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[certainthings]

The other day, I was randomly thinking about how I would like to die. I mean, sometime in the distant future.

One thing I came to realize is that the thought of dying in my sleep scares the shit out of me. Also drowning. And I don't think I'd very much like burning to death.

Anyway. This is how I'd like to die...

It'll be mid-week. The day will be warm and sunny. Perhaps a slight breeze. I'll be walking down a slightly busy sidewalk. (I'm not yet sure of my destination) A person will bump into me and I'll feel a slight pinprick in my arm. I'll apologize to him/her (cos, I'm Canadian and that's what we do) and I'll turn my head to watch them for a moment or so wondering what sort of piercings they have or if they've left a pin in their clothing for stitching purposes before I crumple to the ground dead from poison. After the autopsy reveals that it was poison that killed me, people will wonder if it was accidental or if I was targeted. And if I was targeted, why?

So. How do you want to die? JSYK "in my sleep" won't be accepted as an answer.

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This is not about, "Well, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Blah blah bliddity blah." This is about seeing it through to the end.

I enjoy most of the many shows that I watch. But there are some (and at the moment all I can think of are New Girl and Terra Nova) where it's just, 'Oh, God. I have to watch this. Ugh.'

And that is one of the reasons why I would like to be paid to watch television. Who's with me?

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Well. I like the new comment page. And sure, not having a place for a subject line might be annoying in some places but I think I'll be okay.

I will be staying here. But if you want to friend me on dreamdwidth the name is the same. Just. Let me know and let me know who you are. Please.

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Thank you for the v-gift, anon. :)

Comments

[earlofcardigans.livejournal.com]

i've thought about this. i don't want to die this way, because it's become a fear, however irrational, now that i've thought about it so much, but like. i thought that i would be in traffic on my way to work, stuck under the overpass with nowhere to go because i had to stop for coffee and thus am late. and a plane carrying no passengers will crash into the overpass and i'll be crushed to death. at least i'll have a Honda coffin.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I like it. I like how it's not just a car crash. Or just a collapsing bridge/overpass. I hope it doesn't happen that way but I like the detail of it

[earlofcardigans.livejournal.com]

it is incredibly detailed when i think about it. maybe i wouldn't mind dying that way.

[paperscout.livejournal.com]

I wanna die doing something cool. Like being held hostage in a bank robbery and one of the robbers says they have to make an example out of somebody because the cops aren't meeting their demands. So they grab some random person, maybe a girl, maybe around my age, and her boyfriend is there with her, or her little sister, and for three seconds, I think about how terrible that would be for them to see her die, so I stand up and say no, I'll go instead. And boom, it's over just like that.

But really, I just don't want to go by drowning, or any form of not being able to breathe. Burning does sound pretty horrific, too.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. That is awesome!

And yeah, the whole not being able to breathe thing frightens me. Unless it was super quick but I imagine that it's usually not.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Of old age. In the past. Because I succeeded in my experimentation with time travel.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Niiiice. What year(s) would you travel to and would you want to change anything?

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I'd go back to 1920 and just live on via there. I know the 30s sucked hardcore. At least then, I could find my aunts and uncles and go, "YOU KNOW WHAT, I LIVED THROUGH THE DEPRESSION, TOO. SO SHUT UP." I'd like to change the Depression from even happening, but there were WAY TOO MANY factors that contributed to that clusterfuck.

[impala-chick.livejournal.com]

I have always hated the idea of drowning or burning, too. I want to be assassinated - shot with a long distance rifle. Of course that means I would have to be famous enough to be assassinated, but you know. I guess I see my death as being dramatic, and a huge investigation would be launched afterwards. Pretty selfish, actually.

hahahaha, Terra Nova has given me that feeling on several occasions. I am always like "NO, I must stay and wait for the dinosaurs!!!".

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Nah, not selfish. Full of ambition, dreams and goals.

I like the dinosaurs but mostly I just watch to look at Hot!Dad.

[impala-chick.livejournal.com]

I like the way you put it.

He is pretty fine. I'm waiting for his character to gain more depth, though.

[thelocation.livejournal.com]

I want to get blown up.

to smithereens.

In slo-mo.

yelling "Noooooooooooo...oooooo....oooooo!".

Yeah.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

That'd be so cool.

[later-tuesday.livejournal.com]

Die saving someone-shove them out of the way of a speeding car or something. Ideally the death itself would be relatively painless and fast-and I'd be remembered fondly by someone.

With my luck they were trying to kill themselves and the next hour or so of their life is spent cursing me for stopping them the first time.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

A hero's death. I approve.

But perhaps they'd be thankful and realize that they didn't actually want to die.

[eilan.livejournal.com]

Holy new comment box!

You want to die in the most interesting way.
I shall have to ponder this.
I feel like it should be in a car though, then I'll have a Honda coffin as well as earlofcardigans.

I will never leave LJ. Never.
Also. I'll follow you everywhere. *is a crazy stalker*

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I'm quite enjoying the new comment box.

So. Have you have time to ponder? And if you're in a car are you alone or are you taking Cory with you?

You wouldn't be following me everywhere. I'd be dragging you along by the hand.

[eilan.livejournal.com]

I want to say alone, cause I don't want him to die too, but I don't think he'd do well if I left him alive, so probably together. It would be fitting for us.

*holds tightly to your hand*

[evilshelly.livejournal.com]

...I have a bit of a temper. Oh, I control my natural instincts to choke a motherfucker, but only because I don't want to go to jail. Not because folks don't need to get choked and the desire to do so has lessened since my youth; it has not lessened at all. So! Death: Some asshole is going to piss me off. Some rude motherfucker that has no business treating people the way they do, especially not *me*, and I'm just going to explode with rage. RAGE, Michelle! And I will attack. They will be on the ground, ineffectually clawing at my hands around their throats--and before the police come, (bystanders will not help, because: asshole), I will stroke out.
:)

and oh my god, I watch a lot of TV that I consider work. When I saw the Terra Nova final was TWO HOURS? I almost cried! That was *hard*. But I did it. Every. Last. Episode. I did it.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

As long as you finish them off before you go? That'll be all right.

Hahah. I only half assed watched all of Terra Nova. I'm really not sure if I want it to come back or not. I'll miss Hot!Dad but...

[and-the-damned.livejournal.com]

I think you should be payed to watch TV and I would like to die from a prescription drug overdose at like..........90

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of us would make a pretty penny if we were paid to watch tv.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I would like to be killed by a huge weather event (as long as I wasn't doing something stupid like filming a tornado or trying to drive my car across running water) because that way I'd be done by someone I respect.

OR to go the irony route, which I also respect, I would have let myself go healthwise, and then I'd finally decide to get in shape, buy a new pair of running shoes, and then the first time out running, I would trip over the shoes right into the path of a speeding ambulance.

The second one is less preferable, I guess, because it would cause trauma to the ambulance drivers and could prevent someone in trouble from getting to the hospital. Scratch the ambulance, make that I trip over my shoes right under a sign that says "HOSPITAL THIS WAY" and at that moment the sign falls on my head. \o/

Not that I've ever thought about this before. *cough*

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Hahahah. Yeah, I can tell by how well thought out this is, that you've not given this a lot of thought.