My job entails me to be around death and dying people quite a bit. I can tell you from what I've seen the ways I do NOT want to go are as follows.
1. Drowning
2. Burning
3. Stroke/CVA, I've seen it in peoples eyes how painful it is and they are completely helpless and unable to move for the more severe ones.
hmmm...i'm not sure why, but drowning has never bothered me. i grew up on a lake and i was a swimmer in high school, and i've almost gulped water so many times. i've looked into it, and you lose consciousness before you drown anyway. i dunno, that would be on my top list of ways to die.
but my top ways NOT to die: definitely stabbing or by fire. those seem the worst to me.
This is a rather morbid subject, but I have thought about i some as i grow older and people around me have started to die...
#1 - In a hospital bed hooked up to life support.
#2 - In a nursing home.
#3 - Working.
My top three ways to go:
#1 - Smashed Flat (An 80-year-old man died when the tractor fell off his 60-year-old tractor in my town a few years ago. To me, you can't ask for anything more.)
#2 - In a Fiery Blast (as in airplane/automobile/spaceship crash)
#3 - Kicking and Screaming (whether fighting off some sort of wild animal or falling off a cliff)
It is kind of funny that as I read this thread some of the responses for worst way to go are actually some of the ways I would most like to go and vice-versa. To each their own, as they say. When you're gone it is those you leave behind that suffer. If they can say "He died doing what he wanted to do" than it might not seem quite so bad...
one time in highschool, i accidently swallowed a jawbreaker and it got stuck and was constricting my breathing. as class ended i tried to swallow it and then i couldnt' breath at all for a few seconds. then i paniced and got scared.
then i guess my body just reacted and the jaw breaker shot out of my mouth from a cough
that's one way i wouldnt' wanna go either. by choking