Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
Suddenly, of a massive heart attack minutes after breaking the hour record for men over a hundred whilst being applauded by my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Your death. How do you want it to come?
- Thread starter PaulB
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cisamcgu
Legendary Member
- Location
- Merseyside-ish
I don't really mind (although squished by a truck on a dusty road in Iran whilst cycling would be nice) - however, what I would like would be for people after they hear I was gone, to smile wistfully, remembering me...
Bobby Mhor
Legendary Member
- Location
- Behind You
At the end
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
With my mental faculties intact, with enough forewarning to get all my affairs in order, and quickly in my sleep in my own bed. And before TLH.
But that is too rarely how it happens...
But that is too rarely how it happens...
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, and not screaming in fear like the passengers on his bus.
GC
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annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Canonbie
In control.
If I get to the stage where I have no quality of life (obviously that is subjective) then I'd like the support systems to be turned off - or someone to put a pillow over my face - whatever is required. I have recently completed an Advanced Decision form to that effected - although clearly assisted dying is not currently legal in the UK.
If I get to the stage where I have no quality of life (obviously that is subjective) then I'd like the support systems to be turned off - or someone to put a pillow over my face - whatever is required. I have recently completed an Advanced Decision form to that effected - although clearly assisted dying is not currently legal in the UK.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
As painlessly as possible, having suffered suddenly from Ulcerative colitis, and having endured for the best part of a month, a white, blinding, screaming wall of pain whilst I wasted away so that I was days from death as my bowels gave up, started to come apart and then finally rupture, I sure as heck don't want to have to go through that again!
I have never felt pain like it, and I don't ever want to feel it ever again either!! (It wouldn't have been so bad, but it was the fact that it was over such a long time and there was sod all I could do about it). The upshot is that after staring death in the face, I am now not afraid of dying.
Also, I don't ever want some disease that affects my wellbeing, be it something like heart problems or worse, some sort of horrible degenerative condition, I want to be fit right up until the end!!
I carry a donor card and my family know of my wishes and accept it (I am also registered), so even if I do go early, I will still be able to help others!
I have never felt pain like it, and I don't ever want to feel it ever again either!! (It wouldn't have been so bad, but it was the fact that it was over such a long time and there was sod all I could do about it). The upshot is that after staring death in the face, I am now not afraid of dying.
Also, I don't ever want some disease that affects my wellbeing, be it something like heart problems or worse, some sort of horrible degenerative condition, I want to be fit right up until the end!!
I carry a donor card and my family know of my wishes and accept it (I am also registered), so even if I do go early, I will still be able to help others!
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
I have always said to my family that if I have died doing something that I enjoy they should be grateful that I died happy doing something I enjoy. I know my sports are high risk (given my health issues), so for me that is probably the best way out. Otherwise, quietly and peacefully, quickly and preferably painlessly.
I won't care how I'm remembered no matter how I die. If my death makes me seem more noble or brave, or conversely more of a snivelling coward, then neither would make any difference to my rotting corpse. Truth is, few people will remember me at all. And they'll 'move on' if they've any sense. Nobody is that important.
If anyone watched 'True Detectives' they'll know Rustin Cohl and his world views.
" People... I have seen the finale of thousands of lives, man. Young, old, each one so sure of their realness. You know that their sensory experience constituted a unique individual with purpose and meaning. So certain that they were more than biological puppet. The truth wills out, and everybody sees. Once the strings are cut, all fall down."
If anyone watched 'True Detectives' they'll know Rustin Cohl and his world views.
" People... I have seen the finale of thousands of lives, man. Young, old, each one so sure of their realness. You know that their sensory experience constituted a unique individual with purpose and meaning. So certain that they were more than biological puppet. The truth wills out, and everybody sees. Once the strings are cut, all fall down."
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
[QUOTE 3161411, member: 45"]I bet you're fun at parties.[/QUOTE]
Oooohhh, get you!
'And now..... My party trick!!'.
Oooohhh, get you!
'And now..... My party trick!!'.
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roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
In a one word answer ...dignified...., and preferably before mrs roadrash, ive always said if she goes first, then it wont be long before i follow her.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
[QUOTE 3161386, member: 45"]How many affairs are you having?[/QUOTE]
Just the one, with TLH, but it is a very complicated one. More twists and turns than an Eco novel.
Just the one, with TLH, but it is a very complicated one. More twists and turns than an Eco novel.
ThinAir
Do more.
- Location
- Finchley, London.
As Clarkson put it... Backwards, on fire at about 120mph.
Or some other exciting way.
Failing that, peacefully in my sleep would do just fine!
Or some other exciting way.
Failing that, peacefully in my sleep would do just fine!
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I want to be at Valhalla/the Pearly Gates before I notice I'm dead.
