Dead is Dead

[Cassie]

I just found out about an hour ago that one of my cousins kicked the bucket in his sleep last night. I was never close to him, cause he's older, but it's still shocking! My great aunt says they think he had a heart attack in his sleep, and just died without ever knowing anything happened.

Now, I wonder if that is the way I want to go. I always thought it would be cool to just go to sleep and never wake up. Since it's happened to someone I know, I think I've changed my mind. I'd rather die when I'm awake.. well as long as it doesn't hurt too much.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Sorry about your cousin, even if you weren't close.

One of my grandfathers died instantly from a brain aneurysm while waiting for the train. I thought was quite a good way to die, at least it's not drawn out and horrible. But I think I'd like to know why death was coming so I could pay attention and experience it properly.

 

[Gagh]

I want to die in Kelly Brook's arms.

 

[Cassie]

I want to die in Captain Kirk's arms.

 

[Gagh]

I want to die in Kelly Brook's Arms whilst she dies in Cassie's arms who is in the dying Kirk's arms whilst Picard plays etch-a-sketch on Malcolm McDowell's bare backside.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I definitely want a long, drawn out death so that I can kill as many people as possible before I go.

 

[Cassie]

He's going to be cremated. I think I'm gonna be cremated too.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I determined that cremation was a fairly good way to be sent off, although exposure is quite cool.

 

[Kitty]

Cremation is cheaper. Its what I want done with my corpse AFTER I die. I want my friends to put my ashes in pepper shakers everywhere they go. I will live on in the stomach's of countless strangers.

Im serious.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

My dad went in his sleep (although I guess we will never know if her woke up for it). He had some chest congestion and rubbed some Vicks Vap-O-Rub on his chest before going to sleep (yes, he was of that generation). But I guess it was his heart and not a chest cold.

I'm sorry about your cousin. Hugz.

 

[whisky]

My dad went to check under his car at dinner time at work because it had a rattle, he had a heart attack under there, they say death was instant, I guess it must have been, because there was no marks on him, so he cant have thrashed about under there.

That was his third and last, his first came at 45, an age I am six years away from, maybe if I can avoid a first heart attack I wont get a last one.

 

[Tisiphone]

Sorry to hear about your cousin, Cassie.

And as for me, I'll be taking a whole bunch of people with me if I have to go.

 

[curiousa2z]

I'd sure as hell prefer not to be in a stinkin' hospital when I kick the bucket!
Hopefully I'd be ancient and it'd be the summer and I'd be outside so I could just lie down and be with Mother Earth. Critters can have a free lunch and my bones can turn into loam for the plants.

But the authorities frown on dead bodies lying about, so that could prove problematic...how far away from civilization can some old biddy drag herself when she's about to croak?

 

[whisky]

Having the animals eat you is fine as long as you are actually dead first, I would hate to fall down and not be able to get up, but still be alive as all the scavengers came for a nibble.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I don't care what happens to "my" body after I die. If it's lost its ability to perceive the universe then it's not "me" anymore.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I don't know about other countries, but I believe over here anyone who dies outside of hospital has to have a post mortem, which can be a bit distressing for the relatives. So just when they thought they were peacefully dying at home some people probably get carted off to hospital by relatives who don't like the idea of their loved one being opened up after death.

 

[Cassie]

Thank you for all the condolences. I haven't been sad over his demise, except when I talk to my grandma or aunt about it. They make me tear up when they start crying.