I planned out my death.
I'm going to be the captain of a ginormous hydrogen-filled war zeppelin (a bit anacronistic, but bear with me) in the midst of a tremendous air and sea battle on a coast bordered by a tremendous mountain range. I will be hovering over the mountains providing suppressing fire whilst my comrades deal fiery death to their opponents. Suddenly, fire from my left flank! One of my allies' fighter planes goes down! I pan the exterior cameras and behold!-- they have heavy artillery placed inconspicuously in a mountain valley. I turn and prepare to engage, but they've already spotted us. It takes them some time to switch targets and rotate, but once they do they take out one of our cannons! We speed towards them, weapons blazing, taking out much of their firepower but knowing full well that we will never be able to get them all before they blast us to hell. The altitude alert blares, but I ignore it. I watch a hundred different video screens, all showing live feeds from various external cameras on a hundred different allied vehicles, as my zeppelin crashes into the mountainside, igniting in a glorious blazing fireball of hydrogen, instantly destroying the enemy weapons and momentarily drawing the attention of the enemy. I, of course, will be torched in a matter of seconds as the flame reaches the cockpit, but my allies will fight on to win a glorious victory, and I will be posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
So death by fire. It's funny because I don't even approve of war. But my fantasy death doesn't have to make sense. That's exactly how I want to die in my fantasy world.
But realistically I want to die of old age in peace and without pain surrounded by my family. I'm surprised you didn't include old age in the list.
Cryogenic freezing is not yet a possibility. If it does exist in your lifetime, it'll probably be when you're middle-aged or old and it'll be like "What's the point?".
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Last edited by TheRaisin; 01-08-2005 at 03:06 PM..
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