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icycalm · Posts: 442

Yeah this is not spam this is serious.

I think people should get to terms with death and make plans and preparations -- we should not live in denial.

I'd like to die in Italy, more specifically in a hotel near the ruins of ancient Taras (greek)/Tarentum (latin). Here's some background:

The colony at Tarentum, also known as Taras or Taranto, was founded in 706 BC by a group of Spartans forced by social tensions to leave Sparta (Boardman 1980a, p. 184) . These men, called Partheniae, were the illegitimate sons of Spartan women, born during a time when the Spartans were off at war with Messenia. These men, who had been deprived of their rights as citizens, were forced out by the free citizens. Their leader was Phalanthus, who went on the advice of the oracle at Delphi.

A famous son of Tarentum was the 4th century mathematician Archytus, a friend of Plato, whose solution to the problem of doubling a cube is a construction in three dimensions.

The Tarentines sent several offerings to Delphi, after winning battles against the Messapians and the Peucetii, non-Greek peoples whose territories bordered theirs in Southern Italy. In a prominent place along the first stretch of Delphi's Sacred Way, the people of Tarentum erected a sculptural group of bronze horses and captive women, of which only the bases remain.

Rya.Reisender · Posts: 985

Nah, I don't think people should think about death at all.

Or like some wise person once said:
"Nothing could happen except you die, but then you are death anyways"

I will most likely die in this room, though.

veen · Posts: 131

first, I have a solipsistic streak that refuses to care about such things.

but to answer seriously, I would like to die in the place where I grew up. the most prominent feature of this place is that I grew up in it; everything else is incidental.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Ascension or assassination, no matter where.

-Psiga

yellowlightman · Posts: 359

In a Porsche/Ferrari or riding on a high powered sport bike on a twisty mountain road. Luckily there are twisty mountain roads all over the place, so I'm pretty flexible as to "where."

nothingxs · Posts: 148

Probably quietly, without incident, overnight in a house somewhere in Japan or Miami, depending on where I decide to be staying most of the time.

DonMarco · Posts: 565

I'm pretty sure I will get around the law requiring terminally old people to stay on Earth.

It's a fucking stupid law anyway.

Maztorre · Posts: 1175

They're going to launch you into the sun come retirement age DM.

BalbanesBeoulve · Posts: 2126

I hope I die wearing a clean pair of boxers.

special blend · Posts: 154

BalbanesBeoulve wrote:

I hope I die wearing a clean pair of boxers.

When you die, you release your bowels anyway.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posts: 3148

special blend wrote:

BalbanesBeoulve wrote:

I hope I die wearing a clean pair of boxers.

When you die, you release your bowels anyway.

He could wear them on his head!

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

I want to die in the Rocky mountains.

Barring that, the French countryside. In the north, around Normandy.

GcDiaz · Posts: 1057

I'd like to die of old age with a pornstar on my lap. If you must know where, make it either Ft Myers, or my hometown in DR.

Mr. Mechanical · Posts: 1890

I'd like to die in a warm bed surrounded by people I care about and who, hopefully, care about me.

FocusRambo · Posts: 829

Shit Icy, I've had the notion of dying in Italy for the longest time.

I don't know the area at all, but I would like to die an old man, on the coast.

Waffen · Posts: 1638

yellowlightman wrote:

In a Porsche/Ferrari or riding on a high powered sport bike on a twisty mountain road. Luckily there are twisty mountain roads all over the place, so I'm pretty flexible as to "where."

friend of mine went out like that a few years ago. he was trying to outrun cops down a mountain road and crashed his sportbike. i think he had a late '80s something gsx-r 750, a white and blue one.

and i think i might die by geting vaporized by a korean nuke. hey ya never know, it could happen

108 · Posts: 2600

Psiga wrote:

Ascension or assassination, no matter where.

-Psiga

Well, you already died once, in the heart of Rome. That's a hell of a place to die.

I almost died in Rome, too, though I didn't have your backlog of accomplishments at the time.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

108 wrote:

Well, you already died once, in the heart of Rome. That's a hell of a place to die.

I wonder if that's why I have such a strong aversion to Rome. That would explain it.

-Psiga

Kazu · Posts: 894

yellowlightman wrote:

In a Porsche/Ferrari or riding on a high powered sport bike on a twisty mountain road. Luckily there are twisty mountain roads all over the place, so I'm pretty flexible as to "where."

deciding to do a new downhill-record?
be sure to let people know how fast you got in order to write down a highscore on the tombstone.

anyway, at least i want a highscore on my tombstone, for whatever i did, it should be well enough to give people a hard time to beat it.

if the BYDO are to show up anywhere in the future, i would love to be one of the first to strike back and die eventually. But that happening is .... pretty unlikely.

Sylvestro Buccelli · Posts: 75

Killed by a beautiful woman or die defending an important girl. About the place, I really don't care much about the place I die in as long as I can be buried in the place I was born; well, I would hate to be buried in my city's cemetery, it's horrible and surrounded by criminals. I'd rather be buried in a forest I like since childhood because I prefer to be buried alone, not "piled" with other corpses.

haircute · Posts: 928

Honestly, I'm terribly afraid of dying. This is only compounded by the fact that I almost drowned at a party a few weeks ago. When I do die, I hope it's...quick or at least painless. I'd really hate to be wiped out by a nuke or strangled to death by a chemical weapon, or shot through the lungs and then suffocate, or strangled, or have my throat slit, or crushed slowly by a steamroller, or hanged, or beaten to death, or bored silly by some dummys post about how he doesn't want to die by any sort of painful means.

Intentionally Wrong · Posts: 673

I'll die after taking bangstill, thanks. Hopefully through starving to death. Preferably in a shower at a morgue, to minimize the unpleasant cleanup afterward.

shnozlak · Posts: 704

Standing up, sane and busy.

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

Tim Rogers said he'd kill me, once. So I guess it's really up to him.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

I've known for a very long time that I will die when I am 46. Hitting the half-way point at 23 has been a real motivator in getting shit done.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

haircute wrote:

I'd really hate to be wiped out by a nuke or strangled to death by a chemical weapon, or shot through the lungs and then suffocate, or strangled, or have my throat slit, or crushed slowly by a steamroller, or hanged, or beaten to death

seconded.

do you want a hug, haircute? because i've got one ready.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

dessgeega wrote:

haircute wrote:

I'd really hate to be wiped out by a nuke or strangled to death by a chemical weapon, or shot through the lungs and then suffocate, or strangled, or have my throat slit, or crushed slowly by a steamroller, or hanged, or beaten to death

seconded.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/22/vr_goggles_heal_scar.html
How about being torn in half by machinegun fire and having your buddy shuffle your guts about while you bleat your final, broken words in a third world warzone?

War is awesome, ain't it? God bless America! God bless America right now!

-Psiga

Godmoder · Posts: 37

I'll probably be waiting in line.

Legal Step · Posts: 1030

TOLLMASTER wrote:

Tim Rogers said he'd kill me, once. So I guess it's really up to him.

Is that after me or before?

winkerwanker · Posts: 2414

Tim am I not good enough for you to kill or something ;_;

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

Under your mother, that's where.

risnuff · Posts: 46

I want to die directly after having sex, and with a fully erect penis, which it shall remain for eternity!

Or until some smartass kid/grave robber decides to snap it in half like a twig.
Luckily I won't be able to feel it at that point.

icycalm · Posts: 442

ReroRero wrote:

Under your mother, that's where.

So you want to die while my mother's banging you?

Uh ok.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

A more scathing statement would have been, "Under both your mothers."

Even still...

-Psiga

EndlessChris · Posts: 431

Here's a better thread - "Where would want to commit suicide?"