Plus, like a post had mentioned, to live your life seeing yourself and all your loved ones suffer because of you must hurt more than knowing your dying.

What scares me are the illnesses that don't kill you right away but are long processes. When it comes to being murdered, or any of the other options you have to deal with dying for a few moments, while with an illness, you have to deal with it every moment.

My mom just passed away two weeks ago. She had diabetes most of her life. Because of the diabetes she had kidney failures and the doctors didn't even know until one had completely failed and the other wasn't far behind. She had a transplant after a few months of dialysis. She also had to have her toes amputated. Before she died it was a progression of her body natually shutting down slowly. What I think hurt her most than any of the rest was that she lived with cerebral deteoration for nearly a year and half. To live your life forgetting everything about the people around you, yourself, and even how to do the basic everyday life things had to have been horrible.

I apologize for rambling. My answer is terminal illness.

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May you rest in peace, Mom, knowing you are forever
 appreciated, loved, missed, and remembered.

The operative question should be, whether one would prefer a quick and painless death, as opposed to a prolonged, and suffering one.

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Why are we here, if we are here at all?

im stronger mentally than physically so cancer would probably be easier for me to deal with, and theres always that chance you can hang on to that you might get better again.

murder: it depends how i was killed, but that would be pretty horrific,

suicide: obviously dreadful because of how youd have to feel in order to do that, but also you get that relief of it being over just before you end it all

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dont wonder why im not smiling, wonder why you are.

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On terms of a frightening death, would be the case of doomsday. Imagine scientists saying we all have 12 days : 8 hours : 32 minutes : 34 seconds until a two mile wide asteroid strikes the pacific ocean. Imagine, knowing that it would be over for all.  Yes, it'd be painless, but just having to know, and to think of loosing everything, and erasing all life from the planet Earth. Pretty frightening I think.

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I would consider that to be a great death. Those 12 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 34 seconds would be the best ones of your life. Society and morality would crumble: hedonism would reign true. You could do what you wanted to, and no one would care with any real conviction. Could it be possible to die any happier?

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When they leave me, they're all smiles.
When they leave you, they're in tears.

HOWEVER:
Being buried alive would be my worst fear. Being stuck in a coffin 6" under would, in the dark, not being able to move, with low oxygen levels That would be my worst way to go

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They say learning to love yourself is the first step,
that you take when you want to be real...
Just Be - Dj Tiesto

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Burning. Imagine feeling that pain And seeing the flames, and feeling your skin melt. I mean jesus, Its hard to get worse than that

HOWEVER:
Being buried alive would be my worst fear. Being stuck in a coffin 6" under would, in the dark, not being able to move, with low oxygen levels That would be my worst way to go

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Woah, buried alive never crossed my mind.  

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