2) What's the most embarrassing way to die? (In your opinion)
dhg5@cornell.edu (David Gold):
Drowning in elephant jism.
DoNotExist@aol.com:
After a long, debilitating disease, making your friends and family glad of your departure, because you've become such an unaesthetic, incontinent burden.
King Ganon@aol.com:
The most embarassing way to die is to get into a shoot-out and hold your gun backwards. I mean, imagine you get really drunk, then pick a fight with someone and get into a shootout. Now, you're drunk off your ass and can't figure out which way is up. So, you pull out your gun, but your vision is all whacked out. You hold the gun pointed at your stomach and pull the trigger. It'd suck.
Fabelhoft@aol.com:
Shaking a vending machine hard enough for it to fall upon me, despite the warning cartoons explicitly telling me not to.
MMAYS@wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu:
Too many ideas pop to mind involving bizarre sex acts in public that go wrong.
Something else besides that, eh?...
Dying while trying to get the child-proof cap off your prescription bottle during a heart attack comes to mind.
CBreakr@aol.com:
the "clerks" way...snapping your neck while trying to suck your own dick, or, for a woman, choking to death on someone's cum. (both include being rushed to a crowded emergency room for treatment and explanation)
FeyPiper@aol.com:
Autoerotic asphyxiation.
mikelam@acsu.buffalo.edu (Michael Lam):
In a pile of your own feces, piss and cum, nekkid after falling from a tree branch on which you were having unprotected sex with your cat.
GosipMong@aol.com:
I think any way you die with your pants down has to be pretty embarrassing. I mean, is that the first thing you want everyone to think of when they think of you?
FTFOI@aol.com:
What does embarrassment matter when you're dead? All I ask is that I die with a clear soul.
develin@husc.harvard.edu (Michael Lee Develin):
I thought about this for a while, then (no offense) decided it was rather meaningless. You see, when you're dead, you're _dead_, at least in the sense of this world, and thus any embarrassment caused by your death would be completely irrelevant for the future; embarrassment only exists to the extent where you feel ashamed by it, and when you're dead, you can't feel it. In terms of being ashamed while you're dying, I can think of several things that are really embarrasing, but none that cause death in and of themselves.
Sorry.