What's your worst fear of death???

[allybug]

What is the one way you don't want to die???

I do NOT want to die drowning!!!

 

[JoieDeVivre]

Terrible vehicular accident. Always had a morbid fear I'd die that way.

 

[stillsmallvoice]

Hi all!

I'm rather superstitious about some things; thus, I'd prefer not to answer your question. Although, I pray that He blesses me with a long, happy life in which I can serve Him and do good in the world, I know that when God decides that my time is up, my time will be up. Since this matter is exclusively in His hands, I am content to leave it at that & not speculate.

Verse #48 of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (FitzGerald translation, 1st edition) says:

While the Rose blows along the River Brink,
With old Khayyam the Ruby Vintage drink:
And when the Angel with his darker Draught
Draws up to thee--take that, and do not shrink.

Link: http://www.arabiannights.org/rubaiyat/rubaiyat.php3?display?1??41?0?8?3????1?

I like the last two lines.

Be well!

ssv

 

[psycmajor]

Anything particularly painful or grisly is not what I want!

 

[ocean]

Sickness, heart attack.

 

[pace]

3rd April 2003 at 06:51 AM allybug said this in Post #1

What is the one way you don't want to die???

I do NOT want to die drowning!!!

Drowning is supposed to be a good way to die I've heard.

I... would.. not have like to die during a torture session

Just thinking about that people actually have done/do torture makes me deeply troubled.

 

[Nazarene77]

3rd April 2003 at 08:41 AM JoieDeVivre said this in Post #2

Terrible vehicular accident. Always had a morbid fear I'd die that way.

I have nightmares about that all the time!

 

[JOYfulbeliever]

Haven't really thought about it, and to be honest, I'm not really scared of dying. I'm going to end up in such a much better place!!! When God wants me, He is going to take me, at just the time He wants, and just the way He wants!

 

[DeputyDan]

Being disembowled by a dull knife.

Being skinned alive including eyelids cut off and left to be eaten by ants.

Do you want some really bad ones?

 

[pace]

3rd April 2003 at 08:06 PM DeputyDan said this in Post #9

Being disembowled by a dull knife.

Being skinned alive including eyelids cut off and left to be eaten by ants.

Do you want some really bad ones?

How about those under the nail methods ?

 

[Nazarene77]

3rd April 2003 at 01:13 PM pace said this in Post #10

How about those under the nail methods ?

You mean being nailed to the cross like Jesus? Oh, man. That would be horrible! Then again, what are the odds. That's not really a popular method of execution these days. As a matter of fact, I don't think anyone has died that way for many centuries now; correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[pace]

Nono, toothpicks under your fingernails For a long period of time ? I would think that's much worse..

 

[pace]

I had a large hole in my teeth 1/2 a year ago. The tranqualizer didn't work, and it was an infected root canal. That hurted I tell you!

 

[coastie]

I want to die peacefully and in my sleep like my Grandpa not screaming and scared like the others in his car.

 

[walkaways]

Well, any method of torture...or the disease where your mind is still alive and well but you aren't in control of your body....in truth, I'm not that scared of death...I'm more afraid of losing someone I love..

 

[ghoti]

3rd April 2003 at 12:13 PM pace said this in Post #6

Drowning is supposed to be a good way to die I've heard.

Drowning is actually a very painful way to die.  It's very slow and your lungs will burn once you get deprived of enough air.  Being frozen to death is supposed a very peaceful way to die.  Once you get over the intial coldness, it just becomes this stupor.  Emily Dickinson wrote a poem about it once...

 

[Phoebe]

Alone. I don't want to be alone.
I'd rather not die a slow, drawn out death, either.

 

[Jedi]

Being burried alive and not being able to get out, so you're just stuck their suffocating in your own grave.

Well, that wouldn't be my fate anyway, since I don't plan to take up precious space while I'm dead. Organ donations, and then burn me to a fine crisp, baby. Graveyards are for the living, not the dead.

Any sort of torture method would be pretty bad, too. A slow (painful), lonely death is surely the worst.