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| How do you want to die? |
| Old as possible, with my family loving me as I say goodbye |
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30% |
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| Old and alone... leave a man to die in peace! |
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3% |
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| instant death, please! |
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39% |
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| For my country, painful or not, I don't care |
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0% |
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| Pick my bones, I'd rather burn forever burn than cease to exist! |
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3% |
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| I delude myself with promises of re-incarnation or some such mystic bullshyt... I can never truly die. |
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traxxe
Joined: 21 Feb 2007
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I have a few ways I'd like to go:
1) Shotgun blast to the back by some pissed off husband.
2) Being struck by lightning while fornicating with a preacher's daughter.
3) Some meaningful death that will inspire many others to better themselves or the world. Method is not important.
4) After bitch slapping Kim Jung Il
5) Fucking koreakowboy in the ass until he dies. |
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True Samurai
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:01 am Post subject: |
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I chose the final choice, no pun intended, as inadequate as it is. As a Buddhist I believe that there is no 'me' so to speak. Hence the phrasing of the question "how do you want to die?' - has no real meaning.
If it not to inopportune, I would once again like to refer you all to this page: (with the 'death' parts in bold)
http://reluctant-messenger.com/gospel_buddha/chapter_20.htm
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The Buddha, perceiving that the whole assembly
was ready as a vessel to receive the doctrine,
spoke thus to Bimbisara the king: [6]
"He who knows the nature of self
and understands how the senses act,
finds no room for selfishness,
and thus he will attain peace unending.
The world holds the thought of self,
and from this arises false apprehension. [7]
"Some say that the self endures after death, some say it perishes.
Both are wrong and their error is most grievous. [8]
"For if they say the self is perishable,
the fruit they strive for will perish too,
and at some time there will be no hereafter.
Good and evil would be indifferent.
This salvation from selfishness is without merit. [9]
"When some, on the other hand,
say the self will not perish,
then in the midst of all life and death
there is but one identity unborn and undying.
If such is their self,
then it is perfect and cannot be perfected by deeds.
The lasting, imperishable self could never be changed.
The self would be lord and master,
and there would be no use in perfecting the perfect;
moral aims and salvation would be unnecessary. [10]
"But now we see the marks of joy and sorrow.
Where is any constancy?
If there is no permanent self that does our deeds,
then there is no self;
there is no actor behind our actions,
no perceiver behind our perception,
no lord behind our deeds. [11]
"Now attend and listen:
The senses meet the object
and from their contact sensation is born.
Thence results recollection.
Thus, as the sun's power through a burning-glass causes fire to appear,
so through the cognizance born of sense and object,
the mind originates and with it the ego, the thought of self,
whom some Brahman teachers call the lord.
The shoot springs from the seed;
the seed is not the shoot,
both are not one and the same,
but successive phases in a continuous growth.
Such is the birth of animated life. [12]
"Ye that are slaves of the self and toil in its service from morn until night,
ye that live in constant fear of birth, old age, sickness, and death,
receive the good tidings that your cruel master exists not. [13] |
Or to quote the ever eloquent Saint Paul:
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O grave where is thy victory?
O death where is thy sting? |
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Cerebroden
Joined: 27 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I want to be crucified in front of thousands, so millions can consider me a god-like martyr for the next couple millenia. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
| I worked in a nursing home for a long time and the WORST way to die is when your family does everything possible to keep you alive. No thank you!! When it's my time...LET ME GO!! |
Yup. Mom has been fighting cancer for almost a year now. They gave her till Christmas, but she hung on cause she's a tough old broad. They put her in the hospital finally 2 weeks ago, so her time is coming. She has a DNR on her file, so when she's gone, she's gone. No machines.
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| I'd prefer to have a quick heart attack, or be hit by a bus in Korea than to suffer the ravages of Alzheimers disease. My Dad suffered for 8 years before he finally succumbed. |
Yeah, my gram had it, too. I was here for all of it, so I still have good memories of gram as herself, and have few memories of her declining years. NOT a way I want to go, but scares me when I see the signs in me that it's coming. |
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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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shot in the head by Cheney
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katsu
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
Location: here and there
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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well i believe in the afterlife...whatever that may mean. I've met a few people whom had some sort of contact with their loved ones who had passed away...
as to your question, i don't think anybody "wants" to die, but those who haven't found luck, nor happiness, may feel so devastated and depressed they don't want to live...but that doesn't mean they want to die...they just don't see any other rational or irrational option...and feel that they would rather end their misery than live it.
i personally want to live long, grow old, accomplish whatever i need/want to accomplish, fulfill my role, and then go out satisfied...perhaps in my sleep...just like my grandma who died in her sleep smiling...she was a very religious person who knew that departing from this world does not mean ceasing away.
i don't know if i believe in reincaranation, but i do believe that once you "die" you leave this world, and enter another (whatever that may be: heaven, comsos, etc...) |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: How do you wanna die? |
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| babtangee wrote: |
You do realise that you will, sooner or later, die.
My dad is turning 70 soon, and he recently said to me, "I was cool with turning sixty, but when you comin' on seventy you really know your days are numbered."* |
Well, here's Christopher Lee at age 80:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3gO_cJjBh-k |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I came kinda close to dying once and it wasn't bad at all. So I'll go any old way, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, you can always hang yourself. I'd just hate to be trapped in a situation where living was hell, like being horribly crippled or something. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I want to be so happy with whatever life I built that I will be sad to see it go. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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My father made me promise to dispatch him with a gun on his eightieth birthday.
My grandmother died quite suddenly in her eighties. She'd been in decline, but took us all by surprise with a stroke. It was hard on the rest of us not to have the chance to say goodbye, but we were glad she didn't suffer any indignity or horrible pain on the way out.
What's the easiest way for everyone else left behind? It's good to have a chance to say goodbye, but no fun to watch someone fade away. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: How do you wanna die? |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| babtangee wrote: |
You do realise that you will, sooner or later, die.
My dad is turning 70 soon, and he recently said to me, "I was cool with turning sixty, but when you comin' on seventy you really know your days are numbered."* |
Well, here's Christopher Lee at age 80:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3gO_cJjBh-k |
I think he was thinking it took such a short time to get from 60 to 70, 70 to the grave ain't gonna be comparatively long. 10 years gets shorter and shorter the older you get. Or so they say.
My old man said he went to the doctors for a check up. The old man said he exercises regularly and the doctor told him off - he's too old to be exercising. The doctor then asked him how far he could walk.
Dad said, "I dunno."
The Doctor said, "Can you walk a hundred metres?"
Dad said, "What? Yeah!"
"Well, can you walk two hundred metres?"
"Of course!"
"Oh. So how far can you walk?"
"I dunno," he said, "I haven't really tested myself."
Then they put him on the jogger to test him out. He had to sign a form to say if he keeled over the doctor wasn't responsible. He said he was sorry he felt the need to prove himself after that.
The old coot will probably outlast me. He's lived a pretty healthy life. My grandfather, on the other hand, couldn't get from the armchair to the sink without losing his breath at 74.
Maybe I should turf the fags. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
My father made me promise to dispatch him with a gun on his eightieth birthday.
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Are you gonna honor that deal? Or did you already do it?  Seems a bit unfair on you.
I think it's better to be whisked away suddenly. I try to be nice to all my family so there won't be any bitter feelings when the time comes.
I'd like to go during I time of danger and hightened tensions. Hopefully trying to stay alive would distract me from the anticipation of death. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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Bathed in the blood of my enemies |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Choking on a life-sized chocolate sculpture of <mustn't tell you> |
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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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I heard a saying once, it was the greatest thought I'd ever heard about death. "May you die in bed, at 90, shot by a jealous lover."
Hek yah ! |
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