Best and most painless way to die?

[hattster]

People say that drowning has to be the best way to go, but i'm not too sure how people know this, i don't suppose that there is any "nice" way to go, but if there was what would it be? i mean drowning would take a while before you died....that can't be good

[CiderMonkey]

wouldn't the nicest way to go be to die natually in your sleep?

[rosie posie]

why ask that question any way . i hope your not looking for any tips hattster.

[twinkle2]

burning alive has got to be the worst one i think!  not sure there are any good ways!!!!

[luckystrike]

In terms of feeling no pain or fear, getting randomly blown up or shot in the brain must kill you instantly.

Not good, but very quick.

Personally - of I was made to choose - I'd go for dying 'peacefully' in my sleep.

[Chapel]

I'd like to die like The Who's bassist John Entwistle.

 

Yes yes.

[MargeB]

"I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

I've been in near death situations a couple of times with some badboy sports, and to be honest it would be the only way I'd want to go. Taken out by a wave or something...I wouldn't really mind that way. At least I was trying to grab life by the ba**s!

[georgit79]

I too was about 3 millimetres away from death a couple of years ago in a skiing 'mishap', and I remember that whilst it was the scariest moment of my life, it was also the most exhilarating. It was such a rush!

[Loosehead]

Well this give part of the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation

This guy decided to commit suicide but wanted to know nothing about it, he constructed a guillotine in his bedroom connected to a timer. On the night he took a load of sleeping pills and laid under it then he would have slept until the time expired and bingo. Very creative and completely painless!

[MargeB]

whoa, whoa, too much suicide talk for me guys. In the light of 'suicide pact' websites not sure if its something I want to talk about. Anyone thinking of it? Don't. And try:

www.samaritans.org.uk/ 

A very nice bunch of people.

[fideldyfee]

Apparently dying "peacefully" in your sleep isnt as peaceful as you might think. I read an article about it once and it said you actually stop breathing and suffocate, most likely waking up in the process. Not very nice. Also, dont kill yourself, you are punishing others not yourself. x

[MargeB]

and i'm not even gonna talk about the woman that jumped into a train the other day with her two kids. that freaked me out beyond belief. the worst thing was reading the comments by the father. For a moment I felt his grief. Sad, sorry state of affairs.

[stoo_pid]

In the words of the late, great Bob Monkhouse, I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers

[jake-the-peg]

Being at ground zero at Hiroshima or Nagasaki has got to have been the quickest and easiest.

Ironically being a couple of miles away has got to have been one of the most horrific 

[georgit79]

a woman jumped into a train with her two children? Selfish, crazy biatch.

[twiglet4frog]

take the london tube train with a backpack saying BOMB! i mean a bullet to the head made short work of that poor brazilian and just in case it didnt for a millisecond u can have 6 more for the privelidge! Might make a mess but it is certainly quick and i would think the pain was very minimal if they know what they are doing!

[hattster]

I've no intentions of "topping" myself i love life too much, i'm just interested in how people know if a certain way to go would be less painless than other ways. I suppose the best way would be in your sleep, a friend of mine suffered a massive heart attack whilst in the gym, i was talking to him, i turned around to get my water bottle, turned back around and he was dead!! thats the way i'd like to go. The doctor said that he wouldn't have felt a thing. The guy with the guillotine and sleeping pils made me chuckle, just think if he'd set his alarm clock wrong!! talk about panic LOL

[maggie01]

not something I like to think about. Whetever made you think of it. I hope you are not suffering some sort of depression, or is it just curiosity. I hope thats all it is

[helliebobs]

Georgit79, your comment about the woman who recently jumped in front of a train with her children was insensitive and offensive - who are you to judge her?

[crazyazhail]

i personally think that a couple handfuls of different medications (they have to be different so the mixtures of the different ingredients can intermingle and be very poisenous) and a couple of sleeping pills to knock you out will be good. that way when the toxins in your body are killing you, your fast asleep not feeling a thing