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...

I can't believe I never commented on this one earlier.

I don't want to get much above 50. Because I don't want to slowly wear out, you know? I want people to be prepared about me dying, but I don't want to have a prolonged illness and die slowly.

So, I don't know how I'd rather die. Hopefully I can just die peacefully.

Hey! I'm stable...contrary to what They tell me. Those awards for stupidest death are called Darwin Awards. There was this one man who couldn't sleep because a rooster kept waking him up, so he went to cut off his head in the middle of the night. Only, he didn't grab the rooster's neck, instead he grabbed his 'area' and choped it off. While he was bleeding out and running around, his dog ate what he chopped off.

I didn't make that up, I swear.

Ha Ha! I LOVE the Darwin Awards!
I just wonder why we occasionally get a blip and end up with the survival of the stupidest...
Jude

Hehe.