How Would You Like to Die?

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

While I would prefer to be immortal I have to be realistic and conclude that the human reality I am very happily bound to will end some day. As that final day is unavoidable I would like it to be grand and glorious; war perhaps but I truly don't know nor do I limit myself to that scenario.

 

[Simeon_Strangelight]

While I would prefer to be immortal I have to be realistic and conclude that the human reality I am very happily bound to will end some day. As that final day is unavoidable I would like it to be grand and glorious; war perhaps but I truly don't know nor do I limit myself to that scenario.

Most humans would not learn much from a life that lasts thousands of years. Immortality would be just a waste on time on them.

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

While I would prefer to be immortal I have to be realistic and conclude that the human reality I am very happily bound to will end some day. As that final day is unavoidable I would like it to be grand and glorious; war perhaps but I truly don't know nor do I limit myself to that scenario.

Most humans would not learn much from a life that lasts thousands of years. Immortality would be just a waste on time on them.

I don't know. It is true the majority of us are insignificant passers-by - hell, I may end up as one - but it is difficult to believe that some people wouldn't be capable of learning or contributing anything important in so much time.

 

[Simeon_Strangelight]

While I would prefer to be immortal I have to be realistic and conclude that the human reality I am very happily bound to will end some day. As that final day is unavoidable I would like it to be grand and glorious; war perhaps but I truly don't know nor do I limit myself to that scenario.

Most humans would not learn much from a life that lasts thousands of years. Immortality would be just a waste on time on them.

I don't know. It is true the majority of us are insignificant passers-by - hell, I may end up as one - but it is difficult to believe that some people wouldn't be capable of learning or contributing anything important in so much time.

I don't mean that people are insignificant if they were not great emperors or inventors.

I mean that people don't change and truly evolve much after a certain age. There are some exceptions, but most don't. A Nazi in the 1940s would probably still be a Nazi character in the year 3000 if he lived that long.

If reincarnation is true that Nazi has the chance of being reborn as a black, a woman, an Indian and after 1000 years he is a much different person. That's my personal observation - if there is no reincarnation and no afterlife, then life does not make much sense in the first place and whether you live 10 minutes or 1000 years does not matter at all - or whether you are a serial killer or a saint does not matter either. But I think that it does and there is a higher reason for life.

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

I don't mean that people are insignificant if they were not great emperors or inventors.

I mean that people don't change and truly evolve much after a certain age. There are some exceptions, but most don't. A Nazi in the 1940s would probably still be a Nazi character in the year 3000 if he lived that long.

If reincarnation is true that Nazi has the chance of being reborn as a black, a woman, an Indian and after 1000 years he is a much different person. That's my personal observation - if there is no reincarnation and no afterlife, then life does not make much sense in the first place and whether you live 10 minutes or 1000 years does not matter at all - or whether you are a serial killer or a saint does not matter either. But I think that it does and there is a higher reason for life.

Ah! I misunderstood you in that case. As for the last point, I frequently transit between a very depressive form of nihilism and a heightened state where I have very little worries on what succeeds this life. I've also read Camus so his absurdism influences me too. In essence, I truly don't know and the confusion created by that question bothers me on a daily basis.

 

[Julian The Apostate]

In a crusade against ISIS.

 

[Aliblahba]

I'm already dead inside.

 

[Candlejack]

To a Hans Zimmer soundtrack

 

[Hannibal]

Blood and sand.

Just kidding, getting fucked to death by a dozen no name models would be the way to go.

 

[Easy_C]

Just kidding, getting fucked to death by a dozen no name models would be the way to go.

Would you stand by your original statement if they were plus size models?

 

[Hardy Daytona]

Mid-sex drug-fuelled heart attack.

 

[keysersoze]

I don't know how I'll die but I damn sure know that "The Great Gig in the Sky" better be playing when the lights go out.

 

[Duly.noted]

I want to die sitting in an armchair with my coat and slippers on my pipe having fallen to the ground. My dog at my feet and sitting in my lap a book. My wife and lawyer would find this book and begin to read it. Then they would understand the goofy self serving smile plaster on my face as the book in question would contain photos of every woman I have impregnated and skipped out on over the course of my life as well as their name and numbers and the false names I gave each of them. In my will would be instructions to my lawyer to spread my fame as the man who sired 10 thousand bastards across the land in his lifetime and got away with it. And the last entry in the book would be an 18 year old dated the month before my death. I would go down in history as the most filthy disgusting and depraved enemy of women to ever exist, and in heaven I would be greated by all those filthy depraved men who went before me as I enter into a valhalla of pussy reserved for only the greatest of whores.

 

[Aquiles_Baesta_Parada]

Either going out with a bang...

see what I did there ;-)

... Or die of old age. With no regrets

 

[Seamus]

At 80 years old, with my brothers in a freak, instantaneous accident (e.g. all of us crushed by falling airplane part). That way none of us would have to go to the others funerals.

 

[scubadude]

93 years old. Shot by a jealous husband while attempting to escape out a bedroom window.

 

[Belgrano]

125 years old and relatively healthy, surrounded by the many future generations of my family and looking at a tropical sunrise over the ocean.

 

[SwordfishTrombonist]

Ever since I heard this song as a kid I've been saying that when I'm around 80 and really starting to decline (hopefully I make it that long) I'm gonna travel to the Kalahari and spear hunt some lions and die doing so. Probably just a pipe dream but I've always thought it'd be a cool as fuck way to go out.

 

[germanico]

I remember in basic training we got sat down and asked, "how many of you want to die in combat?" One person rose his hand. The drill sergeant immediately called him a dumbass and said something along the lines of "Your better off making sure the other guy does instead".

You should not wish to die in combat. You should wish to slay every motherfucker in your way instead. Then you bring all your friends home and get them laid like rockstars.

Again I wonder, how many people that say they want to die in combat have actually been in combat?

Ive been in firefights and in a couple of training "accidents" that could have killed me. I try not to think about those, but when I do I think of how lucky I am to still be alive.

Thats not how I want to go. Ever been knocked out? You just black out, you feel nothing, you know nothing. One moment you are all pumped up planning you next move and the next thing you know you are on the floor looking up with everybody standing around you asking you how many fingers.

Death would be something like that, but without the waking up part.

Thats not how I want to go. I want to have time to enjoy it, to remember my friends, to thank whatever for my family, to think of the women Ive loved and the ones who have loved me.

If I could choose my death, it would be on a quiet sunday morning. I would fuck my woman, hoping that I impregnate her. I would have a big breakfast, eggs with bacon and buttered toast, with lots of coffee and fruit and pastries. I would put on my old cassette player with some 90s mix tape, read a newspaper sitting in a rocking chair, watch the dog play around the yard.

Then when I start to feel tired, I would close my eyes and listen to the wind rustle the leaves on the trees, and gently fall into sleep never to wake up.

I wouldnt want to die doing some cool shit like skidiving or suitgliding or car racing, because when I do those things I wont want to be thinking about death, but of how cool my life would be to be able to do that and how I never want to die, but live forever doing that cool shit.

 

[LeeEnfield303]

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