My main mode of transportation is a bicycle and I live in North America. I will likely die spread out on the asphalt when someone runs me over with their oversized SUV/truck after they blow through an intersection out of turn while on a Facetime call.
No amount of defensive riding will protect you against that, unfortunately.
This is the main reason I don’t cycle.
Cancer tried once, but I really hope its something else.
Suicide (although it will get a pretty name like, “self-administered euthanasia”).
Eventually my body or my mind will fail, or I’ll decide that there’s no chance that the world will ever improve meaningfully, and I’l remove myself from it.
In a motor vehicle accident.
Probably poor health because I can’t be bothered to eat anything that isn’t ready to eat straight out of the package.
I’m only starting my sixth decade on this rock.
I fully expect to die in one of two ways:
- In the resource conflicts of the 2030s and 2040s, as multiple worldwide crop failures due to chaotic weather brings widespread starvation to even first-world countries like Canada, and there will be people who will gladly kill me for what I’m growing in my backyard.
- A preventable/cureable old-age ailment or incident of some kind in the 2040s of 2050s, as the healthcare system will likely no longer exist for anyone outside the Parasite Class by that point.
I’m a little younger than you, and desperately hope I die before resource conflict wars start in earnest. It’ll be like the great depression, only constantly getting worse, and with no end. Combined with global warming, millions will die from no yeat in winter, no AC in summer, on top of the no everything else. Life expectancy drops from lack of accessible dental care alone will be horrifying. At least wth no transportation, we’ll be spared the worst of global pandemics.
Man, I hope I’m gone by then. I feel horrible for my nieces and nephews, though.
from lack of accessible dental care alone
If you have genetically shitty teeth like I do, consider implants. Have bridges to limit the cost, yes, but choose permanents for longevity (snap-in bridges can more readily loosen the implants) and have multiple sections per side so that if a post fails, you can break off that bridge and still have teeth elsewhere.
I’m aiming for four bridges per side. One pair for the molars and bicuspids on the left and the right, and another pair for the canines to the incisors in the middle. Total loadout being eight bridges across sixteen posts for the entire mouth. And at $4k CAD per post, it’s no wonder they call it “installing a Mercedes in your mouth”.
I have two implants in ny mouth, and they are by far my favorite teeth. The rest of my teeth seem robust, but I often (mostly) joke about having all the rest of my (healthy) teeth replaced with implants because I love those implants so much. My dentist gets a look of mild horror when I start talking about this, but seriously: I think it should be a procedure everyone should have as soon as the baby teeth come out. They’re so much superior to the natural ones!
However, back to the topic above: I was merely mentioning that the collapse of civilization is going to take modern dentistry with it. Statistically, your life expectancy is shortened by decades once you lose your teeth.
Liquid nitrogen leak over a weekend.
I’ve got some pretty crappy, chronic health problems, so I’ll probably kill myself when they get to be too much. Better that way than to endlessly degrade. But maybe I’ll get lucky and euthanasia will be legal by then.
If I’m not lucky, my body will kill me before I get to it and I’ll probably drown in my own lungs or die of some random infection (cystic fibrosis).
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I’ve thought about this, and having worked in hospitals and nursing homes, I’ve seen a lot of people die, so it’s given me some perspective.
My husband is the closest person to me by far. He also has a lot of chronic health problems. I suspect he will pass away before me.
The older I get, the fewer people I have in my life. In my 20s and into my 30s, I had a lot of friends, but little by little they’ve fallen off. I’ve got a couple friends in my MTG playgroup and one friend who I go longboarding with in the summer, but beyond that, I’ve pretty much lost touch with everyone. This only gets worse as time passes.
Best-case scenario is that I die in a nursing home or hospital, completely alone. Maybe my nieces and nephews might visit sometimes, but there’s no way I’d ever see them frequently, nor should they feel compelled. I’ll be old and confused in a strange scary place, with people talking in that condescending baby voice that I saw a lot of CNAs and nurses use. If I’m still able, I can play video games or something up until the end, but I have reason to suspect I have the beginning of Parkinson’s like my dad, so slim chance of that. I’ll just die staring at the ceiling, in a completely emotionless void.
Worst-case scenario (most likely) is that I get put in a nursing home but evicted for being too poor. Then I’d just die faster out on the streets or something, or in a shelter. And come to think of it, this might actually be the preferred scenario.
Either way, I’ll certainly die alone and unloved.
One side of my family is all heart disease, the other side is all cancer.
I’ll obviously find a way to die of heart cancer.
Jesus that would be like a 1 out of 10,000,000 thing to develop
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Self-inflicted.
own hand or vehicle accident
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Heart attack or stroke
Yeah. Probably with a bunch of ignored symptoms leading up to it.
I don’t think I will.
Yeah, I was thinking about not bothering with it either.
fate be a cruel mistress. won’t let me go, gonna make me suffer for decades more.
