Poll: Death and All His Friends...

[mattttherman3]

Probably choose where, because then I would never go there BWAHAHAHA! Jks, probably wouldn't choose those.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_wcRxGbqdU coldplay song that goes with the thread title

 

[Korenith]

I'd chose to die once I'd accomplished my dream, to become as good an author as I possibly can. Might take a few centuries but screw it, people do crazy things for their dreams right?

 

[Seamus8]

Gotta go for where. If i chose the moon, there is not that much he can do to get me up there. i would never die if i didn't feel like it. i would die on my own terms

Then I would laugh at you as the moon crashes into earth.

Edit: Ninja'd sorta

 

[JoJo]

I would choose "how", as this could be exploited as to give myself a very satifactory life:

e.g. "Die in old age in my mansion in arms of my ever beautiful and faithful wife, with my loving daughter also by my side, surrounded by my numerous good friends and my piles of money".

 

[the Dept of Science]

Couldn't this just be endlessly exploited?

Like, if I said WHEN, then could I just choose any arbitrarily long time away, like 1000 years?*

Or if I said WHERE and then said Mongolia, I would know that I could do anything death defying and provided that I wasn't in Mongolia, I would know that it wouldn't kill me. I could jump in front of a train in England and survive.

HOW has the most potential to guarantee that something happens. I could say something like "I fuck so many women that there is a national crisis and the government puts a price on my head".

Death is a tricky little bastard. Remember, by choosing one option, the other two are Death's choices to make.

If you jump in front of a train in England, they might need to fly you to a specialist in Mongolia to try and revive you (unsuccessfully)...

See what I'm getting at?

I'm sure I could come up with a place or situation obscure enough that death would just feel silly going through with it.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

How: I'm in the middle of accepting an Academy Award when an insane fan charges the stage and shoots me once in the heart, but only after I'd said something extremely memorable into the microphone.

This ensures that before I die I will have become a successful award-winning actor, and that my last words will be immortalized forever. I'd be like John Lennon, die young in your prime and be remembered forever.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I would choose "how", as this could be exploited as to give myself a very satifactory life:

e.g. "Die in old age in my mansion in arms of my ever beautiful and faithful wife, with my loving daughter also by my side, surrounded by my numerous good friends and my piles of money".

This is what I was looking for! Specific, in-exploitable, and not too far-fetched!

You win a cookie

 

[kikon9]

But what if how when and where you die are inextricably linked? Like if you get run over by the 2:00pm train as it leaves central station?

Just be very specific when your talking to Death. Say you want to die at 5:30 PM on June 6th, 1954, or something like that...

How would deciding to die before you were born work? Does that mean you get a time machine later in life?

 

[kikon9]

I would choose to die from laughing so hard.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

But what if how when and where you die are inextricably linked? Like if you get run over by the 2:00pm train as it leaves central station?

Just be very specific when your talking to Death. Say you want to die at 5:30 PM on June 6th, 1954, or something like that...

How would deciding to die before you were born work? Does that mean you get a time machine later in life?

Thats what I was going for, yeah...

 

[Brain_Cleanser]

I'm thinking how.
I'd pick a highly improbable situation that would be very easy to avoid.
Something like "While snowboarding away from Yetis, is run over by a truck carting the worlds last nuclear bomb to a launch point where it would be safely launched far away from the now peaceful earth."

Peaceful sans yetis, of course.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

How.

I die due to infinite knowledge destroying my brain, instantly after 100,000 years of living. I get to choose how long because the time it takes for knowledge to destroy my brain would be 100,000 years.

For those who want to live forever, I'd say 'One year after the last living thing dies.' creating a paradox.

 

[mb16]

I want "when", because then I could just set a timer and enjoy life without worrying about my health.

And that "when" is 115 years from now.

damn i didnt read this before i voted... Yes i could say i want to die after the orbital lifts are done and the 5th earth fleet has just completed there invasion of the outer rim etc... basically making awesome things happen.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

When...

I will die only when its my turn to take Deaths place...

 

[Alade]

Isn't "When?" the obvious question/answer? I'd probably choose to die around 133,700,042,069 AD.

PS: This is assuming that death is actually a real friend, and not some quasi-satan that wants to trick me into hundred billion years of painful dying.

 

[ajemas]

there's a pretty obvious loophole in this thread, what's to stop us from wishing to die at the end of time itself? thus making us invinsible and, to a certain extent, imortal!

What happens if you choose to die 1000 years in the future, only to be placed in suspended animation and wake up 999 years later in a desolate world populated by nobody, spending one year scrounging for food before eventually dying of starvation? Death is crafty, and has plenty of tricks.

 

[BakaSmurf]

I would die when life itself ceases to exist, since what I want is to observe humanity as it progresses through the ages and into the stars.

Not much point to being around if there's nothing to witness, after all.

 

[GeorgW]

If I choose when, can I say never? Not that I would, there are obvious downsides. But still, loophole?

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I wouldn't choose. If I did I'd be paranoid about it constantly...

 

[Habakkuk]

I'd choose how. Other than that though, I'd make it something vague like it has to include three shot glasses, a pair of rubber gloves, a medievil trebuches and several live geese.