How would you like to die?

[SolitaryWalker]

Many would be insulted to have someone tell them that they shall die alone.

Yet again, I dont think that we should be. Death is just another challenging scenario in life, most would want to be around other people when they go out because they are used to being around others when going through difficulties.

But INTPs shouldnt be, and besides the last words of Karl Marx, a very eminenint prototype of ours read as follows : Get out of here! Last words are for fools who have not said enough!

INTPs, would you rather die alone?

[Chaselation]

I said no for the simple reason I found my father dead and I was very traumatized by the experience. Not knowing who would make the discovery and that they would likely be unprepared to find me dead is not something I would wish on anyone let alone my friends or family.

For myself my intuition tells me I wouldn't want to face death alone. I have no reasons to give I haven't given it much thought.

[PiccoloNamek]

I would like to die instantly and painlessly. Like turning a light switch off.

[Marston]

I wouldn't want to traumatize my friends and family. But I'd like to have friends and family. I wouldn't want to be discovered 60 weeks later, partially mummified under a pile of cat feces.

[rhinosaur]

I would rather die alone, for several reasons.

- Death is a very emotional and traumatic thing to witness, and I would rather not put an audience through that experience.
- I don't want to be remembered for how I died, but for who I was while alive.
- Being the center of attention isn't usually my thing.

On the other hand, if there were one or two very close and loved people who wanted to watch me die, I would allow it. I can count on one hand the people I'd let watch.

I changed my type back to INTP just for this thread, whore.

[rhinosaur]

I would like to die instantly and painlessly. Like turning a light switch off.Are you afraid that the experience might be painful?
I'm kind of intrigued to see what death is like.

Hmmm, poll time.

[SolitaryWalker]

Alone, without any doubt.

[bluebell]

Are you afraid that the experience might be painful?
I'm kind of intrigued to see what death is like.

Hmmm, poll time.

Instant and painless and in my sleep is how I want to go. The mind fights again death when it is inflicted upon the body. That fight can be extremely unpleasant and terrifying, the survival instinct kicks in and the real meaning of death becomes apparent. I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of the dying process. It is not something I want to experience.

[abweichend]

Alone. When I die, if it is a peaceful death and I know I am going to die soon, I will probably have some really deep final thought and I would rather do this without any sort of outside disturbance.

[int]

If I make it to 70 without winning a Darwin Award it'll be a miracle.

I'll end it myself, alone, somewhere around that point.

[PonderBee]

Given the choice I'd prefer to have someone that I love there. It is traumatic to be the one who receives the word that someone you love has died and that they were alone at the time. In my case a policeman came to my house and somehow I just knew why he was there and he was thrown when I began to cry and said "my aunt had died didn't she?!" She'd died at home in the middle of the night and missed an appointment the next day. I can only imagine how horrible it would be to actually discover a body. From a selfish standpoint I think that I'd be comforted if someone calm & accepting was present as I died - as long as they weren't murdering me :sadbanana:

[earwax]

I hope to die well into my 90's... shot by a jealous husband.

So I guess that would be in the company of others

[Rajah]

I thought I'd like to go in flagrante delicto. While easily one of the more fun options for me, I admit it would suck for my partner. Unless I were in flagrante delicto alone, which is just too depressing to envision.


Let's just scratch any idea involving flagrante or delicto, and say I don't care whether I'm alone or in the company of loved ones. I just want everyone (including me) to be as peaceful with it as possible.

[hereandnow]

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I wouldn't like it

[omnirook]

The best answer to this question that I ever read was given by Caesar: "Suddenly." I agree.

Here's a nice death. My aunt by marriage's uncle. He came in from a day's work on the farm, just as he always did, washed up, and sat down at the table while his wife finished up getting supper ready. He was and had always been a very quiet man - and, naturally, his wife was a chatter box.

While she was going about getting their meal on the table, she told him about this and told him about that and talked away, finding it not at all surprising that her husband was being very quiet. She had learned a long time ago that her husband was listening to her, that he could repeat back every word that she had said verbatum if he were accused of not listening to her. It wasn't until she turned around to put the soup on the table that she realized that he was dead, had sat down and just died, just like that.

Another nice death. Same aunt by marriage, her brother, whose name was "Marvel" - named that because he had survived a sudden and very premature birth after his mother had fallen down a steep flight of stairs in the Blackout during the Blitz. Marvel was througout his life a very thoughtful, kind, and gentle person, never said a word against anybody, always helped anybody who needed help ... A carload of American tourists were lost and made the mistake of trying to make a u-turn on the country road that ran along side of Marvel's farm. They wound up getting stuck in the ditch that ran along side of this narrow road. Marvel got out his tractor and came to their rescue - or tried. He got down, hooked up his tractor to the car, got back up onto the tractor and just sat there. After a few minutes, the American tourists began to wonder why the nice Englishman was not pulling their rented car out of the ditch. He was dead, that was why. He had gotten back up onto the tractor and had just died, just like that, looking as serene as ever.

[PiccoloNamek]

God damn, I hope my death goes as easily as their deaths did.

[libertarianjim]

The way I want to go will involve:

A 1974 Corvette Stingray
A gram of cocaine
A bottle of Captain Morgan
A 19-year-old stripper that looks obliquely like Angelina Jolie
A police chase
And a tanker of rocket fuel.

I voted "alone" because the stripper is basically just there as a prop.

[rek]

I wouldn't like it

Same here.

If I had to though... I like jim's idea

[Sokkorobo]

My death is going to be extravagant. I will jump out of a plane wearing a diving suit and holding a spear gun tipped with a jug of gasoline. This jump will take place over an active volcano. Before I hit I will shoot the spear into red hot magma and fly through the ensuing fireball. Death never looked so good.

[rainfall]

"In company of others!" - yes, take a few people along for the ride.

[Madrigal]

Depends who the "others" are, friends or foes.

[Delilah]

I wouldn't want to be discovered 60 weeks later, partially mummified under a pile of cat feces.

Really? This would be a okay with me, I like cats and mummies.

If that doesn't work out for me, maybe in a wicked cool shoot out like Kieffer Sutherland in "Young Guns" and some Bon Jovi "Blaze of Glory" playing in the background, or maybe an assasination by the CIA for my secret knowledge of .....uh.....I'm afraid I can't tell you of what....yet:ph34r:

I think alone is the way to go, no sense having people sitting around staring at me, it's morbid and it seems invasive, it would actually probably piss me off and I would stay alive to spite them, and the second they left the room I would sneak and die really fast.:thelook:

[Ferrus]

A shot to the head when one least expects it, perhaps.

Oh and as for the actual question, I wouldn't care. Such footling matters as 'other people' have never especially impinged on my consciousness.

[rainfall]

I think alone is the way to go, no sense having people sitting around staring at me, it's morbid and it seems invasive, it would actually probably piss me off and I would stay alive to spite them, and the second they left the room I would sneak and die really fast.:thelook:

It's only morbid if you want it to be. Shit, I'd be making out and drinking booze. Invite friends and family over. I'd have a deathday, it's like a birthday except when you die. Bright costumes and shit, and some good favorite music, like rammstein. Some strippers and a cake. Yeah.

I think the best death is during sex, though. Just cum and pass out into endless nothingness. Sucks to be the one who's left, hah, unsatisfied for the rest of the evening!

[Karl]

I dunno. Maybe if I were married or something I'd want to be with them. I can't decide.

I'll come back in 60 years and vote when I have a better idea.

[Delilah]

It's only morbid if you want it to be. Shit, I'd be making out and drinking booze. Invite friends and family over. I'd have a deathday, it's like a birthday except when you die. Bright costumes and shit, and some good favorite music, like rammstein. Some strippers and a cake. Yeah.

Ooh! That sounds like fun! Can I be invited?

At mine I think I would prefer pizza to cake though.

Pretty sure I would still slip into a quiet room and die alone though so as not to wreck the party, it's only polite.

[fresh]

God damn it man, I was hoping you asked in offer. I want to die with people around me, I was born that way. I want witnesses to my death. Maybe the sickly images will be more heavily etched in my survivors' memories... I believe in the afterlife because I am afraid of lonely voids, who cares if I cease to be. I'll still be a drop of rain. I'll wash your pain away. In SolitaryWalker's name, we pray. ;)

[Kathara]

Quickly and alone. Preferably AFTER I had tortured to death everybody who wronged me in this lifetime.

[Sokkorobo]

How do I really want to die?

Firing squad. Once I am unable to take care of my self i'll start looking for a firing squad.

[fresh]

Quickly and alone. Preferably AFTER I had tortured to death everybody who wornged me in this lifetime.

What is it with INTP gals and death threats? I'm perplexed by this, man. I know an ISTP dude who talks like that. Creeepy. Twistedly, it can be adorable from females. People tell me I resemble a serial killer. I talk in a monotone, but I ain't talkin' about torturing the poor children. ;)

[Sojourner]

That's actually a very interesting question. I have two or three death scenarios in mind, only 1.5 of which is/are plausible. It is quite accurate to say that in most scenarios, dying alone would be preferred.

The first, of course, is natural death. Literally dying in one's sleep. In this case, I think it would be best for all involved (or rather, all that could have been involved) if the death is not witnessed.

The second two involve suicide.

Now, my preferred mode of suicide would be something fast, painless, and quiet; statistics show that women tend to shy away from the "violent" suicide methods like shooting themselves in the head, and I am no exception. The reasoning is that I have absolutely no experience with weapons, nor do I wish to acquire any - and if I am inexperienced with weapons, the result is very likely a failed attempt. Permanently crippled instead of dead. How unpleasant. So a potent venom, like that of the cone shell snails, perhaps, would be the best. (Exactly how I would obtain a concentrated cocktail of cone shell snail venoms is another matter.)

Suicide by potent poison, like natural death, is a quiet death. Therefore, I would undertake it alone.

The third scenario involves "violent" suicide - that is, involving physical weapons. Speed and painlessness are still criteria, so (correct me if I'm wrong) a gun would probably be a good choice. However, this would require the assistance of another person who does know how to handle a gun very well. The details of how and where can be researched, but someone needs to actually do it. (Exactly how I would find someone willing to go along with the plan is another matter.)

In this case, there are two reasons to have another person. The first is, of course, that someone is needed to do the shooting. The second? No matter how relatively quick a "violent" assisted suicide is, there will still be last-minute misgivings, since a physical weapon like a gun is closely associated with pain and blood, unlike the innocuous syringe. The assistant should be prepared to stiffen the suicidee's resolve, or reassure the suicidee, whichever is most appropriate.

[Kathara]

I remembered a joke:

While waiting at the Perly Gates a guy strikes a converstaion with an old bus driver.

"So did you die a nice death?", he asks.

"Indeed, a very peaceful one", answers the driver. "I passed away in my sleep, unlike the rest of the people in the bus".

Or something of a kind. I know illogical - they would have screamed and that would have woken him up. But perhaps he was already dead, when the rest realised what had happened.

[Sojourner]

I remembered a joke:

While waiting at the Perly Gates a guy strikes a converstaion with an old bus driver.

"So did you die a nice death?", he asks.

"Indeed, a very peaceful one", answers the driver. "I passed away in my sleep, unlike the rest of the people in the bus".

Or something of a kind. I know illogical - they would have screamed and that would have woken him up. But perhaps he was already dead, when the rest realised what had happened.
Well, the driver's way up front, right?

[rainfall]

I remembered a joke:

While waiting at the Perly Gates a guy strikes a converstaion with an old bus driver.

"So did you die a nice death?", he asks.

"Indeed, a very peaceful one", answers the driver. "I passed away in my sleep, unlike the rest of the people in the bus".

Or something of a kind. I know illogical - they would have screamed and that would have woken him up. But perhaps he was already dead, when the rest realised what had happened.

"Indeed, a very peaceful one", answers the driver. "I passed away in my sleep, unlike the rest of the people on the bus who screamed and panicked".


Ooh! That sounds like fun! Can I be invited?

At mine I think I would prefer pizza to cake though.


So, peperoni or pineapple? :grin:

[Delilah]

"Indeed, a very peaceful one", answers the driver. "I passed away in my sleep, unlike the rest of the people on the bus who screamed and panicked".

Finally the actual punchline.

Thank you rainfall.:wub:

[rainfall]

I'm always here to cheer ya up :)

[Delilah]

I'm always here to cheer ya up :)

And you succeed.:wub:

[Karl]

In this case, there are two reasons to have another person. The first is, of course, that someone is needed to do the shooting. The second? No matter how relatively quick a "violent" assisted suicide is, there will still be last-minute misgivings, since a physical weapon like a gun is closely associated with pain and blood, unlike the innocuous syringe. The assistant should be prepared to stiffen the suicidee's resolve, or reassure the suicidee, whichever is most appropriate.

Dude, that's legally murder, even if you give them permission.

Hope you don't like whoever does you that favor, 'cause if they live where I live they'd be killed by the state.

Some people consider hiring their own hitman. Then again, what can you do if you pay him and he doesn't get the job done?

[Sojourner]

Dude, that's legally murder, even if you give them permission.

Hope you don't like whoever does you that favor, 'cause if they live where I live they'd be killed by the state.

Some people consider hiring their own hitman. Then again, what can you do if you pay him and he doesn't get the job done?

That's why it's not plausible.

(Or... eh... even less plausible, anyhow...)

[Xenolith]

It depends on the situation. If dying due to illness, alone. If dying due to bravery, with friends.

[Kathara]

Well, the driver's way up front, right?

Yeah, but it depends on the accident. If he lost control and crushed into a pit, then the others would have realised what had happened and screamed. If he has gone smack into a gas station, let's say, they would all die instantenously.