I said shark, even though the tips of the seal's flippers dangling from the mouth of the shark in Discovery Channel's Boom di ah dah commercials freak. me. out. Still, I must have been in the ocean from when we all came, and it would be give just a moment for a "whee!" before the gurgling blackness took over.

Another vote for rattlesnake. Relatively quick, no one has to watch me suffer. (Because I imagine myself on a hike alone and there's no one there to rescue me and/or watch me die.) Death by poison means there will be less blood and gore to clean up, and my family will probably be able to get my body back in one piece which would make me easier to bury.

Hmm, I've long said if I knew I had to die and could pick my own way, it would be falling from a huge height (think canyon or skyscraper) because right before I died I would know what it's like to fly and I would pass out before I hit the ground.

Plus my spatter would probably make some good performance art.

Given these choices I would probably say pirahnas because hey, who doesn't want to look good enough to eat and I know I would be in the ocean where I lived when I was a mermaid.

C'mon, the cool kids are going with wolves.

I had heard somewhere that a suitably smokey fire would actually suffocate you before any burning, but I don't trust LJ to build it proper.

No fire. Anyone see that episode of Criminal Minds about the family trapped in the house fire? It was one of the hardest moments of "fiction" TV that I've ever watched. No no no fire. EVAH!

yeah, but with your luck you'd get hit by a bus right before the ground and you'd spend your last second thinking, "WTF?!? I can't even die the way I want???"

Well, tongue in cheek or not, that's probably true. :D

My dad told me two years ago that if my luck ever changes "think how good it will be." I'm saving up my luck for a biggie, I think.

Not to say I don't bring some bad luck to myself...but I really am not a lucky person, if there is such a thing.

I was already burned at the stake.

I pick wolves. I hope they howl a lot and it's a full moon...

Hokay.

Joan?

No, I think as the town hussie. :) Nothing so noble as Joan.

I think some voters are intimidated by the first option because Eaten alive a shark is italicized and it looks scarier.

And the "Pihrrahas devouring you" doesn't say whether you are dead first or not. It's implied by the title of the thread, but it could mean that you are already dead, and the fish are disposing of your corpse.
"Eaten alive by Piranhas" would have been more fair.

Did you vote for that option? It will appear italicized to you if you did. Maybe you knew that and were kidding...

Pirraharras, or whatever it is, is italicized for me. ;)

I did not know that. I'm not that smart... no wait, I can blame the pain pills for my gray matter not mattering much these days. Pain pills, yes, I'll blame them. But brain death by pain pills was not an option, was it? :o