A tough morbid question...

[Snape]

@Ed Case

Presumably, drowning works in the same way. Once you actually stop struggling to hold your breath in, and just start breathing in water, it probably becomes quite peaceful.

I knew I had read something, somewhere (vague, I know) about the possible difference between drowning in salt water, and drowning in fresh water. Found it in Wikipedia:

@Wikipedia

Freshwater contains less salt than blood, and will therefore be absorbed by the blood stream due to osmosis. In animal experiments, this changed the blood chemistry and lead to cardiac arrest in 2-3 minutes. Salt water is much saltier than blood, and due to osmosis, water will leave the blood stream and enter the lungs. In animal experiments, the thicker blood requires more work from the heart, leading to cardiac arrest in 8 to 10 minutes.

I suppose this could lead to a difference in experience depending on the salt content, but either way you’re… up the creek without a paddle.

[Petter]

I may be wrong but …
Shouldn`t this be in the cloud ?

And that with sex vs. hearing …

I would choose to keep my hearing sence .
After all …

[dreamland]

i think the sensation of being burned alive would be something to try but its not my time.

[skeedlz]

five years and die drowning cause i would be able to do things and then accept when i have done and sai all i need to. withn a years time i would complete nothing that i truly need to.

[Sunwolf]

@Ed Case

Okay, here’s another similar question.

Which would you rather have happen to you, go deaf or lose all sensation in your sexual organs?

[b]That’s easy: go deaf.

Now I have to go meet Palmala. [/b]

[Sunwolf]

@dreamland?

i think the sensation of being burned alive would be something to try but its not my time.

I relived a past life experience as Dora, a healer who was burned at the stake in 1555 in Spain. Being burned alive is something one wouldn’t want to experience more than once. I definitely didn’t stay in my body to be one with that experience.

[Painocus]

@BlackAngel

@Chilla

Better yet, I’ll take the five years, then shoot myself on the last day, before you can get me with your god foresaken fire.

This reminds me of a story my mother once told.

The man who knew to many.
There was a man and he could look into the future. But he should never look into his own future. All went well till one day. He was curious and he wanted to look into his own future. So he did and he saw himself in a bed. He couldn’t talk, move or see, but he still lived. His wive and childeren were there and the only thing he could was hearing. He thought I better be dead than that. So he he shot himself in his head. And then he ended up in a bed, he was still alive and he couldn’t talk, move or see, he only could hear.

But back to the question. I better have 1 year and die peacefully instead of 5 years and die painfully. For me it’s not a hard choise actually…

The clue is too blow youre intire brain out
(First time I ever used that smily)

[Fiver]

I’d say one year, die in my sleep. Fire is way to intense. For the sexual organs/hearing, it would be losing feeling in the sexual organs. After accepting it, I suppose you could really clear your mind and be able not to be swayed by frivoulous sexual reasons when making certain decisions.

If that made sense, I’ll be astounded.

[quiXote]

i would choose for death to come for me in a years time.
i am so set in my view of the afterlife it is something i greatly look forward too, and am ready and very eager for death to take me away from this place to what awaits. (i do not have a death wish, i am just ready to die)
and as for the other question - who cares, i’ll be dead in a year anyways ;o)

[Anamcara]

One year definitely! I hate the feeling of suffocation and being burned. Scares me more than dying actually. Sex and deaf thing. I have trouble hearing as it is and I like quiet but wouldn’t want to do with out orgasms so the answers easy for me.
PS just saw SAW on DVD. The beginning and end were brilliant! Can’t wait to see SAW 2 hopefully this week sometime. Brings up a whole bunch of what would you do questions!

[Toledo]

I would choose the one year, I’m actually not afraid of death, but pain scares the crap out of me.

And I would probably go deaf

[MagicMind]

Ah, I can’t decide. Drowning doesn’t sound too bad of a way to die. Hmm, I might go with one year, because I’m actually looking forward to death. It sounds interesting.

[Dark00stirfry]

i’d go in one year and this question is hardly morbid

[Sunwolf]

I don’t know. It seems to be focusing on dying instead of living. This must be a cultural thing, in our reductionist scientific/military/political reality tunnel of present day society. I really don’t think I’d choose any of these ways to die. I’d rather talk about what we do to live, and raise the energy and expectations around the creative possibilities in life.

[Bruno]

One year. I would make it the best year of my life. Should I have five years in my hands, I would tend keep a normal life.

I like grand finales.

[Sunwolf]

@Bruno Ansarah

One year. I would make it the best year of my life. Should I have five years in my hands, I would tend keep a normal life.

I like grand finales.

[b]Well actually in 2007 we will only have 5 years left anyway. So maybe this is unconsciously a great preparation question for the great purification to come.

lyricsdomain.com/4/david_bow … years.html[/b]

David Bowie’s lyrics to Five Years

[i][color=darkblue]Pushing thru the market
square
so many mothers sighing
News had just come over,
we had five years left to cry in

News guy wept and told us
earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse
it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I’d need so many people

A girl my age went off her head
hit some tiny children
If the black hadn’t a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheel of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
don’t think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walk

We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
We’ve got five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We’ve got five years, that’s all we’ve got

[/color][/i]

[Lucidity_Master]

I’d take the five years because I pretty much enjoy life and don’t want to die soon. The extra 4 years more than outweighs the suffering of being burned to death.