How do you HOPE you will die?

"In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty."

Obviously the ideal is to die under suspicious circumstances in a large house with many rooms and secret passages, a variety of potential murder weapons, and several mutually distrustful colorful characters.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my uncle, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Not likely though.

Had a heart attack recently... while waiting for surgery, asleep, they tell me my heart stopped for eight seconds.

No clue. Woke up in the morning like usual, browsing my phone when they come in and tell me.

Hopefully just like that.

Soon

Death by snu snu

I should die due to my own negligence, playing fast and loose with custom firmware for my cyber heart at the age of 300.

Casualty of the heat death of the universe

Peacefully in my sleep, like the guy in the joke, and not like the passengers of his car.

in one-on-one combat with a God while stealing something forbidden for humanity.. if that's still a thing..

Not at my own hand

I'll never forget asking my father this question as a kid, and he answered without hesitation, "A bullet to the head." Fast-forward a few decades and that's how he went out by the firearm he carried to protect his family, causing more harm than any mugger or assailant could have caused if he was unarmed. Take care of yourself fellow lemms and dont dwell on death, focus on living a life you dont want to leave behind and keep pushing your Boulder up the hill regardless of how many times it rolls back down.

With the heat death of the universe in some full dive vr utopia.

At age 92.

From a gunshot wound.

Fired by an outraged husband.

In my sleep in 90 years.

Just like my grandfather, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like his passengers

in my sleep

At an old age peacefully after having a satisfying life

Preferably before neurological decline sets in as I'd prefer to not go like I've seen so many others go; forgetting the faces of their loved ones

I'd also hope that I will have left happy memories with those that would remember me after I've passed. Stories they'd love to tell people. Stories their grandkids would love to hear.

As peacefully and painlessly as possible. Preferably as little inconvenience to others as well. I hope to have all my affairs well in order and they better not pay money to put me in a box in the ground. I've told every family member I can. Donate what you can to others if possible and donate the rest to science for some med students to get practice.

Fast and painless.

In my sleep when I'm old.

Heroically and instantly

Battling aliens on a different planet. Is that too much to ask for?

Suicide before Alzheimers, on my own terms 🫡

Slowly over the course of months hooked up to every device to keep me "alive" in the ICU because my shitty relatives can't let me go otherwise they won't get to steal my social security checks every month. /s

Or peacefully while watching the sunrise over a beautiful snow capped mountain rage.

The gforces I aquire after miscalculating my trajectory while testing my space engine and gaining too much momentum on my slingshot off of Jupiter.

My personal immortality testing is still in human trial but it's shown promising results so far!

Burning up during extravehicular re-entry

As part of a destructive process of digitization.

Quickly. No need to drag it out for months or years.

False vacuum decay.

No pain or suffering, no worry about it coming, just instantaneous non-existence at literally the speed of light.

The big problem is it would be all of humanity (and everything else) and not just myself.
So not actually something I hope happens, just that if I have to die...

Similar would be being at the center of a large explosion or implosion - I understand that the passengers on that one submarine likely didn't have time to experience anything.

Just any painless method.

Originally, my favorite was inert gas asphyxiation. Based on previously found info, it seemed like the best option, just falling asleep and dying. Of course I was aware of the main risk: running out of the inert gas and again getting oxygen. That could result in permanent severe brain damage.
However I later found even worse stuff. Veterinarians apparently stopped using this method as the animals were showing severe signs of distress, meaning that it perhaps wouldn't be as painless.
Finally, there was a nitrogen hypoxia execution in Alabama recently:

Smith appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. For at least two minutes, he appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney, sometimes pulling against the restraints. That was followed by several minutes of heavy breathing, until breathing was no longer perceptible.

Source: AP News

Thus I finally ruled this out.

In debt, in love and a bit drunk.

I don't know whos that is, but it's the best. But more in line with the question : I want to see it come. That is my wish.

Ideally, gently and without fear but aware. Second choice, while asleep and dreaming, just step into death. I don't want to lose my mind while alive and don't want a jarring death.

Don't guess we get to choose, though. Or if we do choose it's never so gentle and fearless.

Oh I forgot to mention, if we can have literally any death and not just any possible death, I want to disincorporate exactly like Odin does in Thor Ragnarok.

I want to be killed by beautiful woman. I would like to die in her arms.

As the Vandals said, "If we all go at once we don't have to say goodbye."

I hope I won't! I know it's unrealistic, but this is my hope.

Soon.

Peacefully, with all my mental faculties at the ripe old age of 1,834.

Instant death aneurysm or quick heart attack.

When I’m good and fucking ready.

Cardiac arrest in my sleep somewhere between 60 and 70.

I'm taken out by truck-kun so I can reincarnate

I want to live a long and happy life, accomplish as much as I could expect to and love generously...

...and then that one scene from Final Destination 2 with the falling pane of glass.

Completely unaware of my impending fate, in some way that my cats will have uninterrupted care.

In a way that destroys my brain instantly.

I literally don't care about anything else I just don't want to feel any pain.

Quietly, peacefully, and when I'm ready. All my experience of death has been unpleasant and traumatic, and I'd really like mine to just be ok. I know it's a lot to hope for though.

200+mph

Rogue planet colliding with Earth.

At the same time as my wife after my daughter has established herself and no longer needs us. I don't want to be here, but they need me right now. As soon as they don't, I'm out.

Fast.

My father spent his last years in a hospital, gradually getting weaker and weaker. After two years he decided enough was enough and refused food, water or medicine. He had so little fat on his body at that point that it only took three days to starve himself into a coma and then death. I helped the funeral director move his body out to her van. He'd been in a foetal position so long we couldn't unbend him to lie flat on the trolley.

Actually, I'd like to amend that. Fast and in bed with a pair of 19-year old twins.

Fulfilled. I literally do not care about how violent or painful my death would be, I just want to feel like I contributed to our society, that my life had a purpose.

Last night would have been great, had the best ending possible.

Like, as long as it is quick and riding a high.

With unfinished business, I get to hang around as a ghost for another couple of hundred years.

In all seriousness though, preferable on my own terms. Maybe euthanasia at an old age, where I feel like I've lived enough and just want to move on. I'd celebrate life with my partner (if they're still alive) and our children, wish them the best with everything and then... exit. Though, knowing my partner (and myself), it'd probably be a double euthanasia when we're both ready for it. I couldn't bear to give that kind of farewell to them and I doubt they'd be any different.

In any case, the last thing I want is to be clinging on to life with every last ounce of my strength and have a miserable couple of last years because of it. Especially if it means I'd be a burden to everyone around me in the process.

Instantly somehow. Or in some kind of heroic last stand situation.

Soon

I don't know how, but I hope I die better than I've lived.

Meteorite.

Like, just cruising along and then a meteorite no bigger than a pebble randomly selects me to be their target, obliterating me on the spot. Hopefully in a crowded public place to get the biggest reaction.

That shit would be hilarious.

I have an appointment for a massive coronary in my late 60s, and I'd hate to miss it.

Only when I want to.

I don't really care so long as it doesn't hurt.

At the age of 69 while 69'ing

Live long, die fast

Violently and painfully

Hypothermia, as apparently it's not at all painful, and I wish to avoid pain.

During prayer

I always thought falling from a plane would be interesting. Scary, yes, but you have a few minutes to accept the inevitable. You would also have some hope to McGyver your way out of it, by trying to slow down your fall and land in a deep body of water. People have survived it.

I would probably close my eyes the last few seconds though.

Nonviolently would be nice. And I’d like it to not involve famine, drought, or natural disaster if at all possible. Idk I think I could handle a heart attack in my later decades if that’s good with everyone.

I want my death to be something remarkable that people remember as a really weird event. Nothing violent - just remarkable.

Cocaine heart attack on the dance floor 🕺🏼

In a submarine deep in an ocean trench or near a big blast, worst case nitrogen gas with an opiate and maybe a little bzd twist

While sleeping after an awesome day when I feel like I got what I wanted from life.

Having a romantic partner tie me down to my bed, tape a bag over my head, and snuggle with me

Seeks inflicted gunshot wound.

Peacefully, in my sleep.

But if I die at the hands of the state, I want you all to politicise the fuck out of it. None of this "not the right time" nonsense. It will be exactly the right time and you fuckers better make sure my death counts.

Just a massive heart attack. Just a few seconds of incredible pain then lights out. But I'm probably gonna have a massive stroke (thanks COVID) and be a drooling idiot for another ten years before I die.

Surrounded by the rest of humanity as we watch the last star die.

After my wife.

With peace of mind that my family will be ok.

Peacefully surrounded by family and friends. If that's not an option, then I want to get killed by a falling piano.

By being snapped away by the infinity gauntlet.

Of old age at 169.

Once that I finish my backlog of games, books, comics, mangas, TV shows, anime, movies, places to drive/visit... I can go on.

Not on my sleep.

Awake, minimal pain and reasonable mental acuity intact form my age. I want to experience the transition!

Oblivious.

Peacefully, with all my mental faculties at the ripe old age of 1,834.

Instant death in a car/motorcycle accident in my late 70s early 80s

Sober.

Either a warriors death, defending my family and my death meaning something, saving someone, or at 120 years old of age, while in bed surrounded by family.

This is old:

In my sleep, not shouting and screaming like the passengers in my car.