Your death. How do you want it to come?

[PaulB]

Now we all know we have to go sometime and we want as much life as we can live before it comes for us but how do you want it to come? In other words, since you've got to go, what form would you prefer - if given the choice - your death to take?

This question is only for those of us realistic enough to accept we're almost certainly nearer the end than the beginning. All those under say 40-45 shouldn't bother troubling themselves with the thoughts.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Aye aye aye. I don't mind talking about death - but my wife hates it. I'm over 45 (by a month). I will give your post some thought.

 

[swee'pea99]

In my sleep, unexpectedly, without warning, pain or humiliation, please.

 

[Archie_tect]

After I've done what's left to do.... a moveable list these days.

 

[MontyVeda]

After I've tidied up... I'd hate for people to wonder where I've got to, break in, find me dead AND the house in a mess.





... oh, and clean undies too.

 

[SteCenturion]

I will tell you when I get the correct answer from the question I set in the "what's her name thread" but it would be underneath her anyway.

Or something fast, pain is o.k but short & sharp preferably.

Edit.

Alicia Keys.

 

[Dave 123]

So that people say "he had a good innings...." Etc.
I like it when old people die of being old, as I've seen and heard of too many younger people die of illness or tragic circumstances. It's just not cricket.

I might die from overdosing on cricket metaphors!

 

[Blue]

After I've tidied up... I'd hate for people to wonder where I've got to, break in, find me dead AND the house in a mess.





... oh, and clean undies too.

Once you die your undies won't stay clean for long so I wouldn't stress that one.

 

[ColinJ]

Having faced it 2 years ago, I know for sure that I do NOT want it to be lying face down on the floor, fighting for breath, and having hours to think about it!

I would like to have another 25 years or so in reasonable shape, and then die very suddenly, preferably in my sleep, hours after thinking that my life had been worthwhile and that I was happy.

This would do me! (The Jimmy Saville connection doesn't look quite so good now though! )

 

[KneesUp]

In my sleep with clean bedding and with everything in order.

To echo @Dave 123 there are several ages:

'Tragically young' (under 40)
'That's no age' (40 - 60)
'He wasn't that old' (60 -75)
'He had a good innings' (75 -90)
'That's a shame, but he was very old' (90+)

I'd like to get to 'good innings' at least.

Alternatively I suppose I could go at any timmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff

 

[yello]

Preferably painlessly.

I was thinking of this recently (there are no forbidden subjects in my mind) and I thought an assisted death might be my preference, if it were at all possible. I don't really want to be kept alive after some horrific illness or accident. That got me to thinking, why need it be only under those circumstances? I quite like the notion of just going to the doc's and saying "I've had a good innings" (as opposed to someone saying "he's had a good innings"), I reckon I can call time on myself now. You know, get all your affairs arranged first, say your goodbyes, etc. Then popping into a clinic for your last ever appointment. A nice, neat clean and painless exit. Save the NHS loads I reckon too.

 

[MarkF]

Hopefully I've another 20+ healthy years, no physical activity = no enjoyment for me. By then a humane mechanism should be in place enabling me to be "switched" off. Or, being shot by ray gun, where you are just a smouldering skeleton in a nanosecond.

I hope so, I don't want to die in bed if nobody is visiting for few days... urrgggh!.

 

[cyberknight]

Just had a medical , irregular ECG so clutching my chest whilst falling off bike .

 

[PaulB]

Well I was in an induced coma 4 years ago and have to say I am conscious of absolutely nothing of that time. It was painless and had that been my end, there wouldn't be such an entity as 'me' to say what it was like so I can't fill you in on that. But it does make me think that whatever I'm doing now is something of a bonus so it makes me regard things differently than it did BC (before coma).

It also struck me as interesting when a priest said at the funeral of a friend of mine who was only 23 when he fell to his death off a mountain in Glencoe that he wouldn't have to suffer the problems of getting old and infirm. He was young, virile and healthy and that's how everyone would remember him. Not for him diabetes, baldness, arthritis, loss of teeth etc.

But if we are old when we go, we'll suffer all the disadvantages age brings. But if we don't make old bones, the downside will be un-lived years but un-stiff joints. It's all a bit of a balance, really.

So given that you've GOT to go, if you were given the opportunity, how and when WOULD you go? With me, it would involve a sporting activity of some sort. I'd love it to be said at my funeral, ''he died doing what he loved best' and when this is said, Maria Sharapova's 18 year-old daughter to be unutterably sad....but glowing inside!

 

[Angry Blonde]

I came into this world kicking and screaming with someone elses blood on me, I plan to go out the same way !