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wolram
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Or meeting your maker, how do you want to go? in bed knowing, of a sudden, in your sleep, how ever.
larkspur said:I want to die in my sleep...just wake up dead one morning.
Perhaps not a American flag for me, more of St. George's cross.Lance Armstrong said:I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my stud wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.
Astronuc said:Perhaps watching a sunset or out in the wilderness somewhere, but certainly not in hospital or in bed.
arildno said:Why must the husband be over 100 years old??
Why would he trade sheep for a..wrinkle-heap??wolram said:Because the wife must be about a 100 years old for Danger to pull.
In the kitchen is preferable to the bed.arildno said:I would like to die in the middle of doing something else, for example when making coffee.
arildno said:Why would he trade sheep for a..wrinkle-heap??
Astronuc said:In the kitchen is preferable to the bed.
Actually, I thought about making my own pyre, since I'd prefer to be cremated, without a big tadoo.
On the other hand, I like Evo's suggestion sometime in the past about vultures. Dying on a cliff watching a sunsent in a place like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon would be nice - and then let the vultures clean up the next day. My kids however have a problem with that.
I knew that somebody would pick up on that, but I didn't expect to get tag-teamed. Especially by one who admittedly doesn't care for females and one whose orientation is in doubt. Barmy bastards! :tongue:arildno said:Why must the husband be over 100 years old??
Vultures aren't mangy - well healthy vultures aren't. Besides after one is dead - one won't care.wolram said:Well i sure do not want to be burned up or eaten by mangy birds, may be find some very cold place, build a nice fire, have a last bacon buttie, then watch the stars.
wolram said:So if any of you knew the end was nigh, would you want to engineer the way you go?
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