How would you like to DIE?



Preferably post-apocalypse. After having withstood a massive zombie horde, running out of ammo, having to use my rifle as a club and finally being overrun. Yeah... that'd be... messy.




























Or in my sleep. Whichever.
 
Suffocating isn't that bad.

I discovered this a few months ago when I had a pretty bad case of laryngitis and my epiglottis kept seizing and cutting off my air supply. I mean, it's scary but you keep thinking you'll eventually breath again. And you either do or lose consciousness and die.

Either way it's not painful and not violent, which would be what I would wish for.

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quintana said:
As a member of Documenting Reality I'm fairly convinced that the 5 seconds of euphoria you feel won't be nearly pleasant enough to offset the 60+ seconds you spending writhing and spasming uncontrollably whilst your body slowly shuts down, your lungs desperately gasp for air and your bladder and bowels let loose.
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ehhh I'm pretty sure you would be unconscious for this.
 
I've thought many times about how I should construct a 'suicide helmet' for myself before I get too old to do it. I'd use it if life becomes more painful than it's worth and there were almost no prospects for some cure.

The goal of the helmet is to end all neuron activity asap so there's no time for fear, pain, regret, etc. We don't want to experience that 15-20 seconds of consciousness after a beheading now do we? That would suck.

Anyway, not 100% sure of the designs yet but I'd prob go to jail if i designed something that used explosives so that's a no go. Might need to attach 20 or so 12-gauge shotgun barrels to the helmet, put the fucker on, then have some sort of simultaneous trigger mechanism for all the barrels. Ideally after all that I could somehow burn/fry all the remaining splattered brain so that whatever shattered bits of consciousness are left quickly die off.

The goal is 100% brain death in microseconds.
 
I want to die between lukep's arms. I will hold him tightly and keep my eyes open until I am no more.
 
lukep said:
Or this one might actually make the time around your death MORE enjoyable than normal:

Euthanasia Coaster

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Well despite this being one of the funnier things I've heard of with an awesome name it's got to be a terrible way to die. The whole reason coasters and skydiving is fun is because people know they're not going to die. Do you think people jumping from the world trade centers had fun on their way down? Doubt it.

The suicide helmet idea removes the time that anxiety is felt between pressing the 'Go' button and brain death. Think about how long of a time you'd have to wait to die after pressing the 'Go' button on that coaster or jumping from a plane.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIDgfs7AlOY&feature=player_embedded]Q&BA: What happens to a human body if it's exposed to the vacuum of space? - YouTube[/ame]
 
Mmmm... here's some creepypasta about an odd way to die:

In 1983, a team of deeply pious scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. The scientists had theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of God. They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them, a human could actually establish contact with God by thought. An elderly man who claimed to have “nothing to left to live for” was the only test subject to volunteer. To purge him of all his senses, the scientists performed a complex operation in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was surgically severed. Although the test subject retained full muscular function, he could not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. With no possible way to communicate with or even sense the outside world, he was alone with his thoughts.

Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud about his state of mind in jumbled, slurred sentences that he couldn’t even hear. After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns.

Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his dead wife speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back. The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until the subject started naming dead relatives of the scientists. He repeated personal information to the scientists that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of scientists left the study.

After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts, the subject became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to leave him alone. He frequently threw himself against the wall, trying to elicit a pain response. He begged the scientists for sedatives, so he could escape the voices by sleeping. This tactic worked for three days, until he started having severe night terrors. The subject repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dreams.

Only a day later, the subject began to scream and claw at his non-functional eyes, hoping to sense something in the physical world. The hysterical subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening and hostile, speaking of hell and the end of the world. At one point, he yelled “No heaven, no forgiveness” for five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the scientists were convinced that he was close to establishing contact with God.

After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences. Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm. The scientists rushed into the test chamber and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself. After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling as teardrops silently streaked across his face. For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying. Eventually, he turned his head and, despite his blindness, made focused eye contact with a scientist for the first time in the study. He whispered “I have spoken with God, and he has abandoned us” and his vital signs stopped. There was no apparent cause of death.
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lukep said:
Why miss the fun of a good freefall from the airplane first though? Surely that death will be quick enough once the pain starts...

Or this one might actually make the time around your death MORE enjoyable than normal:

Euthanasia Coaster

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When I was younger, I went on a ride at a fairground, it was kind of like a disco waltzer, but not so enclosed, and much faster. Something must've been wrong with it, because the g-force was crazy. For the entire ride after the first 30 seconds or so, I couldn't physically lift my head from the lap restraint bar; it was just being pulled down way too hard. It wasn't like it was my first funfair ride/rollercoaster, I'd been on plenty of rollercoasters at theme parks, and freefall drop stuff, and I've since done plenty more & flown a plane in loops - and I can safely say nothing has gotten even close to that.

After experiencing what was probably 5 minutes, but felt like 2 hours of that, I'd definitely say that Euthanasia coaster would be a horrible, horrible way to go.

For the people saying about quick deaths, you seem to be talking about all these fancy different ways - quickest way to go is Carbon Monoxide. There's a reason people die from it accidentally, without even knowing.

Personally, though, I think a Brompton Cocktail, Brompton cocktail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a glass of Whisky, and a nice Cigar.
 
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