"The 'what-ifs?' increase exponentially when your heart is walking around outside of your body wearing Buzz Lightyear light up shoes."
- BlestWithSons
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Ok, I'm in a good mood. Really. But I wanted to see how others might answer the questions listed below.
For the record: I think about this more than, I would imagine, most people do. But I'm not a morbid person, at all. And I'm not depressed. So I don't have a good explanation as to why. Although I do have a theory that, in general, green-seeing dudes think about this more than yellow-seeing chicks.
Anyway, here goes:
1. What are the ideal circumstances you'd like to have around your eventual kicking of the bucket?
My answer to this is a compound one, and the answers are in the exact opposite order that they should be, but here they are:
a. I'd like to die before anyone else in my immediate family does, with all my wits still intact and my family all gathered around me and plenty of good words spoken, prayers shared, and memories reminisced.
b. I'd like to die doing something heroic (I think about this quite often. It's fun to think about, for me . . .)
c. I'd like to die as a martyr for Jesus.
2. What are your biggest fears vis-a-vis buying the farm?
Again, mine is a compound answer:
a. Dying in any one of the ways listed above, but flunking the whole thing by being a big coward at the end.
b. Dying whilst on the . . . um . . . facilities.
How about you? Leave your answers in the comments.
If you dare . . .
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Comments on "Death Wishes":
3. Weekend Fisher
- 10/22/2009 7:35 am CDT
1. the heroic/martyr approach would be ideal, assuming I had enough ocurage.
2. Ever heard the song Eleanor Rigby?
Take care & God bless
Anne / WF
4. Daniel Ross
- 10/22/2009 8:09 am CDT
1.) Heroic and/or being a martyr are noble ways to go out. Going out in my sleep would also be nice but would be traumatic on my wife (or whoever found me) so I'll go with heroic and/or martyrdom.
2.) Dying in a stupid way.
On the toilet (a la Elvis).
Being a coward.
6. Bob Sacamento
- 10/22/2009 8:45 am CDT
1) Yeah, I want to die doing something heroic too, kind of like Captain Kirk in Star Trek VII, dying in a valiant attempt to save a hopeless movie. Well, not quite like that, but yeah, something heroic. I don't really like the idea of being a martyr, though. Martyr deaths are usually slow and painful. I would rather pull some kid back from the lip of a volcano, or stand in the way of a rampaging tiger. Something like that.
2) After years and years of prayer, church, Bible study, and all the right stuff, I still have no clue as to why I am taking up space on this Earth. My biggest fear is that I'll get to the end of my road and still not have that figured out.
7. brandontmilan
- 10/22/2009 11:59 am CDT
I've always wanted to die in a wild animal attack. But the catch is that my dead body is discovered along with the dead body of whatever animal I was attacked by because I killed it back as I was taking my final breath.
Or maybe it was a pack of 10 wolves that attacked me and I was able to kill 7 of them before the other three finally got my better.
8. gretchen from lifenut
- 10/22/2009 1:26 pm CDT
I think going upstairs to take a nap around age 90 and never coming down again would be okay.
I don't want to die in a manner that makes it impossible for a casket burial. I don't want some mortician to take my loved one's hands and solemnly whisper, "We recommend cremation since she is only a leg and a nose."
9. nhe
- 10/22/2009 1:56 pm CDT
1. Other than the sleeping option, all of the above sounds painful and not much fun. I tend to think that martyrdom chooses its subjects rather than the other way around. Otherwise, it would seem like some sort of mega-spiritual death wish.
2. My biggest fears center on leaving something unsaid, or leaving some affairs not in order and creating a burden for those I leave behind. My other biggest fear is that dying will....like...hurt.......until the part where the sting goes away for eternity.
10. Sherry Early
- 10/22/2009 2:24 pm CDT
I'd just like to keep my mind somewhat intact up until the point of death. (as intact as it's ever been). At the very least, I still want to be able to discern the difference between green and yellow when I die.
11. Michele
- 10/22/2009 3:48 pm CDT
We always think of death as being super painful--but thank God, literally, it shouldn't be horrific. I mean, getting killed in a car-accident, or a heart-attack will be way less painful than getting a toe-nail ripped off or child-birth.
Ideal for me?
A martyr's death, but by lethal injection, after I make a really cool speech.
Worst way? Something that people will secretly laugh about later when they have to disclose how I died; Like, I was all excited, running across the street to a big-yard-sale and got hit by a car, or was trampled in a Kmart Blue-light special or something. Drowning or falling a long way would be a big, fat drag for me, too.
12. GinH
- 10/22/2009 3:54 pm CDT
My biggest fear is that I will die at the same time as my husband leaving my children without both parents while they are young. My sister would be ok to raise them, but not the same as having a parent.
I also hate the idea of burning to death. That just seems horrible to me: smelling burning flesh for what seems like would have to be a pretty long time. I imagine it would be a slow death. And really painful.
If I had to choose how to go, I think it would have to be the stay at home mom version of the Jack Bowers character who finds out there's a bomb in the mall and risks everything to save the mall but in the end gets blown away by the terrorists. Shot in the head - quick and painless with my face intact so my family could say goodbye without puking.
13. Alex Costa
- 10/23/2009 9:41 am CDT
I wrote something about this last week on my Facebook profile!
Somehow, I'd want watermelon to be involved. I don't know... I swam when I was a kid, so I was terrified of suffocating, but choking on a piece of watermelon seems like a pretty sweet way to go out. I'd probably try to eat another piece while choking because that stuff is so good.
Man, watermelon is delicious. It might have replaced chicken wings as my favorite food.
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1. Toss-up. Either in my sleep and painlessly :-), or doing something awesome (martyrdom or heroics counts).
2. One word would suffice: Airplane.
But, yeah, I'd also hate to go out b/c of my own negligence or stupidity, which includes getting (too) fat and dying from a heart attack or something.