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Post by rickyguitar on Feb 3, 2020 14:00:07 GMT -5
Are there any? Quietly in your sleep I suppose. Onstage guitar in hand, hell yeah. In flagrante delicto? Ok for you, your partner not so much.
Bad ways? Hmm...being eaten alive has got to suck.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 3, 2020 14:33:21 GMT -5
Are there any? Quietly in your sleep I suppose.
I've always wondered if that really happens or if those people just die alone and unobserved in bed and are found later: "oh...he must've died quietly in his sleep"...
In any case, the moment of death is inevitably a lonely and private affair when it comes.
I envision "game over" flashing on the screen and that familiar, "no WAIT! I wasn't done!" feeling during the last couple of seconds before everything fades to black.
At my age, I guess I'm probably going to be finding out sooner rather than later.
The prospect of death is scary. Being dead? Not so much.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 3, 2020 14:41:57 GMT -5
I once told my wife that I'd want to go snorting lines with the Olson twins on their 80th birthday, but she didn't find it amusing.
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Post by rickyguitar on Feb 3, 2020 14:54:18 GMT -5
I once told my wife that I'd want to go snorting lines with the Olson twins on their 80th birthday, but she didn't find it amusing. Lol...but...80th? |
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 3, 2020 14:58:15 GMT -5
I once told my wife that I'd want to go snorting lines with the Olson twins on their 80th birthday, but she didn't find it amusing. Aren't you a greedy boy, though? |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 3, 2020 14:59:59 GMT -5
I once told my wife that I'd want to go snorting lines with the Olson twins on their 80th birthday, but she didn't find it amusing. Lol...but...80th? Yeah, THEIR 80th, not mine. 👴 |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 3, 2020 15:06:45 GMT -5
Well, according to Lt. Frank Drebin...
NSFW, sorta:
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Post by FlyonNylon on Feb 3, 2020 15:07:35 GMT -5
There are a few common ways to die.
Trauma : either instant (place crash) or in the case of a gunshot to the chest or car accident that isn't instantly fatal: massive adrenaline rush followed by gradual decreasing consciousness due to blood loss/shock followed by cardiac arrest. Usually pretty quick unless they save you and you end up spending a few months in the ICU with a trach/peg.
Pulmonary: this would include CHF and COPD/asthma. Gradual generally slow process of feeling like you're either drowning of suffocating, usually over the course of days/weeks sometimes improving only to worsen again, with gradually increasing levels of respiratory support culminating in going on the vent, which you may never get off or may get extubated to go through the whole cycle again. In the end you just lose consciousness but it usually takes a while to get there.
Sepsis: Feeling terrible all over for a day or so, then feeling like "knowing you're going to die" for several days as your organs gradually shut down until finally over days/weeks of multi-organ dysfunction and being subjected to endless medical procedures you lose consciousness and never recover.
Cardiac: Specifically for cardiac I mean, dropping dead of a heart attack or fatal arrhythmia like v-fib, not lingering like CHF. Maybe a moment or two of chest pain then the lights go out and you go. Or you "feel like you're going to die" for a few seconds, have no pain, get really pale with "dinner plate eyes" then die.
The cardiac "way" is the most common that I see. Someone sits up in bed, says, "I feel like I'm going to die." then dies.
Personally I'd prefer the cardiac way first and the respiratory last.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 3, 2020 15:16:46 GMT -5
My mother in law was a very healthy and active 85 when suddenly and unexpectedly she suffered a dissected aorta. We convinced a surgeon that if any 85 year old could survive the surgery it was her. He was able to make the repair but couldn't restart the heart. She went under with a ray of hope and didn't suffer the physical pain she was experiencing as well as the hopelessness of a certain death. I guess that's about good as it gets.
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Post by gato on Feb 3, 2020 15:36:02 GMT -5
I once told my wife that I'd want to go snorting lines with the Olson twins on their 80th birthday, but she didn't find it amusing. Better than going out snorting lines with the Olson twins on their 8th birthday. Cause you'd already be dead and stuff. |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 3, 2020 16:23:32 GMT -5
"My mother in law was a very healthy and active 85 when suddenly and unexpectedly she suffered a dissected aorta."
Auf Kiltre, my mom (88 y.o.) went the same way. Partial aortic dissection causing mild chest pain. No blood pressure loss. The docs advised they could try a repair and we left it up to mom to decide, because the pain was manageable but the surgery might not be successful. She chose no surgery. Two days later, she went to sleep and didn't wake up.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Feb 3, 2020 16:28:34 GMT -5
I just don't want to be an embarrassment to myself or my family. For example -- I don't want to go out like Elvis.
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Post by LM on Feb 3, 2020 16:33:44 GMT -5
I've decided if my quality of life degrades dramatically, I'm gonna ride my motorcycle to the Grand Canyon and just keep going while yelling, "Catch me, Lord! Here I come!"
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Post by Seldom Seen on Feb 3, 2020 16:36:25 GMT -5
My father always swore he'd rent an airplane and fly it into a mountain. Alas, he succumbed to prostate cancer before he could renew his pilots license.
I miss you dad.
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Post by HenryJ on Feb 3, 2020 17:49:31 GMT -5
There are a few common ways to die. Trauma : either instant (place crash) or in the case of a gunshot to the chest or car accident that isn't instantly fatal: massive adrenaline rush followed by gradual decreasing consciousness due to blood loss/shock followed by cardiac arrest. Usually pretty quick unless they save you and you end up spending a few months in the ICU with a trach/peg. Pulmonary: this would include CHF and COPD/asthma. Gradual generally slow process of feeling like you're either drowning of suffocating, usually over the course of days/weeks sometimes improving only to worsen again, with gradually increasing levels of respiratory support culminating in going on the vent, which you may never get off or may get extubated to go through the whole cycle again. In the end you just lose consciousness but it usually takes a while to get there. Sepsis: Feeling terrible all over for a day or so, then feeling like "knowing you're going to die" for several days as your organs gradually shut down until finally over days/weeks of multi-organ dysfunction and being subjected to endless medical procedures you lose consciousness and never recover. Cardiac: Specifically for cardiac I mean, dropping dead of a heart attack or fatal arrhythmia like v-fib, not lingering like CHF. Maybe a moment or two of chest pain then the lights go out and you go. Or you "feel like you're going to die" for a few seconds, have no pain, get really pale with "dinner plate eyes" then die. The cardiac "way" is the most common that I see. Someone sits up in bed, says, "I feel like I'm going to die." then dies. Personally I'd prefer the cardiac way first and the respiratory last. My brother died last March of a massive stroke in the middle of the night, between 2 and 3. Thankfully, he was not driving in Baton Rouge traffic when this happened. He went quickly and was gone before the paramedics arrived. I had sepsis and was in ICU on Christmas Day in 2016. My wife and I were Christmas shopping on the 23rd and I thought it was just a "shop 'til you drop" experience. I had to sit down while my wife continued to shop. (I thought it was just my manly distaste for shopping.) When we got home, our daughter-in-law suggested the ER. They put me in ICU with sepsis. I was not too familiar with the condition, remembering that Patty Duke had died of "sepsis" early that year. But I felt like the doctors would get me through this. I don't want to die of sepsis. That was THE most miserable I have EVER been. My chemo port had become infected. It was for treating my stage 4 cancer. I am now cancer-free and survived sepsis. I'm bulletproof! |
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Post by jhawkr on Feb 3, 2020 20:47:57 GMT -5
One way or another, cardiac is the way I’ll likely go. It’s already come close to getting me a couple times. A fib is less likely because I have an on-board defibrillator. CHF might get me but more likely is another blockage and heart attack. Unless I get the transplant which means rejection could be my biggest enemy. Of course I could get run over by a runaway John Deere tractor and then all the previous stuff would mean nothing!  |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Feb 3, 2020 20:54:13 GMT -5
I have no idea what’s a good way or bad way. But I’ve always thought I was going to die young, ever since I was a kid.
Fortunately, I’m old now, so I was wrong.
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Post by digiboy on Feb 3, 2020 21:01:25 GMT -5
There was a kid in my school, real class clown type. Nuts but everybody loved him. Went with family to Yellowstone on vacation and slipped and fell into the hot springs. He was probably goofing around, I'm almost sure of it. I still think about him. Acting silly for a laugh and then just like that, what a way to go. Not a good one.
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Post by pcalu on Feb 3, 2020 21:27:35 GMT -5
One of my best friends took the great dirt nap by way of a brain aneurism. Was doing the horizontal toe tickle with his wife, they finish, he sat up, said "something doesn't feel right" the rolled off the bed and that was it. No pain, no nothing, like he went to sleep and fell off the bed.
Your last act on earth is "Making love to your wife"... then pass with no pain and no traumatic episode
kinda doesn't get any better... and if you knew the guy you would say he deserved to go out in that kinda style.
He had a standing room funeral. (never seen one sense)
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Post by Mfitz804 on Feb 3, 2020 21:31:24 GMT -5
One of my best friends took the great dirt nap by way of a brain aneurism. Was doing the horizontal toe tickle with his wife, they finish, he sat up, said "something doesn't feel right" the rolled off the bed and that was it. No pain, no nothing, like he went to sleep and fell off the bed. Your last act on earth is "Making love to your wife"... then pass with no pain and no traumatic episode kinda doesn't get any better... and if you knew the guy you would say he deserved to go out in that kinda style. He had a standing room funeral. (never seen one sense) The issue is, while it may have been a good way for him to go, it had to be absolutely horrible for his wife. That’s why I think there isn’t really a “good” way to go. |
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Post by TonyM on Feb 4, 2020 0:01:21 GMT -5
Everyone ends badly no matter how they go. Some ways are worse than others but none are good.
We rarely get to choose how we go so I don’t spend much time thinking about good ways to die, but rather good ways to live. Living good takes a bit of intent. Death will take care of itself.
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Post by gato on Feb 4, 2020 18:23:53 GMT -5
Being sucked into the engine of a 737 Max 8. It would be quick and you'd be the first Max 8 fatality not caused by a software bug.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 4, 2020 19:38:31 GMT -5
Years back I remember hearing about two horrific industrial accidents at the papermill near my family's cottage. One was a guy who fell into a vat of something or other and left an arm and wristwatch as evidence. The other was a guy who was grabbed by some automation used to strip bark from logs. *Shudder*
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Post by rdr on Feb 4, 2020 20:07:13 GMT -5
I had a heart attack 9 years ago, and while waiting in the cath lab for the stent guy, my heart stopped. I just lost consciousness. No pain or even dizzyness or other warning sensation. So I guess that was peaceful.
Oh, and no bright light or anyone coming to greet me. But at least no flames!
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Post by Bbendfender on Feb 5, 2020 10:35:04 GMT -5
I fear being eaten alive by a large animal, burning to death or getting my head chopped off as the 3 worst ways to die.
I just want to go quickly. Fatal heart attack or close by nuclear blast.
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Post by stl80 on Feb 5, 2020 10:58:22 GMT -5
A grade school friend of mine fell down the stairs in her townhouse. Coma and passed the next day.
Jim
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Post by gato on Feb 5, 2020 11:08:23 GMT -5
One of my retiree co-workers had a stroke. Being a reclusive alcoholic, he laid where he fell until he either starved or died of thirst.
The smell alerted neighbors.
Luckily he had no pets.
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Post by rocknroll on Feb 5, 2020 20:20:11 GMT -5
I had a heart cath 6 years ago, and woke up with a couple of nurses looking over my horizontal-on-the-gurney body. I had a metallic taste in my mouth and the nurses informed me that my heart had stopped and they had to restart me. I was wheeled to ICU where a couple of days later I had a multiple bypass. That would have been a painless way to go - just go to sleep. I never felt a thing.
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Post by bluesmama on Feb 5, 2020 21:42:08 GMT -5
As a hospice chaplain for almost twenty years I’ve seen a lot of ways I would prefer not to go. Having a good meal with friends, sitting in the recliner after dinner by a roaring fire and just nodding off would be ideal. The one path I pray I avoid is coming to my last days with dementia/Alzheimer’s.
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Post by Ragtop on Feb 6, 2020 6:16:52 GMT -5
Twice now I've come to in the ER with a doctor standing over me saying "you're lucky to be alive."
Kinda makes you think, that's for sure. Like the man said, enjoy every sandwich.
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