How do you want to die?

[wicked_one]

By death.

[Summerlander]

A psychic friend of mine said I would live to a ripe old age and then have a joyous conscious death like the Buddhist monks who meditate their way out and choose not to bring their consciousness back to the body. I love that idea being the control freak that I am.

She also said when I experience an OOBE that it is a very similar feeling people have when they die. In reading "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" that seems to line up with what they believe so by us practicing OOBE while we are alive perhaps we're just getting good training for dealing with the afterlife. (A Tibetan monk once told me that the Buddhist lucid dream practice is what they consider the fastest track to enlightenment - a good book on this is "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep").

I'd recommend The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

[Lexy]

I want to go skydiving.....  "if at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you"

[GodsProxy]

Suicide

Would like to project before though, if I don't stop failing! 

Then use the methods detailed by Derek Humphry in his book Final Exit. Most (99.999999%) botch it cos they don't want to let you out. Nothing like walking around half dead in a living nightmare

[GodsProxy]

I think I would like to be conscious through the process, even if it was painful. I'd like to think I could do it without being scared, but I've never been in that situation before either. Maybe it could even be exciting.

Yeah someone recommended staying as concious as possible during the process, because that way you have the best way of escaping the endless cycle of birth and death.

I want to go fast. Dying is the most excruciatingly painful drawn out process you could ever imagine.

My least favourites:

Beaten to death: If they get it right then thats OK but its a horrible process. If they only half do it, you're in for a rough time.

Shot: I don't think people die like they do in the A-Team.

Hypothermia: I always thought this was a nice way to go, freezing to death, but after having experienced a fair portion of hypothermia, I've changed my mind. This is the worst one.

Starving or dying of thirst: My least least favorite way. Don't try to commit suicide this way either

My favorite way:

Nice and peaceful, go to sleep with a powerful sedative. Like you're going in for an operation.

Here's a nice cheery thought for all of you: What happens if when you die, everyone perceives you as dead, but you're still alive, but stuck in the body ?  GRRRRRRR yuck

[sgalover89142]

I want to go peacefully like my grandfather, in my sleep, not like the passengers screaming in his car....

[GodsProxy]

I want to go peacefully like my grandfather, in my sleep, not like the passengers screaming in his car....

I'll second that.

[tickleberries]

I want to go peacefully like my grandfather, in my sleep, not like the passengers screaming in his car....

Oh my gosh! LOL.

[ange.connell]

Having great, intense sex with someone who feels the same way. What a great way to leave this mortal coil.

Take care

[Lizelle]

In the apocalypse of course.  What better way to die than going down in flames with everyone else.  It would be quite the bonding experience.

I like that idea too - although it's a bit selfish that just because I want company, everyone else has to die too. 
Plus you'd have to deal with the large segment of the population that is running around in sheer panic, insisting on praying out loud, etc. Not the way I want to spend my last hours. So, it would have to be with a group of cool people.

Our entries in the karma book would read
"DIED IN THE APOCALYPSE WITH 6,999,999,999 OTHERS"

And in the afterlife I'd bump into another soul and say "Hi, I'm Lizelle, I died in the apocalypse" and he/she would reply "Oh really? Me too!"

[Xanth]

And in the afterlife I'd bump into another soul and say "Hi, I'm Lizelle, I died in the apocalypse" and he/she would reply "Oh really? Me too!"

We call that an "ice breaker".    LoL

[Lizelle]

well im going to say doing something i love..or someone i love hahah.. or falling out of a plane without a shoot.. i would have time to think and close my eyes and just enjoy the ride down...

You might even have time to induce the trance state. Think about it!
And if you do separate while falling to earth, does your astral body plunge alongside the real one? 
Remain in the air? 

I can just see an OBE-er watching his/her body fall away toward the ground, waving goodbye with his/her astral hand, maybe thinking "I can't watch this."

[Lizelle]

A psychic friend of mine said I would live to a ripe old age and then have a joyous conscious death like the Buddhist monks who meditate their way out and choose not to bring their consciousness back to the body.

Intriguing! Maybe something similar to that happens when old people die in their sleep? They might have a spontaneous lucid dream / projection, and maybe they get invited to heaven or something, and accept the inviation, thus leaving their bodies long enough for a physical shutdown. Very interesting indeed...

Well, here's my own 2-cents worth: Cutting off the blood supply to the brain is the fastest way to die painlessly, if that's your goal. Last month I was assaulted to the point of passing out, and I don't remember much physical discomfort at all. (mental, of course, but even that wasn't so bad)
The brain is so highly dependent on oxygen, that when the supply goes away you have generally no more than 10 seconds of "useful consciousness." This is one reason why fighter pilots in training are subjected to multiple G-forces, getting close to the blackout stage over and over, until they get used to it.
There are also stages of unconsciousness - before losing it I remember a sort of "insulated" feeling, only vaguely aware of anything. No sight or touch sensation, although I could hear the radio playing, go figure!
So how can people experience an NDE? My theory is when (due to lack of oxygen) the brain switches off the senses and motor control completely, an inner consciousness takes over. I didn't get that close (my attacker pulled away), but enough to conclude that asphyxiation/strangling & maybe drowning is not as bad as it sounds.

Cheery thoughts! Have a nice day everyone! 

[Szaxx]

Hi All,
I often wonder what you would ask an NDE'r.
Death is a piece of cake. Your nightmares are worse. Staying in your body and totally unable to move..... That's really nasty. 
Maybe having something go wrong with it, leaving you in massive pain. When things start to go scintillating to black your body stops responding to your  movements then you flop down and the pain stops, totally. You know this place, peaceful and tranquil. But then......
A good way... perhaps, but the bedroom one is much preferred. Lol

[Lexy]

I know someone who is very scared to die & thinks he will be trapped in his body inside the coffin.... 
waiting for judgement day...   

[tickleberries]

I know someone who is very scared to die & thinks he will be trapped in his body inside the coffin.... 
waiting for judgement day...   

Wow, that must be an awful fear. He's probably afraid to sleep at night.

[astralnaut]

i want to fall to my death, suffocate, drown, or be crushed by g-forces on a centrifuge!

[astralnaut1]

well i wish to die with smile and without pain 

the worst scenario would be if someone poured mix of sand and salt to my eyes while my arms and legs would be tied up, than that someone would open my stomach and strangle me with my own hose. Of course it will be very painful 

[Din]

The way I'd want to die would probably be a death with which there wouldn't be much pain.  (Yeah... I have a particularly low pain tolerance.)  I would also not want anyone else to be hurt by my death, and for them to know that I'll be alright.

The way I wouldn't want to die?  Getting eaten alive wouldn't be too fun of an experience, I would think.

[AndrewTheSinger]

This couldn't happen, it's too fancy, but I imagine receiving a phone call and someone saying:
- Dude, the troops are looking for you, they're here in the square with a guillotine for a public execution.

Then I say:
- Tell them I'll be there in 5 minutes.

[Summerlander]

I don't care how I die. I want oblivion. To be or not to be? Not to be! I want to be dead. Killed dead. Me no more. Oblivion...gone. I don't care if it's painful at first because what follows is a release from everything and no memory will be retained hopefully. I just want out of existence. I want unconsciousness. I want to be absent from life. I hope death sets me free, damn it! Set me free! Get me out of here. Erase me....why should me be? I want nothingness. I don't want to even know I'm dead. I don't want to feel or experience anything. If I'm NOT...then I'll be in the best position even...well, there will be no "I". No suffering, no temptations, no attachments, no questions, no multiple answers, no uncertainty...no nothing. I will surely be DEAD. Dead to the world, baby!

But...if I see this or any hint of an afterlife...



I will scream and pull my metaphysical hair out!

[Lexy]

Go into the light summer!

[Lizelle]

I'm with Summerland to some extent. Part of me wants to be good & DEAD when it's all over! Finally, some rest!

But since I don't know, I've accepted that there may, or may not, be an "afterlife" and that it's not worth stressing over because it's likely out of my control.

There is a possibility, I suppose, that the dead soul gets a choice: call it quits entirely or continue as an eternal soul. Who the hell knows??

This thread could go on for a long time, if we start including, how, where, when, and who. 

[Summerlander]

Whatever comes, I suppose.  I guess we just have to accept it.  More and more it seems like there is no real death though.  I think, at least the way I see it, that it is weighing more towards the afterlife scenario.