How do you want to die?
Happy Friday! Let’s talk about this!
We have a relatively new database up on STLtoday that describes the ways people in Missouri and Illinois have died. Here’s an excerpt from the introduction to the database, which you can explore by clicking this link:
More than 150,000 people die each year in Missouri and Illinois. The information comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which compiles mortality data for the U.S. from death certificates in each state. Some deaths occur from multiple causes, but an overarching cause is determined for almost all deaths. More than 36,000 people in Missouri and Illinois died of some form of cancer in 2004. In St. Louis City, Jackson County, Mo., and Cook County, Ill., more people died from homicides than motor vehicle accidents in 2004.
In my home county in 2004, for example, 10,712 people died. Of those, the lion’s share were by what is described as “natural causes.” Ischemic heart disease was the leading single cause with 2,529 deaths.
I intend to live a good long life and then die in my sleep quietly at home; it isn’t going to be a surprise to anyone. Wish me luck with that.
How do you want to go?
Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
Peaceful and in my sleep, not screaming in horror like my passengers.
Happy. Dreams fulfilled. In the arms of someone who loves me. Unless she went first and is waiting for me.
Complete, totally spent, and present.
In grace with the Lord and at peace with all who know me, especially
family.
When I pass on I would like for it to be out in the middle of the sea on a boat, the water blue as the sky, on a warm summer day, with a light breeze, enjoying the tranquility and not having a worry in the the world. That could be kind of scary too, because what if no one finds me? and when they do I’ll be wickedly scary corpse!!
When I’m 105, riding my Harley and shot by a jealous husband?
Considering how awful everything seems to be in this world now, and how horribly people treat one another on a daily basis on this blog alone, I just hope that however I die, it’s soon.
There is no hope left in this world for any of us. The disgustingness of humanity is on display every singe day right here on TOTD.
I want to go out right after awesome sex. Hopefully there will be someone else there experiencing it with me even…
Be careful what you wish for…
Coincidence, it is my dream as well to greet my demise while standing at the helm of sailboat. Sailing into the sunset on a beam reach in a 15 kt breeze–a glass of an outstanding bordeaux in hand–my 43′ boat silently slices through the pulse of the 3′ seas. I had given know thought to the mess the boat would be in after a few weeks until Nikki mentioned it. Oh well, whoever finds the boat can just clean it up themselves if they want the boat.