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Where Would You Prefer To Be When You Die?

rhinefire

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I would like to be on a beautiful beach surrounded by the sounds of little children having fun with the sun lighting up the sky and a cool breeze blowing over me.
 
rhinefire said:
I would like to be on a beautiful beach surrounded by the sounds of little children having fun with the sun lighting up the sky and a cool breeze blowing over me.
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In a hospital bed with my boots on.
 
If I had to choose, it'd be probably be in some quiet place outdoors, under a shady tree, on a nice summer day. If a loved one could be with me, that would be ideal.
 
rhinefire said:
I would like to be on a beautiful beach surrounded by the sounds of little children having fun with the sun lighting up the sky and a cool breeze blowing over me.
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Standing over a pile of brass and the bodies of the bastards I took with me.
 
Gathomas88 said:
If I had to choose, it'd be probably be in some quiet place outdoors, under a shady tree, on a nice summer day. If a loved one could be with me, that would be ideal.
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Like at the end of the Godfather maybe? I think I would like to be somewhere close to where I grew up as a kid, maybe with my last glass of bourbon.

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I would just assume that some sort of extreme sport kill me, but at an old age.
 
rhinefire said:
I would like to be on a beautiful beach surrounded by the sounds of little children having fun with the sun lighting up the sky and a cool breeze blowing over me.
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Old in bed, surrounded by my family and all my grandchildren. Tell them all goodbye and that I love them, then drift away.
 
rhinefire said:
I would like to be on a beautiful beach surrounded by the sounds of little children having fun with the sun lighting up the sky and a cool breeze blowing over me.
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As close to a cryonics facility as possible.
 
Yeah, I haven't thought about it much. I'm hoping it will be quick and clean, which means I am rooting for a heart attack rather than slow suffocation via lung failure. I'd prefer to be home when it happens, but it would devastate my husband so maybe opting for the clinical setting of a hospital would be easier for him. My kids and their families live thousands of miles away, so the movie-type goodbye surrounded by loved ones in not in the cards for me, and I'm kinda glad. I don't want anyone's last memory of me to be helpless, gasping and grey.

Ick. I've depressed myself, so I'll just go with sitting on a rock watching the Yuba River rushing through a gorgeous, tree-lined canyon.
 
On the highway. Burying the speedometer on my Road King.
 
I'm with Woody Allen, I'd rather be somewhere else when it happens.
 
I dont care where I die. My only hope is that I know that I am going to die. I hate the idea of dying in my sleep. I also wouldnt want to be a financial burden to my family. I also wouldnt want my death to be a huge emotional scar to my family and friends.

One thing is certain though, death is meaningless to dead people.
 
Since us being dead is inevitable, perhaps it follows that death is meaningless to us?
 
It's weird. I'm not obsessed with going to Valhalla like a lot of people are... but whenever I think of this question, the only answer I can come up with is "standing on a mountain of my enemies' corpses".

I want to live a good, long time-- as long as possible-- but I don't want to grow old, lose my strength and then my mind, and then die in bed. I don't want to linger.
 
Korimyr the Rat said:
It's weird. I'm not obsessed with going to Valhalla like a lot of people are... but whenever I think of this question, the only answer I can come up with is "standing on a mountain of my enemies' corpses".

I want to live a good, long time-- as long as possible-- but I don't want to grow old, lose my strength and then my mind, and then die in bed. I don't want to linger.
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Valhalla is over rated unless you like war axes, mead and the singing of boastful and heroic songs.
On the other hand, lingering probably comes easier than to stop doing so.
 
Three ideas come to mind, one... in battle fighting for my rights while I am young. If old, jumping from a plane with no chute with my mind blasted with LSD. If possible, when the battery dies on the probe I've downloaded my consciousness to at the end of the universe, during the big chill, after the last star has died out.
 
Somewhere comfortable and supportive, that is quiet and restful. I'm not sure I'd want my entire family there or a big crowd in general. Maybe a few close people, if that. I don't know why but I have this intuition that death is a very delicate process, much like birth. I feel it's important to die properly. Plus, your hearing is the last to fade, so I don't want crying hysterical people around me while I'm exiting. I also don't want to be on morphine or anything else that would deaden it.

Of course, this is all bearing in mind that I might not have a choice in how any of this happens.
 
Hopefully at an age where I have had the chance to live and before the age where I need help standing up or forget how old I really am. I don't have a lot of friends or family I'd care to have beside me so if I had a choice, I'd die alone listening to some music in my own bed where I am most comfortable. I watched my grandfather take his last breath. It wasn't pleasant and I don't want the people I actually do love and care for to see it.
 
Peacefully in my sleep, not screaming in panic like the rest of the people in the car with me.

Sorry, I had to say it.
 
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