How would you like to go?

[PumpDee]

[Hawg73]

Originally Posted by oldbagfan

My uncle died on the golf course. That was perfect for him as golf was his life.

That sounds good to me, but I'd rather not die in a public place. Too much gawking. Given my druthers, I'll take sudden death. These long, lingering, painful wasting away deaths seem pretty miserable.

A friend of ours lost her Mom a while back and the woman was an avid golfer and played almost every day with her pals. So, she was cremated and her ashes spread in a sand trap at their home course.

I always wondered what it felt like hitting a ball out of that trap after that. "Oh, I took too much of Doris on that one. Sorry".

A related golf story would be that this guy was a member of a club in Philly and was playing in a tournament there with all his pals. He was on a par 3 when he had a heart attack sitting in his golf cart. The guy turns blue and was unresponsive.

So, the word spreads to find a Doctor playing in that same tournament with a defibrillator while his buddies frantically tried to revive him with CPR. A big crowd gathered watching them and they'd about given up hope when they found the Doc and applied the paddles and after a very long time with zero response, the guy suddenly takes a big breath, sits up and says "what the hell happened?" and they all shit themselves. It was a miracle.

So, he had to rehab for six months and eventually returned to the club and his first time out he's playing in another tournament with the same friends and there was a big crowd watching and both cheering and giving him a hard time as he went to tee off on the very same hole where he came back from the dead. He's showing off his brand-new clubs and giving it back to them. So, he tees off and the ball hops once on the green and disappears into the hole. Hole in One. They all go completely mental and the party was underway.

True story. Life can be strange.

[Beaglebay]

Moral: a hole in one is much better than one in a hole

[bideau]

My final wishes are very clear for my family, at the 1st Pats tailgate after my death, they will invite everyone around, spread my ashes in the lot and have a toast to my memory. My daughter says that she is saving half the ashes and plans on running on to the field during the game and proceed to dump the rest of them on the field.

[PatriotInIndy]

Originally Posted by bideau

My final wishes are very clear for my family, at the 1st Pats tailgate after my death, they will invite everyone around, spread my ashes in the lot and have a toast to my memory. My daughter says that she is saving half the ashes and plans on running on to the field during the game and proceed to dump the rest of them on the field.

I always tell my wife to just throw me in the trash. She doesn't think it's as funny as I do.

[mikiemo83]

Warren, the d8 operator I met when a noob on the construction site, used to drive the dozer at me trying to get a reaction. I never moved - invincible I was - and he loved it... anyway he passed and they cremated him and dropped him into the air intake of the D8.

kind of fitting.

[Baron Samedi]

Originally Posted by PatriotInIndy

I always tell my wife to just throw me in the trash. She doesn't think it's as funny as I do.

"Aww, lookie here. Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy! "

[oldbagfan]

Originally Posted by Baron Samedi

Nothing that a good sidearm can't fix. I don't plan on wasting away painfully. If it comes to the point that I can't live some semblance of a normal life any more, it's Smith & Wesson medicine for me.

Doesn't have to be that drastic. My ex who is a doctor told me you can check out by simply stopping drinking water. Death within days. I asked him if the thirst wouldn't overcome you and he said, No, after awhile you don't feel thirsty any more. I'm not sure I would put that plan into place . . .

[Baron Samedi]

Originally Posted by oldbagfan

Doesn't have to be that drastic. My ex who is a doctor told me you can check out by simply stopping drinking water. Death within days. I asked him if the thirst wouldn't overcome you and he said, No, after awhile you don't feel thirsty any more. I'm not sure I would put that plan into place . . .

No thank you.

There are a few ways I really, really don't want to die, and thirst is one of them.

I have, in my past, suffered from life threatening thirst, and I never reached any point where I didn't feel thirsty.

Oh...and that trick about sucking on a pebble? Bullshit Hollywood stuff. It gives some relief to the tongue, which gets swollen, but does jack shit for thirst.

[oldbagfan]

Originally Posted by Baron Samedi

No thank you.

There are a few ways I really, really don't want to die, and thirst is one of them.

I have, in my past, suffered from life threatening thirst, and I never reached any point where I didn't feel thirsty..

Yeah, doctor or not, that seemed pretty questionable to me. Mebbe it's because you would already have lapsed into a coma (we're talking about someone close to death to start with).

[Big/Sky/Fly]

Originally Posted by mikiemo83

Warren, the d8 operator I met when a noob on the construction site, used to drive the dozer at me trying to get a reaction. I never moved - invincible I was - and he loved it... anyway he passed and they cremated him and dropped him into the air intake of the D8.

kind of fitting.

Did he toast the motor?

[Baron Samedi]

Yeah but....does anyone know what goes on in a person's mind when they are in a coma?

How do you know your mind wouldn't be screaming in agony from thirst, suffering horrendously, but with no way to communicate that to the outside world?

I don't know at all....but that could be the most horrible thing ever...not just to be suffering, but to be suffering trapped in a useless body.

Nope. Smith & Wesson Medicine still looks pretty good to me.

[AnOldTroll]

Like to go?

At the Rapture, with a stoagie in hand while celebrating yet another Steeler Superbowl victory.

Well, yinz asked.

[Big/Sky/Fly]

Without pain would be the best...

[foobahl]

Originally Posted by Baron Samedi

Yeah but....does anyone know what goes on in a person's mind when they are in a coma?

How do you know your mind wouldn't be screaming in agony from thirst, suffering horrendously, but with no way to communicate that to the outside world?

I don't know at all....but that could be the most horrible thing ever...not just to be suffering, but to be suffering trapped in a useless body.

Nope. Smith & Wesson Medicine still looks pretty good to me.

Have you ever seen the movie Sublime. Very disturbing along these same ideas.