If you were going to be executed...

[Robocommie]

How would you want to go? Me, I think the guillotine, as crazy as that might sound, because it's so sudden. It's gory as hell, but quick as lightning. The only thing is, I heard theories that you might retain some momentary consciosusness afterwards, and I think being a severed head would be a little horrific. But obviously nobody can confirm if that's true.

Definitely my most morbid poll. Maybe I should do one about kittens next to counteract it.

[Weezer]

I voted firing squad, but I would take hemlock, and go down like Socrates.

[Lyev]

I want to die in the fight against oppression and the bourgeoisie, so I chose ferocious animals, which is quite near to that.

[Invincible Summer]

Death in fire is the most metal, but very painful.

Firing squad is pretty classic, very revolutionary, but a bit cliche.


I'll go with cybernetic dragon. I want to be killed the most high-tech way possible, but "uploading my consciousness into a computer then having an AI construct destroy the computer" isn't an option.

[Animal Farm Pig]

I was thinking about this the other day, because the US state of Utah is now abolishing the firing squad.

I think firing squad is definitely the way to go (realistically). I think it's the most dignified way. You're standing on your feet like a human, not strapped to a fucking chair.

[ChrisK]

I go with forklift; no better way to go.

[The Red Next Door]

neither

[Os Cangaceiros]

A single gunshot to the back of the head. That was the primary method of execution in the USSR, and I find it to be a lot more humane than the morbid clinical death ritual that is U.S. capital punishment, which is unbelievable disgusting, in my opinion.

[Sam_b]

Psy and his revolutionary army charging at me with a spear, against a backdrop of burning banks and industial machinery.

[leftace53]

gas chamber or like redvelvet, hemlock

[Tablo]

Forklift.

[Agnapostate]

I think firing squad is definitely the way to go (realistically). I think it's the most dignified way. You're standing on your feet like a human, not strapped to a fucking chair.

You can quite easily be strapped to a chair (and are most certainly strapped to something), and blindfolded or hooded when executed by firing squad.

http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/firingsquad500.jpg

[Os Cangaceiros]

It would be cool to issue the "Fire!" order for your own execution, like Maximillian the 1st (Austrian emperor of Mexico) did.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Execution_of_maximillian_mejia_miramon.png

[Pirate Utopian]

Electric chair so I go out like this...
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[Robocommie]

Who chose drawing and quartering? You got moxy. :lol:

[it_ain't_me]

me, because i have a fantasy of yelling ''FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!'' just before the axe comes down on my neck as the last part of the process.

[Robocommie]

me, because i have a fantasy of yelling ''FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!'' just before the axe comes down on my neck as the last part of the process.

You know they also cut off your bits before then, right?

[Tablo]

I'm sure he was unaware of that.

[Angry Young Man]

me, because i have a fantasy of yelling ''FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!'' just before the axe comes down on my neck as the last part of the process.

I think there were about ten strokes before Mary Queen of Scots' head come off.

I chose hanging, because of my childhood highwayman fantasies. In fact, I want a proper 18th Century hanging, being wheeled in, crowd throwing roses at you. Now where's that poll on kittens?

[Music-in-a-bottle]

Unquestionably, with my magazine empty! Give me the gas!:D

[Angry Young Man]

Another reason I picked hanging:

Hangman: Any last words?
Me: Yea. Wait 'til you see the priapism. The angels are in for a treat tonight ;)

[it_ain't_me]

You know they also cut off your bits before then, right?i never said it wouldn't be a high-pitched cry of freedom. anyway, i'm not a male.

[Robocommie]

i never said it wouldn't be a high-pitched cry of freedom. anyway, i'm not a male.

Oh, well, fair enough then. Apparently they didn't draw and quarter women, they burned them at the stake instead. Either way, it should be fun for the whole family!

[Angry Young Man]

They cut your bits off before? I knew Braveheart has holes in it that you can drive a van through, but I didn't know that much

[it_ain't_me]

Oh, well, fair enough then. Apparently they didn't draw and quarter women, they burned them at the stake instead. yeah, but i read on wiki that there were exceptions to this rule.
Either way, it should be fun for the whole family! no doubt!

[piet11111]

firing squad

[Comrade Awesome]

Firing squad while defiantly signing the Internationale.

[bcbm]

i would prefer not to.

[Q]

How would you want to go? Me, I think the guillotine, as crazy as that might sound, because it's so sudden. It's gory as hell, but quick as lightning. The only thing is, I heard theories that you might retain some momentary consciosusness afterwards, and I think being a severed head would be a little horrific. But obviously nobody can confirm if that's true.

Definitely my most morbid poll. Maybe I should do one about kittens next to counteract it.

It is true actually. There are many reports from executions from the French revolution onwards (France used the guillotine in public until the 1930's) in which heads are responding to their names and able to answer even questions (by blinking that is). You lose consciousness after about a minute or so due to blood loss.

[An archist]

The firing squad just has a certain revolutionary appeal to it. It's definitely the way to go.

[Steve_j]

Forklift, the only way to go in true worker style. All the other forms of execution are bourgeoise :)

[Il Medico]

Firing Squad, cause I want my death to impact people. Preferably the bastard who pulls the trigger. Ideally, s/he has to go through four years of psychiatric treatment.

[Jazzratt]

Firing squad to maximise the audience of executioners to hear my angry and despairing shouting.

[Chambered Word]

Forklift is tempting but I'm going with the firing squad. I could even moon the shooters before I'm killed, I think I'd look pretty funny lying face-first on the ground with my pants halfway down.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

A firing squad armed with THESE: (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4bd8a4da46165)


Basic Design

ACER warheads, also known as "Boom Bullets" or "Boomers" are a family of often small caliber explosive warheads using microfission or microfission/fusion to produce a detonation far in excess of what could be delivered using conventional high explosives or overloaded carbon-based energy storage cells. Early designs used on the order of a nanogram of antimatter (equivalent to 2e5J, or 50 grams of TNT) to initiate fission. More modern ACERs use a high voltage monopole arc discharge as the "spark" to start the nuclear reaction. Upon launch, the warhead is armed, and upon reaching its target the boomer detonates. The fission blast may be enhanced by a fusion third stage. The end result is an x-ray hot fireball that emits a scorching flash of heat, an explosive blast wave, and a pulse of neutron radiation. A typical 1.85 cm diameter (12 gauge) warhead can vaporize a human and level a residential house, while simultaneously emitting enough neutrons to sterilize most cells and nanobots within tens of meters, and even sterilize radiation hardened cells and nanosystems within a few meters.

It would be the only to be sure. ;)

[AK]

Death by Gulag :thumbup1:

[Wanted Man]

Firing squad while defiantly signing the Internationale.

This seems to be a popular idea, and I voted "firing squad" as well. I can see some problems with this. The main one being that a lot of people don't have good singing voices. It'd be kind of comical to witness the shooting of some pimply, bespectacled boy trying to sing with his whiny voice, which is probably the reality for most of Revleft. Not very inspiring though. :(

[Dean]

Why haven't people approached the issue scientifically yet? (though Noxy seems to approach the point)

I chose "firing squad" because it involves the most direct and immediate incapacitation of the brain, which would imply a much less likely/shorter period of excruciating pain. I simply don't want to be conscious while my body is dying.

Lethal injection is basically torture - they paralyze you and don't even give you anesthetic. Other forms listed are also pretty painful, too.

[Blake's Baby]

I'm going with cybernetic dragon on the grounds that by the time it's been invented I'll have died of old age.

But for preference, not that it was one of the options, I'd go for tiramisu.

[Il Medico]

This seems to be a popular idea, and I voted "firing squad" as well. I can see some problems with this. The main one being that a lot of people don't have good singing voices. It'd be kind of comical to witness the shooting of some pimply, bespectacled boy trying to sing with his whiny voice, which is probably the reality for most of Revleft. Not very inspiring though. :(
I can sing half way decently, due to it being a family trait (My grandfather was professional singer and songwriter). Don't know the words to the Internationale though, probably end up signing something by Ella Fitzgerald or Dean Martin that I know by heart.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Why haven't people approached the issue scientifically yet? (though Noxy seems to approach the point)

I chose "firing squad" because it involves the most direct and immediate incapacitation of the brain, which would imply a much less likely/shorter period of excruciating pain. I simply don't want to be conscious while my body is dying.

Lethal injection is basically torture - they paralyze you and don't even give you anesthetic. Other forms listed are also pretty painful, too.

Instant vapourisation is painless. At least, nobody's come back to complain. :D

[Os Cangaceiros]

Being strapped to a nuclear bomb before detonation.

[piet11111]

Well sexual exhaustion would be the way to go if we get to pick stuff not in the poll.

[lombas]

Lethal injection while sleeping.

[BeerShaman]

Hanging, like all the anarchists! It's a tradition! Hah! And every time I discuss about fascists or enemies or stalinists :laugh: with my best friend, I say yes... and we will be hanged!:D

[it_ain't_me]

I can sing half way decently, due to it being a family trait (My grandfather was professional singer and songwriter). Don't know the words to the Internationale though, probably end up signing something by Ella Fitzgerald or Dean Martin that I know by heart. in that case i would probably have to help shoot you

[danyboy27]

firing squad sound like the most human way to die.

[4 Leaf Clover]

firing squad is most honorable so i chose firing squad

when you say die by forklift - you mean get impaled on fork and be raised up ? :D

[Vendetta]

Death by oversexing. :laugh:

Like that Monty Python sketch.

[TheSamsquatch]

Ferocious animals. I'll live and die a fisherman..

[Sir Comradical]

Firing squad seems the most humane.

[Robocommie]

They cut your bits off before? I knew Braveheart has holes in it that you can drive a van through, but I didn't know that much

I don't know if they did this to William Wallace specifically, but the general method is that in addition to being eviscerated, you're also emasculated (bits cut off) and then it's burned in front of you along with your guts. It's fucking horrible. I mean imagine living in a society where that's something a run-of-the-mill government might do to someone who committed high treason!

[Os Cangaceiros]

Ferocious animals. I'll live and die a fisherman..

Bah. What vicious animals do you guys have in the South? :lol:

[gorillafuck]

I think being executed would suck.

[TheSamsquatch]

Bah. What vicious animals do you guys have in the South? :lol:

Black Bears, coyotes, rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads, black widows, raccoons. lol. I'd prefer to get ripped apart by a giant catfish, there's an abundance here.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'll see all of those and raise you grizzly bears, great white sharks and rabid walruses.

[TheSamsquatch]

I'll see all of those and raise you grizzly bears, great white sharks and rabid walruses.

I'll see everything listed and raise you evangelicals.

[nip]

i'd pick all of them at once it would be hard and awkward but it should be possible

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'll see everything listed and raise you evangelicals.

You got me on that one. The political environment where I come from is such that it's not suprising for people to cut church short in order to water their (decriminalized) marijuana plant that's growing in their house.

[Ocean Seal]

I'd take the forklift. There is no more honorable death.

[Spawn of Stalin]

Burned at the stake cuz I'm a witch innit. Beheaded by axe or sword would also be ttly cool. Tough question. Being burner would be awesome but I would like to have my corpse left intact so that I can have a proper viking funeral out at sea

[Robocommie]

Burned at the stake cuz I'm a witch innit. Beheaded by axe or sword would also be ttly cool. Tough question. Being burner would be awesome but I would like to have my corpse left intact so that I can have a proper viking funeral out at sea

A witch? Are you female?

[AK]

Bah. What vicious animals do you guys have in the South? :lol:
Rednecks, patriots...

[Q]

A witch? Are you female?

Could be male, although that is more commonly called a warlock.

[JazzRemington]

Could be male, although that is more commonly called a warlock.

They're all called witches, from what I understand.

[Q]

They're all called witches, from what I understand.


Warlocks are, among historic Christian traditions, said to be the male equivalent of witches. Likewise, in traditional Scottish witchcraft warlock was and is simply the term used for a wizard, or male witch.[1]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlock

But I've heard witches for males before too, so I'm not sure what the differences are.

[Glenn Beck]

Guillotine without a doubt. Seems like the most interesting experience out of the bunch

[Glenn Beck]

There's something to be said for Ol' Sparky though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdUTM4gU-o

[Fullmetal Anarchist]

In a hail of bullets, smoking a cigarette and screaming "Freedom!" at the top of my lungs.

[RedRise]

Firing squad because its the most dignified and usually very quick. Also because I prefer my corpse to be more or less intact for no particular reason.


In a hail of bullets, smoking a cigarette and screaming "Freedom!" at the top of my lungs.
:thumbup1::D:thumbup1:

[Tifosi]

Lethal injection because it wouldn't hurt so much.

[Q]

Lethal injection because it wouldn't hurt so much.

The poison is said to be agonizing. Don't know if that's just a monkey tale though.

[human strike]

I'd choose firing squad purely because Joe Hill did.

[Il Medico]

in that case i would probably have to help shoot you
:( What's wrong with Dino or Ella?

[Angry Young Man]

In a hail of bullets, smoking a cigarette and screaming "Freedom!" at the top of my lungs.

That's a bit of a mixed image. A hail of bullets usually means a war situation, so while all your comrades are getting shot at, you're having a smoke. Also, who shouts when they're having a cigarette?

God, people who can't look cool doing so shouldn't be allowed to smoke.

[A.J.]

Firing squad, definately.

Although I would turn down the blindfold as I think it looks rather undignified.

[Lulznet]

I'd want a gas chamber filled with nerve gas. :lol:

[Sasha]

as the firing squad in blackadder says "we aim to please and we please to aim"

[Robocommie]

Firing squad was my second choice and it just might be my first now that it's been confirmed that you remain conscious after guillotine.

I think it's funny how a bunch of Commies are totally down for the firing squad, I have to wonder how that compares to the rest of the world. :lol:

[synthesis]

First, a firing squad can be a pretty painful way to go, especially if the shooters don't like you. There's no saying that any one of those bullets is gonna kill you instantly. Also, whoever said that a bullet to the back of the head is more humane than lethal injection: you can survive that, and it would suck. Furthermore, none of these options are really "dignified," because no matter what, you're still gonna shit your pants after all's said and done.

Honestly, if I could be unconscious - like, out cold - I wouldn't really care one way or another. Whatever entertains people the most.

[Glenn Beck]

The poison is said to be agonizing. Don't know if that's just a monkey tale though.

In the U.S. they use a blend of toxins: a powerful anaesthetic, an agent that paralyzes the muscles of the body, and one that stops the heart. The last two are excruciatingly painful. The controversies have been due to the fact that thanks to variability in weight or whatever, an insufficient dose of sodium thiopental (the anaesthetic) could be delivered and nobody would even notice due to the paralytic agent.

Sodium thiopental is itself lethal in a high enough dose, it's what they generally use to euthanize pets. China uses that and that only, so I doubt it's even a matter of expense. It's pretty stupid/shitty that they use such an unnecessary and potentially agonizing chemical when it doesn't even really cause its victim to die faster and only introduces more possibilities for something to go wrong.

[Angry Young Man]

Despite all the talk, the only way that the death penalty can be approved of is in a war situation, where it should be a dignified bullet to the back of the head. I'm not sure I'm comfortable fighting alongside people who, when we arrest an important enemy, would burn him at the stake

[Angry Young Man]

That said, it's a pity Salfordlad has been banned, so he can't have a go at me for not wanting to torture someone to death.

[Robocommie]

In the U.S. they use a blend of toxins: a powerful anaesthetic, an agent that paralyzes the muscles of the body, and one that stops the heart. The last two are excruciatingly painful. The controversies have been due to the fact that thanks to variability in weight or whatever, an insufficient dose of sodium thiopental (the anaesthetic) could be delivered and nobody would even notice due to the paralytic agent.

Sodium thiopental is itself lethal in a high enough dose, it's what they generally use to euthanize pets. China uses that and that only, so I doubt it's even a matter of expense. It's pretty stupid/shitty that they use such an unnecessary and potentially agonizing chemical when it doesn't even really cause its victim to die faster and only introduces more possibilities for something to go wrong.

That IS incredibly stupid. If it were me I'd just ask them to give me a massive overdose of phenobarbital inside a comically large snifter of delicious, delicious brandy.

[Robocommie]

Despite all the talk, the only way that the death penalty can be approved of is in a war situation, where it should be a dignified bullet to the back of the head. I'm not sure I'm comfortable fighting alongside people who, when we arrest an important enemy, would burn him at the stake

This is more about what we ourselves would want. I truly hope nobody here would actually burn people at the stake. I myself am also opposed to the death penalty outside of extremely special circumstances, like in the midst of a violent revolution.

[Vendetta]

Actually, scratch oversexing, I'd ask to die by alcohol poisoning and excess partying. :thumbup1:

[NecroCommie]

I will die by charging a well equipped fortress, alone, naked, and armed with a spoon... While shouting philosophical questions in a warlike way.
"WHY ARE WE HERE?!?!?" :mad:

That would be pretty artistic way to go.

[Vendetta]

Confuse the enemy even more with just WHY!?!?!

[Jazzratt]

Actually, scratch oversexing, I'd ask to die by alcohol poisoning and excess partying. :thumbup1:

Alcohol poisoning is terribly painful, that's one of the shittiest ways to go you could have selected really.

[Vendetta]

The excess partying would make up for it. I'd be too high to notice.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

Guillotine... simply because it would be the quickest and least painful way to go... with a firing squad there always exists the change that they somehow miss or something in your body deflects the bullet off a bit...

[revolution inaction]

i remember reading that if the firing squad misses then you blead to death, which can take a while.
I still picked firing squad though.

[MRCS]

Firing squad on top of a mountain. That would look cool. :rolleyes:

[bawbag]

me, because i have a fantasy of yelling ''FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!'' just before the axe comes down on my neck as the last part of the process.

Chose drawn and quartered for almost the same reason :) I thought William Wallace style would be best.

[GracchusBabeuf]

If the bourgeoisie would permit it, I'd like to be hanged, then poisoned, then electrocuted, then shot and finally quartered and finally cannibalized by Trotskyists.

[Ovi]

Alcohol poisoning is terribly painful, that's one of the shittiest ways to go you could have selected really.
But how would you know if you pass out?

[Delegado J]

I want to be suffocated beneath a mountain of feces.:thumbup1:

[9]

^this kids a troll, btw.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Since people in this thread seem to be fascinated by the concept of "firing squad", I thought that this (http://abcnews.go.com/US/Broadcast/convicted-killer-faces-firing-squad-utah/story?id=10913967) might be of some interest.

[MarxSchmarx]

In the U.S. they use a blend of toxins: a powerful anaesthetic, an agent that paralyzes the muscles of the body, and one that stops the heart. The last two are excruciatingly painful. The controversies have been due to the fact that thanks to variability in weight or whatever, an insufficient dose of sodium thiopental (the anaesthetic) could be delivered and nobody would even notice due to the paralytic agent.

Sodium thiopental is itself lethal in a high enough dose, it's what they generally use to euthanize pets. China uses that and that only, so I doubt it's even a matter of expense. It's pretty stupid/shitty that they use such an unnecessary and potentially agonizing chemical when it doesn't even really cause its victim to die faster and only introduces more possibilities for something to go wrong.

A lot of this has its origins in methods initially developed for euthanizing animals. Ironically enough, the procedures have subsequently been banned in many American jurisdictions for the pain it causes animals, including jurisdictions that still cary out lethal injections. I suppose this is no surprise in a country where there are more animal shelters than homeless shelters.

[Q]

The junta in Argentina simply threw lots out of a plane above the Atlantic. I guess one would enjoy the view as long as it lasted.

[Foldered]

Forklift.

[Os Cangaceiros]

The junta in Argentina simply threw lots out of a plane above the Atlantic. I guess one would enjoy the view as long as it lasted.

Actually the victims tended to be blindfolded, so...

[MarxSchmarx]

Firing squad while defiantly signing the Internationale.

Funny this has long been my fantasy, although I've wondered if it might be better hummed or whistled. Nah, hummed.

[Tablo]

I find it funny that death by firing squad is such a romanticized death for us lefties. I bet you half of us will have our wish come true. xD

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

I find it funny that death by firing squad is such a romanticized death for us lefties. I bet you half of us will have our wish come true. xD

lol, that's a bit sad to think about... but with all of the fear mongering right now, if someone extremely screwed up were to step in the stage light, it could come to be... :(

[Comrade B]

My state is one of the last (only?) to still offer hanging as an option in the US

[Honggweilo]

Firing squad while defiantly signing the Internationale.
Thats how the Ceauşescu's rolled :rolleyes:


the two were condemned to death by a military kangaroo court on charges ranging from illegal gathering of wealth to genocide, and were executed in Târgoviste. Before they were shot dead, Ceausescu sang part of "The Internationale" and proclaimed that history would judge him well. His wife was screaming at everyone to go to hell.

[Chimurenga.]

Guillotine. Go out like Robespierre.

[Invincible Summer]

Do any of the Trots here wish to go out by icepick?

[CountryKid]

Firing squad, or hanging by the testicles.

[Pavlov's House Party]

there's just something badass about literally facing your death, so i chose firing squad

http://www.hrono.ru/img/illyustr/rasstrel.gif
(incidentaly this picture came from a google image search for "NKVD")

[Q]

Actually the victims tended to be blindfolded, so...

Well, there goes another option out of the window, or rather airplane as it so happens.

What about boiling in oil? Sounds awful enough.

[ContrarianLemming]

firing squad or death by forklift, in the traditional of the forkliftists.

preferably death by firing squad while singing "ABBA"
just to leave them with an awful image

[Os Cangaceiros]

Thats how the Ceauşescu's rolled :rolleyes:

I love that video of Ceausescu getting jeered by his former supporters shortly before the collapse of his government. We watched it in European history class...the look on his face was priceless.

[Angry Young Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7zDebveHeM&feature=related

[Taikand]

You learn about Ceauşescu?
We're just said he was bad.
Why?
Because you couldn't have porn then.
(stupid generation)
The older generation is actually nostalgic about that era, maybe that could become some real left activism. We really need in this shitty country.

[Angry Young Man]

It was the older generation who overthrew him. If you were 20 in 1989, you're 41 now.

Also, the older generation will always be nostalgic about the previous regime. It's not because they're innately more left-wing. It's because it's what they know. The brainwave that makes an old Romanian nostalgic for the Ceaucescu era is the same that makes a Greek of the same age miss the military dictatorship or JRR Tolkien miss the feudal age

[Comrade B]

Fist fight while falling off a sky scraper fighting off CIA agents. I would fall into a pile of explosives which would blow up the entire Pentagon+Dick Cheney and Ronald Reagan's corpse.

[Mumbles]

If I had my choice, I'd want to overdose on psychedelic drugs, because once I left "sanity" I would be relaxed in the fact that I would never again see reality, so I would basically already be dead. And I could have fun freaking out over random shit happening in my mind. Plus I want a death that kinda drags out but isn't purposefully painful. Slowly slipping away...

But if it had to be a legal choice, I would actually consider burning at the stake, just as long as it doesn't take too long for the fire to build up, don't want a brazen bull death. But, from my understanding, as soon as your nerves get burnt away, which seem to be mostly near the skin surface, you could just enjoy the fact that everyone is watching in horror and being effected by your life, err, death.