Great quote from Richard Pryor ... "I don't know about you, but if I had a choice how I was going to die, I would be in the long line."

I figure is does not matter ... When I was 19-25, I really did not think I had a chance to make it to 31. I told everyone that I would never getting married. My how times have changed. I have been married for 16 years and have three boys aged 11, 8 and 5.

 

By a terrorist act.....soon after the Democraps take the White House.

 

Ehh it's been done.....

Try a barrel roll!

 

That's a might over stating. You can shorten your life by participating in many risky activities. A gang banger would have a relatively short average life span. People who smoke are at a much higher risk for lung cancer and a shorter life. You could be a swinger, engaging in unprotected sex, and you will have a much higher probability of dying of AIDS. Sure a heath nut could die young from a heart attack but that would be an exception not the rule.

My guess (no research)

Heart attack/disease 50%
Cancer 25%
Other illness 22%
Accident 2%
Violence 1%

 

i dont know how i will die, but i would like to think i would die like "landfill" from the movie "beerfest". in a huge tub of beer, trying to drink my way out.

 

I think I'll be visiting Kansas one day and a twister will start blowing and a house will fall on me. Then some bratty little girl will steal my ruby red slippers and my feet will curl up.

 

Hmmm, never really thought about it, probably some sort of olditis when I get really, really old.

 

I love that movie, its one of my all-time favorites .

I used to think I was going to die four-wheeling with all the stupid (but fun) stuff I used to do. Now I just hope however I go, its in some way that makes a difference. For example, taking a bullet for the President (yes, even Bush), or saving someone from a fire, or of a heart attack while I'm making love to a beautifal woman .

 

I'm going to go with something unusual, like death from contact with a venomous lizard! ---> Odds of Dying http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm

 

Upon hearing/saying these sentences i would probably flatline...

"Test results prove Barry Bonds has never taken steriods."

"Jamzwayne successfully transported a refrigerator and the Pope home at the same time."

"My fellow americans i have a brilliant idea."

"Fidel Castro is a decendent of Jesus Christ."

"I think we should give prohibition a second chance."

"Mom, why is Ron Jeremy in our house?"

 

Ill have a heart attack the day after I hit the lotto.

 

Agreed.

With my health issues ALREADY at 30 ... I just hope to hang around long enough to see Brook make it on her own....

 

You Hooker.

 

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

 

If I don't get to the minimum I want to reach, here's what will probably get me.

• Sleep Apnea- I wake up many nights drowning in my own saliva- or something... Wife still sound asleep- never waking up to help me...
  
• Heart attack- (from messing around with some young hottie, for the first time)- Or, from remaining on the Fat Bastards list.
  
• Car Wreck- I've fallen asleep far too many times behind the wheel. Fortunately, everytime, God-has taken the wheel- and gotten me, my family, and my car- home safely. This is why I pray for safe travel before and during every trip.

Under that topic- here are the ways I DON'T want to go:

• Cancer: It's a damn shame we still have people dying from this. And, it's worse that chemotherapy seems to be the only course of treatment. I'd bet more people die from the weakening effects of the chemo, than the actual cancer.
• Stroke- Usually comes from out of no where. My Mom and Grandfather both had strokes, so it's in my bloodline.
  
• Heart Attack- Actually, it took a 1-2 punch to take my grandfather out. The stroke put him down, then 3 days later a heart attack took his life.
  
• Drowning- This has got to be one of the worse ways to die.
  
• Burning- This has got to be the most painful. Burn your self with an iron, and you know how bad that hurts. Now, imagien that over your whole body.
  
• Falling- Just like drowning, only faster an dmore painful.
  
• Shooting- Hopefully, if that ever happen, it'll be instantaneous.
  
• Stabbing- To me, this is even more violent than shooting.
  
• Poisoning- Only a rat would resort to this.
  
• Alzhiemer's Disease- It takes your life, before it takes your life. My aunt died of this. I don't know what hurt me worse. Hearing that she died, or seeing her not know who I was, when I'd gone to visit her. That still hurts.
  
• Lou Gherig's disease- (ALS)- A woman at my job got diagnosed with this, and she is failing fast. Lost the use of her right side- those sensations are moving to her left side, and she just had to have a feeding tube inserted because she's losing the ability to swallow; and having trouble breathing- so a tracheotomy is next. ANything that takes your life piece by piece, while you're still living, is terrible.

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God-willing, I'll die in good health, when my 108 year-old mother, 65 year old sister, 45 y/o son, 22 year old grandson, and new great-grand baby come to visit me for my 80th birthday.

I'll die during the following night, with full use of everything I came into this world with, peacefully, in my sleep, next to my wife. Having not suffered any debilitating disease, injury, or accident.

If I live longer, that's great- but- if I die like that, it will be wonderful. Maybe not for my family, but- dying at home, peacefully, has got to be better than suffering in a hospital, or far less tragic for the family than news of a car wreck.