Serious How do you think you'll die

[savgbeast]

I'll fly out over the ocean on a beautiful summer evening near the Florida keys and allow my plane to climb until I eventually pass out and die in my sleep from a lack of oxygen.

I can't think of a more peaceful and considerate way to go. I'd like to time it just right so that I'm chasing sunset and it will be the last thing that I see

Considerate? How can you be sure your plane won't wreak havoc on someone or someplace when it goes down?

 

[RD81]

I’ve contemplated death many times. Having an interest in palliative care, I find trying to give the patient the death I would want for myself helps me give them ‘a good death’. However, it’s not a negative or intrusive thought pattern for me.

The best deaths I’ve seen, are people dying at home from old age or a progressive terminal illness, where their family are around them joking and having fun. When the family are positive, the dying patient rarely needs any medications to ease them through death. All of these patients had a serene facial expression, and often a kind of smile at the moment of death. So that always appealed to me.

I went to verify the death of one of these patients a couple of years back during Easter weekend. The family were joking about him being resurrected like Jesus as it was Easter and I was laughing as I performed the examination to verify the death. His wife asked if I could close his eyes, which I explained is almost impossible if they remain open after death. They didn’t close, to which his wife said “well he was a stubborn bugger in life so no change in death”. Then his son put his sun glasses on the patient and crossed his arms to make him look “like a cool dude”. Then we all pissed ourselves laughing. To me, this guy had a very good death, and didn’t need any medications.

@RD81 it sounds like your thoughts are more an OCD pattern of intrusive thoughts. Did you experience a death in the family as a younger person? Maybe your thoughts are happy and calm, but if they bother you consider getting the book Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder second edition by David Veale and Rob Wilson.

I also work with Seniors, seen all kinds of death, I'm numb now but as a kid, I lost my brother. No one really talked to me about it because I was just a kid and wouldn't remember anyways, wow were they wrong about that. I've done like 17 years of therapy, my intrusive thoughts are more of an anxiety thing and it's not so much about me dying it's about everyone around me and how it would impact them. As previously stated I would like to disappear quietly but I am now at the age where I realize I will probably be the last of my family to die since I have no children, which is even more anxiety-inducing, who is going to pick up my ashes if I pay for a service will they actually carry out my wishes or will I get the dead goldfish treatment? I hate my brain but meds help and I work harder than an ugly stripper so being in a constant state of hardly conscious keeps my brain in neutral most of the time.

I'll fly out over the ocean on a beautiful summer evening near the Florida keys and allow my plane to climb until I eventually pass out and die in my sleep from a lack of oxygen.

I can't think of a more peaceful and considerate way to go. I'd like to time it just right so that I'm chasing sunset and it will be the last thing that I see.

That sounds epic, I would have to go see some beautiful things on my way out... if I had the money, time, and skill which I don't but...

I'm convinced I'll grow old, maybe near or even after 100. I had two great grandparents live past 95 and I have current grandparents that are 87 and 89 with as much energy as people half their age.

Now if I didn't get to grow old and I died some other way, I'm just glad I'm not affiliated with a cartel. Overthinking might get me though like that guy from Scanners.

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The cartel Jesus fuck Christ, you probably have a death wish if you're affiliated and your death is going to be slow, painful, and probably posted on GG eventually. New phobia unlocked.

We should meet up when I'm really old. You could give me "death by blowjob" - just keep sucking till I croak.

not an unreasonable request, but TBH I work with extremely old folks, and stuff stops working right around roughly 85. It'd be really sad if you couldn't get hard and Viagra isn't really advised for someone who's actively dying. But hell I'd give it a go, doesn't seem like I would catch a murder charge for that.

I'd like to be shot at the age of 100 by the jealous husband of my 21 year old mistress.

Well keep up with those life insurance payments and someone would benefit from your death, it's the least you could do.

I'm a looser 51yo loose my job two years ago no kid no wife no friend ALONE I'm dazed in Madness I WANT TO DIE QUICLKY !!!

You aren't a loser, you hit a rough patch, 51 with no obligations or responsibilities to another human being is kind of a form of freedom. I'm 42 with no kids and a narcissistic partner who seems to go out of his way to make sure I am miserable in every aspect of my life. I know this will end badly and I am really ready to be done with this stage of my life so I can go back to being alone without having to cater to someone else's mood swings, bad day, or straight everyday bullshit. So I'm technically the loser here, I stay because I'm comfortable with not having to financially struggle. Don't get me wrong we are one missed paycheck away from homelessness but, I'm complacent and tried.

 

[Otis Driftwood]

I just hope it's mutually assured destruction. I bet you don't feel anything in the epicenter of a nuclear blast. It's still a win, if I'm not in the blast zone. I've heard that the flash and the heat wave is like watching the world burn. I've always wanted to see something fantastic, like a thing not so accessible to some people, or something that only occurs once or twice, in an age. A tiny sun, opening up over my house? Sounds rad.

 

[RD81]

My grandmother died in her chair with the newspaper open on her lap, cup of tea in one hand and a cigarette in the other. THAT'S how I want to go!

My grandmother died of a heart attack while sitting in her recliner reading her bible, if there's a heaven I assume that's a golden ticket to enter those pearly gates. But I'm a realist a cup of tea and a cigarette sounds like a nice way to enter oblivion.

I just hope it's mutually assured destruction. I bet you don't feel anything in the epicenter of a nuclear blast. It's still a win, if I'm not in the blast zone. I've heard that the flash and the heat wave is like watching the world burn. I've always wanted to see something fantastic, like a thing not so accessible to some people, or something that only occurs once or twice, in an age. A tiny sun, opening up over my house? Sounds rad.

People are really into total annihilation, the number of posts referring to bombs is kind of startling because it's not just your death it's going to be god knows how many other people's deaths, men, women, children, animals, plant life. I'm surprised no one has brought up an asteroid, it got the dinosaurs and factory reset the planet.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

Considerate? How can you be sure your plane won't wreak havoc on someone or someplace when it goes down?

Because I'm going to fly it way out over the ocean. You have any idea how big of an area that is?

Besides, once ATC loses radio contact, they'll forward my beacon info to the Coast Guard and they'll send a jet up to see what the deal is and by that time I'll already be dead.

 

[Malice666]

suicide by scurvy

 

[HaraldBluetooth]

I've always imagined I'd die surrounded by my family one day, or preferably just in my sleep one morning. I had a dream several years ago where I saw much older versions of my younger siblings coming to my funeral. It was a beautiful sunny day, grass was as green as it could be. That dream has always been rather comforting to me.

 

[DeathMetalWife]

In your dad's arms.

 

[Otis Driftwood]

Considerate? How can you be sure your plane won't wreak havoc on someone or someplace when it goes down?

He could fly out from Florida and over open ocean, as the plane crashes, for a sea burial.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

In your dad's arms.

I assume his dad is a preacher and as soon as he gave you a hug you erupted into flames. 😉

 

[DeathMetalWife]

I assume his dad is a preacher and as soon as he gave you a hug you erupted into flames. 😉

I can assure you the occasion would be a secular one.

 

[ledbetterp3]

I'm a looser 51yo loose my job two years ago no kid no wife no friend ALONE I'm dazed in Madness I WANT TO DIE QUICLKY !!!

Die.

 

[Amalgamation]

Didn't think I'd make it into my 20s, now I'm starting to push to my 30s. I'll die when life grants me the opportunity.

Furthermore, I try not to predict this.

 

[ledbetterp3]

Hellfire

 

[Al Upinya]

I am from a criminally minded family and environment centered around a now-legalized substance that continued into being homeless in two different states while employed a couple different times in life. I am 45 and have seen and done much not very many could comprehend or withstand. If dying after 100 is possible I would like that. If not I wouldn't mind going by some minimally destructive method. I'm on the road a lot, sometimes crossing state lines for various reasons and would like to minimize the driving because way too many mfrs don't need to be on these roads driving the way they do, around me, and that's extremely bad for them first and me second.

 

[Preacher]

On several occasions he was on the verge of death.

I think that because of my attitude of never looking the other way when something bad is happening to another person (e.g. robbery situation) there is a chance that I will die in some situation of that style.

Otherwise, old, heart failure or similar, in my newly initiated 80 years at that time. I don't think I'll live much longer than that.

 

[savgbeast]

Because I'm going to fly it way out over the ocean. You have any idea how big of an area that is?

Besides, once ATC loses radio contact, they'll forward my beacon info to the Coast Guard and they'll send a jet up to see what the deal is and by that time I'll already be dead.

I get it, the chance of you killing everyone aboard some ship or island or making a big loop back to land is slim. But eliminating that slim chance by offing yourself in your own home - now that's considerate.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

I am from a criminally minded family and environment centered around a now-legalized substance that continued into being homeless in two different states while employed a couple different times in life. I am 45 and have seen and done much not very many could comprehend or withstand. If dying after 100 is possible I would like that. If not I wouldn't mind going by some minimally destructive method. I'm on the road a lot, sometimes crossing state lines for various reasons and would like to minimize the driving because way too many mfrs don't need to be on these roads driving the way they do, around me, and that's extremely bad for them first and me second.

I get it, the chance of you killing everyone aboard some ship or island or making a big loop back to land is slim. But eliminating that slim chance by offing yourself in your own home - now that's considerate.

No, killing oneself in their home is about as far from considerate as it gets.

First, someone has to clean up the mess, whatever that might be. It won't be pleasant in any way.

Second, my family would have to go through the additional horror of identifying my body. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Third, the insurance companies don't pay out life insurance on a suicide. My method makes it 100% impossible to prove that it was a suicide. Once that plane crashes into the ocean, there'd be no trace of me left. Of course there would be speculation, but that's it.

I could go on and on, but I think I've made my point. It's a very considerate, tidy and simple suicide.

 

[Dolly]

Any of these, even the barbers chair cos ill be old and likely needing a shave

One of my favourite poems by Roger Mcgough,(currently 87) one of the mersey poets, written in 1967


Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death

 

[SMOKESKULL]

Probably in a Canadian hospital ER waiting to be looked at.