get to safety, even at the expense of others. The example that sprang to mind most was of a woman who survived a major runway fire at Manchester Airport a few years ago: she effectively jumped the queue to get out of the exit by climbing over the seat backs to get there rather than waiting behind all the people cramming the aisle.
I understand the impulse to queue politely and wait your turn to get out of the burning plane, women and children first etc., but I've always wondered whether the strangers I could potentially save in that way would look after my loved ones after I'm gone. The answer to that would be no, I think: I doubt that they'd even remember you a few years later, if at all. So, I'm afraid I'd be doing everything I could to get out of the wrecked train, burning plane or whatever and sod everyone else.
I understand the impulse to queue politely and wait your turn to get out of the burning plane, women and children first etc., but I've always wondered whether the strangers I could potentially save in that way would look after my loved ones after I'm gone. The answer to that would be no, I think: I doubt that they'd even remember you a few years later, if at all. So, I'm afraid I'd be doing everything I could to get out of the wrecked train, burning plane or whatever and sod everyone else.
