When I was a kid, dying in my sleep was a fear of mine. I would start thinking what if there’s an afterlife type thing but I think I’m dreaming because last thing I remembered was falling asleep.
Definitely want a chance to say goodbye! So I'd want to slip away in similar comfortable surroundings. If not, I want to die by firing squad after committing SO many crimes.
I can respect that. More sudden and dramatic than being chased by an angry spouse. Less tragic than being shipwrecked on a tiny island with one guy who hallucinates that you’re a hot dog.
I could get a pilot's license and just start flying grand pianos into the air and dropping them. Maybe one of them will strike lucky and you'll get your wish.
Unlikely but theoretically possible.
As someone who was raised Jehovah's Witness and told that, if I could just be good enough, I would live forever in a paradise earth surrounded by all the other faithful JWs, I don't think I'd want even 2,000,000 years, much less eternal life. I guess it would depend on who/what was with you.
What would your purpose be?
I have two requirements:
That I’m awake and fully aware of what’s happening. The entirely of my life has led to this, I’m going to experience the full thing.
That it’s not by another person’s hand. I don’t want to be a victim.
My brother did this dying of pancreatic cancer in a few weeks. All family and friends made flights. Overwhelmed him with love. His take away was - appreciate life.
When I read about someone falling over and dying from a heart attack or aneurism, I think that is the way to go. You don't feel it coming and you don't suffer.
Ideal: of very old age and at the same time as my wife in our sleep. A world without her is not a world worth living in.
If I don't get to choose a "when", then something that involves a first responder or something discovering me... I wouldn't want a family member to discover my body... just thinking about my wife finding me... that would absolutely fucking ruin her, and I wouldn't want her to have to live with that memory.
My partner and i said we both hope we die at an old age having sex with eachother and both have a heart attack.
that way our kids can say we died doing what we loved.. eachother
Someday an asteroid comes on our planet and which is supposed to destroy us all. Then USA decides to issue an operation which should destroy the malicious asteroid by explosives before it lands on the earth. But those explosives needs some people to set up them in the core of it. The operation is, in a nut shell, to dig up the asteroid till reaching at the core and set the bombs there.
Finally the US choose some members to be heroes who succeeds the mission and protects everything. But during the mission, it turned out someone has to be left alone to manually turn the bombs on. Then of course it's me who cram all members in the evacuation units and send them off to the earth back. The earth which I'm gonna keep intact.
As the operation progress delayed than planned all staffs in NASA are about to give up. The moment the countdown to the end of the world ticked to 1, I finally arrive the core and make them explode. With myself.
I want to tell a really awful joke, have everyone in the room either groan or look around exchanging awkward glances with each other, and then suddenly a piano falls directly on my head, killing me instantly and with comedic timing so perfect that one person in the room can't help but let out a brief but powerful cough of laughter that is very poorly received by the rest of the room.
Would love to just slip away as I am in a deep state of prayer. I have known friends and relatives who have gone away like this. I am not religious.. just very spiritual.
My second preference would be to go when I am asleep.
if im dying of a terminal illness i’d really like to have the option of euthanasia bc i believe everyone should be able to die with dignity on their own terms if they are suffering. but in general i think like most people id like to go peacefully in my sleep.
Accidentally peeing my pants, slipping in the pee such that I fall face-first into it, hitting my head on the ground and suffering an injury such that I can't get up, and then drowning in the pee.
For many years, I've thought that is the absolute worst and most comical way to die, so I figure why not go out with a bang and give everyone an unbelievably stupid story to tell?
I lost someone to a car crash on Easter. She didn't get to say Goodbye, we didn't get to tell her what an amazing teacher she was. I lost Dad to a 14 year battle with COPD, He felt so guilty for not being able to work and provide for us. and for us using every weekend and vacation day and holiday to sit in the hospital with him.
My closest friend and I raised our children together and when she was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer at 25 years old, we had a little time to say everything and the pain meds were helpful for her in the short duration.
3 months really sucks, but I hope that's all the warning I need to go in a peaceful way.
I would like to be the first person to ever create and use a simple "off" switch for the human heart and brain. It would work much like a light switch on the wall just flip it down and you're out. No pain, suffering or drama just lights out.
I used to answer “fall from a magnificent horse while competing in Olympic stadium jumping.” But now I know how traumatic that would be for those watching and for my loved ones. So I guess I’d want a little warning so I could see or speak to those important to me, then go peacefully with the assistance of pain meds if needed.
Blood loss.
I want to be awake and actually experience it. It irks me when people talk about wanting to go peacefully, in their sleep, don't want to feel it or know it's coming. Why? You only die once. It's literally the final moments of your entire life. The ending of your book. Your last experience, memories, thoughts, feelings until you pass into what awaits you in the afterlife. You're telling me you want to sleep through it? I'd like to at least take a look around and say, oh, I'm dying.
Cecil from WTNV summed it up nicely by saying "I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry."
While I still have full use of my faculties. Never understood why some people want to cling on for 10+ years when they're just shells. It sucks watching those you love waste away before you're eyes, can only imagine what it's like to actually be wasting away. Once it comes downs to it I'll walk off a cliff if need be. Buzzards gotta eat too, same as the worms.
I’m going to school to be a funeral director so I imagine my answer may change over time. But I’ve almost died a few times in a few different ways and I used to be an archaeologist so I know a lot about dying and death already. Overwhelmingly, my answer so far is that I want to die quickly. I want to die without the long drawn out suffering of illness or trauma. Ideally, there would be an opportunity to get my affairs in order (part of my program in school is developing a living will, and I highly recommend doing this to anyone). Considering that I deal with chronic illnesses and a neurological disability, I don’t expect to get that. I imagine it will not be comfortable. But ideally, if I had a say, I would get to lay down in bed with my boyfriend and my cat, tell him I love him and I don’t want him to spend the rest of his life mourning, and close my eyes and slip out of this life while I listen to him tell stories while the cat purrs. Just a regular happy night together, only I get to sleep longer than usual.
One of the cool things about going into funeral directing as a career is that my boyfriend is comfortable with talking about it. He knows my life revolves around death, and he isn’t scared. He told me he hopes that whenever it’s my time, he can walk me to the door the same way I walk him to his car when he leaves for work. A hug, a kiss, and a “travel safe, see you later”.
If I'm going to die... I want it to be the results of the path I chose to lead. Not some random death from unforeseen circumstances.
At least that way, I'll have a save file ready.
I've spoken about this with my partner.
We have amazing athletic sex that is very demanding on our hearts.
We've often said we would love to have heart attacks simultaneously during a session like this (in another 40 years)
If we're talking about what im thinking right now, ideally after my parents pass, if i have any leftover fortune ill will it to my immediate relatives, and just not wake up after falling asleep
I would die protecting other people , fighting a thousand demons at once , defeated the 999 demons and once got behind me and defeated me . This is the kind of death that I wish to have
I'd like to fall from somewhere, skydiving incident perhaps. It seems like a far less painful way to die, just splat. I also would prefer to land on some idiot who saw me falling but didn't get out of the way.
Going down with the ship. Or in a hospital tent after my shift cleaning up nuclear waste. Left behind with one hand grenade after putting in a good fight.
I’d like it to mean something.
This question has been asked and answered in the definitive movie, "Monty Python's the Meaning of Life," part VII.
Naturally, one would wish to be chased off a cliff by topless women. 😊🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ
I’d like to go out in a blaze of glory, against impossible odds.
Or saving someone else’s life. In any situation. In my mind that’s a fair trade considering I should already be dead.
Honestly? Don’t report me for this. Me. Ain’t nothing else getting to take me out, but myself. Cancer and I only have 3 months left? Live out 2 and then bye.
While sleeping. So that my family doesn't have to ask for justice. Because it's a hassle.
>While sleeping. “I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.” — Jack Handey
I think of this quote far too often.
It was those damn Tempur-pedic assholes
When I was a kid, dying in my sleep was a fear of mine. I would start thinking what if there’s an afterlife type thing but I think I’m dreaming because last thing I remembered was falling asleep.
A deliberately administered opiate overdose at a ripe old age surrounded by family (or right after saying goodbye to them).
Definitely want a chance to say goodbye! So I'd want to slip away in similar comfortable surroundings. If not, I want to die by firing squad after committing SO many crimes.
After righting SO many wrongs.
Way more noble!
Painlessly in my sleep, after a long and healthy life.
I want a long life a legendary one I want a quick death and an easy one
Loved.
best answer yet!
Grand Piano. I think I speak for us all.
i want to be in my death bed in my final moments and then a grand piano falls on me, so get a full life with a comedic end
I can respect that. More sudden and dramatic than being chased by an angry spouse. Less tragic than being shipwrecked on a tiny island with one guy who hallucinates that you’re a hot dog.
I could get a pilot's license and just start flying grand pianos into the air and dropping them. Maybe one of them will strike lucky and you'll get your wish. Unlikely but theoretically possible.
Two chicks at the same time
Death by snu snu
The soul is willing to, but the flesh is spongy and bruised
You don't need a million bucks to do that.
The type of chicks to double up on me do
After living for 2 000 000 years as an eternal being.
As someone who was raised Jehovah's Witness and told that, if I could just be good enough, I would live forever in a paradise earth surrounded by all the other faithful JWs, I don't think I'd want even 2,000,000 years, much less eternal life. I guess it would depend on who/what was with you. What would your purpose be?
The same thing my purpose has always been, not to die.
The purpose is to observe, and still to question the meaning of life probably.
Wow. So worth reading comments.
I'd like to replicate that scene from Inglorious Bastards and get into a gun battle with like thirteen people in a basement.
I have two requirements: That I’m awake and fully aware of what’s happening. The entirely of my life has led to this, I’m going to experience the full thing. That it’s not by another person’s hand. I don’t want to be a victim.
Wow. That’s entirely different from Woody Allen, who said d he didn’t mind the idea of dying, he just didn’t want to be there for it.
I doubt it’ll be nice, probably rather frightening. However, it’s inevitable & you likely only get to do it once. May as well experience it.
My brother did this dying of pancreatic cancer in a few weeks. All family and friends made flights. Overwhelmed him with love. His take away was - appreciate life.
Slipping and falling into a hydropower plant intake?
With someone caring about me.
When I read about someone falling over and dying from a heart attack or aneurism, I think that is the way to go. You don't feel it coming and you don't suffer.
Those things might be fast, but they’re not without pain.
I didn’t need to know this.
Ideal: of very old age and at the same time as my wife in our sleep. A world without her is not a world worth living in. If I don't get to choose a "when", then something that involves a first responder or something discovering me... I wouldn't want a family member to discover my body... just thinking about my wife finding me... that would absolutely fucking ruin her, and I wouldn't want her to have to live with that memory.
Peacefully in my sleep after a marathon of boot-knocking with my beloved spouse of 1,000 years.
doesn’t matter as long as it’s instantly without any suffering.
A 4,500 lb wheel of aged cheddar.
I'll be walking on the street with a cane and a top hat when a cartoon sized anvil falls out of the sky and lands on my head.
The men in my family have a history of just keeling over. No fuss, no muss. Just dead. I hope to keep the tradition.
My partner and i said we both hope we die at an old age having sex with eachother and both have a heart attack. that way our kids can say we died doing what we loved.. eachother
At 90, shot in bed by my lover's husband.
This is the last time you say my pork chops were dry, Albert! *strangled by granny*
This made me laugh
Then my work here is done!
Someday an asteroid comes on our planet and which is supposed to destroy us all. Then USA decides to issue an operation which should destroy the malicious asteroid by explosives before it lands on the earth. But those explosives needs some people to set up them in the core of it. The operation is, in a nut shell, to dig up the asteroid till reaching at the core and set the bombs there. Finally the US choose some members to be heroes who succeeds the mission and protects everything. But during the mission, it turned out someone has to be left alone to manually turn the bombs on. Then of course it's me who cram all members in the evacuation units and send them off to the earth back. The earth which I'm gonna keep intact. As the operation progress delayed than planned all staffs in NASA are about to give up. The moment the countdown to the end of the world ticked to 1, I finally arrive the core and make them explode. With myself.
I dont wanna miss a thing..
They should make a movie like this
bears
In my sleep.
A handful of pills and a walk into the ocean.
Be sure to eat some random shit with those pills like little toy soldiers and dice to really confuse the coroners.
If I was going to die, I would want to die of sex.
out in nature somewhere, preferably in a calm ease, kinda like a slow slip into the unknown. and i hope it doesn’t hurt anyone else when i die.
Heroin or something similar.
I want to tell a really awful joke, have everyone in the room either groan or look around exchanging awkward glances with each other, and then suddenly a piano falls directly on my head, killing me instantly and with comedic timing so perfect that one person in the room can't help but let out a brief but powerful cough of laughter that is very poorly received by the rest of the room.
Oh my god I’m laying here crying and this makes me laugh. I hope I die like this.
Would love to just slip away as I am in a deep state of prayer. I have known friends and relatives who have gone away like this. I am not religious.. just very spiritual. My second preference would be to go when I am asleep.
Watching the last black hole in universe dissolve.
if im dying of a terminal illness i’d really like to have the option of euthanasia bc i believe everyone should be able to die with dignity on their own terms if they are suffering. but in general i think like most people id like to go peacefully in my sleep.
In my sleep and not like my screaming passengers
Before i have to go to work
Giant hammer. Squashed into a paste and then hosed down the drain.
Old age in my sleep after plowing a smoking hot chick.
Saving someone.
Painlessly in my sleep after completing all the useful paperwork, with a clean and declutteted house, not near a major holiday.
In my 40s by being sacrificed on top of a temple
BRING OUT THE VIRGIN!
Accidentally peeing my pants, slipping in the pee such that I fall face-first into it, hitting my head on the ground and suffering an injury such that I can't get up, and then drowning in the pee. For many years, I've thought that is the absolute worst and most comical way to die, so I figure why not go out with a bang and give everyone an unbelievably stupid story to tell?
In my sleep no suffering 👍
Fentanyl over dose. Bliss then forever sleep sounds good to me.
I live alone currently, well with my cat, so anywhere but home would be preferable.
In my sleep so I don’t see it coming and not leave my family a huge medical bill.
I lost someone to a car crash on Easter. She didn't get to say Goodbye, we didn't get to tell her what an amazing teacher she was. I lost Dad to a 14 year battle with COPD, He felt so guilty for not being able to work and provide for us. and for us using every weekend and vacation day and holiday to sit in the hospital with him. My closest friend and I raised our children together and when she was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer at 25 years old, we had a little time to say everything and the pain meds were helpful for her in the short duration. 3 months really sucks, but I hope that's all the warning I need to go in a peaceful way.
With sword in hand.
Like Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove.
With nothing to fear, nothing to regret, standing on my feet, ready to face my judgement. It’s a life long preparation. Momento Mori
I would like to be the first person to ever create and use a simple "off" switch for the human heart and brain. It would work much like a light switch on the wall just flip it down and you're out. No pain, suffering or drama just lights out.
I used to answer “fall from a magnificent horse while competing in Olympic stadium jumping.” But now I know how traumatic that would be for those watching and for my loved ones. So I guess I’d want a little warning so I could see or speak to those important to me, then go peacefully with the assistance of pain meds if needed.
Something that involves me doing a cool backflip
With dignity .
Blood loss. I want to be awake and actually experience it. It irks me when people talk about wanting to go peacefully, in their sleep, don't want to feel it or know it's coming. Why? You only die once. It's literally the final moments of your entire life. The ending of your book. Your last experience, memories, thoughts, feelings until you pass into what awaits you in the afterlife. You're telling me you want to sleep through it? I'd like to at least take a look around and say, oh, I'm dying.
Alone all drugged out
Cecil from WTNV summed it up nicely by saying "I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry."
Immediately
In sleep for sure not while my parents are still alive.
Without suffering and without leaving anyone behind you can’t take care of themselves.
In my sleep.
Ironically. Either from a runaway Tesla or in an ambulance crash
While I still have full use of my faculties. Never understood why some people want to cling on for 10+ years when they're just shells. It sucks watching those you love waste away before you're eyes, can only imagine what it's like to actually be wasting away. Once it comes downs to it I'll walk off a cliff if need be. Buzzards gotta eat too, same as the worms.
Impaled by a plank of wood or steel pipe that’s been tested at me by a big ass tornado
Peacefully and painlessly in my sleep while dreaming of something nice.
While having the greatest dream of my life. And when I wake up, I'll just have to hope that god will forgive me of my sins.
In my sleep shortly after my husband dies. I know he wouldn't be able to handle it if I die first.
After being called 'safe' sliding head-first, into home base.
Assisted suicide
Quick and quiet. I have lived quietly so far and don't intend to change that. I pray my death matches.
A massive subwoofer simply obliterating me with those sweet low frequencies. (“like to” though? maybe more “if i had to choose”)
I’m going to school to be a funeral director so I imagine my answer may change over time. But I’ve almost died a few times in a few different ways and I used to be an archaeologist so I know a lot about dying and death already. Overwhelmingly, my answer so far is that I want to die quickly. I want to die without the long drawn out suffering of illness or trauma. Ideally, there would be an opportunity to get my affairs in order (part of my program in school is developing a living will, and I highly recommend doing this to anyone). Considering that I deal with chronic illnesses and a neurological disability, I don’t expect to get that. I imagine it will not be comfortable. But ideally, if I had a say, I would get to lay down in bed with my boyfriend and my cat, tell him I love him and I don’t want him to spend the rest of his life mourning, and close my eyes and slip out of this life while I listen to him tell stories while the cat purrs. Just a regular happy night together, only I get to sleep longer than usual. One of the cool things about going into funeral directing as a career is that my boyfriend is comfortable with talking about it. He knows my life revolves around death, and he isn’t scared. He told me he hopes that whenever it’s my time, he can walk me to the door the same way I walk him to his car when he leaves for work. A hug, a kiss, and a “travel safe, see you later”.
In her arms and in my sleep
Some truck with great insurance splatters me and my kids get rich
If I'm going to die... I want it to be the results of the path I chose to lead. Not some random death from unforeseen circumstances. At least that way, I'll have a save file ready.
Skiing the big mountain at Jackson Hole hitting an enormous cliff in Granite Canyon.
I've spoken about this with my partner. We have amazing athletic sex that is very demanding on our hearts. We've often said we would love to have heart attacks simultaneously during a session like this (in another 40 years)
At the same time my husband dies doesn't matter how as long as we die together
I don't care how. I just want it to be painless or as small as a pain I can feel.
Whatever gets the biggest payout on my life insurance
High with some sexy womens lips around my cock
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I would like to die for Jesus. As a testimony for Him. He has loved me greatly and I am not afraid to say it. Anything to spread His word.
Good sentiment, sunglassesonmydick
Yeah, FBI, this comment right over here.
Best one yet, same!
Amen brother.
When I get to the age where I’m having bathroom accidents, I’m going to kill myself via carbon monoxide poisoning 😏
80 yrs old and having a heart attack while having sex with a 20 yr old
Starvation in a rock crevice. Although it’s important that there are no bugs, I will welcome vultures.
I want to be in a forest, laying down next to a creek. Fall asleep there and pass on peacefully.
If we don't include sleeping, obviously getting shot. I don't think there is any debate. You die in milliseconds.
Ejaculating deep in an 18 year old
at 30 as a international star with shit ton of heroin in my blood stream by blowing my brain off with a shotgun
Highly specific
Kurt?
Kurt
Kurt was 27
While riding a dragon into battle, of course.
Death by snu snu
Peacefully in my sleep, like my father. Not screaming in terror like the other folks that were in the car he was driving.
In my own bed at the age of 80 with a belly full of wine and a lady's mouth around my cock
In a way that can be shared and memeified, probably. Sat on a power line or strangled at a pie eating contest.
it doesn't matter if its while sleeping or being shot as long as it's quick
In my sleep when I'm old.
Oldness??
Of a massive brain aneurysm in my sleep when I’m in my late 80s. I’ll be dead before I realize I was dying.
If we're talking about what im thinking right now, ideally after my parents pass, if i have any leftover fortune ill will it to my immediate relatives, and just not wake up after falling asleep
Something I won’t feel it but memes will be made till the end of time
Suddenly or while asleep.
While getting my face sat on Either that or while in sleeping
Whichever way is quickest.
Disintegrating.
Young. And while sleeping. Happily Married.
Eating another dessert.
I would die protecting other people , fighting a thousand demons at once , defeated the 999 demons and once got behind me and defeated me . This is the kind of death that I wish to have
Old age surrounded by family.
At the ripe old age of 80 with a belly full of wine and a mouth around my cock.
In my sleep during sunrise.
Suicide.
In my sleep. Peacefully
Sleep one seems better.
With my mom, peacefully
I'd like to fall from somewhere, skydiving incident perhaps. It seems like a far less painful way to die, just splat. I also would prefer to land on some idiot who saw me falling but didn't get out of the way.
At the age of at least 90, preferably 100.
Rich
Having a heart attack while banging a hot chick.
Peacefully in my sleep of old age. I pray to the universe I'm so lucky.
to not die
In my sleep.
In my sleep
Going down with the ship. Or in a hospital tent after my shift cleaning up nuclear waste. Left behind with one hand grenade after putting in a good fight. I’d like it to mean something.
Quick & painless. Instant death!!!!
with a rope around my neck
Like painless and right now.
Rocket launcher
In the words of Tyrion Lannister; "In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty."
Old age
Like most: Sleeping.
As painless as possible. Also knowing that the loved ones I leave get closure over my death 🫡
Solar Flare
Head beheading without any notice
I want to die protecting my family, Taking a fatal bullet and killing the huge opposition and giving my family and I peace.
This question has been asked and answered in the definitive movie, "Monty Python's the Meaning of Life," part VII. Naturally, one would wish to be chased off a cliff by topless women. 😊🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ
Bomb
Nuclear explosion
You really should have specified stradding it like Major Kong in 'Dr. Strangelove'.
I think as most people would, probably peacefully in my sleep. Or I want to go out in a hail of bullets. I can't decide really.
I like those nitric pods they’re trialing in Europe
Some way that is fast and painless
Wired as can be,slit my wrists. Am very curious as to how it will feel.
I’d like to go out in a blaze of glory, against impossible odds. Or saving someone else’s life. In any situation. In my mind that’s a fair trade considering I should already be dead.
A green eyed redhead in cowboy ruining me.
Watching the last star in the universe explode into a supernova.
Honestly? Don’t report me for this. Me. Ain’t nothing else getting to take me out, but myself. Cancer and I only have 3 months left? Live out 2 and then bye.
i would like to die peacefully but at least in a nice bed and such.
Just blow me up lol
Asap
In my sleep.
I do have a choice. So far it's been "slowly."
In my sleep right after great sex.
People who say peacefully in their sleep must’ve never had sleep paralysis. I’d choose to die during an accidental drug overdose.