If you could choose the way to die

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Heart attack, stroke, cancer, auto accident? NO, THANKS. And I prefer not in a hospital or nursing home.

Give me a (painless) aneurysm. In a store, restaurant, walking down the street, etc. when my time comes I want to just keel over...around people...where someone can look into my wallet, call emergency names, and do what needs to be done.

Some prefer to die in their sleep, but it saddens me to think of my kitty walking around wondering when I'm gonna get up and feed her. :( Also if I don't return voice-mail messages or texts, after a certain amount of time someone would have to call police to do a welfare check ...that's also sad.

Anyway, it's gonna happen to all of us. So, if you could choose...........
 

AC.....I have to tell you that if you lay too long before someone finds you dead, they will wish they didn’t. Two of the welfare checks that I have done, I didn’t have to walk more then 10 feet inside their home before I knew the situation. The first person that I found was dead for about 30 hours and the second was about 24 hours.

Once you smell that odor, or what we call the smell of death, you never forget it.
 
I think about being dead for several weeks and the poor soul that has the grim task of finding me but I don't have much control over it.

I hope that they think to put a dab of Vicks VapoRub under their nose and fire up a big cigar before they enter my little apartment!

Maybe by then, they will have a Fitbit type gadget that will sense that my heart has stopped beating and automatically dial the undertaker.

I hope my transition to the next world is painless. I would like to go to sleep on this side and wake up on the other side.
 

@911

So I hear. :(
I know of a sad situation where a young woman fell, hit her head, died and a day later employer called police because family was in another state. A horrible scene.
 
IMO, every Senior on Medicare and living alone should be offered a free medical alert w/panic button to wear around the neck or wrist.
 
Well, just having had an acute heart attack I can say the pain gets bad but nothing they can't control with morphine. I guess an aneurism would be ok, as long as it is big enough to do the job.

I prefer to die in hospice. Plenty of pain killers and Ativan. Been with several friends and my mom in hospice, they take care of the dying and the family. One friend in a nursing home, not my preferred choice due to lack of staff who had a clue.
 
Just like my mother did, went to bed and never woke up. She was living with my sister at that time and did not lie there long before she was discovered.
 
applecruncher said:
Heart attack, stroke, cancer, auto accident? NO, THANKS. And I prefer not in a hospital or nursing home.

Give me a (painless) aneurysm. In a store, restaurant, walking down the street, etc. when my time comes I want to just keel over...around people...where someone can look into my wallet, call emergency names, and do what needs to be done.

Some prefer to die in their sleep, but it saddens me to think of my kitty walking around wondering when I'm gonna get up and feed her. :( Also if I don't return voice-mail messages or texts, after a certain amount of time someone would have to call police to do a welfare check ...that's also sad.

Anyway, it's gonna happen to all of us. So, if you could choose...........
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No personal experience, but from what I've heard & read, aneurysms are not painless at all. You may recall when John Ritter had an aortic aneurysm, he was sick, nauseous & vomiting for a while before he died. And (from what I understand) a brain aneurysm starts with a horrible headache.
 
My cat's sitter [when I was away] died [just recently] in a manner suggested by the OP. 55 yr old woman, sort of a health nut , walked/rode a bicycle ALLOT , never smoked, bottled water, etc & so-on. Stepped out of her car, her legs went out, she could not stand. She was able to get to her phone, 911, by the time they got to her, her arms would no longer move. She died later that same day. Something in her heart just quit working, the explanation by her husband was 'clouded'.

She was a veterinary nurse, and a church group leader/office worker.......and just a very nice person.
 
My 94 year old mother died 7 months ago after 5 weeks in hospice care. She was terrified of death and filled with far more regrets than satisfactions from her life.
I want to exit this world and enter whatever comes after with more curious and eager anticipation than fear. And by golly, I really hope that my satisfactions with how I've lived outweigh the disappointments.
The actual method of death? We don't get to choose that or the time of it, but I'd like to have enough warning of its impending approach to say goodbye to the few people whom I know personally.
 
Naked, on a snow-capped mountain top, meditating. I originally planned this for India, but now any mountain top will do. If I can't get to the mountain, Plan B will do, just fine. No comment.
 
I like the lightning bolt idea. At least I'd go out with a bang. (I know lightning doesn't make a sound, but it would be followed by a tremendous clap of thunder!)
 
I would like to be home and die in my sleep but I think it would be easier for
my family if I was in hospital and then I would be found quickly.
I don't dwell on death because there is no way of knowing when it will happen
or how.
Live for today.
 

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