Are you afraid of dying?

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

Not really since i got a motorbike.

[Pony Princess]

Not really since i got a motorbike.

 

This. The sooner I get back to motorbiking the better. If I am going to die, I hope I die messy.

[Thants]

If I wanted to go out with a laugh, I'd do the following:

 

Get to the top of a tall building, take some piano wire and super glue. Noose the piano wire around your neck and then super glue your palms to the side of your head.

 

Jump.

 

You will land, dead and it will look like you pulled your own head off. Do it near a school for bonus points.

 

Hehe

[Dr Nowt]

If anyone has not seen it, Dennis Potter's interview with Melvyn Bragg shortly before he died - it's on You Tube - gives one of the most eloquent and moving accounts of what it is like to be close to the end, and how it can make life so much more vivid. (He also despised Murdoch and his favourite poisonous red top, and castigated both widely during the recording.)

 

I don't fear death at all, it's the impact to close people which is heartbreaking to think on even briefly. Gallows humour is a great balancer, any period of being forced to consider your own or other people's mortality is for me best ended with something darkly funny. And I don't mean Baron Samedi.

 

"In 1994, LA police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper (complete with scythe) standing outside of old peoples homes, staring in."

[KMD7]

Never thought about it much until the last couple of weeks when I lost 2 old friends in separate tragic circumstances, leaving broken families behind them. Health permitting I want to die old and fulfilled, having seen my daughter grown up and married and hopefully providing me and the mrs with a load of grandkids to spoil.