What is the best way to die?
As an individual of a species, the most valuable death is undoubtedly a death for the benefit of the species. So I think that the 'best way' to die is to die for one's own country. Life is actually an extremely complicated combination of various chemicals and their reactions - and death is a disturbance of it. All human actions are far from being everlasting except the actions of making the species possible to evolute. 1
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A freak accident. We're all going to die anyway, so why not have a little fun with it? Like a bouncy castle explosion, or being impaled by a falling spear from a statue, or something involving koalas. At least people will have a story to tell after you're gone. Being kicked by a kangaroo would be much more interesting than "died in his sleep". 1
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If I could choose, it would be while I'm resting on the sands of a beach, at 90+ years of age after having a nice pina colada or something of that nature, while knowing my family is alive and safe. Peacefully in my sleep. If I had to die for something, it would be my family. Someone said the best way would be to die for their country, but as noble as that sounds, I would choose to die for my family, not my country. |