Ways I Might Die

Death is Not Something I Want to Happen to Me

Renji Shino
This is a long list, so stay focused, and think positive. Remember, this life is the only one you have to live right now, and staying on the way of life is the thing to do. I want to live long, and share prosperity with people, or at least get through this live, survive this world, and whatever business I need to take care of while I am here, and hopefully, you want to live a long time and be prosperous, also.

Ways That Death Might Happen to MeThat I Would Like to Avoid


1) Natural Causes

2) Exposure to the Elements

3) Over-heating

4) Freezing

5) Dehydration

6) Starvation

7) Sickness

8) Injury

9) Neurological Damage

10) Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

11) Suffocation

12) Malfunctioning Internal Organs

13) Man-made diseases

14) Poisoning

15) Euthanasia

16) Suicide

17) Automobile Accident

18) Being shot

19) Being stabbed

20) Being submersed in water for too much time, or drowning

21) Slipping and Falling

22) Exploding

23) Imploding

24) Self-combustion

25) Electrocution

26) Hanging

27) Animal Attack

28) Being sentenced to death for a crime someone else committed

29) Doing something stupid

30) Saying something extremely stupid

31) Covering for someone pretending to be me who is doing or saying something radically idiotic

32) Being stingy

33) Being too generous

34) Eating or drinking too quickly and choking

35) Bacterial warfare

36) Airborne poisons

37) A car going off the highway, used as a "battering ram".

38) Being a general stripped of his army during a battle.

39) An overdose of ether or other anaesthetic.

40) Combination chemical overdose

41) Being transmitted via radio frequency too many times per day and scrambling cellular structure.

42) Contacting rabies from a rabid animal without being treated for it.

43) Forgetting to have all my vaccinations up to date.

44) Eating something that I am allergic to.

45) Being unable to escape a burning building.

46) Suffocating when the air filter malfunctions.

47) Receiving a chemical or fire-related burn.

48) Being scalded to death from hot water from an exploding hot water heater.

49) Pointing a toy at yourself and pulling the trigger, when it is some new kind of weapon.

50) Not being careful enough at the gas pump

51) Bleeding to death, due to a lack of blood

52) Drowning in one's own blood

53) Being poisoned by the wrong blood type

54) Receiving a rare and fatal illness from a blood transfusion not screened by doctors

55) Receiving a fatal injection

56) Being crucified

57) Train crash or other mass transit collision

58) Extreme concussion or other head injury

59) Failure to exercise caution in the use of stunt doubles

60) Walking on hot coals without proper training

61) Skin-applied fatal disease or toxic material

62) Ingesting part A and part B of an explosive

63) Being within range of a car bomb and not ducking if outside the car

64) Failing to test the car with a remote control for car bombs

65) Forgetting to park the car in the cage or the private berm

66) Overtly accusing someone of something without proof outside of the code of order

67) Forgetting to scream for help loud enough to deafen and hurt an assailant and the equipment if talented

68) Forgetting to practise psychokinetic skills if talented

69) Forgetting to check your vehicle for all fluids

70) Forgetting to debug your home and office wearing protective gear in case of remote micro-weapons

71) Crossing a railroad track while a train is going by

72) Accepting candy or liquor from strangers

73) Failing to be alert to your surroundings as a pedestrian

74) Failing to exercise caution in urban areas regarding tourist procedures

75) Doing age inappropriate or gender inappropriate things in public

76) Failing to breathe properly

77) Accidentally squirting yourself with liquid oxygen

78) Listening to a broadcast to the extent that one ignores their visual or audio surroundings

79) Being rendered completely immobile by something during a minute when motion is necessary

80) Being unable to escape a massive wildfire, especially during a drought

81) Not being able to GPS out of a direct nuclear attack instantly

82) Being hit by objects repeatedly during a tornado or a micro-tornado

83) Physical battering or barratry

84) Dying in an underequipped emergency vehicle while stuck in traffic

85) Barrage of killer bees

86) Sonic bombardment (something on the order or 140 decibels or greater)

87) Light show designed by experts to cause epilepsy or heart attack

88) Gravity testing machine that goes amuck and exceeds survivable gravity limits

89) Being careless during zero gravity, then experiencing normal gravity

90) Being trapped under objects for days after an earthquake or other major disaster

91) Emergency food supplies failing to reach your village due to transportation lines being destroyed

92) Not knowing where to find or how to get food or clothing or hygeine or find shelter in an emergency situation

93) Not being prepared for a hurricane, earthquake, blizzard, or other major disaster

94) Being trapped in a remote area during a blizzard without snow clothes or emergency fuel (food, drink)

95) Over-exposure to radiation or immersion in toxic chemicals

96) Being accidentally cremated while still alive

97) Getting stilleto heel or slipshod steel boot tip caught in a sidewalk crack or road crack in danger zone

98) Camping out inside of a nuclear power plant or other radioactive area for too long

99) Ingesting food grown at the Love Canal Gardens or other toxic landfill

100) Being unable to receive emergency medical care due to no medical supplies or personnel in a remote area

If I don't die in the traditional way, and merely rejuvenate or transform myself into something inhuman, then I will live longer than one hundred years. Then, I will have successfully hatched myself into something more than a butterfly that goes by in the flick of an eye.

101) Being hit by falling objects

102) Accidental strangulation

103) Being unable to sleep for weeks

104) The fatal worms discussed in papers at the World Health Organization website

105) Various mutant forms of meningitis

106) That mutant micro-spider thing that seems to be going around

107) Diseases due to ingestion of bad food or drink

108) Exposure to areas infested with mice or rats suffering from diseases transmittable to humans

109) Being tied on top of growing bamboo

110) Having all of your skin removed

111) Being smothered at the bottom of a "mosh pile" at a crowded party event

112) Being stampeded to death

The source for the inspiration for this is something that I hope will not happen. However, I have been made aware of the fact that there are already threats against our President, Barrack Obama, while listening to people talking, and watching the trepidation of people on Inauguration Day.

We're probably lucky that Senator Ted Kennedy is still around today. Living is good, life is good - we are lucky to be here in this nation that is so full of natural resources, with fresh air and fresh water, which is, for the most part, still free of charge. The environment is beautiful, people here throughout the United States of America are beautiful, and life is worth living here, grab and take every day that you can, experience every moment of your life.

People don't live a thousand years, however, there are a thousand or more ways of dying. This list is not comprehensive, and I do not plan on dying all one thousand of these ways. As a coward, I should probably die ten thousand ways, however, I'm having trouble thinking of all of these variations of dying on the fly, I'm too busy trying to live today the best that I am able to live it.

Here's to surviving to tomorrow!

Published by Renji Shino

Independent software designer, graphic artist, stock photographer; affiliated with PBS and IGT.  View profile

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