How would you like to die - quickly without warning or slowly over time?

Joanne's favorite answer:
JoJo...you gone crazy in the head...oh yes sign me up for the "dying slowing over time...can I have the especially painful slow death while we are at it?"...ummm...I will take the fast without warning death please.

Joanne's answer:
I'm gonna have to go with my favorite answer on this one - quickly without warning for me, please! I always tell people how much they mean to me and I already do my best to "carpe diem" and all that crap - I don't think I need an impending slow death to motivate me (although the threat of getting hit by a bus can sometimes motivate a person...)

And the other answers!

1. I would rather skip the whole thing , thank you very much.Yup, no death needed here, thank you.

2. doesn't really matter as long as my friends and family know i love them,and that they were my reason for living.

3. Well I wouldn't like to DIE!!! However, I do know what you are asking..I would rather not be a burden to any of my loved ones so I would rather die very very quickly

4. Quickly without notice for sure. There are WAY too many things concerning the after-death preparations that I really wouldn't care to deal with. If I go quickly I won't have to.

5. Oh, Lord, make it quick! I don't want to have that time to dwell on what I haven't done in my life yet or crying the whole time knowing I'll never get to do this or that or see so and so again...And you know how us Tauruses cry! ;)

6. definitely quickly; in some freak accident that i was not expecting and had almost no time to experience the fear, anxiousness or regret commonly associated with knowing that it's all coming to an end. Also,i'd like it to be over fast, to minimize the pain experienced. Hmmm...maybe something like getting hit by a bus...

7. If I can choose, I would choose quickly without warning, but those quick deaths are usually very painful (e.g., accidents). Can I pick one without pain?? By the way we are all dying slowly over time. Yesterday, my left knee died. Tomorrow, my right knee will. And then I need to run 11 miles this weekend for the half-marathon training, and I die a little afterwards.

8. I think I'll pass on dying thank you.

9. It depends on how and how much pain is involved - and how old I am. Assuming that I'm at an age where I am comfortable with the idea of moving on, I would like the time to get my affairs in order and say goodbye to everyone properly. However, if that meant horrible physical pain and/or unbearable depression for an extended period of time, then I'd rather just go down in a flash not knowing what was coming or what hit me. I remember [my step-mother] saying, after she got hit in the back of the head with the boom from the sailboat that it wouldn't be a bad way to die. She had no idea what happened and she didn't feel a thing - just blacked out. All other things being equal, I vote for slipping painlessly away in my sleep at a ripe old age.