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#148245 - 09/10/08 03:09 PM How Will You Prefer To Check Out???
wildman800 Offline
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Registered: 11/09/06
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Just read a post on the Survival Forum stating an opinion on how someone would or would not want to check out of this life. That got me to thinking......I know it's dangerous,,,,,

How have I expected to check out? by gunshot before 30.

How do I want to check out? In bed while sleeping.

How do I NOT want to check out? By an accident, especially a stupid accident.

What are y'all's expectations or desires on this rather morbid subject.

By the way, I don't like Undertakers and I want to be cremated so I can keep them from getting a chunk of what I have worked my life away for!
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#148247 - 09/10/08 03:16 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: wildman800]
Blast Offline
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Not sure, but I hope it happens after I turn 110 and cheerleaders are involved. laugh

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#148248 - 09/10/08 03:18 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: Blast]
DesertFox Offline
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Registered: 01/04/07
Posts: 339
Loc: New York, NY
Quick and painless. But not soon.

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#148250 - 09/10/08 03:26 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: wildman800]
OldBaldGuy Offline
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In my sleep would be just fine. What I do not want to do is cause a lot of people to put themselves in jeopardy searching for my body.

Once I am gone, cremate me. We have plans for my wife/widow to scatter a little bit of me in every state she travels thru...
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#148251 - 09/10/08 03:26 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: wildman800]
CityBoyGoneCountry Offline
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Registered: 11/04/07
Posts: 369
How have I expected to check out? Heart attack.

How do I want to check out? I don't want to check out.

How do I NOT want to check out? Drowning or burning.

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#148253 - 09/10/08 03:28 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: CityBoyGoneCountry]
CityBoyGoneCountry Offline
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When I'm dead, just throw my body on the compost heap. That way I can give back at least a little something to the planet I have taken so much from.

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#148257 - 09/10/08 03:33 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: wildman800]
rescueguru Offline
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Registered: 09/02/06
Posts: 119
Loc: Southeastern USA
Given the oppurtunity to choose, I think I'd like to live forever providing I am in reasonable health, able to ambulate, and most importantly in my right mind or at least like I am now. However, since this isn't possible yet:

How I expected to check out: Shot, stabbed, or blown up during a tactical operation. Thankfully hasn't happened YET.

How I would Like to check out: Sleeping in a hammock on a Caribbean island near the beach.

How I DO NOT want to check out: I DON'T WANT TO BURN. I've spent all my adult life fighting the Red Devil and I don't want him to win in the end.

Problem is, WE don't get to choose except in one instance and I'll assure ya I'm not gonna hurt myself.

Two evident truths that remain constant, (1) If I'm found dead and it looks like suicide, someone has cleaverly disguised a murder mad, and (2), check my wallet because the winning lottery is there grin
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#148260 - 09/10/08 03:55 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: rescueguru]
Angel Offline
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Registered: 06/17/06
Posts: 192
I don't look at death as the end so I don't fear it. I hope I go on an adventure and am never found. I don't want searchers looking for me or risking their lives in any way trying to find me. I'd prefer it if nobody was around or even knew it.

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#148262 - 09/10/08 04:16 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: CityBoyGoneCountry]
Nishnabotna Offline
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Registered: 12/31/07
Posts: 512
Loc: Nebraska
Originally Posted By: CityBoyGoneCountry
How have I expected to check out? Heart attack.

How do I want to check out? I don't want to check out.

How do I NOT want to check out? Drowning or burning.


+1

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#148266 - 09/10/08 04:28 PM Re: How Will You Prefer To Check Out??? [Re: Nishnabotna]
benjammin Offline
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How do I want to check out? When they fire up the atom smasher at the LHC in Switzerland/France and create an artificial black hole that sucks the whole planet in, that'd be a one timer worth experiencing I reckon.

How I do not want to check out? Like the friend who stroked out in the hospital over a two and a half week period. Even the nurses and doctors couldn't take watching him go through it. I shoulda put a pillow over his face, but I was too young and stupid then.

Alternatively my cousin woke up with a headache and half an hour later he was gone. Aneurism.
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