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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What a beautiful quote.

Me too, Tyrion. Me too buddy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I drink and I know things

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Obviously the ideal is to die under suspicious circumstances in a large house with many rooms and secret passages, a variety of potential murder weapons, and several mutually distrustful colorful characters.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That doesnt remove you from suspicion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my uncle, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Not likely though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Had a heart attack recently... while waiting for surgery, asleep, they tell me my heart stopped for eight seconds.

No clue. Woke up in the morning like usual, browsing my phone when they come in and tell me.

Hopefully just like that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My dad died this exact same way and while doctors kept saying he didn't suffer at all because it was so quick I just thought they were being reassuring since I guess that is what they are supossed to say.

Your comment helps me to make the burden of his passing a bit lighter. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Well you probably starve to death lost in a giant space neandertal's vagina. Probably not as good as you think.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I should die due to my own negligence, playing fast and loose with custom firmware for my cyber heart at the age of 300.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Casualty of the heat death of the universe

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Entropy reaching 1.0 will take a really long time. You sure you wanna be hanging around for several quadrillion years given cosmological inflation? That’s a whole lotta nothing for a whole lotta time…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I dunno about the guy you responded to, but speaking for myself, that might actually give me enough time to play through my Steam backlog.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Peacefully in my sleep, like the guy in the joke, and not like the passengers of his car.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

in one-on-one combat with a God while stealing something forbidden for humanity.. if that's still a thing..

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All you are going to get is tied to a rock for eternity, with an eagle feeding on your liver.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

We gotta dream big there amigo, stay strong!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'll never forget asking my father this question as a kid, and he answered without hesitation, "A bullet to the head." Fast-forward a few decades and that's how he went out by the firearm he carried to protect his family, causing more harm than any mugger or assailant could have caused if he was unarmed. Take care of yourself fellow lemms and dont dwell on death, focus on living a life you dont want to leave behind and keep pushing your Boulder up the hill regardless of how many times it rolls back down.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

With the heat death of the universe in some full dive vr utopia.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

At age 92.

From a gunshot wound.

Fired by an outraged husband.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just like my grandfather, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like his passengers

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

What about your passengers though? ;)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

in my sleep

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

As peacefully and painlessly as possible. Preferably as little inconvenience to others as well. I hope to have all my affairs well in order and they better not pay money to put me in a box in the ground. I've told every family member I can. Donate what you can to others if possible and donate the rest to science for some med students to get practice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

At an old age peacefully after having a satisfying life

Preferably before neurological decline sets in as I'd prefer to not go like I've seen so many others go; forgetting the faces of their loved ones

I'd also hope that I will have left happy memories with those that would remember me after I've passed. Stories they'd love to tell people. Stories their grandkids would love to hear.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Heroically and instantly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Battling aliens on a different planet. Is that too much to ask for?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Best I can do is battling cats in an alley

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

... but it's a really weird alley.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Suicide before Alzheimers, on my own terms 🫡

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Slowly over the course of months hooked up to every device to keep me "alive" in the ICU because my shitty relatives can't let me go otherwise they won't get to steal my social security checks every month. /s

Or peacefully while watching the sunrise over a beautiful snow capped mountain rage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The gforces I aquire after miscalculating my trajectory while testing my space engine and gaining too much momentum on my slingshot off of Jupiter.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Quickly. No need to drag it out for months or years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

False vacuum decay.

No pain or suffering, no worry about it coming, just instantaneous non-existence at literally the speed of light.

The big problem is it would be all of humanity (and everything else) and not just myself.
So not actually something I hope happens, just that if I have to die...

Similar would be being at the center of a large explosion or implosion - I understand that the passengers on that one submarine likely didn't have time to experience anything.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Burning up during extravehicular re-entry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

My personal immortality testing is still in human trial but it's shown promising results so far!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

As part of a destructive process of digitization.

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