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happyharper13 wrote:I'd want to know in advance, particularly for the sake of loved ones. That way, they have a chance to come to terms with it before it happens and can get more closure (like actually being able to say goodbyes and such).

Actually, y'know, it really doesn't help. Because if bam, you find out someone you love dies, it's jsut instantly (well, duh). But if you know you're going to die, a ticking-clock feeling will just settle over you, I'd know, a friend of mine got cancer and had four months to live.
I personally prefer to just find out someone is dead, than go day in day out with the anguish of impending death.
But that's just me.

I honestly have no idea how I want to go, I just want to go fast. But not in a car crash. That, I certainly do not want.

I wouldn't want to know personally if I was going to die. I'd want it to be fast and surprising. But I'd want time to prepare to lose a loved one.

This may sound morbid, but we have all our lives to prepare for losing a loved one. You know that everyone dies eventually; it's just a matter of when.

And I agree that losing a loved one is never easy and never not-sudden. Because even if there is a ticking clock, they're still there.

You know what? I'm really sure I'm kind of a wuss. Regardless of what I believe, the thought that I would know that I was dying is terrifying.

Now, that being said? I have two ways I want to go, and I'm completely serious.

1.) I would like to die in my sleep. No surprise there, I guess. I would lie down, and then wake up staring at God. It would be an awesome(Terrible.) joke on his part.

2.) In some awesome method that will have my family talking about it for years. My family's super important to me, so I'd like to cause them a little less grief when I go. So that way, at the funeral, they'll all be saying,"Hey, it sucks that he died, but did you see how he saved that baby in a runaway car and then spontaneously combusted? He's awesome."

Just kidding. They wouldn't think it was awesome at all.

Oh, I didn't think of that. I mean, of having such a distracting manner of death that people kind of blank on the fact that you're dead.

Well, not blank, but you know.

Huh.

What be the most distracting way to die?

They actually have awards every year for the most stupid manner of death. Some of them - though after my immediate reaction of laughter I tend to feel rather guilty - are incredibly funny.

If my death could be remembered as something amusing (to some extent) for people I love, then I'm all for it.

But, ThePeril, I wouldn't dwell on it: we're all wusses when it comes to death. No one wants to die painfully. well, no one stable, anyway...