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How I Will Die.....
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Posted on: March 14, 2007 5:44 PM, by Shelley Batts
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Coincidentally, so will I.
So uh ... Shelly. Whatcha doin' this weekend?
Posted by: Jeff Harrell | March 14, 2007 6:18 PM
Now, now Jeff. I have a very busy weekend ahead of blogging, sleeping in, talking to Pepper, and wondering why i'm in lab. No time to die! :)
Posted by: Shelley | March 14, 2007 7:09 PM
For some reason this reminds me of (I think) Voltaire's scientist girlfriend (I don't remember her name, unfortunately) who got pregnant at the age of 40 and decided she had nine months to finish up her research because she didn't think she'd survive the pregnancy. Unfortunately she was right.
Posted by: Brian X | March 14, 2007 7:27 PM
Emilie du Chatelet. Looked it up. Voltaire thought she was a smart cookie.
Posted by: Brian X | March 14, 2007 7:31 PM
Hmmm. That's what I got too.
Of course, the way things have been going, that means I'm immortal.
Posted by: Charlie (Colorado) | March 14, 2007 9:34 PM
Looks like heart attack during sex while being very old, from the chart. So this weekend is safe, but might want to be careful in 2050...
I got heart attack while extremely old, so I don't even get any promise of fun first.
Posted by: Mike | March 15, 2007 6:05 AM
I don't get where the little black wheel comes in. Yours is nowhere near the Heart Attack During Sex box but that's apparently how you'll die. Mine was almost entirely in the Sex box with a slight overlap into the Drug/Alcohol Accident box but I'm apparently going to die of a Drug/Alcohol Accident - which although not out of the question is a LOT less likely these days than say... 10 years ago.
So maybe I'll die while having sex drunk. One can hope...
Posted by: John | March 15, 2007 9:18 AM
Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll! (border of sex and drugs)
OK, so I will bite the bullet in a drug/alcohol accident, which I could buy if I drank more or did drugs (other than the ones I am supposed to). Much more likely if you let the accident be the fault of someone else. I get run over by a drunk college kid while cycling. That would be more realistic...
Posted by: Robster | March 15, 2007 2:17 PM
I'm in the same boat as Robster: death by drugs/alcohol despite the fact I don't use either (Lab accident with tetrodotoxin or 4-ap, maybe?). In any case, I always figured my death would be such that, upon hearing about it, my family/friends/neighbors would shake their heads and quietly say "Only Russ..."
Posted by: Russ | March 15, 2007 5:26 PM
Wow - getting pregnant just ceased to be to worst thing that could happen during sex. Maybe.
Posted by: Frank the SciencePunk | March 16, 2007 5:55 AM
I got the same box, but towards the middle. At least I'll be awake for my sexual death
Posted by: G. Shelley | March 17, 2007 7:13 AM
The Japanese actually have a word for death during sex. Phonetically, it's "fukujoshi."
Posted by: mutinyco | March 17, 2007 11:46 AM