How do you want to leave this mortal coil?

DrJomster · 23 February, 2011, 10:37:44 PM

This is proving a surprisingly popular thread! Well, that's the joy of pondering your mortality for you...

Btw I'm still going with "flying my spaceship into a black hole" but would like to have the Disney Black Hole OST playing full blast on the onboard stereo as we go in! Der der der der-e-e-errr, der der der der-e-e-err! Yes, that's it, that's just how the music sounds, I can hear it clearly now! Eh? What do you mean tone deaf?

vzzbux · 23 February, 2011, 10:44:14 PM

Plummeting to my death from a multi storey building with the delusion that I am Superman, on live pay per view.

V

DrJomster · 23 February, 2011, 10:48:57 PM

A friend of my brother's (no, not me!) jumped off a garage roof when he was eight pretending he was Superman... Got away with only a broken arm! His mum wasn't too pleased once she'd recovered from realising how much worse it could have been!

SuperSurfer · 23 February, 2011, 11:06:35 PM

Would like to go in a blaze of glory but will settle for blowing my brains out with a piece, having just found out I was terminally ill. To be done while in a fit state so people's last memories of me would be of a fit, able bodied person rather than a wreck.

And just like when Alexander the Great died, all my generals can have wars to divide my empire 'cos I won't tell them beforehand who is having what.

Reality is that I will probably bail out due to problems with the ticker. Rather than a quick exit from a heart attack (believe me, in the greater scheme the heart attack is a mercy killing) I will spend weeks fading away in hospital, in squalor, for weeks plugged into all sorts of machines as organs fail one by one and drugged up on morphine to the point of going ga-ga until the machines were switched off. And with no relatives present. No thanks, better start planning for the preferred option but I'm not very far with the empire.

I liked what John Le Mesurier said just before he died. Story goes he told his wife: "Just tell them I conked out."

O Lucky Stevie! · 24 February, 2011, 01:53:39 AM

Quote from: The Cosh on 23 February, 2011, 07:41:05 PM
It's joining in the first place that might be the problem, given my total lack of musical talent.

Didn't Ivo quit the biz about 10 years ago to concentrate on the coke?

Quote from: Jomster on 23 February, 2011, 10:37:44 PM
...but would like to have the Disney Black Hole OST playing full blast on the onboard stereo as we go in! Der der der der-e-e-errr, der der der der-e-e-err! Yes, that's it, that's just how the music sounds, I can hear it clearly now!

Arguably John Barry's most appropriate soundtrack work.

Stevie's had a bit of a rethink on his own final curtain call.

So he chooses instead to be mauled to death by a beautiful woman whilst making love to a ferocious tiger.

Hang on a minute, that's not quite it...

fresno bob · 24 February, 2011, 06:48:10 AM

angry

Radbacker · 24 February, 2011, 08:25:57 AM

good to see us 2000ad fans are such a jolly well adjusted bunch. NOticed theres not too many "I'm never gonna die" but lots of I'll do it myself on my own terms, you do knopw this is still classed as suicide there aint no euthenasiums yet.

CU Radbacker

IAMTHESYSTEM · 24 February, 2011, 10:51:36 AM

With Assault Rifle blazing more ammunition than a Mexican 'night out' I lay waste to my enemies shouting:

'I AM THE SYSTEM-AAARGGHHH!'

Probabley a blood clotting brain stroke. B-o-r-ing but true.

Dunk! · 24 February, 2011, 11:08:18 AM

If I continue with the lifestyle I have: Heart attack, and soon.

If I change and live healthy: Heart attack, and sooner.

Strangely I'm only a few years shy of living longer than my father and that's starting to be a freaky proposition.

Rog69 · 24 February, 2011, 12:45:49 PM

Whenever this question comes up I can't get past that scene from Monty Python's meaning of life, the one where the convicted criminal gets to choose the nature of his death and is chased off a cliff by a gang of topless women.
I can't understand why he was running away either.

Kerrin · 24 February, 2011, 06:40:56 PM

Quote from: Rog69 on 24 February, 2011, 12:45:49 PM
I can't understand why he was running away either.

Because that was Graham Chapman and he was dangerously gay.

Gay as a window.

I'd like to go peacefully, in my sleep, surrounded by my harem of nubile wenches, in the pleasure lounge of my orbital mansion, at the age of three hundred and eighty six.

More than likely to be the usual in our family though. Spontaneous combustion.

EddieHitler · 24 February, 2011, 07:16:20 PM

"Gay as a window."

I'm confused........not sexually........but how gay can a window be?

SmallBlueThing · 24 February, 2011, 07:17:59 PM

CLEARLY very gay indeed.

(insert wah wah wah wahhhh sound here)

SBT

Kerrin · 24 February, 2011, 07:24:05 PM

Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 24 February, 2011, 07:17:59 PM
CLEARLY very gay indeed.

Bravo!

I'm not entirely sure myself. It's an old Brass Eye quote.

Sort of chap who'd nudge your elbow while you're shooting.

EddieHitler · 24 February, 2011, 07:25:13 PM

Possibly not "clearly" but tinted would in my opinion deem a window to be sufficiently gay?

Oh I see.....