I sadly had to go to a funeral the other day. Don’t worry, I took weapons just in case he popped out again as one of the evil undead. He didn’t though, much to my annoyance. Alas, death is something we all have to face at some point. How we die, that’s this week’s Great Debate.
So, gather fellow Outposters and congregate in the sacred halls, and let’s face the final curtain with a bow.
As the old joke goes:
I would like to die in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not crying and screaming, like the passengers on his bus.
It did get me thinking though, what is a good way to go? I reviewed the Final Destination movies the other day and there were some very creative deaths in them. One girl had her eyeball lasered, someone was exploded by a BBQ, and a couple of naked girls were roasted alive on a sunbed.
Deaths and movies have gone together like Kathleen Kennedy and failure. There have probably been more on-screen deaths than actual deaths in WWI and WWII. There were probably billions of people on Alderaan and the Death Star, so Star Wars must be in the top ten for deaths in movies.
For the great debate this week, the question is:
If you were to pick a movie death, how would you go?
I don’t want to just go in my sleep, I want my wife to tell everyone I died in some weird way. To quote Frank Drebin from Naked Gun:
Ah, you’re right, Ed. A parachute not opening… that’s a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine… having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that’s the way I wanna go!
I want her to tell people I was chewed up by a shark like in Jaws, or I got an arrow through my neck, like in Friday the 13th. She can tell people my face melted off like that guy at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
So come on, join in the fun, what movie death would be your preferred final curtain call?
