That disease scared the crap out of me. Both sides of my family had deaths from it, and there is a generic component. I don't want to doe that way.

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Jim
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I really think it depends on your fears. Death is painful for the most part. I would hate to burn to death, and drowning scares the hell or of me, and I am a good swimmer. Couldn't sleep for weeks after seeing Das Boot. Burning to death in a submarine, ugh.

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Jim
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I bet you could also throw a football clear over them mountains.

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Long Chile was a silly place.

Hold on there, dead probably but not by the way we think.

Yeah, I'd have to say that would be the worst. Some sort of awful progressive disease where you know what's coming, it hurts or at least greatly disables and it takes a long time (terminal cancer, Huntington's disease, ALS, muscular dystrophy, etc.)

A friend of mine from school got CJD (human mad cow disease). That has to be the worst, knowing your brain is going to irreversibly turn to mush and you will be dead within a year, most of which will be a miserable, bedridden experience.

Damn, almost no one gets that. Pretty damn rare.

His growth was a bit stunted when he was younger and so (very sadly in hindsight) he was given injections to stimulate his growth - hormones from the pituitary glands of deceased animals. He received the injections from the age of about 10-14. He got CJD about 10 years later and was dead within 12 months of the diagnosis. Such a shame given he wasn't that small, and one of the motivations for having the injections was that he was teased for being small.

There are also concerns that people receiving HGH could be at risk of CJD many years later. Not worth the risk!

But how likely is it that they can secure a 'head shot'? They'd need to sneak down from a tree; though have read of people sleeping being taken.

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RayGovett
Hughson CA
Be Prepared-- Strike Swiftly -- Who Dares Wins- Without warning-"it will be hard. I can do it"

Yeah agreed.

You have 3 options.

Stay in the building, try to escape and deal with the searing heat knowing that you will burn alive.

Get to the window for fresh air as the smoke is so thick you will die from inhalation.

Jump knowing that you will certainly die, but under your own terms and it will be instantaneous...after a 8-10 second fall.

Of course this goes with everyone that had no idea what would happen and died in the collapse at some point in time.

Every time I look back on 9/11 and see video of those that jumped, see the building collapse, and hear stories of the day I cannot think of a worse way to go that what those people en endured.

In either of these cases, I am pretty sure I would set up for early termination, now when is that point??

Probably the point I can no longer communicate that I don't want you to end it.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Unfortunately, this is a questionable point. What is considered communication? While working in extended care facility, I had couple of patients with Lou Gerigh. Lawyers, doctors and families were challenging the patient's will to die and each other. Is blinking as a response to a verbal question communication? Is squeeze of a hand communication? Can the patient do this all the time? One patient could communicate by tapping Morse code with his finger. Or they can look at the screen and eye movements be tracked by a camera and the patient can put words together. The dispute turned quite nasty and the lawyers profited the most.

A python will strike and bite its prey on any part of the animal's body. They don't specifically aim for the head.

Primarily, the snake is attempting to quickly secure and subdue its prey. For most pythons, a sense of "smell" and heat detection provide the primary stimuli for identifying prey and focusing the strike, with visual cues such as the movement of the prey a more minor stimulus. A python most likely targets its bite at where it perceives the strongest sensory signals, rather than any specific body part of the prey.

Despite the recurved teeth, pythons (and other snakes) are satisfactorily adept at repositioning themselves and their prey to commence swallowing their prey headfirst. They generally do this in one of two ways.

The snake will either simply release its bite (the gape is expansive allowing teeth to disengage) and then "sniff" and nuzzle the prey until it finds the head to commence swallowing. Or the snake may reposition its bite by incrementally and alternately moving its own head/upper jaws and each independently articulated lower jaw bone toward the head of the prey.

Large pythons like Retics and Burmese become less arboreal as they become larger and heavier, so it's most probable that the snake was on the ground (or close to it) and most likely initially grabbed the man's leg or lower body.

(I know, I'm replying to an old post...........but snakes are more interesting than politics.)

So ... what the fuck caused you to drag up a 2+ year old thread about bad ways to die???

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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That’s no way for a man to die. A parachute not opening... that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine... having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go!