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
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