Will you burnout or just fade away?

Keef Monkey · 11 May, 2006, 07:14:37 PM

I'm going dooooooooown in a blaaaaaaze of gloooooory!!!!

Thursday · 11 May, 2006, 07:24:53 PM

How do I want to die?

Temporarily.

Tiplodocus · 12 May, 2006, 04:13:13 AM

I used to think that if I were to die, I'd like to break the special effects budget of 999 RESCUE or whatever it is.

They'd have to bring in ILM to render all of the fireballs and explosions and bridges and trucks blowing up.

Michael Beurke choking back tears as he says; "...having skidded his Thundercat tracked attack vehicle precisely so that it saved the bus load of orphans from the exploding petrol tanker, Mister Tips was unaware that a bizarre set of chance and circumstance meant that he was sliding at ninety miles an hour towards the giant cheese grater perched on top of the alien invasion fleet's mothership with it's fully armed nitroglycerine waepons..."

Except, I'd like to do it when I was ninety eight or something so I get to burnout and fade away at the same time.

Buddy · 12 May, 2006, 04:16:07 AM

Fade away, burn out sounds too much like hard work.

Max Kon · 12 May, 2006, 04:52:09 AM

I'd like to die watching a tv documentery about my life

W. R. Logan · 12 May, 2006, 04:58:01 AM

Burnout, on a funeral pyre of all my 2000's. the ashes will be then swept up and added to the black ink cartridge of Tharg's hyper printers so that they'll be a little bit of me in everyones Prog.

Keef Monkey · 12 May, 2006, 06:51:04 AM

That's beautiful man.

Floyd-the-k · 12 May, 2006, 01:47:18 PM

I'm torn between dying whilst in bed with two women in an exploding jumbo jet or dying in bed surrounded by an adoring family, but it's not like I'll get to choose

here's Roger McGough on the subject. Annoyingly I can only find this much of the poem

...Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death'

scutfink · 12 May, 2006, 02:59:19 PM

Well, I'm not sure how I'd like to die, possibly in a bizzare lettering accident, but I know how I want to be commemorated.

A massive classical style statue of me in a toga, with the inscription 'My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings etc. etc.' and, here's the good bit, I want the entire surrounding area for a two mile radius to be reduced to sun bleached sand. (Possibly by some kind of orbiting superlaser.)

Look on theese works ye mighty and dispair...

Or failing that, and should the moral climate permit, I'd like to be turned into a kick ass Chilli cooked to my own recipie and served as a buffet to my friends and family...

:)

judge dreddd · 12 May, 2006, 07:43:06 PM

I do not fear death, I just do not want to be there when it happens.

ThryllSeekyr · 15 May, 2006, 06:53:34 PM

Fl'loyhude, You could do all three of those at once at the time of your death on a modest income. But choice number three is going to feel very uncomfortable in your presence with choice number one.

Personnally, I would want everyone that wanted a particulay explosive end to their own existence to be as far away from me as possible.

I don't want to die!!!!!

I for one would like to live forever, atleast in the sence of being conscious, sentient and as I am alive right now.

I think it takes quite few lifetimes to get it right, to get it down pat. Which is why I would like to have much more time.

radiator · 15 May, 2006, 09:47:26 PM

Ideally, I'd chose to be killed by a giant flying demon thing while saving the mutant race, then for everyone to forget/pretend it never happened.
So, burn out, then fade away.

Dudley · 15 May, 2006, 10:01:23 PM

Actually, I think I'd like to re-record, not fade away.
Re-record not fade away.
Re-record not fade away.