Will you burnout or just fade away?

LARF · 10 May, 2006, 10:18:57 PM

Seeing as we are all getting on a bit and I watched the documentary on le Corbusier last night (he decided to end his life by going for a swim and not coming back), would you prefer to go out with a bang or fade away in silence?

scutfink · 10 May, 2006, 10:49:31 PM

I feel a Clancy Brown quote coming on...

Bringing this thread back on topic, am I the only one here who thought, watching that scene with the Kurgan sitting in the church with his shaved head held on by safety pins, he'd be the ideal choice to play Torquemada in a Nemisis Movie?

JOE SOAP · 11 May, 2006, 02:30:56 AM

It would be a brave film-maker who makes Nemesis into a film.

Dog Deever · 11 May, 2006, 03:26:04 AM

They're gonna peel me outa my seat 3 weeks after I die, i'll be in front of a TV displaying static, with a pile of 2K/ Meg beside my chair, and a full ashtray on the chair arm. There will be milk bottles piling outside the door, and a stack of junk mail declaring that i have won up to 200,000 pounds from some dodgy company in Holland.

Tiplodocus · 11 May, 2006, 04:19:40 AM

Well, I'm just about to sell my Thundercat so I guess it's going to be FADE AWAY for me.

But I don't want to BURN OUT now I've got kids.

Wils · 11 May, 2006, 04:59:40 AM

Well, I'm just about to sell my Thundercat

Even though I know exactly what you're on about, I can't help but picture you putting an ad to sell *this* in the paper.

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SamuelAWilkinson · 11 May, 2006, 07:14:01 AM

we are all getting on a bit

Speak for yourself. Some of us are in our primes and about to leap into the world of graduate work where we'll forever sell our souls...

But back to your original topic, I'd far rather blow up in some way. Not necessarily saving people, though that would be a bonus, but by accidentally eating a dynamite doughnut. I happen to feel it would be rather classy.

GeorgeBernardShaw · 11 May, 2006, 09:03:47 AM

I would like to fade away noisily

Dudley · 11 May, 2006, 04:47:37 PM

I intend to die by pretending to assassinate the US President, and being shot until nothing but a small puddle remains.

Dark Jimbo · 11 May, 2006, 04:53:45 PM

I'd like to get into some kind of massive fight, and fight so savagely and maniacally that my opponents have absolutely no choice but to kill me, simply to stay alive themselves.

paulvonscott · 11 May, 2006, 04:56:57 PM

I will probably feel like I've burned out, but to most independant observers I'll have just faded away...

Bico · 11 May, 2006, 04:57:35 PM

I intend to track you all down and shoot you dead, like Jay and Fat Bob did in that movie. A nice wee world tour will do me the world of good.
The rest of you - not so much.

/shakes fist

House of Usher · 11 May, 2006, 05:37:13 PM

I'd like to go quietly, having lived as long and as comfortably as I can possibly manage, with minimum publicity.

auxlen · 11 May, 2006, 05:45:36 PM

we are all comic reading nerds. we have no choice but to fade away....

our bodies will be found amidst thirty tons of comics on Pet rescue because someone complained about a dog barking....or something.

Satanist · 11 May, 2006, 05:49:43 PM

Hail of bullets, its the only way to go.